THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in Paramount Pictures's new GI Joe movie. Cooper will portray Duke, the de facto leader of the G.I. Joe team, previously played by Channing Tatum in 2009’s G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and 2013’s sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Danny McBride will make his directorial debut on the project, which is being touted as a reboot for the G.I. Joe live-action film franchise, which also included the 2021 movie Snake Eyes starring Henry Golding.
Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) will headline the new action movie, Shades of Paradise, from Weston Razooli (Riddle of Fire). The film follows four small-time criminals who are thrown into an odyssey of violence and betrayal following a jewel-heist, and is shot on 2-perf 35mm film by Simone D’Arcangelo (The Settlers). Also starring are Jack Dylan Grazer, Naira Lleo, Najwa Nimri, Rojuu, Zack Harrod, Teru Castilla Serrano, Romann Berrux, Rhys Mitchell, and Stanislav Baretsky. Oscar-nominated producer Andrew Morrison of Kaplan Morrison produced the project.
Andrew Schulz is set to join Universal and Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice ’85 picture starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. He joins stars Whitney Peak, Alden Ehrenreich, Camila Morrone, John Leguizamo, and Danny Ramirez. Miami Vice ’85, with a screenplay by Dan Gilroy, explores the glamor and corruption of mid-1980s Miami in an all-new version of Miami Vice, inspired by the pilot episode of the landmark 1984-90 NBC series. The movie will be filmed for Imax and is set for release on May 19, 2028.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Prime Video handed its flagship drama, Reacher starring Alan Ritchson, a Season 6 pickup just 12 days after the Season 4 finale and four months after the early Season 5 order, the first time the show has received two renewals in the same year. The expediency helps the series, developed by Nick Santora and based on Lee Child’s books, to stay on a yearly cadence. Season 5, which already had been largely written at the time of the May greenlight, started production in late July in Toronto, ahead of Season 4’s August 12 premiere. It is based on Make Me, the 20th book in Child’s series. It has not been determined which novel will serve as source material for Season 6.
Hulu is currently in development on a TV adaptation of the Elle Kennedy (Off Campus) novel Thornbird, with Marlene King (Pretty Little Liars) set as writer and executive producer of the 20th Television project. Thornbird is a coming-of-age thriller about a girl at the center of her own true-crime mystery. Ten years after her father—the infamous serial killer Gabriel Thorn—was caught, 17-year-old Ryan Shipley is back in her childhood hometown of Starling, Tennessee, trying to lay low. No one can know who the truth about her past, as all Ryan wants is a chance to live as a normal teenager. The book is the first title released by Kennedy under the pseudonym E. Kennedy, and follows one girl’s race to solve the crimes of her family’s twisted past before it’s too late.
The Fast & Furious franchise is coming to television after Peacock greenlit its first television series based on the hit movie franchise, which has made more than $7 billion at the global box office over the past 25 years. The series hails from Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who will write and serve as co-showrunners. The Fast & Furious action thrillers centered on a series of films revolving around street racing, heists, and spies.
Hugh Laurie is the latest addition to The Trial of Louise Woodward, HBO‘s true-crime limited series from creator Matthew Barry. The show also stars Catriona Chandler, Joanne Froggatt, Meghann Fahy, Sagar Radia, and Chloë Sevigny. The Trial of Louise Woodward tells the shocking true story of how an 18-year-old British au pair (Chandler) was accused of shaking to death a baby left in her care by her American host family, setting off an international media firestorm as the trial unfolds in full view of both the British and American public. Laurie plays Judge Hiller B. Zobel, of the Massachusetts Superior Court, who presided over the murder trial. As previously announced, Froggatt plays Louise’s mother, Susan, with Fahy and Radia as Deborah and Sunil Eappen — parents of the victim, Matthew Eappen. Sevigny plays Louise’s defense attorney, Elaine Whitfield Sharp.
Lucien Laviscount (Emily in Paris) and Taylour Paige (I Love Boosters) are set to topline Tyler Perry‘s Confabulation, a new Netflix thriller written and directed by Perry that will also feature Shamier Anderson (John Wick: Chapter 4) in a key role. The film follows a firefighter haunted by his past and struggling with reality who risks everything to rescue his high school sweetheart from her powerful husband, only for the truth to unravel in a shocking twist that questions what is real and what is confabulation. Others set for parts include Nadine Ellis (Our Kind of People), Peter Parros (The Haves and Have Nots), Najah Bradley (I Love Boosters), Mikeal Dwayne Griggs (Beauty in Black), Jenna Nolen (A La Carte), Michelle Núñez (The Rookie: Feds), Colin McCalla (Ballard) and Shelley Robertson (Bel-Air).
