Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, Neon has released the teaser-trailer for Michael Mann’s Adam Driver-led Enzo Ferarri biopic Ferarri, which you can race to the bottom of the post to watch now… Ferrari has been adapted by Mann and the late Troy Kennedy-Martin from Brock Yate’s 1991 biography Enzo […]
Michael Mann says he wants Adam Driver for Neil McCauley in Heat 2
Earlier in the year it was reported that Michael Mann was looking to adapt his New York Times Best-Seller Heat 2 for the big-screen, and that Adam Driver had been in discussions to play the younger version of Robert De Niro’s iconic L.A. criminal, Neil McCauley. Well, now that the 80-year old director is parking […]
Manhunter: Michael Mann’s slippery, enduring masterpiece revisited
A commercial flop at the time of release, the film that introduced moviegoers to Hannibal Lecter has since earned deserved plaudits. George Nash takes a look at its impact three decades on… Manhunter, director Michael Mann’s 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling novel Red Dragon, is a film about transformations. Like The Silence of the […]
Michael Mann in talks with Adam Driver to play a young Robert De Niro in Heat 2
Once Michael Mann has parked his Adam Driver-led Enzo Ferrari biopic, he hopes to convince the actor to play a young Neil McCauley in his sequel to revered 1995 crime-epic Heat. Deadline reports that Heat 2 is starting to gain some real traction at Warner Bros. and that Mann wants to adapt the New York […]
First look at Adam Driver in Michael Mann’s Ferrari
We now have our first official look at Adam Driver as former race car driver and automobile designer Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann’s upcoming biopic Ferrari. Ferrari takes place in the summer of 1957 and follows the ex-racecar driver as “bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. […]
James Caan’s Finest Hour: Thief
We look back at the iconic work of the late, great James Caan and take a deep dive into the underrated neo-noir masterpiece Thief, with Caan at his fiery, mesmeric best… The sad news has broken. Another cinematic icon has left us, leaving behind an awe inspiring legacy. James Caan for a time, was synonymous […]
The year Heat was criminally overlooked by the Oscars
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Oscars in 1996, when Heat was criminally overlooked by the Academy… The year was 1996, which looked back over the films of the previous year. It was a fairly strong year, and like a lot of the nomination lists throughout that decade there are some oddities. There are also […]
Ansel Elgort descends into the Japanese underworld in trailer for HBO Max series Tokyo Vice
HBO Max has released a poster and trailer for the crime drama Tokyo Vice. Loosely based on Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan and with a pilot directed by Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat), the series stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Ella Rumpf, […]
Michael Mann enlists Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley for Ferrari
After two decades of development and a false start in 2017, it looks like Heat director Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic is inching further towards the start line with the news that Adam Driver (House of Gucci), Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) have been cast in the long-gestating project. The […]
Mann, Refn and the Safdies: Mastering Neo-Noir
Tom Jolliffe looks at a few examples of classic neo-noirs… Dark tales in rain sodden streets with the glistening neons of a big City. There comes that inevitable moment. A wrong choice, the self-destructive move to an inescapable corner. The neo-noir, the resurrection of the classic film noir genre that typified much of 30’s-50’s cinema. […]
