The National Society of Film Critics Awards announced the 2015 finalists, with nods going to the Cold War drama Bridge of Spies and also Spotlight, a film based on the Boston Globe investigative team that pursued the pedophile priest scandal.
Christoph Waltz appears to be interested in returning to the James Bond franchise to reprise his character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, on one condition: if Daniel Craig returns as James Bond. However, after the recent Spectre film, there has been a great deal of conflicting cues as to whether or not Craig is planning on continuing the Bond role.
Matt Damon is returning to the Jason Bourne series, set 12 years after Jason Bourne disappeared in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum. According to the actor, his character won’t be in a good state upon his return, with the events in those intervening years serving as the basis for the story.
TELEVISION
Entertainment Weekly released photos of the new miniseries adaptation of John le Carré's The Night Manager. The series centers on MI-6 Field Agent Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston) and the morally ambiguous weapons dealer (Hugh Laurie) Pine is tasked with bringing down. The project is being produced by the author's son, Simon Cornwell, and the author himself will make a brief cameo.
Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med are about to get another crossover event. In an upcoming episode, the intelligence team from Chicago P.D. is going to investigate a case to see if a doctor is intentionally killing his patients. The doctor under investigation, Dr. Dean Reybold, just happens to be the doctor who treated Hank Voight’s wife before her death, which might not have been of natural causes.
Ratings for Castle haven’t been stellar since the show returned to the schedule this September, and many believe the ABC procedural may be reaching the end of its shelf life. While showrunners Terence Paul Winter and Alexi Hawley aren’t ready to throw in the towel at the end of the current eighth season, they have crafted a finale that should work for a series finale, should Castle fail to get renewed.
Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan has teased at least one familiar face that will pop up in Season 2, adding that "We revisit a character we met early in Season 1 of Breaking Bad and haven’t seen since. It’s going to be a fun tip of the hat."
Fox released a new 20-minute mega-teaser for the X-Files, complete with behind-the-scenes interviews with creator Cris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Among the major plot points and characters revealed in the new teaser is a look at Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully’s (Anderson) teenage son William.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
The BBC posted excerpts from the Agatha Christie's personal tapes she dictated her autobiography onto, with an introduction by her grandson Mathew Prichard.
Denise Mina is the latest guest on the Speaking of Mysteries podcast, talking about Blood Salt Water, the latest in her series featuring Police Scotland’s DCI Alex Morrow.
Crime Fiction FM welcomed author Alan Osi to discuss his new thriller, Movement #1: A Hunter's Moon.
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