It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news:
THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Cloudburst Entertainment picked up the distribution rights to Infidel, a crime thriller from screenwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh. Jim Caviezel, best known for Person Of Interest, stars alongside Claudia Karvan and Hal Ozsan. The film is set in the Middle East and follows an American kidnapped while attending a conference in Cairo, who ends up in prison in Iran on spying charges. After his own government turns its back on him, his wife goes to Iran, determined to get him out.
Neon has taken U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller, Possessor, which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Possessor follows corporate agent Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough), who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients
Project Hail Mary, the new space thriller from The Martian author Andy Weir, is on track to be acquired by MGM in a 7-figure deal. The story centers on an astronaut (Ryan Gosling) alone in a space ship who is tasked with saving the planet.
Wondering when the upcoming movies you were excited about will actually make it to cinemas after the various postponements? CinemaBlend has an "Updated List Of Major Movie Release Delays And Early Digital Releases."
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Following the unprecedented Hollywood shutdown over the COVID-19 outbreak, ABC, NBC, Fox, and the CW have ordered a second script for all their drama and comedy pilots (with ABC picking up more than one extra script on some projects). It's thought that the projects with the strongest pilot and backup scripts might get permission to open a writers room and be considered for a straight-to-series order. That would bring broadcast TV in line with the streaming development model — something the networks had been flirting with, but the pull of the traditional pilot cycle had been too hard to break from.
FBI is one the latest series ending their seasons early. The CBS procedural will close out its sophomore run on Tuesday, March 31, three episodes earlier than its planned 22-episode season. The ensemble cast includes Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, Ebonée Noel, Sela Ward and Alana de la Garza
The long-rumored multi-network crossover between two Dick Wolf series, FBI and Chicago P.D. is a reality. During the latest episode of Chicago P.D., Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) unexpectedly ordered Officer Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos) to serve a temporary assignment at the New York bureau of the FBI. This means Chicago P.D. fans will be able to see Hailey work on her assignment when she makes a guest appearance on the next episode of FBI—bringing viewers of the NBC series over to CBS in the process.
Killing Eve is the latest show to see its new season’s premiere date moved around amid production shutdowns and delays for other series during the coronavirus pandemic. AMC Networks announced that Season 3 of the drama will premiere two weeks earlier than previously scheduled. The third season of the series starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, which was set to launch Sunday, April 26, will now debut Sunday, April 12 at 9/8c on both BBC America and AMC. You can watch a trailer here.
How to Get Away with Murder's midseason premiere will air Thursday, April 2 at 10/9 on ABC after delivering its shocking midseason finale in December. The legal thriller series stars Viola Davis as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with five of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot. The ensemble cast also features Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza as Keating's students, Charlie Weber and Liza Weil as her employees, and Billy Brown as a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department.
A trailer was released for Defending Jacob, the upcoming series on Apple TV+ based on the novel by William Landay, starring Chris Evans as a dad pushed to his wit’s end when his son is accused of murder.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Two Crime Writers and a Microphone were joined by the internationally bestselling Ruth Ware who chatted about homeschooling, writing during this period, working with editors, and much more.
Debbi Mack interviewed crime writer Bob Hartley on the Crime Cafe podcast about his novel, North and Central, which features a criminal bartender in Chicago's North Austin neighborhood in the late 1970s.
Writer Types spoke with authors Elizabeth Little (Pretty As A Picture); Scott Carson (who is really Michael Koryta in disguise); and Sarah Pinborough (Dead To Her); and also featured an elevator pitch from Faye Snowden.
Read or Dead discussed a new Tana French novel potentially coming this fall and also some great mystery small presses.
Beyond the Cover welcomed Lisa Gardner to talk about her latest book, When You See Me, the eleventh book in the D.D. Warren detective series.
Meet the Thriller Author's special guest was Gregg Hurwitz, bestselling author of twenty-one thrillers, including the Orphan X series and two award-winning thriller novels for teens.
Wrong Place, Write Crime discussed heavy metal, short stories, and the disappearing tenure track, and Lance Wright from Down and Out Books had an update on new titles.
Writer's Detective Bureau host, veteran Police Detective Adam Richardson, discussed "StayHomeWriMo, Public Health, DEA Cases, and more Counter-Surveillance."
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club welcomed Marcia Clark, author of The Rachel Knight and Samantha Brinkman mystery series.
Listening to the Dead host Lynda La Plante profiled "Digital Forensics," one of the newest and fastest evolving forensic disciplines.
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