MOVIES
Universal is picking up screen rights to another Robert Ludlum thriller, The Parsifal Mosaic.
Simon de Normier, an associate producer on Stephen Daldry's The Reader, has picked up the rights to a trilogy of crime novels from Reader author Bernhard Schlink which follow the noir-ish adventures of Gerhard Self, a private detective working in postwar Germany.
Coming soon: Clue: the Movie. Universal Pictures has hired Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) to direct and produce a live-action murder mystery based on the Hasbro board game.
TELEVISION
The NCIS spinoff has added to the growing cast, including Louise Lombard, who played CSI's Sofia Curtis for three seasons.
The Sun Times Newsgroup has a preview of the new TV show Castle featuring Nathan Fillion as mystery author Richard Castle, which Fillion calls a male "Murder She Wrote."
CBS has snapped up the Canadian police drama The Bridge, which centers on the world of a police union leader who must both battle
criminals and fight his own bosses in order to protect other officers.
RADIO
Starting Sunday February 28th, BBC Radio 4 starts a 5-week series based on Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley books.
NPR's Maureen Corrigan profiled Dan Simmons's new novel, Drood.
PODCASTING/WEB
The Classic Mysteries site podcast this week featured The Benson Murder Case, the first of the Philo Vance novels by S.S. Van Dyne.
GAMES
Righteous Kill, a new mystery game for the PC, lets you step into the shoes of Erica Dean as she investigates crime scenes in New York City.
In the second quarter of 2010, Harlequin will begin publishing a branded series of books inspired by Mystery Case Files, a successful Big Fish Games franchise, making Harlequin the first to publish women’s mystery fiction for BFG.
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