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06/12/2024
🚨Some more coverage of our Hagler film project, based on my upcoming book! Super excited to get to work with Sam and his team! 🥊🎬🎥🎞 Contactmusic.com Hamilcar Publications
Sam Rockwell is developing a film about the late boxing legend Marvin Hagler - who reigned as undisputed middleweight world champion during the 1980s.
06/11/2024
Rockwell is producing via his Play Hooky Productions — and is eying the role of one of the Petronelli brothers, who served as Hagler’s manager and trainers.
06/01/2024
A Murder in Hollywood, nominated for Book of the Year at tonight's Clue Awards in Nashville.
05/14/2024
🚨June 13 we will finally be unveiling an incredible statue honoring the great Marvelous Marvin Hagler in downtown Brockton. Marvin was an icon and I'm looking forward to helping celebrate his legacy! And as this story mentions, I'm currently writing a book about Marvin's early years. The book will be out next spring! If you have a story to share, feel free to message me! 🥊 City of Brockton The Enterprise of Brockton
If you're a fan of boxing, Brockton or both, mark June 13 on your calendar.
12/22/2023
Christmas comes early. My new true crime thriller, #16 in the Casey Sherman canon, was delivered by my publisher today. The hardcover looks amazing. The book chronicles the collision course between mobsters and movie stars in classic Hollywood; Lana Turner, Bugsy Siegel, Judy Garland, Mickey Cohen, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Stompanato, Sean Connery, et al. Thanks to my great team at Sourcebooks! A Murder in Hollywood will be available worldwide on Feb 13th with a national book tour to follow - LA, Houston, NYC and across New England. Thanks all for the continued suppport and friendship! I think you'll enjoy this one, which is already in development as a major motion picture with Terence Winter (Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) writing & producing.
Dave Wedge will pen the definitive tale of middleweight boxing champ Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a new book for Hamilcar Publications.
12/04/2023
🇫🇮🇫🇮My latest bestseller ‘Riding with Evil,’ has been released in Finland! Pretty cool to see my work translated into other languages. Been quite a journey with my co-author Ken Croke. We’ve got some stuff cooking on the 🎬📽️ front - more soon!! 🇫🇮🇫🇮 Johnny Kniga
11/21/2023
Two years-plus in and still one of the top books in America! Soon to be a major motion picture - stay tuned for news soon!! William Morrow 🏍️🤘🏻🔥🎥🎬📽️🎞️📚
03/27/2023
Casey and Dave will be hosting a special event Sun, April 16 as part of the Hamptons Whodunit Fesitval! More info and tickets here - https://www.hamptonswhodunit.com/ Casey Sherman Dave Wedge Hamptons Mystery and Crime Festival
We speak with author Casey Sherman about his book 'Helltown' on Tony Costa's murderous rampage in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1969.
07/08/2022
New England Cable News (NECN) & NBC10 Boston will be launching my new crime thriller Helltown on 7-12 at 2pm on FB Live. Hope you'll join! - I grew up on Cape Cod and Provincetown exists as its own island on the tip of the Cape. There's really no place else like it. It's a burst of light that draws artists and eclectics from around the world but there's also darkness here. The name Helltown comes from the fact that the place was once an enclave for pirates and other renegades in the 1700's. Their ghosts permeate Provincetown to this day.
The setting is 1969. It's a year of reckoning for America.
The summer of love is a distant memory and overshadowed by the assassinations of RFK and MLK, a raging war in Vietnam and the bloody violence of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Woven into the historical landscape of Helltown we have Nixon's inauguration, Chappaquiddick, the moon landing and the Manson murders. The characters have both direct and tangential connections with all of these major events. I look at 2022 the same way that I look at 1969. There has been a huge cultural and political shift in our country. We are living in a dangerous time where darkness is overshadowing light.
I've worked as an Investigative journalist for 25 years. I've covered more than 50 homicides and had access to more than 2,000 documents and crime scene photos in this case. In my opinion, this was the worst serial murder case since Jack The Ripper.
06/25/2022
Everyone is getting excited about our special event this Saturday 12-2 with bestselling author Dave Wedge!!
06/02/2022
The cameras roll as Casey Sherman discusses his new crime thriller Helltown with Chronicle reporter Erika Tarantal. His explosive new thriller goes on sale 7/12/22.
Casey Sherman's new release, 'Helltown', brings Tony Costa’s “Garden of Horrors” to terrifying life.
05/17/2022
Casey Sherman's going LA Noir for his next true crime thriller announced today!
