MOVIES
In a rather convoluted process, Harlan Coben's Tell No One, made first into a movie not by Hollywood but in France (and only released on DVD in the U.S.), has just procured English-language remake rights by Miramax and Focus Features.
IFC Films will produce three British films inspired by the Yorkshire Ripper investigations, titled The Red Riding Trilogy.
Green Knight Ventures is undertaking a new contemporary version of "The Fall of the House of Usher," the famous story by Edgar Allan Poe. It will be shot in 3-D and directed by Stephen Kay.
The first move trailer for the movie Sherlock Holmes by Guy Richie has been released, and it definitely shows that this is not going to be your traditional Holmes flick, with the detective as action figure and ladies' man (and handcuffed naked to a bed--Jeremy Brett must be rolling his heavenly eyes).
One of the films screened at Cannes was a police procedural from Romania, titled Police, Adjective, as a young cop struggles for understanding and redemption in a series of dialogues with his wife, his colleagues and his chilling police chief.
TELEVISION
Laura Lippman appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Fox has scheduled a show based on M.J. Rose's novel The Reincarnationist for next season. The series, called Past Life, follows a team of detectives who solve crimes using regression therapy and the theory of reincarnation.
Lee Child appeared on the Writer's Roundtable discussing writing a series and his latest Jack Reacher novel.
CBC news discussed the evolution of the TV cop drama, focusing on the latest, Southland.
Masterpiece Theater has an online feature about world crime fiction authors which was compiled with the assistance of Barbara Peters of Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
Sky Arts is going to screen six new dramas live on TV, believed to be the first such live project on British TV in 25 years. Authors involved in writing the dramas include Michael Dobbs, who pens political thrillers, Nicci French (the writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) and mystery writer Morag Joss.
WEB/RADIO
Harlan Coben discussed Tell No One with NPR's Art Silverman.
Reed Farrel Coleman was also featured on NPR as a "wise guy mystery writer who makes good."
Both Oline Cogdill and Crimespree Cinema have information and links to all three installments of Michael Connelly's online trailer for his latest novel The Scarecrow.
On the Diane Rehm Show, the Readers' Review focused on The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
BBC4 is producing The Complete Smiley, dramatizations of all eight of John le Carré's George Smiley novels, with Simon Russell Beale playing Smiley.
NPR had a piece titled "For Summer Sleuths: Best Mystery, Crime Novels," including titles by S.J. Rozan, George Pelecanos, Michael Connelly, S.J. Bolton, and the anthology Black Noir: Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers, edited by Otto Penzler.
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