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Today, Liberated Syndication Inc. (“Libsyn”), the leading podcasting platform for creators and advertisers, in collaboration with Sounds Profitable, the premier authority in podcast education and insights, released the 2024 True Crime Podcast Listener Landscape Report. Conducted with Signal Hill Insights and supported by Libsyn, this comprehensive study reveals the latest trends in one of podcasting’s most captivating genres: True Crime.

The report offers an in-depth analysis of the True Crime genre, the fifth most popular podcast genre in the U.S., following comedy, news, sports, and political talk. Approximately 42 million Americans aged 18+ (16%) consumed a True Crime podcast in the last month. With 62% of these listeners havingattended college and boasting a higher household income than the general population, True Crime fans present a unique and lucrative opportunity for brands, agencies, and media buyers to connect with an engaged and loyal audience.

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Many more besides Muhammad Ali will be portrayed in Peacock’sFight Night: The Million Dollar Heist. The limited series, based on the iHeart true-crime podcast of the same name, will shed light on an armed robbery that took place the night of Ali’s (Dexter Darden) comeback fight in the 1970s.

A star-studded cast brings the show to life starting Sept. 5. For more details on the release rollout, episodes and the cast, read on.

When does Fight Night premiere?

The show enters the ring on Sept. 5.

How many episodes are in Fight Night?

There are eight episodes in the show’s first installment.

Are new episodes streaming weekly or all at once? When do they arrive on Peacock?

The first three episodes came out on the show’s premiere date. The rest arrive on Thursdays each week until October 10, 2024, when the finale airs.

Episode 1: “Round One: The Ballad of Chicken Man” – Thursday,...

The dark side of paradise is to be explored in a new documentary series for Warner Bros. Discovery’s Investigation Discovery (ID).

Fatal Destination is narrated and exec produced by Jessica Biel.

Biel has previously starred in and exec produced crime series such as Candy, The Sinner and Limetown, but this marks her first move into exec producing a true-crime docuseries.

The series will feature exotic destinations, where the consequences of being a tourist are anything but a dream vacation. Stories unfold through first-person accounts of friends, family, locals, journalists, and law enforcement.

Fatal Destination will launch in 2025.

It was one of a number of announcements from Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. networks chief Kathleen Finch at its upfronts.

Deadline revealed earlier that Food Network was cooking up Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.

Elsewhere, Shark Week is set to be hosted by John Cena. Last year, the Discovery Channel strand...

The entire 400-episode catalog of true-crime unscripted series Forensic Files has been acquired by Content Partners.

Originally called Medical Detectives, the series ran for 14 seasons on TLC, Court TV and TruTV and repeats are still available on Warner Bros Discovery’s Hln. A revived version, Forensic Files II, has aired since 2020, first on Hln and now on Investigation Discovery. Since debuting in the wake of the O.J. Simpson trial, the show has helped popularize forensic investigation, a cornerstone of unscripted programming as well as scripted mainstays like the CSI franchise. CSI is partly owned by Content Partners.

Founded in 2005, Content Partners is an investment fund and asset management company that acquires the cash flows from intellectual property in film, television, music and other corners of media and entertainment. Among the entities under its control is Revolution Studios as well as film titles like Black Swan and 13 Going on 30. The...

In mid-May, with the writers strike still in its infancy, UTA partner and media rights co-head Jason Richman found himself trying to gauge the industry’s appetite for dealmaking. A few years earlier, indie studio A24 had scooped up the rights to his client David Gauvey Herbert’s 2021 Esquire article, “Daddy Ball,” but the option had lapsed, and he was eager to test the market. So, Richman sent around the 6,700-word piece, about two Little League dads with complicated pasts who took a deep rivalry way too far. In a matter of weeks, there were eight offers, some of them with major talent like Ben Stiller or Jason Bateman attached.

Netflix, which was already in business with Bateman via his Aggregate Films, ultimately proved triumphant, plunking down what multiple sources say was a staggering $2 million outright for the article. Bateman would not only direct but also star in what’s...

