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 This CCCC-up update (where KM UK reports on the careers of the other key players from the long running show) was looking like it could be shorter than most but Tracie has come through for us yet again! Phew!
The big news for Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) is that she will be starring in a big screen version of the musical Annie for big studio Sony Pictures. Lots of other big names are involved with a cast that includes Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained), Cameron Diaz (There’s Something About Mary), Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), and Rose Byrne (Damages). Husband and wife team Will and Jada Smith are producing it through their own Overbrook Entertainment along with Mr Beyonce, Jay-Z, who is unsurprisingly involved with the music too. Dorian Missic (Southland) and Tracie will be playing Annie’s fake parents. Annie herself will be the wonderfully named Quvenzhané Wallis who shot to fame in Beasts Of The Southern Wild and can currently be seen in 12 Years A Slave. Last week the women fighting for their lives film Raze, which stars Tracie, Zoe Bell (Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire), Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: Rise Of The Cobra), and Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) finally got a première showing in LA at the SpectreFest event. On a slightly different tack the cult favourite TV show Wonderfalls from 2004 gets a proper full series DVD release in the UK today, years after America. It’s HERE on Amazon UK (other DVD retailers are available). It was one of Tracie’s earliest roles.
A trailer has been released for the movie Death Valley, starring Jeremy Ratchford (Nick Vera in CC). You can see the video, which is not for the squeamish or sensitive, on the official website HERE. Following on from last week’s theme of our CC cast not appearing in trailers for films that they are in, Jeremy is not even glimpsed in any of the 97 seconds the video runs for. The trailer reveals Death Valley to be a stark warning against the perils of drinking and driving. Take an old car and liquor into the desert with your friends for a good time and it is just inevitable that a scantily-clad woman will come running at you brandishing a gun and ending up dead. That’s what happens right? It’s what all the public information films and parents warn you about! Remember kids: don’t drink and drive! The cast list on the official site has Jeremy’s character named as Lucas Kern. I’m assuming that is a small typo. As I’ve previously reported the IMDb version Lucas Shore was likely wrong as a production still of Jeremy in a patrolman’s uniform included a name badge with “Kerns” on it. At the time of writing is no sign yet of a release date for Death Valley, which also stars Katrina Law (Spartacus), Lochlyn Munro (Scary Movie), Victoria Pratt (Mutant X), Nick Tarabay (Spartacus) and Kelly Hu (guest star in nearly every TV show ever!).
 We’ll start a little further afield than normal for this, the September 2013 edition of KM UK’s Cold Case Cast Catch-up. In each CCCC-up we take look at the on-going careers of the other key players from the long running show.
I’ve got good news and bad news (you probably know both already though). Which do you want to hear first? “Bad” you say? OK.
The AMC television network in the USA has cancelled The Killing. Based on a Danish drama series of the same name (but in Danish as Forbrydelsen) the show was Veena Sud’s project after Cold Case. Veena was a writer, producer and executive producer on CC and continued in those roles on The Killing. I know you will correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe that the US version was a direct remake in the way that some are. The American audience figures for the localised season one started strongly but viewers reacted badly to the way it ended. The second season largely redeemed itself but the show only just escaped cancellation. It sounds like season 3 was something of a disappointment. Lead actress Mireille Enos had small roles in many TV shows, Cold Case being one of the few she missed out, but The Killing really brought her to the fore. Enos went on to star in the Brad Pitt movie World War Z (she played his wife and only a select few have had that honour) and has several other film projects in the pipeline. Unless another US network or online streaming service like NetFlix steps up and saves The Killing it will be one of the more easily solvable cases.
Now on to the good news. Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm’s next project was Homeland which she co-produced at various levels and also wrote several episodes. Homeland is about to start its 3rd season in the US of A this coming Sunday (29th September) with the UK debut the following week (6th October). But that is not the good news we’re reporting today. Meredith’s more recent show is The Bridge. This is another of the wave of Scandanavian dramas being shown and/or remade around the world. The Bridge is actually a literal cross-border project in its original form as it is a Swedish and Danish co-production set around a crime in both countries. A body is found lying on the boundary between the two countries, with the added twist the name suggests that that line is in the middle of a bridge joining the two nations. Cops from both sides have to co-operate to solve the case. The US remake takes the same idea but transposes it to the US-Mexico border. German actress Diane Kruger (National Treasure) takes a lead role. None of which is good news either. In the last couple of days, just before the penultimate episode of season one was due to air, the FX channel that carries The Bridge announced it had been renewed for a second run.