05/01/2022
The Official Trailer for Casey Sherman's next epic crime thriller HELLTOWN debuts here along with a coveted Starred Review in the new edition of Booklist.
"Cape Cod is a place of mutable beauty with a stormy history anchored to a rough and rowdy settlement known as Helltown, undergirding Provincetown. Journalist and best-selling author Sherman grew up on Cape Cod, and now exhumes the full, horrifying story of serial killer Tony Costa’s grotesque 1969 rampage. A charismatic drug dealer and user, Costa attracted young disciples and easily reeled in the gentle women he murdered. Sherman portrays Costa with ferocious intimacy, tracking his every move and channeling the inner voice that propelled his macabre acts. Sherman also illuminates the minds and lives of two Cape Cod writers and fathers—one flamboyantly pugnacious and famous, the other brooding and still struggling—who were galvanized by the killings, mixing avidly researched facts with what he calls “elements of fictional storytelling” to portray Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut to vivid effect. Sherman incisively aligns the shocking Cape Cod killings with the even more diabolical violence of Charles Manson and his followers, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, the Apollo 11 mission, and the tragic scandal of Chappaquiddick. Readers will not soon forget Sherman’s gripping and elucidating web of true crime and literary history tracing the personal, communal, political, and artistic repercussions of gruesome killings during a time of indelible ferment. "
— Donna Seaman
Helltown goes on sale everywhere on 7-12-22.
04/22/2022
04/22/2022
Spectacular night The Wilbur for Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers Live!!! Thx cast and crew!! Muddhouse Media MediaBoss
04/21/2022
Fort Point Media brought our acclaimed podcast to the historic Wilbur Theatre stage last night in a joint production with MuddHouse Media and Media Boss. An epic collaboration with a hugely talented cast and crew performing some of the darkest stories of our time. Here are some memories collected by our troupe including the cast party at the Revere Hotel!
04/09/2022
Boston, Ma. - New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Authors Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge will bring their hit true crime podcast Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers to Boston’s historic Wilbur Theatre on Wednesday April 20, 2022 at 7:30 PM.
The Live Show is an immersive multi-sensory storytelling experience starring Sherman & Wedge and featuring an ensemble cast who will perform explosive scenes from their bestselling true crime thrillers including Search for the (Boston) Strangler, Hunting Wh**ey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss, Bad Blood: Freedom & Death in the White Mountains, and James Patterson’s The Last Days of John Lennon.
“The Boston theater scene has never experienced a show as intense as this one,” said creators Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. “We’re bringing Wh**ey Bulger, Albert DeSalvo, and even the great John Lennon to the stage. We’re taking the audience on a thrill ride through our deep investigations into some of the most notorious crimes in American history.”
The Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers Live cast will feature Patty O’Neil (Stronger), David Pridemore (The Finest Hours & The Tender Bar), Alison Wachtler (Chappaquiddick), Mike Southworth (Same Kind of Different as Me), Gary Tanguay (Don’t Look Up, Knives Out, I Care A Lot, Bleed for This), Alecia Batson (Moonrise Kingdom), Leah Procito (Spencer Confidential), (Michael Maggiani (The Folklorist), Jon M. Merz (The Cars that Made Us), Arthur Hiou (Vault), Donny St. John (Patriots Day), Jay Street (The Finest Hours), Lin Hult (Free Guy), Keith Rosary (Wings), Patrick Languzzi (The Families Feud), Paul Kandarian (The Food that Built America), Russ Gannon (Dexter: New Blood), Mihaela Kolich (36 Saints), Christine Mone, Cals Finglas, Steve Lattimer, Dan Williamson, John Lucas, and Frank Capolino. The live performance will be directed by Ian Barrett (Godsmack’s, Come Together) and co-produced by Kris Meyer (The Do-Over, SuperTroopers 2 and the Emmy Nominated Luis Tiant documentary,The Lost Son of Havana), Mark Carey (Muddhouse Media) and Mike Gioscia (Muddhouse Media) with music performed by Chris Spagone.
“This is a totally unique show. Get a glimpse into our fascination of the unthinkable as Sherman & Wedge share their intimate and authentic journey into life’s macabre underworld!,” said producer Kris Meyer.
Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers LIVE is a joint production between Fort Point Media, MuddHouse Media, and Media Boss.
Additional crew includes Brenda McNally (Ghostbusters, The Heat), Annie Powell (Muddhouse Media), & Nicholas Franco (Fort Point Media)
Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, a hermit, a landowner, and town officials clashed over a small piece of forest near the Merrimack River. It ended in the most unexpected way.