Amazon’s MGM Studios has won a competitive bidding war to adapt Vanity Fair’s story surrounding a Texas serial killer, titled “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” according to media reports.

Published in this September’s issue, the piece by Julie Miller walks through the 1981 abduction of Texas mother Margy Palm by serial killer Stephen Morin outside of a Kmart during the holidays. Following her abduction, Palm discussed her religious faith with Morin, eventually convincing him to let her go.

While Morin was sentenced to jail time for the abduction, a friendly relationship lingered between the pair, leading to Palm to visit Morin in prison on over a dozen occasions with Morin sending cards to Palm. Their friendship clearly had a profound impact on Morin, as he converted to Christianity after his conviction, before eventually dying at the age of 34 in 1985 via lethal injection.

Exclusive: After circling rights for weeks to the buzzy Vanity Fair article “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” Amazon MGM Studios has locked them down, Deadline understands.

Executive producer and production attachments on True Crime, True Faith are premature and cannot be confirmed at this time.

While certain buyers had been looking at developing the piece for film, it seems that the Amazon adaptation will be a series. Details have yet to emerge about creatives involved behind the camera, and of course, discussions on casting have not started given the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

Published by Julie Miller on August 9, the Vanity Fair article tells for the first time the full story of Margy Palm, a religious Texas mother who was abducted by serial killer Stephen Morin outside of a Kmart while shopping for Christmas gifts on December 11, 1981. Palm spent eight hours...

The directorial debut from Juliet Landau, known to most of us as the demonic vampire, Drusilla in Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer is making its appearance in time for the Hallowe’en weekend. Landau has stuck to what she knows and what we expect by keeping with the vampire theme, but this time delving in to a more factual exploration of our current fascination with the undead. Landau plays herself in this pseudo-documentary, as she follows up on a serial murder case for her TV show, only to find out that the person behind these murders will lead her to confront her past demons in a society that so often keeps them hidden.

A Place Among the Dead has an almost Eraserhead quality to it, while not quite as jarring, there’s a certain bizarreness that is never really acknowledged; a feeling that you accept as part of the narrative.

With a new month quickly approaching, it’s time to look ahead and see what’s coming to all your favorite streaming services this November. That’s Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and, of course, HBO Max.

Halloween will soon be behind us and given that Christmas isn’t too far off, we’re beginning to see some holiday titles pop up, with all the major platforms getting into the festive spirit. That’ll continue in December as well, of course, but for November, there’s certainly tons on offer for those looking to start the celebrations early.

There’s a lot of other great stuff on the way, too, though, be it classic films, underrated gems, brand new releases and much more, and you can check out the entire lineup, sorted by date, down below. Ready to dive in?

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Exclusive: The story of an infamous armed robbery after Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight is the subject of a new true-crime podcast series from Will Packer.

The Girls Trip producer has teamed with iHeartMedia and Jeff Keating’s Georgia-based production company Doghouse Pictures for Fight Night.

The series tells the story of how on the night of Ali’s defeat of Jerry Quarry, which came after he was banned from boxing for refusing to enter the military draft, hundreds of guests at an after-party were robbed at gunpoint. It looks at the party that turned into one of the largest armed robberies the country has ever seen.

Keating, who co-wrote the podcast with Jim Roberts, will host the series with Dan Bush, Lars Jacobson, and Kenny Burns exec producing. Packer and James Lopez, President of Will Packer Productions will co-produce the iHeartRadio Original.

It will launch on October 26 – the 50th anniversary of the fight.

Collaboration with Untamed Stories in UK, Spain’s Filmmarket Hub to expand reach beyond US for first time.

The Writers Lab in the US, the non-profit for female screenwriters over 40 that counts Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman among its supporters, is partnering on an international platform with Untamed Stories in the UK and Spain’s Filmmarket Hub.

The collaboration will expand the reach of The Writers Lab beyond the US for the first time. Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon co-founded the lab in 2015 and produce it with New York Women in Film & Television (Nywftv).

Online marketplace Filmarket Hub will...

