
A shout-out to longtime Globe reporter Stephen Kurkjian, whose book, “Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist,” is being brought to the big screen by TriStar Pictures. Deadline.com reports that Matt Tolmach, a producer whose credits include “The Amazing Spider-Man,” is on board to produce the film based on Kurkjian’s account of the 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.