Robert Redford is teaming up with David Lowery to adapt and direct The Old Man and the Gun, a film based on a 2003 New Yorker article about a bank robber who spent almost his entire life either in prison or breaking out of it. Redford would produce and star, while Lowery would direct.
The 15th annual Festival Of Film Noir has returned to the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Sponsored by The American Cinematheque and the Film Noir Foundation, the festival runs through April 21. There's also a special 60th anniversary showing (at the Aero Theatre) of the long-lost noir Man in the Dark in fully restored 3-D.
Hat tip to It's a Crime for noting the BAFTA TV nominations for 2013. Nominees for Best Drama Series included the legal/detective series Ripper Street, Scott and Bailey, and Silk; nominees for Best International Series included crime dramas Homeland (U.S.) and The Bridge (Denmark/Sweden).
Universal released the first stills from the upcoming R.I.P.D., starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. The film is based on the Dark Horse graphic novel by Peter M. Lenkov and follows a young cop (Reynolds) who joins the Rest In Peace Department in the afterlife, a police force dedicated to solving crimes of the undead. The cop teams up with a gun-slinging cowboy from the old west (Bridges) in order to find the guy who killed him (Kevin Bacon).
The remake of the 1991 action thriller Point Break is looking more likely after the announcement that Ericson Core has signed to direct the film. The story follows an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a crime ring in the world of extreme sports. (Hat tip Omnimystery News.)
Sony Pictures won the bidding war for the right to remake the Korean crime film New World. The script, to be adapted by Will Fetters, is about a mob boss who is gunned down and the battle among mobsters who want to succeed him, including an undercover cop.
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Omnimystery News reports that Clerkenwell Films is developing an 18-part television adaptation of the nine spy thriller novels by Len Deighton featuring Ex-MI6 field agent Bernard Sampson.
Tania Raymonde (from Lost) and Scott Eastwood, son of Clint Eastwood, are the first actors cast on the unnamed Chicago Fire spin-off about the Chicago Police Department.
A&E has ordered to series Those Who Kill, based on the Dutch crime drama Den som dræber from a concept by crime novelist Elsebeth Egholm. The 10-episode project stars Chloë Sevigny as a homicide detective James D'Arcy as a forensic psychiatrist.
Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer has signed on to play Irene Adler, the woman Sherlock refers to as "the woman" in the CBS series Elementary.
Homeland star David Marciano is leaving the show as a regular and is developing a cable drama based on a real criminal enterprise that operates out of a prison.
Patricia Arquette is joining the cast of Boardwalk Empire, playing Sally Wheet, a tough-as-nails Tampa speakeasy owner with connections to local gangsters.
Alfre Woodward is leaving True Blood to join the second season of Copper, BBC America's period police drama set in the 1860s in New York City.
Lifetime is producing a sequel to their recent human trafficking drama, this one to star Kirstie Alley and Jennifer Finnigan in a story about "the dark international crime enterprise of infant trafficking under the guise of seemingly regulated adoption."
Crime Time Preview has a first look at Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson in BBC2's The Fall. The series is set in Northern Ireland and follows Anderson's character who is called in to track down a serial killer terrorizing Belfast.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
Nightline featured Mark Geragos, co-author of Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works...and Sometimes Doesn't.
Joining Imus in the Morning last week: Mary Higgins Clark, author of Daddy's Gone a Hunting.
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