by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 18, 2008 | Films
The trailer for Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies is online.Based on the novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, BoL stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is one of the CIA’s soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 16, 2008 | Films
John Stockwell has signed on to direct Sanctuary, a film that is based on Irish novelist John Connelly’s book Bad Men.”In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 12, 2008 | TV
HBO has announced that True Blood will premiere on Sept 7th, with a run of twelve episodes.The series is based on novels of Charlaine Harris and set in Louisiana in a world where vampires walk the earth.Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 7, 2008 | Films
I had previously mentioned that Roman Polanski acquired the rights to Robert Harris’ novel The Ghost.Now the principals have been cast.After the first writer dies, a ghostwriter is hired to finish the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister. The ghostwriter’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 5, 2008 | Films
David Stone’s The Echelon Vendetta has been optioned by Sony pictures, with Jonathon Levine assigned to handle the writing duties.”Micha Dalton is not paid to ask questions. He’s the man the CIA sends to clean up the mess when something goes wrong-an agent...