11/24/2021
Our latest episode of our podcast Saints & Sinners available to download FREE here. It's the ultimate cold-case investigation that dates back more than 300 years, and I’m honored to be playing an active role in solving one of the great mysteries of our time - identifying the remains of six lost men recently found in the underwater wreckage of the infamous Pirate Ship - The Whydah in the waters off Cape Cod. Visit the Whydah Pirate Museum and see for yourself! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saints-sinners-serial-killers-episode-12-season-2-the/id1557927085?i=1000542930463
Foreign Edition Thursday. My Cold War epic Above & Beyond debuts in Romania today and we are already the #1 Bestselling book there. Love getting published in languages I can't read. It's an incredible feeling though to see my body of work now available in more than 80 countries around the Globe.
11/11/2021
Our latest podcast episode is now available - We interview actor & author Michael Imperioli about the Sopranos universe! What does he think happened to Tony in the final episode? How did he almost kill James Gandofini on the first day of filming? What was it like to "attack" Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall? and How did the iconic "Spider" scene in Goodfellas come about? "Christoper Moltisanti" answers all these questions and more. Download and subscribe to Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers for FREE right here. https://podcasts.apple.com/.../saints.../id1557927085
11/07/2021
GIVEAWAY - In honor of our latest epic spending its fifth straight week - and rising - on The New York Times Books bestseller list, I’m giving away two signed copies!! The first two fans to DM will win! Happy Sunday - and please download and follow our podcast Saints, Sinners & Serial Killers! Muddhouse Media
11/07/2021
Celebrating 5 straight weeks on the NY Times Bestseller List for our collaboration with James Patterson.
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The Official Trailer for Casey Sherman's next epic crime thriller HELLTOWN debuts here along with a coveted Starred Review in the new edition of Booklist.
"Cape Cod is a place of mutable beauty with a stormy history anchored to a rough and rowdy settlement known as Helltown, undergirding Provincetown. Journalist and best-selling author Sherman grew up on Cape Cod, and now exhumes the full, horrifying story of serial killer Tony Costa’s grotesque 1969 rampage. A charismatic drug dealer and user, Costa attracted young disciples and easily reeled in the gentle women he murdered. Sherman portrays Costa with ferocious intimacy, tracking his every move and channeling the inner voice that propelled his macabre acts. Sherman also illuminates the minds and lives of two Cape Cod writers and fathers—one flamboyantly pugnacious and famous, the other brooding and still struggling—who were galvanized by the killings, mixing avidly researched facts with what he calls “elements of fictional storytelling” to portray Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut to vivid effect. Sherman incisively aligns the shocking Cape Cod killings with the even more diabolical violence of Charles Manson and his followers, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, the Apollo 11 mission, and the tragic scandal of Chappaquiddick. Readers will not soon forget Sherman’s gripping and elucidating web of true crime and literary history tracing the personal, communal, political, and artistic repercussions of gruesome killings during a time of indelible ferment. "
— Donna Seaman
Helltown goes on sale everywhere on 7-12-22.
New York Times bestselling authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, one of the premier non-fiction writing teams in the industry, founded film/TV/streaming production company Fort Point Media in 2018.
Together, they co-wrote the definitive story of the Boston Marathon bombings in “Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy,” which was adapted for the 2017 Mark Wahlberg film “Patriots Day.” They also wrote “Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS,” which is in development as a Netflix feature film, with Sherman and Wedge attached as producers. They also wrote the 2018 New York Times bestseller, “12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption,” which is in development as a feature film with the producers/writers of “The Fighter,” “Patriots Day,” and “The Finest Hours.” Sherman co-wrote “The Finest Hours” book, which was the basis of the hit Disney film starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.
Fort Point Media has several projects in various stages of development, including “Ice Bucket Challenge,” “12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption,” “Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Extreme Skier Doug Coombs,” and “Thatcher Island,” a thriller based on Sherman’s 2014 book, “Animal.”
“Thatcher Island” is in development at 20th Century Fox with the team behind “BlacKkKlansman,” while “Tracking the Wild Coomba” is in development with Outside Studios, the driving force behind such hit films as “127 Hours,” “Everest,” “Into the Wild,” and “The Perfect Storm,” among others.
Sherman has written 10 books and is a veteran investigative TV producer and journalist who has written for Esquire, FoxNews.com, Huffington Post and more. Wedge was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Boston Herald who has also written for VICE, Esquire, Newsweek and Boston magazine.
Sherman, Wedge and Fort Point Media are represented by the Gotham Group.