MOVIES
The 12th annual film noir festival Noir City returns to San Francisco January 24 through February 2, at the historic Castro Theatre. This year, the festival takes on an international flavor, adding films from France, Mexico, Japan, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Norway, and Britain to the traditional Hollywood classics.
An international trailer was released for A Most Wanted Man, Anton Corbijn’s adaptation of the John Le Carre spy novel. Headline stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams will be joined by fellow cast members Robin Wright, Wiilem Dafoe, Daniel Bruhl and newcomer Grigoriy Dobrygin.
20th Century Fox tweeted a film still from the upcoming adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, which shows Ben Affleck addressing a crowd as he stands in front of a photograph of his missing wife (Rosamund Pike).
Veronica Mars fans don't have much longer to wait until the film adaptation of the popular cult TV series hits the big screen in March; in the meantime, here's a video trailer. (Hat tip to Omnimystery News.)
Here are even more movie trailers to tide you over until their film's release: an extended clip from the new Jack Ryan outing, as Chris Pine takes on the iconic character from Tom Clancy's movies; and Ralph Fiennes is on the run in the latest trailer from The Grand Budapest Hotel.
TELEVISION
Fox decided to pass on the navy drama pilot Wild Blue, from the producers of Justified. The series was pitched as "a mixture of ER, The West Wing and Top Gun," but talks with Tim McGraw to star in the drama fell through.
The BBC teased the upcoming Sherlock Season Three with an online mini-episode (no spoilers) titled "Many Happy Returns." (Of course, those viewers in the UK have already seen the episode; Americans have to wait until January 19).
The BBC also released a trailer for Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, its new drama centered on the author’s time with the British Naval Intelligence that inspired him to invent super-spy James Bond.
In more BBC news, BBC One announced that the third season of the crime drama Death in Paradise will premiere in January 2014. The first two season starred Ben Miller as Detective Inspector Richard Poole investigating a murder on the tiny Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. Omnimystery News reported on the upcoming third season (but it contains spoilers - avoid if you haven't seen the first two seasons).
Tony Award winner Joel Grey is set to star as a disgruntled airplane passenger on the January 15 episode of CSI on CBS.
The FX series The Americans returns on February 26. It stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star as two sleeper KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban D.C. in the early 1980s
Angela Lansbury (star of Murder, She Wrote and numerous theater productions) has been made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.
Even though it was canceled, BBC's period crime-drama Ripper Street was voted the best TV show of 2013 in a survey by the website of British magazine Radio Times. It beat out Doctor Who, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead.
AMC released a trailer for its upcoming drama Turn, starring Jamie Bell as a farmer living behind enemy lines in British-occupied Long Island during the Revolutionary War. He and his childhood friends join together to form “The Culper Ring, an unlikely team of secret agents supporting the Rebel forces.
HBO released a sneak preview trailer for the dark police drama True Detective, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, which debuts January 12.
Deadline posted a timeline for all the midseason premiere dates for new and returning series on both broadcast and cable networks.
PODCASTS/RADIO/VIDEO
The most recent Crime and Science Radio, "The Devil’s Dozen: What Makes the Bad Guys Tick?" featured DP Lyle and Dr. Katherine Ramsland for a discussion of bad guys, who they are, what they do, and why they do what they do. Several cases from her excellent book The Devil's Dozen. were also discussed.
THEATER
Performances of the Olivier Award-winning production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time have been canceled through Jan. 11, due to the partial roof collapse at the historic Apollo Theatre in December. The show is based on Mark Haddon's books about an autistic young man who tracks down the killer of his neighbor's dog, turning to his favorite fictional character, Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration.
The staged version of Greg Herren's mystery novel Dead Housewives of New Orleans will be presented at the New Play Bacchanal of Southern Rep and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Directed by Aimee Hayes, the play features performances by Peggy Scott Laborde, Nell Nolan, Trixie Minx and others, and takes place on January 10 at the Marigny Opera House.
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