Crime writer SJ Bolton's debut novel Sacrifice, inspired by her research into Nordic mythology, is finally coming to the big screen, with filming beginning in mid-May (in Ireland, New York and Shetland). Peter A. Dowling has signed on to direct, with the cast including Connie Nielsen, Charles Dance and Rupert Graves.
Omnimystery News reported that Fox 2000 has acquired the film rights to John Grisham's 2011 legal thriller The Litigators; the studio already has another of Grisham's novels, The Racketeer, in production.
Paul Sorvino has joined the cast of the thriller Careful What You Wish For, playing a sheriff. The plot centers on a man named Doug (Nick Jonas), who has an affair with a woman (Isabel Lucas) married to an investment banker (Dermot Mulroney). When the husband dies suspiciously, Doug becomes entangled in the investigation.
Image Entertainment picked up U.S. and Canadian film rights for Nick Murphy's thriller Blood, which follows the moral collapse of a close police family and stars Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox, and Stephen Graham.
The Weinstein Company optioned Matthew Quick's soon-to-be-published young adult novel of suspense Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.
Sony purchased a spec thriller script from Tina Gordon Chism. The project, titled Inheritance, focuses on a young female lawyer handling the case of a New Orleans coffee magnate whose passing sparks a deadly chain of events.
Chernin Entertainment bought the rights to Marisha Pessl's unpublished book, Night Film. The story follows an investigative reporter, looking into the death of a beautiful young woman, whose discovery the victim is the daughter of a reclusive horror film director plunges the reporter into a journey of revenge and truth. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
Writer/Director Franck Khalfoun's action thriller Motherload was picked-up by producers Alix Taylor and Pav Hatoupis. The story is about a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband who breaks out of prison and goes on a rampage across the country to retrieve her children placed in various institutions.
Director Robert Lorenz is teaming with producer Sam Worthington on the period indie movie, The Broken. The story is set in 1967 Oklahoma, where a war veteran investigating the suspicious death of his estranged son learns it was a covered-up gay bashing and goes on a one-man mission to take down the corrupt sheriff responsible.
TV
Showtime made it official and announced that Season Eight of Dexter, which will premiere June 30, will be the last for the serial-killer series. However, the network hasn't ruled out a spin-off series.
BBC is developing a remake of the 1980s drama Bergerac, which featured Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, an officer in the fictional Le Bureau des Étrangers police department. The network may be envisioning the project as a prequel to the original series.
AMC has put in an order for a new futuristic procedural series titled Ballistic City. It's described as "Blade Runner meets Battlestar Galactica" and centers on a former cop thrust into the criminal underworld of a city housed in a space ship destined for an unknown world.
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head is joining Syfy's Warehouse 13 in a major recurring role as a bad guy, and Joel Gray will guest star in an upcoming episode as a magician.
NCB's supernatural police procedural Grimm, starring David Giuntoli, is moving to a better time slot on Tuesdays, taking over from the recently-cancelled Ready for Love.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Louise Penny and tour guide Marie Legroulx joined Radio Noon Montreal on the CBC to talk about the tour based on her mystery hero to be offered in Quebec this summer.
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