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Who Would You Cast in a Ghostbusters Reboot?

By Crime HQ

September 11, 2014

The classic comedy, Ghostbusters seems to constantly have rumors of a reboot or sequel lurking. However, it seems like the rumors might be getting a little bit of fact behind them. Recently, Ghostbusters' star Bill Murray told the Toronto Star that he's not averse to a sequel—as long as he isn't in it. Who did…

Crime Solvers: Forensics From the Past

By Susie

April 24, 2014

In writing my historical novels, which are set in seventeenth-century England, I have had to spend a lot of time thinking about the crime-solving methods that would have been available to authorities of the time. In the era before modern forensics, when there was no DNA evidence, blood typing, fingerprinting, math modeling, computer simulating, chemical…

The Cruise Control Jokes Are Just Beginning…New Jack Reacher Trailer

By Laura K. Curtis

July 5, 2012

Who’s the star? The man or the car?  This trailer doesn’t tell.  Here’s the thing about Tom Cruise. He always, always looks like Tom Cruise. You may like or dislike his look, and it may fit some roles very well while others not so well, but it never changes. And he always sounds like Tom…

David Tennant and Alan Furst’s The Spies of Warsaw

Alan Furst’s The Spies of Warsaw Coming to TV … Starring David Tennant

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

April 17, 2012

There’s been a bit of hubbub this week about Doctor Who. (When doesn’t the Doctor create hubbub?) CriminalElement.com has already revealed that the current (Eleventh) Doctor, Matt Smith, is filming new episodes in New York City. Now we can report that immediate past (Tenth) Doctor, David Tennant, just started—or is about to start—filming a new…

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Jason Statham Does Burt Reynolds

By Crime HQ

February 8, 2012

From our good friends over at Deadline, more news about the busiest man in show business: Jason Statham will star in Heat, a remake of the 1987 Burt Reynolds film that Brian De Palma will direct from a script by the great scribe William Goldman. Goldman [sic] who wrote the original script from his novel.…

The Devil in the White City

Warner Brothers to Bring The Devil in the White City to the Big Screen

By Crime HQ

December 18, 2011

It is apparently the era of true crime movies! Recently, we heard about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck making a movie about Whitey Bulger. And now, according to Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio will play serial killer H.H. Holmes in the movie adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At…

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Angelina Jolie is Kay Scarpetta. Really?!

By Crime HQ

December 6, 2011

One of our eagle-eyed tweeps alerted us to the news that in the upcoming film adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s Red Mist, Angelina Jolie will play Dr. Kay Scarpetta. We will leave it to you to debate whether this rises (sinks?) to the level of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, but it certainly had our eyebrows…

Tom Cruise As Jack Reacher?!?

By Crime HQ

June 14, 2011

No way. NO WAY. Yesterday, word was leaked that Tom Cruise is in talks to play Lee Child’s iconic Jack Reacher in a film version of One Shot. To which we repeat: No way. Reacher, an ex-military man, is 6’ 5“ and weighs between 220 and 250 pounds.  He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond…

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Fantasy Casting: Chelsea Cain’s Heartbreaker Series

By Tara Gelsomino

May 31, 2011

Chelsea Cain’s smash-hit series—which began with 2007’s Heartsick, and continued with Sweetheart (2008), Evil at Heart (2009), and this year’s The Night Season—is a bone-chillingly good read. The brutal, pulls-no-punches series focuses on a gorgeous and sadistic serial killer, Gretchen Lowell, and her pursuer/victim Detective Archie Sheridan. The two play out a sick cat-and-mouse chase,…

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