A little over a month ago we featured a poster for Jason Statham's next film, Safe. And now we have a new 60-second trailer (via Machinima) for the action thriller … with an emphasis on the word "action".
Statham stars as Luke Wright, a second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, who lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change … until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed.
But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei (Catherine Chan), being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action … and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a "counter." He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for.
Realizing he's the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city's brutal underworld to save an innocent girl's life … and perhaps even redeem his own.
Written and directed by Boaz Yaking, Safe is scheduled to be in theaters April 27th, 2012.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
New Trailer for Jason Statham Thriller Safe
Columbia to Remake Dutch Thriller Taped
The Dutch thriller Taped opened in theaters (in The Netherlands) this past weekend, but today we're learning that Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to develop an English-language version of the film.
Written and directed by Diederik Van Rooijen, the storyline follows a young couple, Johan (Barry Atsma) and Saar (Susan Visser), who, while on vacation in Buenos Aires, inadvertently videotape the murder of a young man by a corrupt cop.
We've embedded a trailer for the film below, but it's the original Dutch version; we couldn't find one with English subtitles.
SleuthFest 2012 Starts Thursday, March 1st
This Thursday, March 1st, marks the opening day to SleuthFest 2012. Sponsored by the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America, the conference will be held at the Royal Plaza located in the Walt Disney World Resort.
This year's guests of honor are crime novelists Charlaine Harris, Jeffery Deaver, and Chris Grabenstein.
The conference opens on "Third Degree Thursday" with a large number of panel discussions. Chris Grabenstein closes the day's sessions with "Yes, and …", techniques of improvisation to keep your story rolling.
Friday continues the panel discussions, with Jeffery Deaver being the luncheon keynote speaker. The evening's entertainment is a mystery dinner theater.
Saturday's keynote speaker is Charlaine Harris. Later that night, romantic suspense novelist Heather Graham invites participants to party at The House of Blues in Downtown Disney.
The conference wraps up Sunday with a continental breakfast and a conversation with the three guests of honor.
See the conference website for registration information and all the program details.
BBC America Developing Original Crime Drama, The Dead Beat
BBC America announced today that it is developing two new original series, one a paranormal crime drama.
According to the press release, "In The Dead Beat, two cops, one dead and one alive, become a reluctant team, working from leads in the world of the dead to track down killers in the world of the living. Subverting the crime genre, The Dead Beat brings a whole new meaning to cold cases, underworld informants, dead leads and buried evidence."
The other series is Wired, set in a world of "syns", synthetic organisms that are exact replicas of human beings.
"Supernatural Saturday has become a popular fixture on BBC America's schedule," said Perry Simon, General Manager, BBC America. "[B]oth these highly creative ideas add a new dimension to our programming."
Review: The Last Justice by Anthony J. Franze
Read our … Review of The Last Justice by Anthony J. Franze. Sterling & Ross Hardcover, February 2012.
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The Mystery Bookshelf: Secret of the White Rose by Stefanie Pintoff, a Simon Ziele Mystery
The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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Secret of the White Rose by Stefanie Pintoff
A Simon Ziele Mystery (3rd in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: February 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00166-5
About Secret of the White Rose (from the publisher): The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele’s jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, it’s high-profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensational trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie family wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. The dramatic trial has captured the full attention of 1906 New York City.
Furthermore, Simon’s assigned precinct on Manhattan’s West Side includes the gritty Tenderloin but not the tonier Gramercy Park, which is where the judge is found in his locked town house with his throat slashed on the night before the jury is set to deliberate. But his widow insists on calling her husband’s old classmate criminologist, Alistair Sinclair, who in turn enlists Ziele’s help. Together they must steer Sinclair’s unorthodox methods past a police force that is so focused on rounding up Drayson’s supporters that they’ve all but rejected any other possibilities.
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About the author: Stefanie Pintoff's debut mystery, In the Shadow of Gotham, was the winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A graduate of Columbia University Law School, she also has a Ph.D. in literature from New York University. Now a full-time writer, she lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. For more information about the author and her books, visit her website at StefaniePintoff.com.
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Dead Times Four by Joel Goldman is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Dead Times Four by Joel Goldman as today's third free mystery ebook.
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Dead Times Four by Joel Goldman
A Lou Mason Omnibus
Publisher: Pinnacle/Joel Goldman
About Dead Times Four (from the publisher): The first four Lou Mason thrillers are included in this omnibus: Motion To Kill, The Last Witness, Cold Truth, and Deadlocked.
A new Lou Mason mystery, Final Judgment, was published this month.
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Three Ways to Die by Lee Goldberg is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Three Ways to Die by Lee Goldberg as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Three Ways to Die by Lee Goldberg
A Short Story Collection
Publisher: CreateSpace
About Three Ways to Die (from the publisher): This collection gathers together three short stories by the author of the "Mr. Monk" novels. "Jack Webb's Star" originally appeared in the anthology Hollywood and Crime; "Bumsickle" originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III; and "Remaindered" originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
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The Blue Fence by Jonathan Hales is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Blue Fence by Jonathan Hales as today's free mystery ebook.
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The Blue Fence by Jonathan Hales
Publisher: Westcom Press
About The Blue Fence (from the publisher): Danny Ballard was a child music prodigy. Her father was London's most notorious gangster. Now she plays cocktail piano in a West End nightclub, where a chance encounter entangles her in a criminal conspiracy linked to the Olympic Park for the 2012 Games. Murder, corruption, and the International drugs trade … Danny is forced to confront her half-buried past as well as the lethal dangers of the present.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden as today's second free mystery ebook.
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Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden
The Moscow Spy Thrillers
Publisher: HarperCollins
This is the second entry in this series; the third, The Blind Spy, publishes in hardcover next month. It's relatively rare for free books to be announced in the middle of the day — which is why we typically post about them in the morning — but we're guessing this is part of a program to promote the author's new book … especially since this ebook edition includes "bonus material" from the new book.
About Moscow Sting (from the publisher): When Finn, a former British spy, is poisoned by a Russian assassin, his ex-boss Adrian, the chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers—information that only Finn's widow knows. But Anna, a former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love, vanished with her child shortly after Finn's death.
Adrian isn't the only one eager to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so sensitive that the KGB killed to protect it—and now Anna is in the KGB's crosshairs, as the only person who knows the true identity of the Kremlin insider, superspy, and double agent called Mikhail. The CIA and Cougar, a giant American private intelligence company, are also hunting her. With the Kremlin still in the grasp of all-powerful Vladimir Putin, Mikhail is the West's best hope for revealing Russia's obscure intentions for its new-found oil wealth.
Anna holds the key to the secrets of her motherland, and now the former Russian agent faces her greatest test. To secure her freedom and protect her child, she must uncover the full truth before anyone else does—even as friend and foe set her in their sights.
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