RED Opens in Theaters Friday, October 15th

Tomorrow, Friday October 15th, RED opens in theaters.

Starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, and John Malkovich, the film is adapted from the graphic novel RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.

The four principals used to be the CIA's top agents -- but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience, and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.

Meet the team below; find more videos on the Yahoo: RED page. This is one of the few films we're really looking forward to seeing this year. What about you?

Mystery Trackers: The Void, the Collector's Edition is New at BFG

Games of Mystery is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery casual game from Big Fish Games released today and available to BFG Club members. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below.

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The Void family mansion used to be a gorgeous home ... until Dr. Malleus Void inherited it. Legend has it that the creepy doctor spent his time doing terrible experiments in the home, and it has been abandoned for an entire decade. After three world famous celebrities go missing inside the house, it’s up to the Mystery Trackers to go inside the house and solve its mysteries once and for all.

This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won’t find in the standard version, including additional gameplay, an integrated strategy guide, original soundtrack and concept art, and more.

Mystery Trackers: The Void, Collector's Edition may be downloaded and purchased for $13.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. A demonstration version (180.82 MB) may be downloaded and played for free for one hour; the full version is 705.07 MB.

Watch a preview video below:

Get any standard game for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. Other benefits include the $2.99 Daily Deal, Tomorrow's Game Today, and special member rewards. And if you purchase any 6 games within a single month, you earn a free game with the Big Fish Game Club Monthly Punch Card! (Collector's Editions earn 3 punches each, half-way towards your free game!)

Read Ms. Terri's reviews of the adventure and casual mystery games featured on this site, including Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy, Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, Enlightenus, and many more!

Big Fish Games: Bestsellers

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Games of Mystery is your source for mystery-themed video, electronic, and board games, parties for kids and adults, and murder mystery weekends and mystery getaway vacations!

Samuel L. Jackson Developing Holmesian Crime Drama for The CW

Variety is reporting that actor Samuel L. Jackson is developing a crime drama for The CW.

Titled Hawkshaw, the storyline features a 20-something man who believes he's a descendent of Sherlock Holmes -- or may, indeed, be Holmes himself. His therapist's sister, a cop, discovers Hawkshaw's power of deduction can help her solve crimes.

Paramount Options Film Rights to Out of Range by Hank Steinberg

Deadline|New York is reporting that Paramount Pictures has acquired the film rights to a book proposal from Hank Steinberg, who created the CBS series Without a Trace.

Titled Out of Range, the storyline features a man who, together with his children, watches helplessly as his wife is kidnapped, which puts him in the center of a world of international espionage. Steinberg will also write the screenplay.

Out of Range will be published by HarperCollins in 2011. It is Steinberg's first novel.

Charlaine Harris's Harper Connelly Mysteries to be Adapted for Television by CBS

Mystery writer Charlaine Harris already has one television series based on her characters on the air (HBO's True Blood); now CBS may be adding another.

Variety is reporting that the broadcast network is interested in Harris's Harper Connelly series, the first book of which, Grave Sight, will also serve as the series title. Brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott will co-executive produce.

Set in the Deep South, Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living -- but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her stepbrother Tolliver as her manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent -- even if the dead can wait forever.

Inside Out by Barry Eisler (Book Review)

Inside Out by Barry Eisler. Non-series. Ballantine Hardcover, June 2010.

After a collection of sensitive videotapes are stolen from the US government, and held for ransom -- $100,000,000 in diamonds else they're posted online -- undercover operative Ben Treven is assigned to retrieve them in Barry Eisler's political thriller Inside Out.

Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: Inside Out by Barry Eisler.

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Mysterious Reviews is your source for the latest mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime novel reviews, edited by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Film Adaptation of Video Game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Planned

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a film adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, will be scripted and directed by David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees).

An action adventure suspense game released in 2007 and available exclusively for the Playstation 3, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune features Nathan Drake, a descendent of Sir Francis Drake, who is seeking the lost treasure of El Dorado. Other characters include journalist Elena Fisher and Drake's side-kick Victor "Sully" Sullivan. A sequel to the game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, was released in 2009.

An early trailer for the game can be seen below. Seems awfully similar to the Indiana Jones films -- and maybe that's intentional. What do you think about this adaptation?

Lionsgate Acquires Puppet/Human Film Project Happytime Murders

The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog is reporting that Lionsgate has acquired a murder mystery comedy project from the Jim Henson Co. The twist: it's not a kid's film.

Titled Happytime Murders, the cast features both puppets and humans. When a puppet who works on a children's show is murdered, a private investigator -- a puppet with a drinking problem and a former LAPD cop -- takes on the case with his former partner, a human.

Brian Henson, Jim Henson's son, is set to direct. Production may start as early as January 2011.

Help Becky Brogan Investigate the Disappearance of a Nurse in The Institute, New at BFG

Games of Mystery is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery casual game from Big Fish Games released today and available to BFG Club members. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below.

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A nurse at a troubled youth facility has mysteriously disappeared. When Becky Brogan -- a college student studying investigative journalism -- starts digging around at the Institute, she learns more about Dr. Benjamin Gentle, a psychiatrist with a sordid past and interesting treatment methods. The disappearance of Nurse Ursa casts suspicion on a number of patients, and it’s up to Becky to decipher the clues left behind in each room of the institute to discover what really happened.

See also the first game in this series, The Mystery of Meane Manor.

Becky Brogan: The Institute may be downloaded and purchased for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. A demonstration version (115.02 MB) may be downloaded and played for free for one hour.

Watch a preview video below:

Get any standard game for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. Other benefits include the $2.99 Daily Deal, Tomorrow's Game Today, and special member rewards. And if you purchase any 6 games within a single month, you earn a free game with the Big Fish Game Club Monthly Punch Card! (Collector's Editions earn 3 punches each, half-way towards your free game!)

Read Ms. Terri's reviews of the adventure and casual mystery games featured on this site, including Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy, Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, Enlightenus, and many more!

Big Fish Games: Bestsellers

Big Fish Games: New releases

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Games of Mystery is your source for mystery-themed video, electronic, and board games, parties for kids and adults, and murder mystery weekends and mystery getaway vacations!

New Trailer for Second Season of Justified Released by FX Networks

The second season of Justified doesn't premiere until next February, but FX Networks has just released a trailer for it; you can watch it below.

Based on a character created by crime novelist Elmore Leonard, Justified stars Timothy Olyphant as Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, a true-blue hero and something of a throwback, given to wearing a Stetson and cowboy boots, carrying his sidearm in a hip holster –- a weapon he only draws when he has to, and when he does, he shoots to kill, because, as he sees it, that’s the purpose of a gun.