MOVIES
Warner Bros has optioned Ross MacDonald's 1966 crime novel Black Money for Joel and Ethan Coen to write and potentially direct. The novel places private eye Lew Archer knee-deep in a conspiracy when he's hired by a spurned lover to expose the suave Frenchman who ran off with a client’s girlfriend.
William Friedkin has been hired to direct the adaptation of Don Winslow's novel The Winter Of Frankie Machine, with Winslow penning the script. The project once had Martin Scorsese (and then Michael Mann) attached to direct and Robert De Niro to star, while it languished at Paramount before a rights reversion. The story centers on Frank Machianno, a mob hitman who retired to run a bait shop but is forced to return to his old ways when he learns his offer to help resolve a dispute has set him up to be murdered.
Lionel Wigram, the producer of the Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock movies, hinted the team is working on a script for a third movie and both Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are "very, very" interested in returning to their respective roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although there are no firm commitments at this point.
A first-look trailer was released for Solace, which features Colin Farrell as a psychic serial killer opposite Anthony, Hopkins, a former doctor with psychic abilities called in to help the FBI catch Farrell's character.
The newest trailer for Agent 47 (which opens in theaters Aug. 21) finds the titular assassin played by Rupert Friend in unfamiliar territory when he must protect a woman named Katia (Hannah Ware) from an evil corporation and its chairman (Zachary Quinto), who wants to create an army of Agents to do his bidding.
TELEVISION
ITV has commissioned a 3-episode special season of the crime drama Scott & Bailey, with Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp reprising their roles of DC Janet Scott and her hot-headed partner DS Rachel Bailey. With DCI Gill Murray in retirement, DC Scott returns to Syndicate 9's Murder Squad to head up a sinister Internet crime investigation.
Fox has given a pilot commitment to Horrorstör, an hour-long dramedy inspired by the supernatural mystery novel by Grady Hendrix. The story centers on a young woman and recovering alcoholic working in a furniture superstore who learns the store "preys upon its customers’ desires to a supernatural degree, selling products that make their wishes and fantasies come true in unexpected and insidious ways."
Fox also announced a limited-run revival of the Prison Break series that will be a sequel to the original project with returning stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell.
USA Network’s drama Shooter has tapped Ryan Phillippe (Secrets & Lies) for the lead in the pilot. Written by John Hlavin (Underworld: Awakening) and based on the 2007 Paramount feature starring Wahlberg as well as Stephen Hunter’s novel Point Of Impact, the plot follow an off-the-grid former Marine sniper who is double crossed after being coaxed into action to thwart the killing of the President.
New Castle co-showrunner Terence Paul Winter teased that disgraced senator William Bracken (played by Jack Coleman) will be back "in a surprising way" for the show's new season. The ABC series will return on September 21 with a two-parter and will introduce two new characters: Scotland Yard officer turned security specialist Hayley Vargas (to be played by new series regular/Neighbors alum Toks Olagundoye) and tech analyst Vikram Singh (recurring player Sunkrish Bala).
Billy Zane, Daisy Head, Zachary Fall, Katrina Law, and Kevin Ryan have landed leading roles in the ABC Family thriller pilot Guilt, a fictional story that draws parallels to the story of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted, acquitted, retried and acquitted again of the gruesome murder of her British roommate.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is hiring Bill Hader to replace Andre Braugher as Andy Samberg’s precinct captain. Braugher fans can relax, however, knowing that Braugher's Captain Holt will remain on the show in his new role of NYPD Public Relations officer.
AnnaLynne McCord has landed a recurring role on the second season of ABC’s anthology crime drama series Secrets & Lies. She'll play McCord the outspoken housewife of Patrick Warner, the third child of private equity magnate, John Warner.
24's Kim Raver will appear in the first two episodes of the 11th season of Bones, playing FBI Special Agent Grace Miller, who is involved in the investigation surrounding the disappearance of FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).
Patricia Wettig of ABC's Brothers and Sisters is heading to TNT's police procedural Major Crimes for Season 4 to play a character known by colleagues as "Fry-'Em Ryan," a superior court judge famous among lawyers and cops as a very tough woman inside the courtroom.
NFL legend Jerry Rice is heading to Hawaii Five-0 in a guest-starring cameo as himself in upcoming sixth season.
TNT's upcoming mod drama Public Morals offered up a trailer and teaser poster for the show set in 1960s New York that stars Edward Burns as officer Terry Muldoon, a vice cop who knows how to play the game, but doesn't always like it.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
Crime Fiction FM welcomed author Tana French to discuss her new book, the fifth book in her Dublin Murder Squ
ad series, The Secret Place.
THEATER
A tour of the Woody Allen musical Bullets Over Broadway will launch in Cleveland, OH, at Playhouse Square with performances beginning Oct. 6, with plans on traveling to more than 40 cities in its first season.
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