Akazora

That's the case for pretty much all the movies except movie 5. That was one of the best movies in my opinion, and it was because every character got a taste of romance, the BO was smartly involved, and the murder was a good one. Unfortunately, as you said early on in that post, only recently have the movies started to over do things. I'm betting and hoping that M-15 has actually a good and dramatic ShinRan scene that really finishes off the movie well (M-1, M-2, M-3 at the very end, and most definitely M-4). I just think the directors and producers of the movies are running out of ideas. Though I'm curious to see how a soccer field would play into a movie, I'm just hoping they can make a decent movie out of the idea. The safe bet would be to use bombs (heck, they used it for a state of the art cruise, so who said the bad guy couldn't smuggle it into a soccer stadium?), but I really don't know how a murder would tie in. Maybe murders related to soccer players and then a final climactic scene at the soccer stadium? Maybe something along the lines of M-12? Or it could be a boring M-1 style movie where there's just someone with a grudge against Shinishi and soccer trying to blow up a whole stadium! It could be another BO, Kaito Kid, or Heiji movie for all we know as of now! There won't be any new things to speculate on until the preview comes out soon after M-15 is translated, but even then, we'd probably have to wait until December for a promotional poster, then the title, then the official movie poster, then the 30 second to 1 minute long preview, and then finally the long awaited 1 minute 30 second long trailer. We still have a long time to wait. Meanwhile, I'll just be trying to make the most out of freshman year and wait patiently.

Chekhov and AJ M. have already got this in the bag. Now it's really only a question of whether or not something will happen between Chiba and Miike.

But I'm guessing big ShinRan fans find it a lot more moving or exciting when you throw in some Shinichi and Ran flashbacks and whatnot. They don't care whether or not it's canon, as long as they have it.

Just read it, not much of a mystery has developed (at least, nothing to speculate on yet) and the Chiba and Miike action isn't all too hot yet. We'll have to wait another chapter to see something possibly a tad bit more exciting.