Reel Talks with Casey Sherman

Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.

Casey Sherman, A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, Film Connoisseur

Casey Sherman is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today & Boston Globe Bestselling Author of 17 books including The Finest Hours (now a major Walt Disney Studio motion picture starring Chris Pine & Casey Affleck), and Patriots Day (now an acclaimed motion picture from CBS Films starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon). Sherman’s 2023 true crime bestseller Helltown, is now in development as a limited television series for Amazon Studio. Sherman will serve as Executive Producer on the project, which is slated to star Oscar Isaac (Dune), with director Edward Berger (Netflix – All is Quiet on the Western Front), and produced by Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr. & Susan Downey - HBO’s Perry Mason). Sherman’s other books include James Patterson’s The Last Days of John Lennon, which spent more than 23 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption, and Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of The Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss. Sherman has appeared on more than 100 television and radio programs and is a contributing writer for TIME Magazine, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Boston Magazine and the Boston Herald. 

Scott Adlerberg is the author of the novels Spiders and Flies, Jungle Horses, Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads, Mystery Tribune, and Criminal Element.  Every summer, he hosts the Reel Talks film commentary series in Bryant Park in Manhattan.  He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.