THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
During the Covid-19 pandemic and social-distancing, drive-in movie theaters have made something of a comeback. Now, Vertical Entertainment will premiere the Bella Thorne action-crime thriller, Infamous, in close to three dozen drive-ins on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in the South. The film will also be available in digital virtual cinemas, all starting on Friday, June 12. Thorne plays Arielle, a young woman who lives in a small Florida town, stuck in a diner job. Arielle has always wanted more: fame, popularity and admiration. But when she falls for a recently paroled young criminal named Dean, she drags him back into a life of danger, learning that posting their criminal exploits on social media is an easy way to viral fame. They embark on a dangerous adventure together that leads to robbery, cop chases, and murder.
Quiver Distribution has secured the North American distribution rights to Money Plane, the Andrew Lawrence-helmed action-thriller starring WWE Superstar Adam "Edge" Copeland, Denise Richards, Thomas Jane, and Emmy award winner Kelsey Grammer. Co-written by Lawrence and Tim Schaaf, the film will debut on digital platforms on July 10. The plot follows Jack Reese (Copeland), a professional thief who’s $40 million in debt. Underworld kingpin Darius Emmanuel Grouch (Grammer) offers to forgive his debt if Reese will commit one final heist – rob a futuristic airborne casino filled with the world’s most dangerous criminals. If he fails, his family’s lives are on the line.
Mission: Impossible 7 is preparing to resume filming in September after the Paramount feature was forced to radically change its shooting plans in February because of the coronavirus pandemic. First assistant director Tommy Gormley said, "We hope to restart in September, we hope to visit all the countries we planned to and look to do a big chunk of it back in the UK on the backlot and in the studio..." Gormley added that it would not be without significant challenges given the scale of the shoot, its multiple locations, and giant crew, but added that it will be possible if "we break down all the procedures very carefully."
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the list of nominees for its annual BAFTA Awards. Among the crime show nods were a Best Drama Series nomination for Giri/Haji, a thriller set in Tokyo and London that explores the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities; International Award nominations for When They See Us, based on the real-life case of the Central Park Five, and Unbelievable, about a series of rapes in Washington State and Colorado; Best Dramatic Actor nods for Callum Turner (The Capture) and Takehiro Hira (Giri/Haji); and Best Dramatic Actress nominations for Glenda Jackson (Elizabeth is Missing) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve). Also nominated were A Confession and The Victim in the Best Mini-Series category.
The BBC has commissioned a second season of the spy drama, The Capture. The surveillance thriller, which will premiere on NBCUniversal streamer Peacock in the U.S. on July 15, was a hit in the UK, becoming BBC iPlayer’s biggest new title of 2019. Season 1 began with the unjust arrest of an innocent man (Callum Turner) and escalated into a multi-layered conspiracy of manipulated evidence. Holliday Grainger’s Detective Inspector Rachel Carey is drafted in to investigate the case and she quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective. Grainger returns as Carey for the six-part second season, with events picking up from the end of Season 1 when the detective seemingly joined forces with a shadowy correction team she had previously sought to expose.
The CW has acquired an Italian thriller series starring Patrick Dempsey and is shifting around its previously announced 2020-21 broadcast season schedule to accommodate it. Devils is based on the novel, I Diavoli by Guido Maria Brera, and is set in the London office of a major U.S. bank, where the ruthless Head of Trading, Massimo Ruggero (Alessandro Borghi) from Italy, has been welcomed and introduced to the world of finance by Dominic Morgan (Dempsey), the bank’s CEO. When Ruggero ends up involved in an intercontinental financial war rocking Europe, he has to choose whether to ally himself with his mentor or fight him. The book was partly inspired by the financial crisis that swept global markets in 2008.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Read or Dead hosts Katie McClean Horner and Rincey Abraham talked about the new James Patterson and Bill Clinton book; a new Lisbeth Salander adaptation; and mystery short story collections.
Suspense Radio's Beyond the Cover welcomed bestselling author Greg Hurwitz to discuss his Orphan X series and his latest book, Into The Fire.
This week's guest on Meet the Thriller Author was Barbara Nickless, whose latest book is Gone to Darkness, the fourth installment in her bestselling Sydney Rose Parnell book series.
Barbara Nickless also stopped by Wrong Place, Write Crime, chatting about her "many and varied pursuits."
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club welcomed Elly Griffiths to chat about her forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway novels that are inspired by Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast turned its attention to poetry for the latest episode. EQMM has a long history of including occasional poems, from humorous limericks to serious free verse, since poetry gives another lens through which to view the crime and mystery genre. Included in the show are a story in epic verse by John F. Dobbyn and poems by James Sallis, Stephen D. Rogers, Kevin Mims, Marilyn Todd, John V. Mercurio, and more.
For the final episode of the first series of The Tartan Noir Show, Peter May joined host Theresa Talbot from his home in France. He spoke about his brand new book, Lockdown, written 15 years ago about a global pandemic which closes down London; about digging deep in writing; the importance of research; and about his best-selling Lewis Trilogy, his China Thrillers series, and the Enzo Files series.
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