Agatha Christie Teaser Trailer - A Haunting in Venice

The official trailer for A Haunting in Venice, the third of Kenneth Branagh's Poirot adaptations has been released. When the retired detective attends a séance in a decaying, haunted palazzo in Venice, a sinister world of secrets and murder is unveiled. This supernatural thriller comes to cinemas September 15^th 2023.

Inspired by the novel Hallowe’en Party, and directed by and starring Oscar® winner Kenneth Branagh as famed detective Hercule Poirot. A Haunting in Venice is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television

 

The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin calls to defund the police, and the prominence in the media of killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political agendas. Equally, exciting cross-disciplinary engagement between fields of justice studies, criminology, cultural studies and popular culture are increasingly opening up.

Police have been the inspiration for and focus of countless film and television stories, a long-standing dramatic strain that is a fictional backdrop to the intense recent public scrutiny, and at times rejection of policing. Perceptions of the police are shaped by these long standing narrative forms of film and television that can also convey other shapers of perception, from bodycam footage to mobile phone recordings.

At this point of exceptional pressure on police conduct and the uncertain paths that policing will take in the 21st century, this collection is intended to be a topical opportunity to examine the themes of how police and policing are perceived and portrayed and these points are intended as the focal point for each contribution.

We are assembling a special collection of essays that consider addressing the intersection of police and policing with film and television in the 21st century. Possible areas include:

Genre studies and the procedural

Representations of race

Real and fictional police

Reality television

Televising trials

Police in pornographic films

Representations of police both historical and modern

Policing in dystopias

Moral and political authority

Contributions related to the United States are especially welcomed.

Advice for contributors

This edited collection is under contract.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, we ask that you submit an abstract of up to 250 words explaining the focus and approach your proposed essay. The proposed volume is intended to be scholarly and will be peer reviewed but accessible in tone and approach. Each final contribution should be around 6000 words.

Abstracts should be emailed to marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au

Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2021

Full paper submission deadline: March 1, 2022

About the editors

Associate Professor Marcus K Harmes has published extensively in the field of popular culture. His most recent publications include Roger Delgado: I am usually referred to as the Master (Fantom Publishing 2017) and Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). He is the author of numerous studies on the church in modern popular culture, including book chapters in the collection Doctor Who and Race, and articles in journals including Science Fiction Film and Television, and Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. In 2018 he edited the Handbook for Springer on Postgraduate Education in Higher Education.

Meredith A Harmes teaches communication in the enabling programs at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Her research interests include modern British and Australian politics and popular culture in Britain and America. Her most recent publication in the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture was on race and cultural studies on American television. She holds an honours degree from the University of Queensland in political science and a Graduate Diploma of Journalism and a Masters of Public Relations from the University of Southern Queensland. She is co-editor of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education(Springer, 2018).

Dr Barbara Harmes lectures in communication at the University of Southern Queensland, with a particular focus on international students. Her doctoral research focussed on the discursive controls built around sexuality in late-nineteenth-century England. Her research interests include cultural studies, postgraduate education and religion. She has published in areas including modern Australian politics, postgraduate education, 1960s American television and her original field of Victorian literature.