HBO has consistently put out some of the best documentaries for a long time now, and that trend continues throughout the rest of 2020 and in the coming years. The cable channel has just unveiled the upcoming roster of documentary movies and shows that will be premiering in the second half of the year, including […]

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Peacock, the NBCUniversal streaming service that launched in April in Comcast homes, started expanding nationally overnight as Tuesday turned to Wednesday on the East Coast.

Along with Comcast’s X1 and Flex, Peacock will be available on Apple and Google platforms, Microsoft’s Xbox, Vizio and LG smart TVs, Cox Contour and, starting next week, Sony PlayStation. Talks are ongoing with major distributors like Amazon Fire and Roku, but those two top platforms are still on the sidelines as of now.

Peacock will offer 13,000 hours on its free tier and 20,000 hours on its subscription level, sourced from a range of networks and studios both inside and outside of NBCU. Nine Peacock Original movies and shows are available at launch, with others following through the end of the year. (Deadline reported Tuesday on the latest release dates for several shows arriving after today’s expansion.)

There will be more than 30 curated channels,...

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service set to be available across the U.S. starting July 15, will be available on Google platforms and devices including Android, Android TVs, Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices at launch, the media company announced.

Under the pact, Android and Android TV users will receive complimentary access to Peacock Premium (with ads) through Oct. 15, 2020.

So far, NBCU has announced Peacock deals with Apple and Microsoft’s Xbox — but has not yet clinched deals with the two biggest over-the-top device players, Roku and Amazon Fire TV (which are both holding out on HBO Max).

In April, Peacock’s “early preview” rolled out to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers at no additional cost.

On July 15, Peacock is set to launch wide in several versions: There’s a free, ad-supported tier featuring with more than 7,500 hours of movies, shows, and programming across news, sports, reality and late night.

True Crime isn’t a new fad, but in the last several years, thanks to buzzworthy podcasts and binge-worthy series (usually on Netflix), there’s been a considerable boom in the genre. More often than not, these entries fit into a formula – a cookie-cutter set-up and follow-through that, while often engrossing and even captivating, rarely treads […]

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This I’ll Be Gone in the Dark review contains no spoilers.

True crime is an obsession more and more people share, with whole TV channels devoted to it, a whole raft of podcasts focused on it with more popping up every day and battalions of arm-chair detectives tapping away at Reddit threads from home.

While these sofa sleuths aren’t law enforcement and aren’t always privy to the full details of the case, sometimes they can’t make a real difference. The excellent podcast Bear Brook is one such example where genealogists manages to indenify a long lost victim. Netflix’s controversial doc Don’t F**k with Cats saw amateurs track down a man who tortured animals on camera who would upgrade to murder. But perhaps the most signficant, or certainly one of the most fascinating instances of serial killer obsession is Michelle McNamara and The Golden State Killer.

The late Michelle McNamara‘s bestselling True Crime book about the Golden State Killer gets the HBO docuseries treatment with I’ll Be Gone In the Dark. In the 1970s and ’80s, a killer prowled California, committing 50 home-invasion rapes and 12 murders and evading capture for years. McNamara, a True Crime blogger and the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt, grew […]

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Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, will spread its wings across Apple’s family of devices for the national U.S. launch this summer.

Under a deal between NBCU and Apple, Peacock will be available on Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD when it launches nationally on July 15, 2020.

At that time, Peacock will offer a free, ad-supported tier with more than 7,500 hours of movies, shows, and timely live and on-demand programming across news, sports, reality and late night. Peacock Premium will also be available for $4.99 per month (with ads) with 15,000-plus hours of content; for $9.99 monthly, subscribers can get an ad-free version of Peacock Premium.

Apple device owners will be able to access Peacock Free for no charge or subscribe to the premium tiers using in-app purchases.

With the Apple integration, Peacock content will be available in the Apple TV app’s Watch Now section.

Comcast and NBCUniversal are pushing Peacock out of the nest starting Wednesday, April 15, promising to unfurl a rich plume of 15,000-plus hours of streaming content, first for the cable giant’s own TV and internet customers.