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 Somehow I don’t think a mention here is going to cut it as a consolation prize.
Last time out in our CCCC-up we mentioned the possibility of Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) winning an Imagen Award. The event took place a couple of weeks ago and, sadly, neither Danny nor his new show Law & Order: SVU took away any silverware. Castle took the best TV show award and one it stars, Jon Huertas (who plays Javier Esposito), got the nod for best television actor, the category that Danny was in. Monica Raymund of Chicago Fire won for best television actress. Danny is currently filming for the 15th season of L&O:SVU. The first episode is less than a month away as it is due to première on September 25th.
Around the time that Danny was preparing his acceptance speech/just happy to be nominated face, the trailer for the movie McCanick starring Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) was released. This garnered a lot of attention as the film is one of the last projects starring Cory Monteith, most famous for his role on the TV show Glee. Cory died just a month prior to that news. McCanick will premiere at the Toronto Internation Film Festival (TIFF) in early September. Making it doubly poignant, another of Cory films, All The Wrong Reasons, will be first aired at TIFF the day before McCanick. David Morse (The Green Mile) is the titular cop. Rachel Nichols (Resurrecting The Champ, which starred Kathryn) and Ciarán Hinds (Game Of Thrones) also star. Producer/director Josh C. Waller did the same things for Tracie’s other movies of 2013: Raze. The trailer for McCanick can be seen on YouTube HERE.
A last minute addition. Yesterday (28th August), Tracie took part in a special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the mass march on Washington that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech. Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) is directing a “developmental reading” of Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, a play by Michael Benjamin. The event, that took pace at La Jolla Playhouse, California, was not open to the public.
Since starting these regular CCCC-up updates it is clear that one person tends to dominate them: Tracie. The sheer number of differing projects she takes on, especially compared to her fellow Cold Case alumni, makes it unavoidable.
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in Cold Case), or as we’re going to call her this month, the Award Winning Tracie (AW… T  ) has been a busy girl again. She started the July with a trip to Aruba in the Caribbean. It’s a tough life. She was there with actress and stunt performer Zoë Bell (Alias and Django Unchained) promote the Raze movie that seems to have been around for so long now without an actual release. Zoe will be known to some of you, even if you don’t realise it, as Xena: Warrior Princess. Zoë was the stunt double for Lucy Lawless. This means that Zoë worked with Kathryn during her two episodes as Najara. Zoë and AWT spent an evening on a beach in Aruba giving stunt lessons to festival attendees. A chance to get their own back at some film critics me thinks
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 As tempting as it is to let this drift into next month I think we’ll squeeze in a quick one before June ends.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) has been nominated for a 2013 Imagen Award it was announced last week. The Imagens honour Latino actors and the portrayal of Latinos and their culture in film and television. Danny is nominated in the Best Television Actor category for his role in Law & Order: SVU. He is up against Benjamin Bratt (Private Practice), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal) and Jon Huertas (Castle). Danny has been nominated 3 times previously for an Imagen, each time for his work on Cold Case, and in 2010 he won. Fingers crossed for Danny. L&O:SVU will be returning to American TV screens on the 25th of September 2013 for the début episode of the 15th season.
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on Cold Case) on the other hand has been treading the boards and winning an award, and that was just one weekend in her ever busy life. I don’t know how she does it. I’m tired just typing this! Tracie took part in another 24 hour play event starting the creative process on Friday and performing the resulting 6 short plays on Saturday, all in aid of the Urban Arts Partnership. The cast of 24 actors including Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and John Cho (Star Trek) worked with 6 writers, 6 directors and production crews to create the half dozen 10 minutes plays from scratch in just 24 hours. Well done everyone. That’s the boards, what about the award? A short film called A Different Tree, starring Tracie won an American Black Film Festival Award. The short was in a line up of 5 films in a category sponsored by TV network HBO. Congratulations to all involved. As mentioned in the last CCCC-up Tracie will be performing her “Seasons” show on the 28th and 29th of July (a Sunday and Monday) at the Rockwell in LA. Yesterday she announced she will have Wayne Brady as her special guest. Wayne will be best known to us on this side of “the pond” as a regular in the British original version of the comedy improvising TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? back in the the late 1990s.
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