Capital Crime Mystery Panels

Widows Screening & Mystery Panels Revealed

CAPITAL CRIME, CAPITAL ENTERTAINMENT In two days, we throw open the doors to the Grand Connaught Rooms and welcome hundreds of crime and thriller fans to Capital Crime. FRIDAY FILM We're pleased to announce we shall be screening WIDOWS, the brilliant film directed by Steve McQueen, adapted from Lynda La Plante's seminal series. The screening is open to all Friday Day Pass and Weekend Pass holders. MYSTERY PANELS FRIDAY On Friday, we're thrilled to be welcoming two brilliant authors to Capital Crime to talk about the experience of having their novels adapted for screen. SJ Watson is an international bestseller whose debut novel, Before I Go To Sleep, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. Paula Daly is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her books are being adapted for the new ITV series, Deep Water, starring Anna Friel. They will be talking to Capital Crime co-founder and screenwriter, Adam Hamdy. SATURDAY Adam Hamdy will be back on Saturday as part of a panel on the Craft of Writing. He'll be in conversation with his partner in Capital Crime, David Headley, the founder of DHH Literary Agency and Goldsboro Books, and Vicki Mellor, Fiction Publishing Director at Pan Macmillan. A number of Capital Crime passholders have asked for a panel on writing advice, so if you're an aspiring author, come along. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the panellists. You can find the final Capital Crime schedule here: https://www.capitalcrime.org/capital-crime-schedule/ FREE SHIPPING We’re pleased to announce our festival bookseller, Goldsboro Books, is offering free UK shipping on books bought at the festival, so you don’t have to worry about carrying a suitcase full of signed books home with you. Let Goldsboro take the strain while you enjoy meeting your favourite authors and discovering new ones. International shipping is also available. Please ask staff for details. CAPITAL ENTERTAINMENT, CAPITAL VALUE We’re also delighted to announce that all pass holders will be entitled to complimentary tea and coffee at the festival, courtesy of the fine folks at Pan Macmillan. Weekend pass holders will be entitled to two complimentary drinks from the bar at the opening night drinks party, thanks to DHH Literary Agency. And Saturday and weekend pass holders will be entitled to two complimentary drinks from the bar at the Saturday night drinks party, thanks to Amazon Publishing. All our pass holders will also receive a fantastic goody bag packed with books, samplers and freebies. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Pass holders are currently voting for the Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards. If you're a Capital Crime pass holder, visit www.capitalcrime.org, log into your account and cast your votes today. If you have any questions about Capital Crime, please try our FAQs: https://www.capitalcrime.org/faqs/ If you're planning to come to Capital Crime and haven't booked your pass, you're running out of time, and we're running out of tickets. Click here https://www.capitalcrime.org/capital-crime-schedule/to book your passes or visit www.capitalcrime.org

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Jack Reacher fans will be pleased to hear that not only have they started filming but they have also released a list of the cast for Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.  Tom Cruise is both headlining and producing Reacher.  Jack Reacher: Never Go Back will be released in cinema’s in the US on 21^st October 2016.

More information can be found here.

Film News!! MGM lands rights to Terry Hayes “I am Pilgrim”

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 17, 2014) – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has secured the feature film rights to Terry Hayes’ international bestselling espionage thriller “I Am Pilgrim” it was announced today by Jonathan Glickman, MGM’s president, motion picture group. Hayes, a former journalist and award-winning screenwriter whose credits include “Payback,” “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” and “Dead Calm” is adapting his debut novel for the screen. Lloyd Braun is producing the film through his Whalerock Industries.  Andrew Mittman at Whalerock will serve as Executive Producer.

“Pilgrim” is the codename for a man who doesn’t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Now in anonymous retirement, he is called upon to lend his expertise to an unusual investigation but ultimately becomes caught in a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. 

The thriller, which has recently landed on The New York Times bestseller list and has appeared on countless recommended summer reading lists nationwide, soon will be translated into 20 foreign language editions. It has also already appeared on the major US, UK, German and Dutch bestseller lists. Critical raves include The New York Times’ Janet Maslin: “Mr. Hayes’s globe-trotting book has more kicks, twists and winks than anything of its dusty genre has provided in a long time. You will be happily surprised to find a new thriller franchise with brains to match its brawn;” The New York Post: “The next Girl With The Dragon Tattoo;” The Daily Mail: “A summer blockbuster;” and The Associated Press: “The storytelling and a truly intriguing protagonist make I Am Pilgrim a contender for best-of-the-year lists.”

“In creating such an original character in such a riveting, relevant story, Terry has provided us a great template for not only one film, but for a series that can play to global audiences for many years to come,” said Glickman.