Peacock is then slated to be available across the U.S. on July 15 — while NBCU is mulling the possibility of moving that up sooner — in various three tiers across mobile, web and connected-tv devices: paid with ads ($4.99 monthly); paid with no ads ($9.99 monthly); and completely free with ads with a truncated content lineup. With the national launch, Comcast (and Cox) subscribers also will have the option to get an ad-free version of the service for an additional $5 per month.

So what’s on the menu? Peacock will include live and on-demand content across current and past TV shows, movies, news, and late night programming, with some live sports once they resume post-pandemic. Most of...

Every killer has a mark — a signature move after their crime has been committed. Oxygen’s Season 2 premiere episode of “Mark of a Killer” looks into the signs left behind by serial killer Paul Stephani, also known as the Weepy-Voiced Killer.

“Mark of a Killer” details the investigation of the crimes through interviews with detectives who looked into the case. In terms of the Weepy-Voiced Killer, who got his name because of bizarre phone calls he’d make to law enforcement after the committed his murders, investigators called his crimes “vicious” and unlike anything they’d seen before.

Stephani killed four women in 1980 to 1982 in Minnesota and Wisconsin and would make phone calls to police after in a high-pitched and remorseful voice, saying he heard voices in his head and that he now wouldn’t ascend to heaven.

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Filmmakers/authors discuss the movies they wish more people were familiar with.

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s (2012)

Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man (1976)

Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)

Top Gun (1986)

Water Power (1977)

Taxi Driver (1976)

In Fabric (2018)

A Climax of Blue Power (1974)

Forced Entry (1975)

Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Nashville Girl (1976)

Ms .45 (1981)

Act of Vengeance a.k.a. Rape Squad (1974)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Design For Living (1933)

Trouble In Paradise (1932)

Melody (1971)

Oliver! (1968)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

That’ll Be The Day (1973)

Stardust (1974)

The Errand Boy (1961)

Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)

The Bellboy (1960)

Which Way To The Front? (1970)

Hardly Working (1980)

A Night In Casablanca (1946)

The Cocoanuts (1929)

Duck Soup (1933)

Boeing Boeing (1965)

Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)

Cockfighter (1974)

The Second Civil War (1997)

I, A Woman (1965)

The Devil At Your Heels (1981)

The...

Harvey Weinstein has been rushed to the hospital after complaining of chest pains.

The disgraced movie mogul was on his way to the infirmary at Rikers Island but was rerouted and taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Monday, a representative for Weinstein told Variety. His lawyer Donna Rotunno told USA Today that Weinstein was suffering from high blood pressure.

Weinstein’s representative had no comment when contacted by People.

The incident happened after a New York City jury found Weinstein, 67, guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree and he was remanded to jail until sentencing.

Police are investigating after a man was caught on camera stealing a handbag worth $23,000 from Gwyneth Paltrow‘s Goop Lab store in New York City.

The incident unfolded at around 5:15 p.m. on Jan. 30 when police received a call from a female employee of the Goop Lab store in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood, a spokesman for the New York Police Department tells People.

The woman had noticed a Hermes Mini Kelly bag, worth $23,000 had gone missing.

After reviewing security footage, police learned a man had entered the store at around 3:50 p.m. and removed the bag from a...

Clint Eastwood might end up with a lump of box office coal after “Richard Jewell” sputtered in its domestic debut. Despite critical acclaim, the drama about the security guard falsely accused by the media for playing a part in the 1996 Olympics bombing ignited with a dismal $5 million from 2,502 theaters.

It’s a disappointing result for Eastwood, marking one of the worst nationwide openings of the 89-year-old’s directorial career. His only movie to endure a worse fate was 1980’s “Bronco Billy” with $3.7 million. Should “Richard Jewell” come in ahead of expectations by even $200,000, that would propel it just barely above 1997’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” ($5.2 million) and 1999’s “True Crime” ($5.2 million) in terms of Eastwood’s inaugural outings.

“It started out with so much promise in terms of awards season buzz,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst at Comscore. “You’ve got a really high-profile...

In this, the golden age of podcasts, there’s a show for everything — from dissecting politics to analyzing Frasier. So it’s no surprise that this October, production companies are going out of their way to provide spooky content to infect listeners’ ears. From creepy fiction to unsolved murders, here are five of our favorite picks for Halloween 2019.

