AWARDS
The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, with a few crime-related movies picking up nods. Hell or High Water, a film about a divorced father and his ex-con older brother who resort to a desperate scheme to save their family's Texas ranch, was included in the Best Drama category. Deadpool, about a mercenary with a morbid sense of humor who's subjected to an experiment leading to accelerated healing powers and a quest for revenge, was nominated in the Best Comedy/Musical category (with star Ryan Reynolds nominated for Best Comedic Actor). Isabelle Huppert was nominated in the Best Dramatic Actress category for Elle, a film about a successful businesswoman who gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her. Jessica Chastain was also nominated in that category for Miss Sloane, a paranoid political thriller about a lobbyist who takes on gun control.
In the TV category, nods for Best Drama series included the supernatural thriller Stranger Things, as well as two other crime-fantasy shows, Game of Thrones and Westworld. The Best Series Actor category honored Rami Malek for Mr. Robot; Bob Odenkirk for Better Call Saul; Matthew Rhys for The Americans; Liev Schreiber for Ray Donovan, and Billy Bob Thorton for Goliath. Best Actress nods included Kerri Rusell, The Americans; Winona Ryder, Stranger Things; and Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld.
MOVIES
The Film Noir Foundation celebrates the holidays by "tossing aside the Christmas treacle for a headlong dive into a double bill of danger and darkness" On Wednesday, December 14th. Eddie Muller will host the seasonally themed program at San Francisco's Castro Theatre, with the lineup including Quentin Lawrence's Cash on Demand (1961) at 7:30 and Harold Ramis' Ice Harvest (2005) at 9:30. Muller will also reveal the theme and complete film schedule for the upcoming NOIR CITY 15 festival coming to the Castro Theatre January 20-29, 2017. (A bonus note: Holiday Giving at NOIR CITY Xmas will have collection bins for both the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program and the SF-Marin Food Bank at the event.)
Twentieth Century Fox has picked up the spec script The State, a project hailing from the writing duo of Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani. David Lonner and Ben Rowe from Oasis Media are set to produce the international action thriller that follows a father in a desperate race to rescue his son.
Matt Duffett has come on board to pen the feature film adaptation of the popular and violent graphic novel 39 Minutes. The original comic, published in 2013 and written by William Harris and illustrated by Jerry Lando, is a brutal take on the heist genre, with the main character a disgraced ex-Marine in the employ of the FBI who embarks on a vicious crime spree with his former unit, now bitter and jaded towards the country they once served. They have 39 minutes to pull off their robberies and anyone can become a target in that time.
Matthias Schoenaerts and Jeremy Irons have signed on to join Jennifer Lawrence in the film Red Sparrow. The story, an adaptation of the Jason Matthews espionage novel, follows a Russian intelligence officer (Lawrence) who is ordered against her will to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress, and to operate against a young CIA agent who handles the agency’s most important Russian mole. Joel Edgerton is also attached to star.
Damian Lewis is in final negotiations to play the villain in Ocean’s 8. Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson all star in the film, with Bullock playing the leader of the gang and Lewis starring as her ex-lover and the target of the group's big heist.
A teaser-trailer was released for the upcoming science-fiction thriller movie The Circle, written and directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, and Ellar Coltrane. Based on the bestselling book by Dave Eggers, the story follows a young woman as she rises through the ranks of the world’s largest tech and social media company and is encouraged to live her life with complete transparency - but no one is really safe when everyone is watching.
TELEVISION
ABC has put in development Down in the Valley, an hourlong crime drama from writer-directors David Posamentier and Geoff Moore (Better Living Through Chemistry) and TriStar Television. The project is described as a darkly comedic hourlong crime drama and family soap told from the perspective of a talented female police officer who returns home to Napa Valley to support her struggling family after her troubled sister disappears and leaves her infant daughter in need of care. When she joins the Napa County Sheriff’s Department to make ends meet, she quickly realizes that this posh, bucolic, small town paradise has more than its fair share of big-city problems.
Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Basket Case, an hourlong drama based on the bestselling 2002 book by Carl Hiaasen. Basket Case centers on former hotshot investigative reporter Jack Tagger, who’s now an obituary writer — and a mess, "consumed by his own mortality. Joined by a dysfunctional group of friends, this redemptive crime drama uncovers the sun, fun, and seedy underpinnings of South Florida."
TNT and John Wells (Animal Kingdom) are joining forces again for the mystery thriller pilot The Deep Mad Dark. The story follows Detroit neurosurgeon Polly Lewis whose once closest friend comes home after living many years in a strange, off-the-grid community in Belize only to insinuate herself into Polly's life in audacious ways that threaten everything Polly has achieved.
Rowan Atkinson will reprise his role as Georges Simenon's eponymous Inspector in the new film Maigret's Dead Man, airing on ITV at 9pm on Christmas Day. Inspector Maigret receives calls from a mysterious man who seeks police protection, but when the man’s body turns up, Maigret's investigation takes him from the slums of Paris to a series of vicious, murderous attacks on three wealthy farms in Picardy.
CBS announced the premiere date for the upcoming Good Wife spin-off. The Good Fight will debut on CBS on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 8/7c, with all subsequent episodes airing exclusively on the network's streaming service, CBS All Access. Picking up one year after the events of the Good Wife finale, The Good Fight begins after a financial scam destroys the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie), and all the savings of her mentor, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski). Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, Maia and Diane join Lucca Quinn's (Cush Jumbo) law firm. The Good Fight also stars Bernadette Peters, Justin Bartha, Sarah Steele, Delroy Lindo, Paul Guilfoyle and Erica Tazel.
The BBC released a trailer for Season 4 of Sherlock, with the first episode, "The Six Thatchers," premiering January 1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. The producers have also partnered with Fathom Events to broadcast the finale of the season (and possibly the series) on January 16 and January 18 in roughly 350 movie theaters all across the country, including 15 minutes of extra footage.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Noir on the Radio host Greg Barth welcomed crime fiction author Paul Bishop, who brings his experience as a nationally renowned interrogator and behaviorist during his 35 years with the Los Angeles Police Department to his latest novel, Lie Catchers.
NPR's Art Silverman reads a lot of crime thrillers, and in the last year, he's noticed "The Internet of Things" seems to being playing a big role as the weapon of choice in mystery plots, as he explains in this All Things Considered clip.
Award-winning author Belinda Bauer joined Alex Dolan on the Thrill Seekers podcast to discuss her latest novel, The Beautiful Dead.
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