by Crimespree Magazine | May 21, 2013 | Films
Wow. THR has reported that Edgar Award winner Dennis Lehane will adapt John D. MacDonald’s THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE for the big screen. The film, which will simply be called TRAVIS MCGEE, will star Leonardo DiCaprio is slated to play the title role. Travis is a...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 23, 2013 | Films
A few years ago, I mentioned that Dennis Lehane was adapting Animal Rescue, his short story from the Boston Noir anthology, for film. Filming is underway in Brooklyn with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini. The film is about a bartender that finds a pit bull...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 13, 2012 | Films
Deadline is reporting that Warner has acquired the film rights to Dennis Lehane’s next novel. LIVE BY NIGHT, which will be released this fall, is the second in the trilogy that started with THE GIVEN DAY. The three books look at Boston and the police department...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2011 | Books, News
Dennis Lehane rocks, I have thought that since we first met back in…well, it was a long f**kin’ time ago. Dennis was a rising crime writer about whom, big things were predicted. He has more hair and we both had fewer lines. Those predictions came true and much of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 19, 2010 | Home Entertainment
Lehane fans get ready! Paramount Home Entertainment announced today that Shutter Island will be released, Blu-ray and DVD, on June 8.World-renowned director Martin Scorsese delivers “a stunning masterpiece that requires and demands multiple viewings” (Ain’t It Cool...