1. Spooked

Like regional food or music, ghost stories are a cross-cultural, universal phenomenon. On each episode of Spooked, host Glynn Washington introduces one or two supposedly true paranormal tales, told by the...

Who could’ve guessed that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, once thought of as “Quentin Tarantino‘s Charles Manson movie”, would end up being one of the sweetest films of the director’s career? Beneath the rampant speculation, beneath the True Crime trappings, beneath the bursts of shockingly graphic violence, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has a warm, loving […]

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Serial killer Ted Bundy continues to fascinate the American public even decades after his execution. The latest demonstration of that comes with the popular success of the Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger. The four-part series is now contending for Emmy nominations.

It’s by no means the first documentary examination of Bundy’s string of brutal sex crimes in the 1970s, a fact not lost on Berlinger.

“The bar is awfully high to do something on Bundy, because it’s a well-worn tire,” the director recalls thinking when he was first approached with the documentary idea. The pitch came from Stephen Michaud, co-author of the book Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer, who had recorded hours of interviews with Bundy in the 1980s while the convicted murderer sat on Florida’s death row. Hearing the audio convinced Berlinger to move forward.

To celebrate the home entertainment release of Once Upon a Time in London which will be available on DVD from the 10th June 2019, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Signature Entertainment!

Gateway Films, Ratio Film & Signature Entertainment presents Once Upon A Time In London, starring Leo Gregory, Terry Stone, Jamie Foreman, footballer Jamie O’Hara, Union J’s Jj Hamblett, legendary boxer Joe Egan, Geoff Bell, Holly Earl, Nadia Forde, Kate Braithwaite, Roland Manookian, Josh Myers, Andy Beckwith, Ali Cook, Doug Allan, Justin Salinger, and Laura Carter (Celebrity Big Brother). Comedian Simon Munnery, and boxers Steve Collins and Frank Buglioni round out this amazing cast from all strata of the entertainment and sports worlds.

Once Upon a Time in London charts the epic rise and legendary fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted for three action-packed decades from the late 1930s. The one-time...

Sydney-based sales agent Odin’s Eye has picked up international rights to Harvey Keitel-starring action feature “Live Fast, Die Laughing.” The film is directed by Timothy Linh Bui and produced by Los Angeles-based Convergence Entertainment.

Scripted by Tim Tori, the film is the story of a broke taxi driver in Vietnam who thinks it is his lucky day when a mysterious American woman offers him a fortune to drive her 1,000 miles from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi. They set off, pursued by mobsters and an assassin.

Set to shoot in November, the film will star Francesca Eastwood (“True Crime”) alongside Keitel. Action direction is to be supplied by fight choreographer Vincent Wang.

“Live Fast” is produced by Douglas W. Miller and Tim Kwok through Convergence Entertainment.

“Tim Bui is an authentic and original voice, with a unique story that’s rarely seen in modern-day Vietnam,” Kwok said. “The...

NBC in March put a pin in its plans for Law & Order: Hate Crimes, the greenlighted 13-episode new Law & Order spinoff from the franchise’s creator Dick Wolf.

While the network abandoned plans to introduce the new series as a planted spinoff on an episode of Law & Order: Svu this season, the show, co-created by Wolf and one of his top lieutenants, former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight, remained in active development.

Since then, Leight has returned as showrunner of Svu for its upcoming record-breaking Season 21.

“You can say how prolific Mr. Wolf is, not only on NBC,” NBC Entertainment co-chairman Paul Telegdy said during NBC’s upfronts call Sunday. “Law & Order: Hate Crimes is in ongoing development. I am very confident that it will happen one day.”

Wolf currently has six broadcast drama series, the three Chicago shows and Law & Order: Svu on NBC as...

NBC is putting a pin in its plans for Law & Order: Hate Crimes, the greenlighted new Law & Order spinoff from the franchise’s creator Dick Wolf. Back in September, the network gave a 13-episode order to the project, which was supposed to be introduced as a planted spinoff from Law & Order: Svu in an episode during the latter part of the veteran drama’s current record-tying 20th season before launching next season.

