Yesterday, we posted the first trailer Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, adapted from the alternate history thriller of the same title by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Today, the studio has released the international trailer, which we've embedded below. Though similar in content with several shared scenes, the two trailers do depict different elements of the film.
Benjamin Walker stars as Abraham Lincoln, whose mother is killed by a supernatural creature, feeding his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter opens in US theaters on June 22nd, 2012.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
New International Trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
The Road Rage Comics Series by Stephen King and Joe Hill
The "Road Rage" series of four comics is in stores tomorrow, Wednesday February 15th.
Adapted from the short story "Throttle" by Stephen King and Joe Hill, which itself was inspired by "Duel", a short story by Richard Matheson, the comic series features The Tribe, a motorcycle club that acts as a family unit.
Club leader Vince rides alongside his son Race, as well as fellow Vietnam vet Lemmy and a passle of others. They've been together a long time, these two generations of riders. But never before have they seen the kind of trouble they're about to run up against.
War is easy—lines are drawn, sides are chosen. But when the club is attacked on a lonely highway road by a trucker with unknown but quite murderous intent, their hard-scrabble existence becomes one of pure survival. And not all of 'em are going to make it through.
If all this has a familiar ring to it, it's likely because you've seen the 1971 made-for-television movie Duel, which stars Dennis Weaver as a motorist being stalked by an unseen truck driver. With a screenplay adapted from the same Matheson short story that inspired King and Hill, it was Steven Spielberg's first turn as a director and remains one of the most suspenseful films we've ever seen. (We watched it once decades ago … and it is one of the few films that we are too terrified to watch again.)
The covers of the four comics are shown below. Look for them in your favorite comic book store tomorrow.
Watch over 7 Minutes of NBC's New Crime Drama Awake
NBC's new suspense thriller Awake doesn't premiere for another couple of weeks but the network has posted the opening scenes from the first episode online, nearly 8 minutes worth. We've embedded it below.
Jason Isaacs — who was brilliant in the made-for-television adaptations of Kate Atkinson's novels, Case Histories — stars as Detective Michael Britten, who wakes up from a car accident with his wife and teenage son, and he learns the devastating news that his wife died in the crash. Trying to put the pieces of his life back together, he wakes up a few days later to realize that his wife is very much alive and his son died in the accident! Did he lose his wife or his son? Or neither of them?
Michael goes back to work solving crimes while trying to put things back on a "normal" track, but alternating between realities provides some challenges — one moment he and his wife are grappling with having another child to replace their loss, and the next moment he's finding himself attracted to his son's tennis coach to fill the void from the loss of his wife. At the same time, he is solving crimes in each world which sometimes overlap in fascinating and inexplicable ways. Is he dreaming or going mad? Michael begins seeing two different therapists to help him sort things out, but then again why would he want either "reality" to go away when the totality of both means having his family complete?
Catch the series premiere of Awake on Thursday, March 1st, 2012.
Noir Classic Black Wings Has My Angel to be Adapted for Film
Elliott Chaze's 1953 noir classic Black Wings Has My Angel — one of only two crime novels he wrote — is being adapted for film. Anna Paquin (True Blood), Elijah Wood, and Tom Hiddleston (Wallander) are set to star in a screenplay by Barry Gifford (City of Ghosts).
The storyline follows escaped convict Tim Sunblade (expected to be played by Hiddleston), who teams up with a call girl named Virginia (Paquin) in a backwoods Mississippi motel, where they plan a daring heist. Wood's role is unknown at this point.
Filming is expected to begin later this year.
(As of the date of this post, the Kindle edition of Black Wings Has My Angel is available to download for only 99 cents. Prices can and do change without notice, so check the current price before 1-clicking.)
(Related article: Screen Daily.)
The Mystery Bookshelf: Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West, A Teeny Templeton 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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Gone with a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West
A Teeny Templeton Mystery (1st in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: February 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00377-5
About Gone with a Handsomer Man (from the publisher): Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She's getting married, she's baking her own wedding cake, and she's leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiancé playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks.
Needless to say, the wedding is off. Adding insult to injury, her fiancé slaps a restraining order on her. When he's found dead a few days later, all fingers point to Teeny.
Her only hope is through an old boyfriend-turned-lawyer, the guy who broke her heart a decade ago. But dredging up the past brings more than skeletons out of the closet, and Teeny doesn't know who she can trust. With evidence mounting and the heat turning up, Teeny must also figure out where to live, how to support herself, how to clear her name, and how to protect her heart.
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About the author: Michael Lee West is the author of five previously published non-mystery novels. She lives with her husband on a farm in Lebanon, Tennessee, with three bratty Yorkshire terriers, a Chinese crested, assorted donkeys, chickens, sheep, and African Pygmy goats. For more about the author, visit her website at MichaelLeeWest.com. For more about the series, visit The World According to Teeny Templeton.