"Having written and produced movies myself, the most important thing for me when it came to selling the film rights to Pilgrim was the people who would be involved. Luckily, it turned out better than I could have ever imagined - I have had the pleasure of working with Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman previously and I have long been an admirer of Lloyd Braun and the wonderful material he has championed. I couldn't be happier that not only this book, but those which are due to follow, is in their hands," said Hayes.

Hayes is represented by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, LLP. Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, is the U.S. publisher of “I Am Pilgrim” and Transworld, a division of Penguin Random House, is the novel’s UK publisher. MGM’s Glickman and Matt Dines, vice president, production will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.

MGM will be in theaters next with Hercules, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and directed by Brett Ratner, on July 25 with Paramount Pictures. The studio’s romantic film If I Stay, starring Chloe Moretz, is scheduled for release August 22 with partner Warner Bros./New Line. Also with Warner Bros./New Line is the final film in The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies due in theaters December 17. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 with Paramount Pictures will also arrive in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day.

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 About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is celebrating 90 years as a leader in the entertainment business and as an innovator in the industry. Today, MGM is an entertainment company focused on the production and distribution of film and television content globally. The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television content.  In addition, MGM has investments in domestic and international television channels. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.

Media Contacts:

Film:

Kristin Cotich

MGM

(310) 449-606/kcotich@mgm.com

Publishing:

In the US:

David Brown

Simon & Schuster

(212) 698-7092/David.Brown@simonandschuster.com

In the UK:

Polly Osborn

Transworld

(+44) 20 8231 6795/posborn@randomhouse.co.uk

Nordic Fun at Nordicana 2014

Nordicana is an annual expo in London celebrating Scandinavian film, TV, and fiction with an emphasis on the crime genre but also incorporating food, design, music and lifestyle elements.  This year (2014) Nordicana is due to take place on Saturday 1st February 2014 and Sunday 2nd February 2014 at The Old Truman Brewery, Ely’s Yard 15 Hanbury Street (Off Brick Lane), London E1 6QL.

The schedule for the two days is below.

  

SATURDAY 1ST FEBRUARY

DOORS OPEN 9.30AM

10.00 – 10.45 ‘POST DOGME 95 - REALITY RULES!’ Director Michael Noer discusses and shows excerpts from his films ‘R’ & ‘Northwest’ plus Tobias Lindholm’s ‘A Hijacking’ with lead actors Pilou Asbæk & Roland Møller – Screen 2

10.30 – 12.10 THE HOUR OF THE LYNX – starring Sofie Grabøl and Søren Malling – UK Premiere – Screen 3

11.00 - 12.00 ‘BUILDING BORGEN’ – A panel discussion with lead actress Sidse Babett Knudsen, co-star Pilou Asbæk, creator Adam Price, producer Camilla Hammerich & composer Halfdan E by Radio Times Editor Ben Preston – Screen 1 (with additional live feed into screen 2)

12.15 – 12.45 ‘A GREAT SCANDINAVIAN CINNAMON BUN-OFF’ Day 1 judging session hosted by Signe (Scandilicious) Johansen with Celebrity Masterchef winner Emma Kennedy, Borgen composer and Danish Masterchef Allstars competitor Halfdan E & Borgen creator and celebrated chef Adam Price - Screen 2

12.30 – 14.10 NORTHWEST – a film by Michael Noer starring Roland Møller - UK Preview – Screen 3

13.00 – 14.45 The Danish and Swedish Embassies in London present THE BRIDGE 2 - EPISODE 9 – advance preview introduced by The Ambassador of Denmark Mr Claus Grube followed by a Q&A with Sofia Helin & Kim Bodnia by broadcaster Suzi Perry – Screen 1 (with additional live feed into screen 2)

15.00 – 17.30 PIONEER – a film by Erik Skjoldbjærg (Insomnia) - special UK preview + Q&A with lead actor Aksel Hennie (Headhunters) by BAFTA nominated editor of ‘Gravity’ Mark Sanger – Screen 3

15.15 – 16.15 ‘BEING WALLANDER’ - Krister Henriksson & Charlotta Jonsson discuss their on-screen father and daughter relationship with Doktor Glas producer Victoria Jeffrey – Screen 1