That no longer will happen. Law & Order: Hate Crimes, co-created by Wolf and one of his top lieutenants, former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight, remains in active development at the network as everyone needed more time to flesh out the concept. Svu has not been renewed yet but likely will be so it can break the record for the longest-running drama series jointly held by Gunsmoke and Law & Order, so the spinoff could be introduced during...

Gregg Rudloff, who won Academy Awards for sound mixing “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Matrix,” and “Glory” and was nominated four other times, died in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. He was 63.

A representative for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office told Variety that the office is treating his death as a possible suicide with results of an autopsy pending.

Rudloff was nominated for an Oscar for “American Sniper,” Best Picture winner “Argo,” “Flags of Our Fathers” and “The Perfect Storm.” He also won an Emmy for sound mixing “An Early Frost” in 1985.

Rudloff followed his father, sound engineer Tex Rudloff, into the business. The elder Rudloff was nominated for a sound Oscar for “The Buddy Holly Story” and had credits on “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,” “Taxi Driver,” and Clint Eastwood’s “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”

Gregg Rudloff’s earliest credit was on 1982’s “Honkytonk Man” for Eastwood,...

Gregg Rudloff, a three-time Oscar-winning sound mixer and seven-time nominee whose career spanned more than 35 years, has died in Los Angeles. He was 63. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office is treating his death as a possible suicide.

“It was reported to us possibly as a suicide,” a spokeswoman for the coroner’s office told Deadline. “His body was found at his residence in Sherman Oaks on January 6. A call was made, and during the call it was reported as a possible suicide. We won’t know for sure until the autopsy is completed.”

Rudloff, who was one of the film industry’s most prolific and honored soundmen, won Academy Awards for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Matrix (1999) and Glory (1989). He also was Oscar-nominated four other times — for American Sniper, Argo, Flags of Our Fathers and The Perfect Storm — and won a 1986 Emmy for sound mixing An Early Frost.

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Exclusive: The recently announced Star Wars series for Disney’s upcoming family focused streaming service Disney+ based Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is being shepherded by former The Americans executive producer Stephen Schiff.

Schiff serves as executive producer and showrunner on the live-action series, a prequel being toplined by Rogue One‘s star Diego Luna reprising his role as Cassian Andor. Jared Bush (Moana) originated the project and wrote a pilot script and a bible.

Lucasfilm produces the series, which follows the adventures of rebel spy Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion and prior to the events of Rogue One. The project has hired writers as it prepares to open a writers room. Production is slated to begin next year.

“Going back to the Star Wars universe is very special for me,” Luna told StarWars.com at the time of the announcement of the series. “We have...

Netflix has picked up “Murder Mountain,” a true-crime murder-mystery documentary series from the team behind “Man on Wire” and “La 92.” The six-part series examines a series of murders that took place in a remote California community.

The Lightbox-produced series bowed on U.S. cable net Fuse earlier this year. Netflix has will launch it globally, including the U.S., as an original on Dec. 28.

The series is set in Humboldt County, California, where marijuana is the dominant local industry, and dozens of people have gone missing in the last few years – more than any other county in California.

“Murder Mountain” focuses on the disappearance of 29-year-old Garret Rodriguez in 2013. The investigation into his whereabouts, the producers said, exposes “a wild, lawless place.” The series shows Humboldt’s marijuana farms, both legal and illegal, and the farmers and dealers associated with the industry.

“’Murder Mountain’ is a riveting tale...

Exclusive: Mena Suvari and Frances Fisher have signed on to star in Grace and Grit, the indie feature adaptation of Ken Wilber’s book of the same title. Stuart Townsend, Mariel Hemingway, Lydia Hearst, Nick Stahl, Rebekah Graf, and Tara Subkoff also co-star in the Sebastian Siegel-directed film, which is currently in production.

Siegel penned the screenplay. It’s based on a true story of the five-year courageous journey of Treya Wilber (Suvari) and Ken Wilber (Townsend), through their falling in love, marriage, and challenge to overcome illness and meaning to find love beyond life. The story takes place in the mid-1980’s between Muir Beach, Tahoe, and Boulder, Colorado.

