THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Claes Bang (The Square), Matthew Needham (Napoleon), Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible franchise), and Joshua Orpin (Titans) have been added to the cast of Painter, the 20th action film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Garrett Warren. The project wrapped production in Serbia and has been confirmed for release on Hulu at a date not yet disclosed. As previously announced, Amber Midthunder, Walton Goggins, Florian Munteanu, and Daniel Bernhardt also star. In the film penned by Derek Kolstad (of the John Wick franchise), Midthunder plays the title character, Painter, who while being raised in the unforgiving hills of Appalachia, was molded by her adoptive father into a survivor — tough, cunning and relentless. When he’s kidnapped, she’s thrust from her mountain home into a high-stakes world of international espionage, where the clock is ticking, and saving him will take every ruthless skill she has ever learned.
The first trailer dropped for Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, Steven Knight’s big screen adaptation of his popular TV series. Directed by Tom Harper, the Knight-penned film stars Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) in a return to the iconic role of Tommy Shelby, whom he played on the BAFTA-winning drama series from 2013 to 2022. The film also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Sophie Rundle, Barry Keoghan, Stephen Graham, Jay Lycurgo, Ned Dennehy, Packy Lee, and Ian Peck. The film is set for a theatrical release in select cinemas on March 6, 2026 followed by streaming on Netflix from March 20.
Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming survival thriller, Apex. The film centers on an adrenaline junkie (Charlize Theron) who sets out to conquer a menacing river only to discover that nature isn't the only thing out for blood. She's soon on the run from a crazed serial killer (Taron Egerton), who’s set on hunting her down. Eric Bana (Force of Nature: The Dry 2) also stars in the project, which Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep) directed from a script by Jeremy Robbins (Aftermath; The Purge).
A slew of Amazon-owned movies and series including high-profile James Bond titles are set to stream on Netflix as part of an unexpected deal between the two streamers. Netflix will launch Die Another Day, No Time to Die, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall on January 15. Amazon insiders told Deadline that licensing the Bond catalog to Netflix is a “strategic business decision designed to broaden global reach and re-engage audiences.”
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Slow Horses headliner Hiba Bennani will star opposite Asaad Bouab in the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation drama series, Rass Jbel. She will play female lead Yasmina in the show, which is a Moroccan adaptation of Lebanese-Syrian drama Al Hayba (الهيبة), which Cedars Art Production made back in 2017. Nora Skali, Amine Ennaji, Salwa Zarhane, Nasser Akabab and Oussama Bastaoui also star. The drama is billed as a "high-stakes saga of love, honour, and power," in which Yasmina returns from Montreal to bury her husband only to find herself unwillingly trapped in the town of Rass Jbel. Determined to stay close to her son – the heir to the formidable Fadlaoui clan – she is forced to make increasingly dangerous compromises to protect him.
Prime Video has released some first look images from the second season of Cross ahead of its Feb. 11 premiere on the streaming network. The new images show Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross, Alona Tal as Kayla Craig, Isaiah Mustafa as John Sampson, and Matthew Lillard as Lance. Cross is created by, written, executive produced, and showrun by Ben Watkins, based on the characters from James Patterson’s bestselling Alex Cross book series. The Washington, D.C.-set crime drama follows Alex Cross (Hodge), a brilliant homicide detective and forensic psychologist, uniquely capable of digging into the minds of murderers in order to identify and catch them. In Season Two, Cross is in pursuit of a ruthless vigilante who is hunting down corrupt billionaire magnates.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
On Crime Time FM, Ian Rankin (the John Rebus series) and Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne novels) discussed the perks and pitfalls of series fiction and what they might have done differently if they had their time again.
The Poisoned Pen podcast featured Rosie A. Point in conversation with John Charles as they chatted about the first two entries in Point's Cranberry Creek Word Search Mystery series.
Authors on the Air interviewed Jeff Circle to discuss Myopic Duplicity, a crime anthology edited by Circle that explores moral gray areas and the deadly choices people make under pressure.
Dr. Jen Prosser investigated the easily available product in the drug store that works like botulism and why enemas were used to treat brain injuries on the Pick Your Poison podcast.
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