Earlier today we mentioned two new posters for the film adaptation of Don Winslow's crime thriller Savages … and now we're embedded an absolutely fascinating video of director Oliver Stone talking about the "Grow House", the site where characters Ben and Chon (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) create the product that has attracted so much attention from the Mexican Baja cartel.
"We had to create synthetic marijuana," says Stone. "It's very hard to create that glow. There's a mist on good marijuana that we feel, there's a crystalline effect. It's really the THC … But I can guarantee you that not one ounce of real grass is on that movie set."
Savages opens in theaters July 6th, 2012.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Director Oliver Stone Talks about the Grow House on the Set of Savages
New Poster for Indie Thriller Home Sweet Home
A new — or at least a different — poster has been released for the indie thriller Home Sweet Home (right; click for larger version). The poster's tagline: "Sometimes you are not welcome." (We get it, but it seems a little weak … though we do like the suspense evoked by the ajar door. The doormat is a bit Halloween-ish, though.)
Alexandra Boylan stars as Gwen Stevens, a lone woman who battles two psychotic squatters for her home … and her life.
Job, parents, money, apartment — Gwen has lost everything. Seeking to regain control of her quickly disintegrating life, Gwen returns to her remote childhood home to sift through her past and focus on finding new direction. Her quest for control is quickly challenged when she discovers that the house that was once her sanctuary is now someone else's domain — and she is not welcome. Two psychotic squatters leave Gwen terrorized, tormented, and far from help. Gwen's retreat devolves into a battle for her home and, ultimately, a desperate fight for her life.
The film is directed by John K. D. Graham from an original screenplay by Andrew Boylan. No release date is given for the film — it appears to us to have been made at least a year or two ago and is almost certainly is destined to be direct to DVD — but a trailer is available on the studio website. (We couldn't find an embeddable version.)
Dead Sexy Books: Dangerously Thrilling Romance!
Dangerously thrilling romance! That is the tagline of the new imprint of Entangled Publishing, Dead Sexy Books.
Two ebook titles are featured in Dead Sexy's launch …
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Anna DeStefano
Remembering will save her life. But will the truth destroy their love forever?
His mission orders: Infiltrate an FBI suspect's mountain retreat and obtain evidence of her guilt Her doctor's orders: Recuperate from a vicious shooting, and end her waking nightmares? What he doesn't know: Is she guilty, innocent, or crazy? Can she ever forgive his past betrayal? What she doesn't know: Anything about herself or her life before the attack...or if she can even trust the man with whom she is falling in love.
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Cynthia Cooke
Family secrets must be kept, and painful wounds must be ignored.
After an all-out assault by a vicious terrorist bent on destroying her entire family, a former government agent must break the strict rules she has always lived by when she emerges from hiding to reluctantly accept the help of her all-too-sexy ex-lover. Running a deadly race against time, they rush to rescue her kidnapped sister, find her missing father, and bring the notorious villain to justice. But nothing ever goes as planned. Bullets fly, danger abounds, and their passion reignites even faster than the lies are flowing. But their stubbornly held secrets just might spell the end of their rekindled love and hopes for the future … as well as their very lives.
Read an excerpt here.
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… with two more coming soon: No Hero by Mallory Kane and Sacrifice of Passion by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez.
Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, Entangled Publishing is an exclusive, boutique publisher of romantic fiction … and now romantic suspense! For more information, visit their website at EntangledPublishing.com.
Today's Bestselling Free Kindle MystereBooks (120615)
Here is today's list of the top bestselling free Kindle mysteries, suspense novels and thrillers.
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New Banner-, Billboard-Sized Posters for Savages
We've previously written about the first poster for Savages, the film adaptation of the crime novel by Don Winslow; the first trailer; three TV spots; and the first of the new "interrogation series" videos with the actors in character.
Today we're seeing new billboard- and banner-sized posters for the film that we wanted to pass along. (Click on the images above right, below for larger versions.)
Directed by Oliver Stone from a screenplay co-written by Stone, Winslow, and Shane Salerno, Savages opens in theaters July 6th, 2012.
If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe as today's sixth free mystery ebook.
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If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder by Liz Wolfe
A Skye Donovan Photographic Mystery
Publisher: Medallion Press
This is the first mystery (of two to date) in this series.
About If It's Not One Thing, It's a Murder (from the publisher): Skye Donovan has a life of structure and predictability after 22 years of marriage. Upon discovering another woman's underwear in her home, she suspects her husband is fooling around. She realizes her suspicions are both right and wrong when she walks in on him — and his boyfriend. Skye now finds herself confronting a new reality — she needs to start life over, find a new job, move to a new place, break the news to her teenage daughter, and worst of all, start dating again. Just when Skye thinks she has her best friend to help her through it all, corpses begin turning up — and that same friend is the prime suspect. To make things worse, she soon finds herself dealing with a handsome detective, a sexy writer, a pagan wedding, an unexpected pregnancy, and a new career. Now, amidst the chaos, she must exonerate her friend before the murderer strikes even closer to home.
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The Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan as today's fifth free mystery ebook.
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The Man with No Time by Timothy Hallinan
A Simeon Grist Mystery
Publisher: Hallinan Consulting
This is the fifth mystery (of six) in this series featuring the Los Angeles private investigator.