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Greg Rucka's The Punisher
Greg Rucka began a new series of comics featuring Frank Castle — The Punisher — last August, with the first six issues now being collected into the graphic novel The Punisher. The character first appeared in 1974 in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man.
For Frank Castle death comes easy … life is where things gets complicated. The streets of New York City are teeming with more methodical criminals than ever and a police force doing it's best to keep its head above water. The Punisher has returned to serve his own brand of justice with everything's he's got … but can he survive the darkness stored in his own arsenal?
On the Mulholland Books website this morning, Rucka talks about the character and what he seeks to explore with him. [H]ow is it that Frank can continue, can survive, so long after his initial revenge has been exacted? How is it that he hasn't gone mad, committed suicide, come off the rails and started murdering at random? How is it that he has maintained this position as an extraordinary anti-hero and general bad-ass in a universe with Captain America and Spider-Man?
We're a bit confused about the publication date of The Punisher. Most sources list it as March 15th, 2012, but Mulholland Books promises to have an excerpt tomorrow, which it says is the on-sale date.
The Punisher continues to be published as a monthly comic, with issue number eight coming out this month. Greg Rucka, who also writes crime novels, will start a new series retired Delta Force operator, Master Sergeant Jad Bell, this May with Alpha, published by Mulholland Books.
Paramount Plans Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion
If you aren't familiar with the 1932 psychological thriller Before the Fact by Francis Iles — a pen name used by Anthony Berkeley — you might recognize the film adapted from it: Suspicion (1941), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, who received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in 1942.
Today we're learning that Paramount wants to remake the film, with The Killing's showrunner Veena Sud writing the screenplay.
Often called one of the finest studies of murder ever written, Before the Fact tells the tale of wealthy but plain Lina Mclaidlaw, who marries the charming and feckless Johnny Aysgarth against the advice of her father. Lina is certain she can change him for the better, until she is forced to acknowledge that he is a compulsive liar, a crook and a murderer. But still she loves him, while fearing she will inevitably become one of his victims.
Sud disappointed fans of The Killing by not revealing "Who killed Rosie Larsen?" at the end of the the series first season, as was widely expected and all but promised … especially given the promotional poster released by the network. Let's hope that if a remake of Suspicion moves forward she does a better job not only meeting, but exceeding, our expectations, something she spectacularly failed to do with The Killing. (For those viewers who may have forgiven Sud, the second season of The Killing begins April 1st, 2012 on AMC, with an explicit promise by the network to identify Rosie Larsen's killer, though not until the end of the season.)
(Related article: The Hollywood Reporter.)
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is Today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Twilight by Stephenie Meyer as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal. The deal price of $2.99 is valid only for today, Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight Saga
Publisher: Little, Brown
This is the first book of the four in the series, which introduced star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward.
About Twilight (from the publisher): Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.
Important Note: Amazon.com updates its Kindle book deal every day at approximately midnight PT. The title referenced above is available at a discounted price for Tuesday, February 14, 2012 only.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
New Cover for Snow White & the Huntsman: A Novel
We often post about films adapted from crime novels, but it's relatively rare that we come across a novel adapted from a feature film.
But that's what we have here. Universal Pictures is set to release Snow White & the Huntsman on June 1st but about two months before that a novel based on the film hits bookstores. The cover for the book is depicted right (click for larger version; it is basically a variation on the poster for the film released last year) but curiously omits the author. Amazon, which has the book available to pre-order, lists Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, and Hossein Amini as the co-authors with Lily Blake as adapter. (Daugherty and Amini are credited as screenwriters of the film.)
This is not your Disney-esque Snow White. In this adventure, Kristen Stewart ("The Twilight Saga") plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron), who is out to destroy her. But what the ruler never imagined was that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), who was dispatched to kill her.
Watch a teaser trailer for the film below. And look for Snow White & the Huntsman: A Novel on April 17th, 2012.
New Trailer for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
A new trailer has been released for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter; we've embedded it below.
Adapted from the alternate history thriller of the same title by Seth Grahame-Smith, the film stars Benjamin Walker as Abraham Lincoln, whose mother is killed by a supernatural creature, feeding his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov from a screenplay co-written by Grahame-Smith and Simon Kinberg, the film also stars Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess, Lincoln's mentor; Anthony Mackie as William Johnson, Lincoln's valet; Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln; Rufus Sewell as the principal vampire villain Adam; and Marton Csokas in a role we have been unable to identify.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter opens in theaters June 22nd, 2012.
Paul Cleave's Crime Novel The Cleaner Optioned for Film
Paul Cleave's debut crime novel The Cleaner has been optioned for film by new French production company Stone Angels. Originally published by Random House New Zealand and Random House Australia in 2006, it has not yet been picked up by a US publisher. (Cleave's fourth and fifth novels, however, have recently been published in the US by Atria Books.)
