THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Netflix has announced the start of principal photography on a sequel to the 2025 action thriller, Ad Vitam, starring Guillaume Canet. With a working title of Ad Vitam Eternam, the new film sees Canet return in the role of ex-elite agent Franck Lazareff who spent the first installment investigating a deadly conspiracy plot after his pregnant wife was kidnapped by masked men. Per the synopsis, in the new film, Franck sets out to find out who wants him dead after surviving an assassination attempt upon his release from prison. He hides away with his family in the mountains, but French intelligence services track him down and offer him a deal: a covert mission in exchange for the truth Franck is seeking. Ludovic Colbeau-Justin (How To Make A Killing) takes over as director from Rodolphe Lauga, who shot the first film.
Actress Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, Compulsion) is reuniting with writer Neil Marshall for the psychological thriller, The Spiral Down, directed by Aaron Mirtes (Whiskey Run) with cameras set to roll in Kentucky next month. In the film, Kirk plays Mary Doyle, who is kidnapped by a serial killer obsessed with perfection. But as detectives close in, they discover that Mary is far from a victim and is in fact a dangerous escapee from a psychiatric institution with a violent past of her own. After killing her captor and disappearing without a trace, the investigation is turned on its head, leaving law enforcement hunting an even greater threat.
Newly minted Tony winner, Alden Ehrenreich (who's also known for his turn in Solo: A Star Wars Story) is set to join Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in the Universal Pictures film, Miami Vice ’85, an original take on the classic 1980s drama series. Joseph Kosinski is directing the picture from a script by Dan Gilroy. The film explores the glamor and corruption of mid-’80s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark Universal Television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking. Miami Vice ‘85 will be filmed for Imax and is set for release on May 19, 2028.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
The Lincoln Lawyer is eying a franchise expansion at Netflix with a spinoff series headlined by Cobie Smulders, reprising her role as Mickey Haller’s half-sister Artemisia "Emi" Finch. Emi was introduced at the end of Season 4, with Smulders promoted to a series regular for Season 5. In the upcoming fifth season, Mickey Haller’s (Manuel Garcia Rulfo) world is upended when the half-sister he never knew existed, Emi (Smulders), comes to him with a plea to help free a wrongfully convicted woman, a case he takes on, determined to set right an enormous miscarriage of justice. Emi is an original character who is not in Michael Connelly’s books, on which The Lincoln Lawyer is based. She fills a void in Mickey’s family dynamic caused in part by his half-brother, Harry Bosch, not being in the picture due to the rights to the character being owned by Amazon.
Sophia Stallone's Callisto Media and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions are teaming up on Bourbon & Lies, a romantic suspense series for MGM Television based on the bestselling book series by Victoria Wilder. Set in Fiasco, Kentucky, the series follows ex-cop Grant Foxx, a man trying to keep his life quiet after leaving the force, and Laney Young, a beautiful stranger who arrives in town with too many lies and too much danger behind her. When Laney begins working at the Foxx family distillery, she pulls Grant back into a world of instinct, suspicion, and desire. What begins as distrust turns into something far more combustible as their pasts collide, the town’s mythology darkens, and the truth threatens to burn through everything they are trying to protect.
More than a year after FBI: International was canceled, the series’ star Jesse Lee Soffer and showrunner Matt Olmstead are reuniting for another crime drama project at CBS. Strike Force (working title), from Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Studios, is written by Olmstead and centers on a battle-tested DEA agent (Soffer) who returns home to Kansas City to lead a multi-agency strike force.targeting the violent criminals now trying to exploit America’s heartland.
Shemar Moore, star of S.W.A.T.’s reboot, Exiles, posted an update about the show, announcing that Exiles has already been renewed for Season 2 ahead of the first season's premiere on the 2026 TV schedule. Moore plays Daniel Hondo Harrelson, a S.W.A.T. team veteran pulled out of retirement to lead a last-chance experimental unit composed of untested and unpredictable recruits.
Boris Kodjoe (Station 19, Soul Food) has joined the recurring cast of Fox's Memory of a Killer for its upcoming second season, set to premiere midseason 2027. Inspired by the book and award-winning 2003 Belgian film, De Zaak Alzheimer, Memory of a Killer stars Patrick Dempsey as Angelo Flannery/Doyle, who leads a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret: he is slowly losing his memory. Kodjoe will play Tré, the “Fourth Musketeer.” Tré is the closest childhood friend of Angelo (Dempsey), Dutch (Michael Imperioli), and Angelo’s brother Michael (Richard Clarkin). A high-level executive at a large company, he’s the only one out of the four who “broke good,” and is now being honored for saving their childhood community center.
The CBS series Marshals has added Marque Richardson (Unprisoned) to its Season 2 cast, recurring as Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Burns. In addition, Morgan Lindholm (Leverage: Redemption) will return to expand on her role as Maddie, the bartender at the local watering hole and Cal’s (Logan Marshall-Green) estranged daughter. Production on Season 2 began in Park City, Utah, in June, with the confirmed return of lead Luke Grimes playing Kayce Dutton, head of an elite unit of U.S. Marshals.
HBO Max has decided not to proceed with the drama pilot, American Blue, headlined by Milo Ventimiglia, although the studio behind it, Warner Bros Television, is looking to find a new home for the project. Written by Jeremy Carver and directed by David Ayer, American Blue centers on native son Brian “Milk” Milkovich (Ventimiglia), who returns to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois, to rescue a beleaguered police force while seeking redemption of his own. The series-regular cast also includes Kelly Jenrette, Carlito Olivero, Onye Eme-Akwari, Jess Gabor, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Paulina Olszynski, Algee Smith, Jeremy Bobb, Rich Sommer, Jesse Garcia, Wrenn Schmidt, Ellyn Jameson, and Maisie Merlock.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Murder Junction welcomed crime writer Chris McDonald to discuss his latest novel, The Wrong Man, and his side hustle as a rock musician.
Barbara Peters was in conversation with Chris Bohjalian on the Poisoned Pen Bookstore podcast, talking about Bohjalian's latest novel, The Amateur.
On Meet the Thriller Author, bestselling author, screenwriter, and television producer Kevin Wade discussed his latest crime novel, One Good Eye, the second installment in his Jeep Mullane series.
The Outliers Podcast welcomed veteran Navy helicopter pilot and mission commander-turned author, Ryan Pote, about his Blood and Treasure series, and also continuing the Fargo Series for the Clive Cussler Estate.
Authors on the Air spoke with Lucy Burdette about her writing and her Key West Mystery Series.
On the Sisters in Crime podcast, Deliah Lawrence, a Maryland-based attorney and award-winning author, stopped by to discuss her romantic suspense novels set in Baltimore.
House of Mystery Radio chatted with Bruce Borgos, author of the new novel, The Riddle Maker: A Porter Beck Mystery.
THEATRE
The Oakland Park, Illinois-based Ballet 5:8 has scheduled a national tour of its ballet, The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe, which "traces Poe's life through the short stories that made him immortal." Its creators are Ballet 5:8 artistic director Julianna Rubio Slager and choreographer Glorielle Niedfeldt. Upcoming cities in the tour include Baltimore, Maryland (October 3), Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 17), and South Bend, Indiana (March 6, 2027).
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