About The Man with No Time (from the publisher): Simeon Grist does a favor for the family of his sometimes-girlfriend, Eleanor Chan, and goes looking for two children who vanished in Chinatown. He quickly learns that he's gone straight through the looking glass and into a world where grieving parents are afraid to contact the police, where fear is the teacher and power is the law, where helpless people are shipped from China to America like so many pairs of shoes and forced into lives of toil and submission. He's perilously out of his element, drawn into a back-alley nightmare of tong wars, slavery, and murder — forced to play by rules he doesn't understand for the highest stakes of all.
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Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson as today's fourth free mystery ebook.
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Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson
An Alistair Fitzjohn Mystery
Publisher: Jill Paterson
About Murder at the Rocks (from the publisher): When Laurence Harford, a prominent businessman and philanthropist is found murdered in the historic Rocks area of Sydney, Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation, uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs.
Meanwhile, Laurence’s nephew, Nicholas Harford, has his certainties in life shaken when he becomes a suspect in his uncle’s death, and receives a mysterious gold locket that starts a chain of events unraveling his family’s dark truths.
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Murder Misdirected by Andrew MacRae is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature Murder Misdirected by Andrew MacRae as today's third free mystery ebook.
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Murder Misdirected by Andrew MacRae
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press
About Murder Misdirected (from the publisher): A fortune in diamonds is missing and everyone, including the FBI and an unknown killer, is after them. They're also after The Kid, the professional who picked the pocket of the man last seen carrying the diamonds. The Kid didn't get the diamonds, he didn't even know about them — but he's finding that story hard to sell. His world spirals out of control as everyone he knows becomes either a suspect or the victim of a killer who won't stop until he gets the jewels back.
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London Broil by Barbara Silkstone is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature London Broil by Barbara Silkstone as today's second free mystery ebook.
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London Broil by Barbara Silkstone
A Wendy Darling Comic Mystery
Publisher: Books on the Green
About London Broil (from the publisher): When we last saw Wendy Darling and Roger Jolley, they’d recovered twelve of the thirteen Egyptian icons stolen from the British Museum. Wendy, Miami Realtor and part-time Tomb Raider, is now in a frantic race against time and a murderer as she searches for the last Lost Boy hidden somewhere in London while a killer heat wave invades the city.
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While You Were Dead by C. J. Snyder is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature While You Were Dead by C. J. Snyder as today's free mystery ebook.
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While You Were Dead by C. J. Snyder
A Black Fire Thriller
Publisher: CreateSpace
About While You Were Dead (from the publisher): Lies have consequences …
Twelve years ago, Max Crayton had no choices. Honor bound to hunt a traitor, the government declared him dead to the outside world. He completed his mission, but lost the only woman he ever loved and a child he never knew existed.
And so does breaking a woman’s heart …
Max was her life, her very heartbeat. After his death, alone and haunted by a dangerous past, Kat Jannsen made the ultimate sacrifice to keep their daughter safe.
When Kat discovers Max is alive her carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle life is torn to pieces. But an old enemy has been watching … waiting to strike. As the danger mounts, she has nowhere to turn but to Max. She can trust him with her life, but does she dare trust him with her heart?
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Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending June 15, 2012
A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending June 15th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
Last week's highest placing new title, the stand-alone thriller Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, takes over the top spot this week.
Three new titles debut.
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New at number 9 is the spy thriller Mission to Paris by Alan Furst.
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he's coming — a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France's will to defend herself.
For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don't know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris.
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One spot lower is the first in a new series, The Third Gate by Lincoln Child.
Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to believe that the greatest prize of all — Narmer's crown — might be buried with him. No crown of an Egyptian king has ever been discovered, and Narmer's is the elusive “double” crown of the two Egypts, supposedly possessed of awesome powers.
The dig itself is located in one of the most forbidding places on earth — the Sudd, a nearly impassable swamp in northern Sudan. Amid the nightmarish, disorienting tangle of mud and dead vegetation, a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse. With a monumental discovery in reach, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto the project to investigate. What he finds will raise new questions … and alarm.
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The third newcomer to the list at number 12 is XO, the third Kathryn Dance mystery by Jeffery Deaver.
Country-pop ingénue Kayleigh Towne's career is just reaching new heights with her huge hit single "Your Shadow" — but increased fame is also bringing unwanted attention. An innocent exchange with one of her fans, signed with an "XO", leads Kayleigh into the dangerous and terrifying realm of obsession.
Edwin Sharp thinks Kayleigh's songs contain messages that speak directly to him. Despite her clear rejection and threats from lawyers and law enforcers, he remains convinced that "Your Shadow" was written just for him, and he announces he's coming for Kayleigh. Then a potentially fatal accident occurs at the concert hall where Kayleigh is rehearsing for a triumphant hometown performance, and she is convinced that someone — maybe Edwin — was there watching her from the darkness.
True to his word, Edwin Sharp soon makes an ominous appearance in town, and California Bureau of Investigation Agent Kathryn Dance, a friend and fan of Kayleigh's on vacation in Fresno to attend the show, intervenes on her behalf, drawing Sharp's frightening attention to herself. That night a member of the road crew whom Kayleigh had once dated is murdered in an eerie echo of an image from her chart-topping song. As more deaths loom on the horizon, Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body-language analysis to stop the stalker and save more innocent victims. But before long she learns that, like many celebrities, Kayleigh has more than one fan with a mission …
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