Siegel is also producing the pic with Lucas Jarach and Eric Brenner. Jim Jacobsen will serve as exec producer via Skyline Entertainment, which is financing.

Suvari, who broke onto the scene with her roles in American Pie and American Beauty,...

Greenlit means a project is officially a go, so all you have to do is follow these leads to stay up to date. You never know where you’ll find an opportunity to land an audition! “Law & Order: Hate Crimes”There will be a little bit more law and order this coming year. NBC is once again expanding its “Law & Order” universe with a 13-episode order of “Law & Order: Hate Crimes,” from creator and executive producer Dick Wolf. This will be the seventh “Law & Order” series in total, including the still-running “Svu,” “Criminal Intent,” and its latest anthology, “True Crime.” If Wolf continues his usual trend, casting director Jonathan Strauss will also be casting this series, likely out of New York City. “Veronica Mars”The rumors were true: “Veronica Mars” will be getting a mini-series at Hulu. Cfb Casting is attached for the second revival, with Kristen Bell reprising the role as the titular sleuth.

NBC has ordered a 13-episode first season of a new Law and Order spin-off, Law and Order: Hate Crimes, CNN reports.

The show will be set in New York City, which is home to the second-oldest hate crimes and bias-based task force in the country. A premiere date for the show has yet to be announced, but the new series will reportedly be introduced during the upcoming season of Law and Order: Svu.

Law and Order mastermind and executive producer Dick Wolf created Hate Crimes with screenwriter Warren Leight. NBC’s co-president of scripted programming,...

As Law & Order: Svu is heading into its record-tying 20th season, NBC is expanding the Law & Order franchise with a 13-episode order to Law & Order: Hate Crimes, from Law & Order boss Dick Wolf.

Co-created with one of Wolf’s top lieutenants, former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight, the latest Law & Order installment is based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S. The unit, which pledges to uphold a zero tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind, works under the NYPD’s real Special Victims Unit and often borrows Svu’s detectives to assist in their investigations.

The new Law & Order series will be introduced as a planted spinoff from Svu, with the first incarnation of the new unit appearing in the latter part of the upcoming season of the Mariska Hargitay-starring series.

This is the seventh Law & Order series,...

In this edition of TV Bits: Katey Sagal and Courteney Cox join Shameless as Emmy Rossum departs Elle Fanning and Nicholas Holt in talks for Hulu’s Catherine the Great Gina Rodriguez is directing an episode of the Charmed reboot Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five miniseries adds even more cast members Netflix has a new True Crime anthology series Westworld‘s Jimmy […]

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Welcome to “Remote Controlled,” a podcast from Variety featuring the best and brightest in television, both in front of and behind the camera.

In this week’s episode, Variety’s managing editor of TV Cynthia Littleton talks with Edie Falco, the star of “Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders” who is Emmy-nominated for lead actress in a limited series for her portrayal of criminal defense attorney Leslie Abramson.

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As the “True Crime” template goes, “The Menendez Murders” is based on the real story of brothers Joseph and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted in 1994 of murdering their parents. When she received news of the project, Falco admitted she knew little about the crime, recalling only that it revolved around “these two bratty Beverly Hills kids who killed their parents.”

“Once I sat down with Dick Wolf and...

(Note: this interview was conducted at Fantastic Fest 2017 when the film premiered with its original title, Applecart.) With indie horror releases hitting consumer screens in droves thanks to VOD and streaming platforms, story ideas have to be more outstanding than ever. Anyone can make a slasher movie, so why should we watch Your slasher movie? With […]

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It was back in January 2016 when Netflix announced they would be cracking down on the use of VPNs with their service. While the vast majority of the 81.5million subscribers collectively shrugged their shoulders for some it was an unwelcome move, smacking of online censorship. Until this crackdown users were able to bypass geolocked content on the streaming platform by using a Virtual Private Network to tell Netflix they were in, say – the United States or Japan when in fact they were sitting with their feet up across the world in Hull. But Netflix were unhappy about this, and were determined to put a stop to it.

