The rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ “Mike Hammer” franchise have been acquired by Skydance, an insider with knowledge of the project said Wednesday.

In my last On Crime column, I interviewed Max Allan Collins, the co-author of “Spillane: The King of Pulp Fiction,” a fine biography of the late crime writer Mickey Spillane.

I read “I, the Jury” when I was a preteen and was much taken with the bold crime novel, especially the shocking ending. Those early Mickey Spillane novels left an indelible impression on this ...

An author recalls an interview he conducted with Mickey Spillane, who would have been 100 years old this month.

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, but thanks to a fan and fellow novelist who is editing and completing his unfinished works, his estate continues to release new books under his name.

When he wasn’t writing best-sellers, Mickey Spillane was driving race cars, diving for treasure, working undercover with cops, chasing moonshiners and being shot out of a cannon for the Clyde ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Coyness is not part of Chris Christie's repertoire, which does not stress subtlety, delicacy and intimation. New Jersey's governor is more Mickey Spillane than Jane Austen and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the feature film rights to the Mickey Spillane series of mystery novels featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. The deal is a co-production between Film 360 ...

And so began Mickey Spillane's virgin murder mystery. Published in 1947, it was the first of a dozen dark thrillers about the hard-boiled detective Hammer.

Mickey Spillane considered himself a "writer" as opposed to an "author," defining a writer as someone whose books sell. "This is an income-generating job," he told The Associated Press during a 200… ...

Mickey Spillane, whose Mike Hammer private-eye novels generated a post-World War II storm of literary criticism for their sex and violence and made him one of the best-selling authors of the 20th ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88. Spillane's death ...