In The Cleaner, Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, including both his day job at the police department and his "night work". He isn't much bothered by the daily news reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has murdered seven women. But Joe knows the Carver only killed six. He knows that for a fact. And Joe is going to find the copy-cat killer, he's going to punish him for the one, then frame him for the other six. It's perfect plan because he already knows he can outwit the police.
All he needs to now is take care of all the women who keep getting in his way; his domineering mother for one. Then there is Sally, the maintenance worker who sees him as a replacement for her dead brother; and the mysterious Melissa, the only woman to have ever understood him, but whose fantasies of blackmail and torture don't have a place in Joe's investigation.
Stone Angels intends to produce films for the middle ground between edgy mainstream and accessible arthouse, along the lines of the recent film adaptation of James Sallis's Drive, an aesthetic that's now yielding strong commercial results on both sides of the Atlantic.
(Related articles: Variety via In Reference To Murder.)
Telemystery: The Murder, She Wrote Movie Mysteries, New This Week on DVD
Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling a made-for-television movie collection being released this week.
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The legacy of one of television's most beloved and acclaimed series continues with 4 full-length Murder, She Wrote movies.
Angela Lansbury returns as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, the iconic role for which she received 12 consecutive Emmy nominations, one for each season the series aired. (Inexplicably, she never won.)
In "South by Southwest" (1997), a chance meeting on a train embroils Jessica with foreign spies and stolen government secrets. Then, a getaway to Los Angeles becomes deadly when she tries to solve the murder of a former Soviet KGB officer in "A Story to Die For" (2000). Jessica travels to Virginia — and into her own family history — in "The Last Free Man" (2001), where she discovers that she inherited her sleuthing skills from a relative who worked to abolish slavery. And finally, it's off to the Emerald Island in "The Celtic Riddle" (2003), where Jessica tries to claim an inheritance but faces opposition from a potential killer who's trying to do anything to get the fortune.
Murder, She Wrote: 4 Movie Collection is available on DVD and consists of the above-referenced episodes that originally aired on CBS.
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Visit the Telemystery website to discover more television mystery series currently available on and coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or video on demand.
The Devil's Right Hand by J. D. Rhoades is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Devil's Right Hand by J. D. Rhoades as today's second free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.
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The Devil's Right Hand by J. D. Rhoades
A Jack Keller Mystery
Publisher: Minotaur Books
North Carolina bounty hunter Jake Keller is introduced in this first of four mysteries in this series.
About The Devil's Right Hand (from the publisher): Ex-cons DeWayne and Leonard thought it was a simple plan: Swipe the payroll from a local construction company and make off with easy cash. Pity they left the owner dead. Bigger pity is that the owner's son is a violent drug-dealer who's crazier than the low-caliber ex-cons he's vowed to nail — along with anyone else who gets in his way.
Bounty hunter and war vet Jack Keller is the perfect man for his job. With a brain full of combat nightmares, he's primed for every hunt, keen for the heady scent of gunfire, and high on the release each takedown brings. His new quarry is bail-jumper DeWayne, but even Keller isn't prepared for where this chase is going to take him.
Caught in a violent vendetta between two trigger-happy rednecks and a psycho blinded by rage, Keller's soon spiraling into a revenge plot set to explode in the North Carolina backwoods. Add to this murderous mix a local cop with his own agenda and his beautiful partner who's hot for men on the edge, and someone's bound to see hell before the night is over.
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Give First Place to Murder by Kathleen Delaney is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Give First Place to Murder by Kathleen Delaney as today's free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.
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Give First Place to Murder by Kathleen Delaney
An Ellen McKenzie Mystery
Publisher: PublishAmerica
This is the second (of four to date) mystery to feature the California real estate agent.
About Give First Place to Murder (from the publisher): Murder at a small county fair Arabian horse show? Not possible. But Ellen McKenzie is staring at the body of a young groom, pinned to a hay bale by a pitchfork. Who could have wanted him dead?
It seems several people, and they are all connected to the show barn where Ellen's daughter has taken a summer job. Worried that somehow Susannah might be in danger, Ellen starts asking questions. It isn't until the barn's trainer is found dead in the bathroom at the prestigious Region 11 Arabian show in Santa Barbara that Ellen realizes she had better find the murderer fast, before he or she strikes again.
She's too late. Ellen and Susannah end up locked in a horse van, hurtling through the night to what looks like almost certain death.
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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for February 13, 2012
A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.
Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).
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This week's letters and mystery clue:
A C D H I K P R T
This 2011 thriller by Steven Sidor is set in a remote Minnesota town on Christmas Eve (9 letters).
We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.
Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.
Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!
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