MOVIES
Sony Pictures Entertainment announced George Clooney will direct a movie based on British journalist Nick Davies’ book Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch. The book follows the scandal surrounding Murdoch’s now-shuttered News of the World tabloid and its hacking into the phones of celebrities and a 13-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and was later murdered.
Julia Roberts is joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Secret in Their Eyes, based on the 2009 Oscar-winning Argentinian thriller. The plot centers on a retired attorney who writes a book about an unsolved case and his own unrequited love for one of his former superiors, prompting old secrets to be revealed.
Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Elle Fanning will play the female leads in Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Live By Night.
Keanu Reeves has signed onto the dramatic cop thriller Daughter of God, playing a police detective who investigates the truth behind his partner’s death, while a young Latina woman (Ana de Armas) experiences "strange happenings."
Paramount Pictures is in talks to sign their villain for the upcoming Mission: Impossible 5 - it's Sean Harris, best known for his work in the TV series The Borgias, and in films such as Prometheus and Red Riding Trilogy.
Saban Films purchased U.S. rights to Tracers, the action thriller starring Taylor Lautner as a New York City bike messenger who meets a girl and gets ucked into the world of parkour, with an underworld element.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that David Fincher's Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck, and Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer with Denzel Washington will be part of the Zurich Film Festival's lineup of gala premieres.
A new trailer was released for the film adaptation of the TV series The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington as a former black ops commando who helps find justice for victims of crime.
TELEVISION
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the nominees for the film and TV categories of ITV3 Dagger awards.
The Son Of Sam sereial killings are being developed into a miniseries by Blumhouse Productions and Fox TV Studios. The miniseries will be split up into six hours, and will juxtaposes David Richard Berkowitz’s murder confession of Satan worship and human sacrifice with the actual police investigation between December 1975-1977.
Justin Lin (of The Fast And The Furious) is in talks to direct at least the first two episodes of the upcoming season. Although no cast members or plot details have been confirmed, Colin Ferrell, Taylor Kitsch and Vince Vaughn are expected to be in the cast, according to Deadline.
Lev Gorn, a regular on the FX spy series The Americans, has been promoted to a series regular, continuing his role as a KGB agent. Gorn has also landed a guest role on CBS' NCIS as a Russian Deputy Ambassador, and may eventually cross over to the new NCIS: New Orleans.
Peter Gallagher has landed a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU's upcoming 16th season, playing Deputy Chief William Dodds, the "charismatic but tough boss of every special victims unit in New York City."
Author M.C. Beaton reported on her Facebook page that Matt McCooey will play Bill Wong in the two hour pilot based on the Agatha Raisin novels, produced by Sky in the UK and airing just prior to Christmas.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
This week, NPR's summer "Crime in the City" series focused on Ghanaian mystery writer Kwei Quartey and his Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, who patrols the streets of Accra.
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