MOVIES
Producer Jonathan Sothcott is teaming up with J.K. Amalou to co-produce the London-set hitman thriller Assassin, starring Danny Dyer as as a professional contract killer who who realizes his latest victim is the estranged father of the girl he has fallen in love with.
U.K. musician and actor Martin Kemp will direct the upcoming British crime drama Top Dog, a movie adaptation of the cult novel by Dougie Brimson, Green Street. The story centers on London villain Billy Evans (played by Leo Gregory) who bites off more than he can chew when he crosses a more dangerous criminal gang.
The Mentalist executive producer Chris Long is putting together a documentary about the Great Train Robbery, based on interviews with one of the original gang members behind the infamous heist.
Here's your first look at Benicio Del Toro in character as Pablo Escobar in Paradise Lost, which also stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games, Detention) and Claudia Traisic. The film, from first time director Andrea Di Stefano, is scheduled for release next year.
If you have a few million dollars lying around, the submersible car called the Lotus Esprit (that actually works!) from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me is going up for auction on September 9th.
TELEVISION
BBC Two has ordered a TV movie project titled Legacy, based on the spy thriller novel by Alan Judd about a young spy who discovers the disturbing truth about his father’s complex past in Cold War London. The film project will be written by Paula Milne, directed by Pete Travis, and star Boardwalk Empire's Charlie Cox, The Hour's Romola Garai, Sherlock's Andrew Scott and My Week With Marilyn's Simon Russell Beale.
TNT added Louis Lombardi (24 and The Sopranos) to the cast of its upcoming period cop drama Lost Angels (previously known as L.A. Noir). The show is is based on the book by John Buntin about the battle between former Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker (Neal McDonough) and mobster/former boxer Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke).
Camryn Manheim (The Practice) will guest-star on the two-part Season 9 premiere of Criminal Minds.
To celebrate the final season of AMC‘s Breaking Bad, the network has partnered with The Film Society Of Lincoln Center for week-long celebration, starting July 26 and running until July 30, for a free Breaking Bad marathon.
TVLine took a First Impression look at Fox's new Almost Human series slated for the fall. The show is set in the year 2048 where human cops are each paired with an MX-43 android.
The Ion Network has picked up rights to broadcast reruns of USA dramas Burn Notice and White Collar, which join other recently picked-up shows including fellow USA dramas Psych and Monk and TNT's Leverage.
VIDEO
This Wednesday, the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles will launch a new webseries called CRIME: The Animated Series through its new contemporary art video initiative MOCA.tv. The series was created by Sam Chou of Toronto's Style5 and author/filmmaker Alix Lambert, whose book CRIME inspired the series. Each of CRIME's six parts are produced by a different animator/designer in their own personal style and feature interviews with law enforcement, criminals and the victims of crime. The free screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
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