AWARDS
The People v. O.J. Simpson led all programs in television nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards (in the movie or limited series categories) with a program nomination and five acting nominations including lead actors Cuba Gooding Jr. and Courtney B. Vance, lead actress Sarah Paulson and supporting actors Sterling K. Brown and John Travolta. AMC's miniseries The Night Manager, based on the spy thriller by John le Carré, also landed five nominations (including lead actor Tom Hiddleston). The Best Drama crime drama nods included Better Call Saul and Mr. Robot, with acting nominees led by Rami Malek and Christian Slater, Mr. Robot; Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul; Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, The Americans; Liev Schreiber and Jon Voigt, Ray Donovan; Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder; and Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.
MOVIES
Warner Bros., Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment, and producer Denise Di Novi are teaming up to adapt Gin Phillips' thriller novel, Beautiful Things. The story is set over three hours and tells of a mother and son who are trapped in a zoo with a gunman on the loose.
Sylvester Stallone has signed on to play a Chicago mob boss in Idol's Eye, the upcoming heist thriller from French director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper). Stallone will replace Robert De Niro, who was originally attached to the film, and star alongside Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz. The story centers on Pattinson's thief who unknowingly steals a blue diamond from Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo (Stallone), setting off a war between the two men as they both try to keep one step ahead of the FBI.
Imperative Entertainment acquired the film rights to Tangerine, Christine Mangan’s debut novel, with Scarlett Johansson attached to star. Publishing rights were sold to Ecco (HarperCollins) only last week for the psychological thriller, which is set against the simmering political climate of 1950s Morocco.
Jessica Chastain will star in and produce the drama Painkiller Jane, based on the graphic novel series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada. In the original 1995 story, the lead character is an undercover police officer infiltrating a mob who doesn’t realize an explosive device has been planted on her. She’s severely injured, but her target manages to revive her and give her superhuman regenerative powers that turn her into the vigilante "Painkiller Jane." The graphic novel was previously adapted into a Syfy channel TV movie starring Emmanuelle Vaugier and later Kristanna Loken.
The cast for the Kenneth Branagh remake of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express just added another A-lister in the form of Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz. Branagh takes on the role of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, with other train passengers to be played by Johnny Depp (the man who is murdered), Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., and Josh Gad. Cruz’s role has yet to be revealed.
Focus Features announced it's moving the release of David Leitch’s The Coldest City starring Charlize Theron to July 28, 2017, two weeks earlier that originally slated. The spy thriller now will bow against Sony’s Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower and Disney’s untitled live-action fairy tale film. Theron plays Lorraine Broughton, a top-level MI6 spy who heads to Berlin on the eve of the Wall’s collapse to take down an espionage ring that just killed an undercover agent, and has to form an uneasy alliance with Berlin station chief David Percival (James McAvoy).
Lionsgate has released the trailer for its upcoming psychological thriller Solace, directed by Afonso Poyart with a script from Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish and Colin Farrel in the tale of a retired physician with psychic powers who partners with an FBI special agent to stop a vicious murderer.
A24’s Free Fire, the thriller directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson, is now scheduled for release nationwide on March 17. The distributor released a poster for the action film, which also stars Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Armie Hammer and Sharlto Copley, that's set in a warehouse full of guns after an arms deal goes wrong in 1978 Boston.
The heavy metal group Slipknot and Mark Neveldine, co-director of the cult action film Crank, partnered together to adapt the hyper-violent graphic novel, Officer Downe, for the big screen. A trailer was released for the film which stars Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) as Officer Downe, a deceased police officer resurrected from the dead to keep fighting crime.
Live by Night got its final trailer ahead of its Christmas Day launch date. The thriller is based on the book by Dennis Lehane and stars Ben Affleck (who also directs) in the Prohibition Era story centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
TELEVISION
Amazon has landed a drama series package from David O. Russell that stars Oscar winners Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore. The untitled drama, said to be a mafia crime project, received a two-season order of eight episodes each, with Russell himself serving as writer-director.
USA Network is jumping into the true crime drama genre with a pilot order for Unsolved, with the pilot directed and exec produced by Anthony Hemingway, who spearheaded The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Written by Kyle Long (Suits), Unsolved is based on the experiences of former LAPD Detective Greg Kading, author of the book Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations, who led multipl
e law-enforcement task forces investigating the murders.
ABC announced it has decided not to move forward with the struggling Hayley Atwell series Conviction. The network will go ahead and produce and air all thirteen episodes that were initially ordered, but has no plans of ordering additional episodes at this time. ABC had also previously trimmed the episode order for fellow freshman legal drama Notorious from thirteen to nine. Conviction stars Atwell as a former first daughter who is blackmailed into running the Conviction Integrity Unit, an organization dedicated to investigating and overturning wrongful convictions. Shawn Ashmore, Merrin Dungey and Emily Kinney also star. In an interview with TVGuide.com, Dungey, who plays Conviction Integrity Unit investigator Maxine Bohen, said that the finale will be "open-ended."
The CW has put in development Criminal Magic, an hourlong drama from iZombie writer Graham Norris, creator/executive producer Rob Thomas and executive producers Danielle Stokdyk and Dan Etheridge. The Los Angeles-set project is described as "The Departed meets The Vampire Diaries," and revolves around two warring street gangs who fight the cops and each other to corner the market on the most lucrative contraband of all: magic. A young woman hiding spectacular magical powers and an undercover cop must try to survive this glamorous world of speakeasies, crime and danger.
Jonathan Howard has booked a recurring role on TNT’s drama series The Last Ship, based on William Brinkley’s novel. The story chronicles the aftermath of a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world’s population where Captain Tom Chandler (Eric Dane) and his crew must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors. Howard will play James Fletcher, a British Royal Navy commander and MI-6 agent who must work with the crew of USS Nathan James to recover stolen items that are crucial to the survival of the planet.
The Good Wife and The Walking Dead alum Dallas Roberts has been cast opposite Felicity Huffman on the upcoming third installment of John Ridley’s ABC anthology drama series American Crime. Roberts will recur as Carson Hesby, the husband of Jeanette Hesby (Huffman) in the new season that will explore labor issues, economic divides and individual rights in North Carolina.
Leonard Roberts (American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson) has joined the cast of TNT’s drama series Major Crimes for a key recurring role in Season 5 that may turn into a regular position if the series is picked up for a sixth season. Roberts will play charismatic Commander Leo Mason, who heads up the Criminal Intelligence Division of the LAPD and, along with Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell), is being considered for the job of New Assistant Chief.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
John Grisham stopped by the Diane Rehm show on NPR to talk about his new book, The Whistler.
Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomed Mike McCrary, to discuss his noir crime fiction novels, "stories about questionable people who make questionable decisions."
Ryan Aldred was also a guest of Authors on the Air recently, discussing his debut novel Rum Luck.
The latest Crime and Science Radio podcast was titled "Should We Abandon Use of Lie Detector Tests As Junk Science?" and features an Interview With Morton Tavel, M.D.
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