Warner Bros. is "near a deal" for Blood on the Snow, the first of a two-novel series by Jo Nesbo, to be published next year and written under the pseudonym Tom Johansson. The studio is planning on it being a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Millennium Films, the prduction company behind the action fanchise series Expendables, is planning a female spin-off currently known as The ExpendaBelles. Three actresses are negotiations to star: Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz, and Milla Jovovich
Jason Statham is in talks to star with Melissa MCarthy in the Fox comedy spy caper Susan Cooper. McCarthy will play an unlikely secret agent, and Statham would play a spy on the same side.
The Noir City festival, sponsored by the American Film Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, continues this week, through October 30, with such goodies as Strange Impersonation, High Tide, The Sound and Fury, Repeat Performance, and the uncut version of Native Son.
Open Road Films released a new trailer for the upcoming thriller Homefront. The film stars Jason Statham as a former DEA agent living quietly in a rural bayou who's forced back in action when a sociopathic meth kingpin threatens him and his daughter. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
Marvel Studios released a trailer for the upcoming sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, starring Chris Evans who's paired with Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Sundance icon Robert Redford, in his first superhero effort.
TELEVISION
As Omnimystery News reported, PBS announced that Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, returns January 19th at 10 p.m., following Downton Abbey. The newly-released spring schedule also includes the premiere of the second season of Bletchley Circle, the series about female codebreakers during World War II, on April 13.
NBC is looking to revive the successful series Murder, She Wrote, originally starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher. The reboot will be a new take on the concept, with Oscar winner Octavia Spencer playing the amateur detective in a "light, contemporary procedural in the vein of Bones or Fargo."
CBS put into development a conspiracy crime drama based on the Austrian series Fast Forward. The story is about a female homicide detective who juggles the demands of her job while co-parenting and working side-by-side with her newly divorced husband, the medical examiner.
John Ridley, writer of the current movie 12 Years A Slave, is developing a project with ABC titled American Crime. It's set in California’s Central Valley and follows a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial, examined through the personal lives of the victims, the accused and their families.
TNT put in development for the action-driven drama Anonymous from Sons Of Anarchy executive producer Chris Collins. The project follows an ex-special ops soldier who discovers a global coverup that forces him to go off the grid to help those who cannot help themselves.
ABC is apparently in talks to resurrect Body of Proof, the show that was cancelled by the network after three seasons, despite decent ratings. What's unknown is if the cast, including show star Dana Delaney, and the crew will be able to return after moving on to other projects.
ABC also gave an order commitment for ten espidoes of an adaptation of the Australia crime drama Secrets & Liars, starring Martin Henderson as a family man who finds the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime murder suspect.
Starz Network is developing a 1970s bank robber drama titled Most Wanted. The show follows Nate Daniels, a talented and prolific bank robber who finds himself on a collision course with family and colleagues as he becomes one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted.
Showtime renewed Homeland for a fourth season, and USA's legal drama Suits also got a fourth-season nod.
Amy Aquino has joined the cast of Amazon's drama pilot Bosch, based on Michael Connelly's novels about Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Kristoffer Polaha (Ringer) is joining the 14th season of the long-running CBS crime drama CSI in a guest-starring role as a mechanic who appears charming but may have darker intentions.
Fox is delaying the premiere of its new futuristic scifi crime drama, Almost Human, to launch as a two-night event on Sunday, November 17 and Monday, November 18. The series is set 35 years into the future when LAPD human cops are paired up with lifelike androids, and a detective with a dislike for robots is partnered with one with emotions.
ITV released a trailer for David Suchet's last four cases portraying Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
I missed this one last week, but author Jo Nesbo joined Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show October 14th.
THEATER
The Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's time-bending drama Betrayal, starring Daniel Craig, Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz and Olivier nominee Rafe Spall, officially opened Oct. 27 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a limited engagement run through January 5th.
November 17 is the opening date for the new comedy musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway. Tony winner Jefferson Mays plays eight different roles of arrogant English aristocrats "who are systematically eliminated by number nine in line, a revengeful rotter after the family fortune (Bryce Pinkham)."
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