Wes Anderson heads to Europe for the first time with this Indian Paintbrush production starring Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, and Jude Law. Gustav H., the famous concierge at a legendary hotel situated in the Alps during the 1930’s becomes the center of a farcical whirlwind of suspicion when one of his institution’s oldest and richest patrons turns up dead, and she suspiciously leaves him her most priceless work of art — a Renaissance painting of a boy with an apple. Infuriated that she left anything of value to anyone else, the woman’s greedy and nefarious heir uses all manner of underhanded and illegal tactics to pin her death on Gustav and to silence anyone who questions his objective of inheriting every penny of her estate, leaving Gustav’s trusted lobby boy Zero to clear Gustav’s name.

By now we all know the meteoric levels of popularity that Fifty Shades of Grey has reached, but did you know that Fifty Shades of Grey originated as Twilight fan fiction? It was originally called Master of the Universe and was published on the Twilight fansite. After it was deemed too “sexual” in nature, it was removed from the site by the author, E L James and was expanded and reworked into the first of the trilogy it would eventually become. The attraction to the book series has always been the intense level of eroticism — dubbed “Mummy Porn” – supposedly improving the sex lives of thousands of married women across the country, and bringing BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) into the mainstream of erotic fiction. With the adaptation of the book to the silver screen, producer Michael De Luca insisted that the film version is going to weigh more heavily towards “eroticism” as opposed to “explicit.”  De Luca was quoted as saying, “We’re going to give them what they expect, which is an intense and erotic love story, obviously the film can’t be as explicit as the book. A picture is worth a 1000 words. So to be erotic onscreen means I think an image is going to have way more power than reading the words on a page.”

The Focus Features pic is set to be released on February 13, 2015.

Actor Rob Lowe will star in and executive produce a pilot  for single-camera comedy The Pro, which will air on NBC. Lowe made a development deal with NBC last summer when he was finalizing his upcoming exit from Parks And Recreation. In The Pro Lowe plays a former tennis doubles champion — “Big Ben” Bertrahm — whose career flame-out and misguided investments have left him working as the pro at a tennis and golf club. He tries to hustle and charm his way back into America’s 1% at the club.

HBO’s eight-episode series, True Detective, stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana state police detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart. The two are partnered up in the mid-1990s on what appears to be an occult-themed serial killer case. True Detective toggles between 1995 and modern day as two contemporary detectives reopen the case of almost 20 years beforehand. An eight-episode anthology franchise similar to American Horror Story, in which each season spins a different yarn with a different cast.

The show is the creation of crime writer Nic Pizzolatto, and the first work in television for Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director of Sin Nombre and Jane Eyre. Together, they have built a fluid, many-layered narrative that’s as intimate as a confession and as sinister as a nightmare. True Detective isn’t just one more roll in the anti-hero mir, it’s a show about meaningful themes — lots of chatter about history, memory, identity, religion, time, death, futility–while also being about two men (and a culture) afflicted with meaninglessness.

“I can’t imagine anyone playing that part better,” said Harrelson of McConaughey. “It was different than any other part I’ve seen him play before, and he knocked it out of the park.”