Phillip Carlo

A Colorado jury sentenced movie rampage gunman James Holmes to life in prison on Friday, rejecting the death penalty for the 27-year-old who entered a midnight showing of a Batman film wearing a gas mask, helmet and body armour and shot dead a dozen people.

Mickey Rourke has been roped in to star in a movie adaptation of Philip Carlo's mafia book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer.

A Colorado jury sentenced movie rampage gunman James Holmes to life in prison on Friday, rejecting the death penalty for the 27-year-old who entered a midnight showing of a Batman film wearing a gas mask, helmet and body armour and shot dead a dozen people.

Mickey Rourke has been roped in to star in a movie adaptation of Philip Carlo's mafia book The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer.