MOVIES
The 19th edition of the Courmayer Noir-In Festival in Italy starts today and runs through December 13th. Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody is the guest of honor at the event, dedicated to movies and books related to the noir genre. Actor Michael Caine will also make an appearance.
The Bourne franchise is on shaky ground after Paul Greengrass, who directed the last two movies in the series, walked off the film and may have led star Matt Damon to do the same. Why? It's complicated, but money, as usual, is at the bottom of it.
It appears that the futuristic noir film Gun, With Occasional Music which is based on the novel by Jonathan Lethem, may be in the works. With a style akin to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, the story revolves
around a Bay Area private investigator hired by a
man who claims that he's been framed for murder.
The Sundance Film Festival will see the premiere of The Killer Inside Me, the movie based on a novel by im Thompson. It tells the story of "handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff's deputy Lou Ford." (Hat tip to Crimespree.)
TV
The Syfy network has officially picked up 13 episodes of Haven, based on Stephen King's thriller novella The Colorado Kid. It's the first Syfy project that's an international production and tells the story of a spooky town in Maine where FBI agent Audrey Parker investigates cursed folk who live normal lives in exile.
The Fox Network crime drama Lie to Me is going to reunite cast members from The Shield, not too surprising since Shawn Ryan, Shield creator, now serves as executive producer on Lie to Me. Although Michael Chiklis won't be making an appearance, other Shield alumni Catherine Dent, Kenny
Johnson, David Marciano, Benito Martinez, Cathy Cahlin Ryan and David
Rees Snell will all take part.
A second Richard Castle novel "written" by the fictional TV character from the show is being planned, as the first novel Heat Wave did quite well, selling out in bookstores and climbing up the bestseller charts.
Aunjanue Ellis (The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3) will have a major recurring role in The Mentalist as the new head of the California Bureau of Investigation, brought in to restore discipline and morale to the division after the murder of three agents. Her first episode airs in April.
Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica), Molly Parker (The Road) and Camille Sullivan (Da Vinci’s Inquest) have started production on Shattered, a Canadian crime drama about a homicide detective (Rennie) with multiple personality disorder.
THEATER
Agatha Christie's play A Daughter's A Daughter (written under the alias of Mary Westmacott) will stage its West End premiere in London, with performances starting Dec. 14. It stars Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks under the direction of Roy Marsden (who played Inspector Adam Dalgliesh in the long-running PD James series).
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