First-look images were released of Matthew Macfadyen descending into the John le Carré universe to play iconic spymaster George Smiley in BBC and MGM+'s Legacy of Spies. The eight-part drama marks Smiley’s long-anticipated return to television, a first in four decades, when he was played by Alec Guinness, although he was also portrayed in the 2011 movie version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by Gary Oldman. Legacy of Spies is adapted from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and draws on additional material from 2017’s A Legacy of Spies. When Leamas, a highly experienced Circus field operative, recruits Doris Quinz, a young and dynamic East German woman, to smuggle high-value Stasi documents into the West, it sets in motion a series of events that threaten to explode in the crucible of Cold War Berlin. Pursuing Leamas and Doris are Josef Fiedler and Hans-Dieter Mundt, two Stasi operatives whose ferocious desire to shut down the intelligence leak is matched only by their internal rivalry and an iron will to outmatch each other. Pulled into the action is Liz Gold, an idealistic young woman whose courage and conviction force Leamas to navigate a world where loyalties fracture and betrayal is inevitable.
First-look photos were also released for the final installment of Miss Scarlet (formerly titled Miss Scarlet and the Duke), Season 7, which will premiere Sunday, January 17, 2027, 8/7c on MASTERPIECE on PBS. The full series can be streamed before broadcast with PBS Passport, an added member benefit. Season 7 will also be available on PBS. The series stars Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light) as the title character, a Victorian era private detective, alongside Tom Durant-Pritchard (The Forsytes) as Inspector Alexander Blake, with returning cast members Paul Bazely, Tim Chipping, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Cordelia Bugeja, and Ansu Kabia also returning to the screen for one last hurrah.
More first-look photos were released, this time for Matthew Barry’s The Last Detective (fka Old Town Murders). The series follows a team of detectives as they investigate a succession of murder cases set against the striking backdrop of Tenby in Wales. Leading the charge are DI Glyn Walsh (Lewis Jones) and DS Sion Dearden (Steffan Rhodri), investigative partners whose instinctive understanding of one another proves invaluable as they navigate complex cases, unexpected twists, and long-buried secrets lurking beneath the town’s picturesque surface. The detectives are joined by DC Remy Jones (Bethan-Mary James), DC Neil Miller (Jordan Davies) and forensic biologist Pamela Thomas (Julie Graham).
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Elaine's Literary Salon welcomed award-winning author S.J. Rozan (of the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mysteries) to discuss the third installment in her new Dee and Lao mystery series, A Warning to the Curious, co-written with John Shen Yen Nee.
On the Poisoned Pen Bookstore podcast, Barbara Peters was in conversation with Michael Koryta about his latest novel, Die Famous.
Hank Philllippi Ryan stopped by the Get to Know podcast with hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrum, to discuss her writing, including her latest psychological thriller, the page-turning standalone, The House.
On the latest Murder Junction, hosts Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee discussed the true life case of the Cleveland Torso Murderer and Vaseem's latest paperback, The Edge of Darkness, the sixth in the Malabar House series.
The Femmes Detectives chatted with Ava Glass, the UK’s biggest selling female spy writer, who writes about the world of female spies from firsthand experience and has been dubbed the “female heir to James Bond” by James Patterson and “the new Queen of spy fiction” by The Guardian.
House of Mystery Radio spoke with Yasmin Angoe about her new thriller, The Ferryman's Daughter, in which the daughter of an infamous murderer gets caught up in a copycat’s sick game.
The Sisters in Crime podcast welcomed Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, award-winning author of essays and short stories, including those featured in Palm Springs Noir, CrimeReads, Orange County Noir, and more.
Author William Boyd joined guest host Ollie Webb Carter on Spybrary for a fascinating spoiler free conversation about spy fiction, John le Carré, Cold War espionage and the creation of his reluctant spy, Gabriel Dax.
On the Pick Your Poison podcast, Dr. Jen Prosser investigated what dangerous wellness trend causes harm with bubbles, why the treatment for too much oxygen can be more oxygen, and how concentration can make the difference between a mild exposure and a medical emergency.
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