The Bond film franchise movie #23, Skyfall, has yet to debut in theaters in the U.S. (it debuted to record box office overseas this weekend), but Bond #24 and #25 are reportedly already being written by John Logan (Hugo, Gladiator, Aviator) as a two-movie arc. Production on 24 may start this time next year to accommodate a fall 2014 release; it's possible the two films will also be shot back-to-back.
Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) joins Tony-winner Nina Arianda to star in the crime thriller Rob The Mob, scripted by Jonathan Fernandez. Based on a true story, the film follows a couple who target and rob some of New York's biggest mobsters.
Mirimax and Fathom events are joining forces to bring two of Quentin Tarantino's two biggest films to theaters for one night only for each. "Tarantino XX: Reservoir Dogs 20th Anniversary Event" will be simulcast Tuesday, December 4, and "Tarantino XX: Pulp Fiction Event" will follow two days later, with evening shows and some matinees in select markets. (Hat tip to Crimespree.)
Omnimystery News has a new trailer for the thriller Broken City, featuring an ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) seeking redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor (Russell Crowe). The film opens in theaters January 18th, 2013.
TV
Mira Sorvino has been chosen to star in TNT's pilot Trooper, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Sorvino will play a recently divorced and unconventional female state trooper whose trooper partner is a widowed father with a by-the-book approach to policing.
Rebecca Romijn has signed on to co-star with Jon Tenney in the TNT pilot King And Maxwell, from CBS TV Studios and Shane Brennan (NCIS). The characters and show are adapted from novels by David Baldacci and follow Sean King (Tenney) and Michelle Maxwell (Romijn), an atypical pair of private investigators.
The young British actress Hayley Atwell will play a policewoman who becomes obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl in ITV’s just-commissioned Life Of Crime. The series will follow Atwell's character in three parts over three decades.
The pilot for a TV series based on the Beverly Hills Cop films continues to go forward. Eddie Murphy will reprise his role as Axel Foley, and Brandon T Jackson is in talks to play Axel's son Aaron Foley, a Beverly Hills police officer attempting to establish himself in the shadow of his legendary father, who is now the chief of police in Detroit.
Law & Order producer Barry Schindel is helping spearhead a new legal drama for USA. Titled Shadow Counsel, the series would follow a former Army lawyer recruited reluctantly by the FBI as a “secret” lawyer who operates off the record to circumvent existing roadblocks in classified cases.
Fresh off its recent Emmy, Golden Globe, ITV and BAFTA awards, Showtime's Homeland series was rather predictably renewed for a third season.
CBS gave full-season orders to their freshmen shows Vegas and Sherlock, while the CW's new series, featuring Stephen Amell as the crime-fighter superhero Arrow, has also been given a full season order.
USA gave the go-ahead to an unscripted docu-drama series, Partners in Crime. The show will focus on defense attorneys Mario Gallucci and Big Lou Gelormino as they take on infamous criminal cases and "are like brothers behind the courtroom scene, complete with bickering and family meals featuring spaghetti and buffalo meatballs."
PODCASTS/VIDEO
John Grisham appeared on the Colbert Report, talking about his rivalry with Stephen King, his days as a starving lawyer, and his latest book, The Racketeer.
From EuroCrime: A new daily series about European Crime Writing has started on BBC Radio 4 and the Martin Beck Killings, starring Steven Mackintosh, will begin on the 27th, all available for download.
THEATER
Baltimore's Center Stage is presenting The Completely Fictional—Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe through November 25. Written by Stephen Thorne and directed by Curt Columbus, the play touches on the morbid life and mysterious final days of Edgar Allen Poe, played by actor Bruce Nelson.
Dangerous Lady, a stage adaptation of one of Martina Cole's bestselling crime thrillers, is currently playing at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, and the Guardian has a review.
After a long battle to secure the stage rights to the 1942 story "Rear Window" by Cornell Woolrich (made into Alfred Hitchcock's classic film), it appears that a Broadway adaptation is finally on track. Director Jay Russell and producer Charlie Lyons are on board, along with with Homeland actor Tim Guinee.
GAMES/COMICS
From Omnimystery News: The first "Sherlock Holmes" game for the Nintendo 3DS was released this week in the UK and Nordic countries.
During at panel at the recent Comic Con in New York, it was announced that "2000 AD" editor Matt Smith will be writing a "Judge Dredd: Year One" miniseries for IDW Publishing, and writer John Wagner, who created Judge Dredd along with artist Carlos Ezquerra, will return as the writer of the "Judge Dredd" series in 2013. Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine
the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner.
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