THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association handed out the Golden Globe Awards last evening. Crime drama winners include Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood (Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Brad Pitt for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical or Comedy; and Best Screenplay); and Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor in a Drama for his role in Joker. On the TV side, Patricia Arquette won the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series for The Act, based on the real life of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
The American Society of Cinematographers on Friday revealed its nominees in the Theatrical and Spotlight categories for the 34th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards. The nods include crime dramas The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson).
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman also won Best Picture at the 24th annual The International Film Festival in Italy. The Netflix mob epic scored six overall wins at the just-ended festival, tied for the most with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino won Best Director at the fest, which also awarded Joe Pesci (The Irishman) Supporting Actor.
The Woman in the Window, adapted from the bestselling novel by AJ Finn, has experienced a few bumps during the production process. Most recently, Nine Inch Nails frontman, Trent Reznor, and his creative partner Atticus Ross were on board to score the film until negative test screening reactions led to extensive reshoots and "the filming becoming something brand new altogether." Danny Elfman (Batman, Dumbo) has apparently taken over scoring duties on the project, which is directed by Joe Wright and stars Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Julianne Moore, Brian Tyree Henry, and Wyatt Russell.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
The Emmy-, SAG-, and Golden Globe-winning thriller series, Killing Eve, has been renewed for a fourth season, months before the third season premieres this spring on BBC America. The fourth iteration will continue the show's tradition of passing the torch to a new female showrunner each season — from Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Season 1, to Emerald Fennell in Season 2, to Suzanne Heathcote in Season 3, and to a writer still to be determined in the fourth. Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh as MI5 agent Eve Polastri and reigning Best Actress Emmy winner Jodie Comer as assassin Villanelle, a duo who get caught in an obsessive cat-and-mouse pursuit. Season 3 is adding Dame Harriet Walter, Danny Sapani, and Gemma Whelan to the cast, among others
Amazon has released the official trailer and set Friday, February 21 for the premiere of Hunters, its highly-anticipated conspiracy thriller series starring Al Pacino and executive produced by Jordan Peele. Created by David Weil (Moonfall), Hunters follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. "The Hunters," as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Katie McClean Horner and Rincey Abraham celebrated the new year on the Read or Dead podcast by talking about some of the books they are excited to pick up in the first half of 2020.
A new episode of Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast is a special bonus episode featuring the first chapter of "Ghost Busting Mystery," the first book in the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency series by Daisy Pettles. The program was a shared recording of the first chapter from the new podcast, Daisy Pettles Crime Comedy, which features the entire book.
On season five, episode sixteen of Crime Cafe, Debbi Mack interviewed Cathi Stoler, author of the Laurel and Helen New York Mysteries.
Meet the Thriller Writer welcomed New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, who broke into television writing with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire and has since penned numerous TV programs and more than thirty novels, including Killer Thriller and True Fiction.
The latest Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine podcast episode featured "The Engineer’s Thumb" by Terence Faherty, who is the author of two popular novel series, the Edgar-nominated Owen Keane mysteries and the multiple Shamus Award-winning Scott Elliott private eye series.
THEATRE
The UK's Cambridge Arts Theatre will present My Cousin Rachel from January 13 to 18. The adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's psychological thriller sees feverish passion battling reason in a classic Gothic romance set in the wild, rock-ribbed landscape of the Cornish coast.
The Ken Ludwig adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express will ride into the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on January 14. Detective Hercule Poirot has to solve a murder on a snowbound train where all the passengers are suspects.
The Long Beach Playhouse will stage another Agatha Christie play, The Unexpected Guest, beginning January 11. Lost in the fog, a stranger seeks refuge in a nearby house, only to find a man shot dead and his wife standing over him with a smoking gun. Remarkably under the circumstances, the police suspect a man who died two years previously, leading to a tangled web of lies that reveals family secrets and chilling motives.
The Off-Broadway TBG Mainstage in New York will present 17 Minutes January 10 through February 15. In the aftermath of a school shooting, Sheriff’s Deputy Andy Rubens must come to terms with the choices he made during the tragedy.
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