THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
The action thriller, Your Lucky Day, featuring one of the final performances of the late Euphoria star, Angus Cloud, has landed a U.S. distribution deal with Well Go USA Entertainment. The film will hit theaters across the country on November 10th and arrive on digital on the 14th. Written and directed by Emmy nominee, Dan Brown, Your Lucky Day watches as a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns into a deadly hostage situation, leaving the witnesses to decide exactly how far they’ll go — and how much blood they’re willing to spill — for a cut of the $156 million. As the spiraling, life-or-death situation unravels in a small convenience store on Christmas Eve, it becomes evident "that the poisonous heart of the American dream can actually be a nightmare."
A trailer dropped for The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which marks the final film of The Exorcist director William Friedkin following his death in August, as well as the last performance of actor Lance Reddick (who died in March of this year). It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival earlier this month, with a scheduled wide release for October 6. Described as a "a modern update" to Herman Wouk’s 1951 Pulitzer-winning, post-World War II novel, the movie follows a U.S. naval first officer, Lieutenant Stephen Maryk (Jake Lacy), on trial after forcibly relieving his captain, Lieutenant Commander Phillip Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland), of his command during a storm at sea. During the court-martial, the subject of Queeg's state of mind at the time proves the core debate, and the question of whether the crew's acts were mutinous or courageous will be unpacked by both sides.
TELEVISION/SMALL SCREEN
Line of Duty star, Vicky McClure, is set to lead the cast of the Paramount+ UK drama, Insomnia, an adaptation of Sarah Pinborough’s 2022 sleep deprivation thriller novel. McClure plays successful career woman Emma Averill, who fears she might be losing her mind when her hard-won dream life starts to turn into a nightmare. A couple of weeks before her 40th birthday Emma stops sleeping — just as her mother had done right before she suffered a violent psychotic breakdown on the night of her own 40th birthday. Emma’s mother always told her she’d go the same way, that she had the same "bad blood," and now Emma is terrified it’s true. As events worsen, Emma’s world starts to unravel and she realizes that only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present and prevent tragedy from striking a second time.
The CW is officially moving into true-crime with the 10-part series, Crime Nation, described as being in the same vein as NBC’s Dateline, CBS’s 48 Hours, and ABC’s 20/20. The series, set to premiere in 2024, will follow mysteries, cold cases, and investigations in each two-hour-long episode, featuring ripped-from-the-headlines stories and interviews. The cases to be covered will include the Delphi murders, the Lori Vallow Daybell case, the Gabby Petito murder, and the Gilgo Beach murders.
Apple TV has released first-look images for season three of Slow Horses, which is based on Real Tigers, the third novel in Mick Herron's darkly humorous espionage series following a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House. The first two episodes of Season 3 will debut on December 1, with new episodes to be released individually each Friday through December 29. Gary Oldman leads a cast that includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
On Read or Dead this week, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed book picks for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Historian Oliver Webb Carter stopped by the Spybrary podcast to discuss the five favorite spy novels he wants stashed in a dead drop during an undercover mission behind the Iron Curtain; Ashenden by Somerset Maugham, a collection of stories set during World War I; a look at A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre, a non-fiction book that provides a fascinating account of Kim Philby, a member of the Cambridge spy ring, and more.
On Crime Time FM, Paul Burke spoke with Andrew Nette about his new heist thriller, Orphan Road; Gunshine State; pulp fiction; and bodgies & widgies.
The latest episode of It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club featured a talk with Joyce Elaine and Roasalie Spielman, two of the authors for Fright Reads Book Conference which will be held September 30 to October 1 in Millersville, Maryland.
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