THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Sony has hired writers Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo to adapt Eruption, the New York Times bestseller from Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Eruption, which Crichton started writing before his death in 2008 and which was completed by Patterson, follows a history-making volcano explosion that is about to wipe away the big island of Hawaii. However, a secret held for decades by the U.S. military is far more terrifying than any volcano. Eruption is being produced by Sherri Crichton, Patterson, and Shane Salerno, and The Story Factory.
The Michael B. Jordan-directed reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair for Amazon MGM Studios has added a pair of Oscar winners to its team: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast), who joins in an undisclosed - possibly villainous - role, and producer Charles Roven (Oppenheimer), who will produce the film via his Atlas Entertainment banner, alongside others. While plot details are being kept under wraps, both the original 1968 film from United Artists and the 1999 remake from MGM were heist stories revolving around a wealthy, thrill-seeking man who orchestrates a high-stakes robbery simply for the challenge, only to find himself entangled in a complex cat-and-mouse game with a brilliant investigator.
Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will make its international premiere as the opening film of the 69th BFI London Film Festival, running from October 8 to 19. It marks a return to the festival for Johnson’s murder mystery franchise after the original movie played in a gala screening at the 63rd edition in 2019, and the second installment, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, closed the 66th edition in 2022. The third movie in the franchise sees Daniel Craig return in his role of famed private detective Benoit Blanc to solve his most dangerous case in an as-yet-undisclosed setting. The ensemble cast includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
Taylor Kitsch (Lone Survivor) is set to star in Eleven Days, an indie hostage film from filmmaker Peter Landesman (Parkland; Concussion) that begins shooting in September. The film, based on a true story is set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, as head of the Texas Department of Corrections Jim Estelle (Kitsch) plays a deadly game against the ruthless Federico Carrasco, a convicted heroin dealer who has taken over the Huntsville Penitentiary and is holding dozens hostage after his pre-planned escape has gone awry. Lines between captor and captive, justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for eleven terrifying days. Based on the book by William T. Harper, Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas, the film was written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Actress Madison Lintz (Bosch) has signed on to star in and executive produce Eve Ronin, the television adaptation of Lee Goldberg’s series of crime novels from Thomas & Mercer/Amazon Publishing. The Eve Ronin series follows the youngest homicide detective in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as she works to uncover the crimes behind the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. Known for her tenacity and grit, Ronin tackles high-stakes cases around the city while "battling institutional resistance and her own personal demons."
Before its fifth season has even premiered, Apple TV+ has already renewed Slow Horses for Season 7, which will be six episodes long and follow Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and his band of Slow Horses as they are "on the hunt to find and neutralize a mole at the heart of British Government before they can bring down the state." The British spy thriller was previously renewed for Season 6 last year. The upcoming fifth and sixth seasons are expected to adapt Mick Herron’s novels London Rules, Joe Country, and Slough House. Season 5 is set to premiere on Apple TV+ on Sept. 24.
After more than a decade, Grantchester is coming to an end, with the upcoming Season 11 of the British period drama to be its last. Based on the James Runcie short stories, "The Grantchester Mysteries," the show launched in 2015 with James Norton in the lead role as vicar Sidney Chambers. Tom Brittney’s character, William Davenport, subsequently took over the top spot on the 1950s-set show and then Rishi Nair took the lead in Series 9, with Grantchester following a new mystery each season. In Season 11, Robson Green returns as Geordie Keating with Rishi Nair as Alphy Kottaram, Al Weaver as Leonard Finch, Tessa Peake-Jones as Mrs. C, Kacey Ainsworth as Cathy Keating, Oliver Dimsdale as Daniel Marlowe, Nick Brimble as Jack Chapman, Bradley Hall as DC Larry Peters, and Melissa Johns as Miss Scott. Season 10 is currently airing on Masterpiece Mystery! in the U.S.
Bad Robot’s 1970s crime drama, Duster, is coming to an end, as HBO Max is not proceeding with a second season of the series from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan—news that comes less than a week after the Season 1 finale debuted on the platform. Duster follows Nina (Rachel Hilson), the first Black female FBI agent, who in 1972 heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver (Josh Holloway), the first in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate. Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez, and Benjamin Charles Watson also starred.
The crime-drama, Rebus, from Eleventh Hour Films, will return for a second series, penned by Gregory Burke. Based on the popular books by Ian Rankin and filmed in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow, series two, commissioned by the BBC, will see Richard Rankin reprise the role of Detective Sergeant John Rebus and "will explore the links between violent criminals involved in the drug trade in Edinburgh and the professional bourgeois world of law and finance, where police sometimes fear to tread."
Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You) has been cast in ABC's drama pilot, RJ Decker, joining the previously announced Scott Speedman. Rob Doherty created the series based on the 1987 novel, Double Whammy, by Carl Hiaasen. RJ Decker (Speedman), disgraced newspaper photographer and ex-con, starts over as a private investigator in the colorful-if-crime-filled world of South Florida, tackling cases that range from slightly odd to outright bizarre with the help of his journalist ex, her police detective wife, and a shadowy new benefactor, a woman from his past who could be his greatest ally…or his one-way ticket back to prison. Opia will play Shay Bennett, the shrewd-if-unpredictable daughter of a very powerful, very corrupt state senator with ties to RJ’s past. If the pilot gets picked up to series, Opia is positioned for a series regular role.
CBS is shaking up its fall schedule. CIA, which stars Tom Ellis and was slated for a fall premiere, will now debut midseason, with sophomore series Watson, which was slotted for a midseason premiere, filling the fall time slot. The decision to push CIA to midseason was made to give the show, part of the FBI franchise, additional time to ensure its success. CIA will premiere alongside the new Yellowstone spinoff, Y: Marshals, and Harlan Coben’s Final Twist, which are all slated for the second half of the 2025-26 broadcast season. Watson will now debut its second season on Monday, Oct. 13, at 10 p.m., after the Season 8 premiere of FBI at 9 p.m. Like past seasons, CBS will launch new seasons of its biggest shows and new series DMV, Sheriff Country, and Boston Blue during a mid-October premiere week, using sneak peeks and momentum from Sunday football to propel the new series. Crime dramas Matlock and Elsbeth will debut a sneak peek of their new seasons on Sunday, Oct. 12, after an NFL doubleheader, before heading back to their typical Thursday time slots.
Netflix has unveiled a teaser trailer for Stefano Sollima’s four-part Italian crime drama, The Monster of Florence, and announced an October 22 launch date. Created by Leonardo Fasoli and Sollima, who previously collaborated on the organized crime drama, Gomorrah, the drama recounts one of Italy’s longest and most complex investigations into the first and most brutal serial killer in the country’s history, the so-called Monster of Florence. Active in the province of Florence between the late 1960s and 1985, the serial killer murdered sixteen people, often young couples attacked in secluded wooded areas. Tapping into ongoing legal proceedings and investigations, the story explores the many possible monsters investigated over time and also focuses on their point of view.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Debbi Mack's guest on the latest Crime Cafe podcast was journalist and crime writer, Jonathan Whitelaw, as they discussed how to treat a writing career like a business, Doctor Who, James Bond, and Terry Pratchett.
Wrong Place, Write Crime host, Frank Zafiro, welcomed Roy Lambert and Vincent Zandri to talk about their upcoming anthology, True Pulp: A Noir Anthology.
Authors on the Air spoke with E.C. Nevin about A Novel Murder, her new mystery that follows what happens when an author’s fictional crime scene mirrors a real-life murder, and the lines between imagination and investigation blur in dangerously delightful ways.
On Read or Dead, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed their most anticipated books for the second half of 2025.
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