The trick opened up the treasure trove of content previously unavailable to users in their country. The UK, by way of example, had far fewer titles compared to the Us. Canada seemed to have most of the new films first thanks to a dizzying array of international distribution deals,...

Netflix releases full trailer for forthcoming true crime series ‘The Staircase’ A Thirteen-Part Documentary Series Featuring Three Netflix Original Episodes Launching Globally on Netflix on 8th June About ‘The Staircase’ ‘The Staircase’ is a gripping real-life courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside-look at a high-profile murder trial and is an engrossing examination …

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Condé Nast said it will expand its over-the-top (Ott) video offerings with dedicated channels for Wired, GQ and Bon Appétit, part of a NewFronts presentation that also lifted the curtain on 60 digital pilots and a range of new Snapchat shows.

Wired’s Ott service will launch later this year on AppleTV, Roku and Amazon Fire, with the other two launches slated for 2019, the company said during its pitch to digital ad buyers held at 100 Barclay.

“While consumers have more screens and more content to choose from than ever before, advertisers face the challenge of less buyable options,” said Pamela Drucker Mann, chief revenue and marketing officer of Condé Nast. “Condé Nast has the engagement, brand safety and influence that make us the most impactful, buyable solution in the industry. And our new Ott expansion is significant because it brings the quality of Condé Nast to next gen consumers on new platforms,...

"We have a suspect - a crime writer..." "I think the book is your confession." Saban Films has released an official trailer for a dark crime thriller titled, of course, Dark Crimes. The title is a variation of the title for the original article this is based on in the New Yorker, called "True Crime", subtitle "A postmodern murder mystery." Dark Crimes stars Jim Carrey as a detective who gets involved in a case where a Polish author killed someone in real life the same way as in one of the fictional crime novels he wrote. Marton Csokas plays the author, and the cast includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Vlad Ivanov, Agata Kulesza, Robert Wieckiewicz, and Piotr Glowacki. This loos quite dark and mysterious, but also quite good, I'm intrigued. Especially by Carrey's fierce, bearded performance in this. I really want to check it out. Here's the official trailer (+ new...

The true crime zeitgeist shows no signs of slowing down, as a popular true crime podcast is set to receive a TV adaptation and a feature film about Ted Bundy casts a rising star as Bundy’s ex-wife. First, the popular La Times podcast Dirty John is being adapted into a TV series by Bravo, written […]

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Police in Louisiana are investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 3-year-old siblings who were found unresponsive on Saturday afternoon inside the sweltering cab of a pickup truck, People confirms. A statement from the Bossier City Police Department says detectives are investigating the deaths of the boy and girl, who were twins. Police say the children's mother enlisted help from her neighbors to find the two 3-year-olds, who had gone missing. When a neighbor located the brother and sister inside the truck at around 3 p.m., both children were not conscious or moving. The truck was parked in the Orr family home's driveway,...

A New York State police investigator told a courtroom on Monday that Angelika Graswald confessed to him that she caused her fiancé's death by sabotaging his kayak because she was upset over their souring relationship. "I wanted to be free, I wanted him gone, I wanted to be myself," Donald DeQuarto testified Graswald allegedly told him during a private one-hour conversation. The conversation took place at Bannerman Island in New York's Hudson River on April 29, 2015 - ten days after the kayak of Graswald's fiancé, Vincent Viafore, capsized nearby and he disappeared into the rough waters. DeQuarto testified that Graswald allegedly...

A New York State police investigator told a courtroom on Monday that Angelika Graswald confessed to him that she caused her fiancé's death by sabotaging his kayak because she was upset over their souring relationship. "I wanted to be free, I wanted him gone, I wanted to be myself," Donald DeQuarto testified Graswald allegedly told him during a private one-hour conversation. The conversation took place at Bannerman Island in New York's Hudson River on April 29, 2015 - ten days after the kayak of Graswald's fiancé, Vincent Viafore, capsized nearby and he disappeared into the rough waters. DeQuarto testified that Graswald allegedly...