15.15 – 16.15 ‘THE KILLING AROUND THE WORLD’ The Killing Handbook writer Emma Kennedy and actors Carsten Bjørnlund (The Killing II) and Marie Askehave (The Killing II) talk the success of ‘The Killing’ with Neil Midgley – Screen 2

16.15 – 17.00 ‘THE SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL’ - Håkan Nesser & Arne Dahl in conversation with Barry Forshaw – Screen 2

17.00 – 18.00 ‘DECONSTRUCTING THE KILLING’ with The Killing 1-3 author David Hewson – Screen 2

17.15 – 19.00 THE LEGACY EPISODE 1 – UK PREMIERE of the new series from DR, producers of The Killing & Borgen + Q&A with lead actor Carsten Bjørnlund by Neil Midgley – Screen 1

17.30 – 19.00 A HIJACKING – a film by Tobias Lindholm starring Pilou Asbæk & Roland Møller - Screen 3

From 19.00 PROJECT FRESH SOCKS The Norwegian DJ Duo round-off day one of Nordicana – a great and atmospheric accompaniment to a chilled Reyka

  

SUNDAY 2ND FEBRUARY

DOORS OPEN 10.00AM

10.30 – 11.30 ‘THE STATSMINISTER & BEYOND’ - Interview with Sidse Babett Knudsen by Radio Times Editor Ben Preston – Screen 1

10.30 – 11.30 ‘EAT LIKE A SCANDI’ Scandilicious Signe Johansen hosts a celebrity food expert panel to discuss the Nordic diet and palette and share some secrets of good Scandi cooking with Trine Hahnemann, Anette Moldvaer & Bronte Aurell – Screen 2

10.30 – 12.10 THE HOUR OF THE LYNX - starring Sofie Grabøl and Søren Malling UK PREMIERE – Screen 3

12.00 – 13.45 THE LEGACY Episode 1 – another chance to see a preview of the new series from DR, producers of The Killing & Borgen + Q&A with lead actor Carsten Bjørnlund by Jasper Rees – Screen 2

12.00 – 14.15 WALLANDER – THE TROUBLED MAN – Special preview + Q&A with Krister Henriksson & Charlotta Jonsson by Doktor Glas producer Victoria Jeffrey – Screen 1

12.30– 13.30 ‘DECONSTRUCTING THE KILLING’ another chance to hear this enlightening talk with The Killing 1-3 author David Hewson – Screen 3

15.30 – 16.30 ‘THE SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL’ – another chance to hear Håkan Nesser & Arne Dahl in conversation with Barry Forshaw – Screen 2

13.50– 14.45 PIONEER – a film by Erik Skjoldbjærg (Insomnia).  Another chance to see this superb thriller based on a true story - Screen 3

14.15 – 14.45 ‘A GREAT SCANDINAVIAN CINNAMON BUN-OFF’ Day 2 judging session hosted by Signe (Scandilicious) Johansen with Celebrity Masterchef winner Emma Kennedy, Borgen composer and Danish Masterchef Allstars competitor Halfdan E & Great British Bake-Off winner John Whaite –

Screen 2

14.45 – 16.45 The Danish and Swedish Embassies in London present THE BRIDGE 2 - EPISODE 10 introduced by The Ambassador of Sweden Ms Nicola Clase followed by a Q&A with Sofia Helin & Kim Bodnia by Radio Times TV Editor Alison Graham – Screen 1

16.00 – 17.00 THE LEGACY EPISODE 1 –a final chance to preview the new series from DR, producers of The Killing & Borgen – Screen 3

The schedule is subject to change due to any unforeseen circumstances such as flight delays, illness and changing work commitments and will be updated at times up to the event itself.

For a glimpse of how good Nordicana 2013 was have a look at the clip below.

Tickets for both days can be booked here.

More information about Nordicana 2014 can be found on the website and also on their Facebook page.  Also follow them on Twitter @NordicanaUK