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Spoilers May Be Below!
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Spoilers May Be Below!
From Fremde7 posted at IMDB - she found the following flyer posted in the lobby of her building on April 5th:
Quoted from the flier:" 'No Parking' signs will be posted on the following streets starting at 6:00am on Sunday April 6th through 9:00pm Tuesday, April 8th.
Both sides of Stolp Ave from E. New York St. to Downer Pl.
Both sides of Galena Blvd. from Stolp Ave. to Broadway
West side of Water from Benton to ClarkPlease call the Illinois Film Office with questions about this production at 312-814-3600"
This should give you a good indication of where they will be filming on April 6th
From Playbill
Crudup Is Hoover in Crime Drama "Public Enemies"
By Adam Hetrick
04 Apr 2008Tony Award winner Billy Crudup will co-star with Johnny Depp in the upcoming crime drama "Public Enemies" for Universal Pictures.
According to Variety, Crudup has been cast as divisive former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with "Sweeney Todd" star Depp set to portray gangster John Dillinger. Academy Award-winning "La Vie en Rose" actress Marion Cotillard is confirmed for the role of Dillinger's lover, Billie Frechette.
Tony nominee Stephen Lang (The Speed of Darkness) has signed on as retired Texas Ranger Charles Winstead. "Public Enemies" will also feature the previously announced Christian Bale as FBI agent Melvin Purvis and Giovanni Ribisi as gangster Alvin Karpis.
Michael Mann, director of "Last of the Mohicans," is currently shooting the film that is eyeing a 2009 release.
Crudup earned a 2007 Tony Award for The Coast of Utopia. His stage credits include Tony-nominated performances in The Pillowman and The Elephant Man as well as appearances in The Three Sisters, Bus Stop and Arcadia. Crudup has appeared in the films "The Good Shepherd," "Big Fish," "Almost Famous" and "Inventing the Abbotts."
New photos of Johnny driving (in character) from AnaMaria & Bonnie on JDZ
From HollywoodlandChicago
Photos are there showing filming locations.
More photos from this person’s gallery can be found here. The person who took these submitted the accompanying text on April 1, 2008 at IMDb:Here’s a link to pictures I’ve taken over the past couple days (including tonight). All of these are from the filming taking place at Clark/Newport in Wrigleyville. They’ve created a “shantytown” under the L tracks and have laid down some surfacing that makes parts of Newport Ave look like the street is brick. They have also placed a large ad sign on the side of the building reflecting the period. They have put up old lightposts and there are about 10 old cars lining the street (and a few driving around). It also looks like they are doing a significant amount of filming in the building located at the corner of Newport/Clark behind the liquor store.
One of the other additional cool things is they are running an old elevated train on the tracks back and forth over Newport. From being down there, looks like the filming will continue all night (and again tomorrow night, based on the notifications we’ve received on our doors from Universal). They have Newport from Halsted to Clark blocked off, and it was a little difficult to get access to our apartment, but it looks like the best place to check things out will be at Clark/Newport.
Anyway, the pictures aren’t perfect (especially the ones at night) but gives you a little feel for what’s going on.
From The Chicago Tribune
Still WANTED after all these years
The life — and death — of the infamous gangster is a natural for the cinema. And who better than a pirate and murderous barber to play the role?By Charles Leroux
April 2, 2008Filming for the movie "Public Enemies," with Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Marion Cotillard as his girlfriend Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, has begun with scenes scheduled to be shot in Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. Dillinger, 74 years after his death, is back where he belongs — in the Midwest and, soon, up on the silver screen.
John Herbert Dillinger's life of crime began at age 12, stealing coal from railroad cars in Mooresville, Ind. It ended in a hail of bullets on a sticky July night in 1934. Dillinger had just emerged from the movies at the Biograph Theater on Chicago's Lincoln Avenue. Government agents had been tipped off and were waiting for him.
As a crowd gathered around the outlaw's corpse lying in an alley just south of the theater, women dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood. Later, at the coroner's office, 1,000 people stood in line to view the remains. According to the American Folkloric Center, Dillinger's violent life and death inspired 13 songs — "Dillinger's Doom," "Dillinger's Fate," etc. Shelves of books were written about him.
Long after his death, rumors would persist that Dillinger, in fact, wasn't dead. Like Elvis decades later, Dillinger was the subject of sightings by those of the public reluctant to accept that he was gone. In a crime spree lasting only a year, this Hoosier holdup man took far more than cash. He captured the imagination of the nation.
Dillinger's exploits played out against a backdrop of the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on many homes and farms and bank failures gobbled up life savings. When banks were robbed, there was little public sympathy. At the same time, the outlaw with the sly smile became something of a folk hero. He and his gang swept through — instead of Sherwood Forest — Midwestern town squares. Sometimes, when robbing a bank, they burned mortgages the bank was holding too.
He could be gallant. After relieving the Mason City, Iowa, First National Bank of $52,000, Dillinger forced hostages to stand on the running boards of his getaway car as human shields. As he drove out of town, a woman hostage said: "Let me off. This is where I live." He did.
He thumbed his nose at authority. Once, while on the lam, he asked an unwitting policeman to take a photo of him with a girlfriend. While under arrest in Crown Point, Ind., a photo was taken of Dillinger with his right arm draped over county prosecutor Robert Estill's shoulder. Dillinger shot a knowing smile at the camera while his right hand seemed to be held in the shape of a gun — a request, some speculated, to his gang.
The photo ended Estill's political ambitions.
Bill Helmer, a former senior editor at Playboy, has written extensively about Dillinger and, in a telephone interview, noted the bank robber's appealing qualities: "He had a cocky and good-natured personality. He wasn't violent like some of the members of his gang. I've always said he was crooked, but he wasn't twisted.
"My father, who lived through the Depression, was a Dillinger fan. He used to say, 'I don't approve of what he did, but you've got to give him credit.' "
Billie Frechette, sent to prison for helping to hide Dillinger from authorities, said pretty much the same thing: "I always figured that what he did was one thing and what he was was another," she wrote from her jail cell. "I was in love with what he was. Oh, maybe I was wrong, but you can't argue yourself out of falling in love!"
America fell for him too. During Dillinger's robbery spree — from the National Bank in New Carlisle, Ohio, June 10, 1933 to the Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Ind., on June 30, 1934 — Warner Brothers newsreels depicted the Bureau of Investigation (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation) manhunt for the notorious criminal. Movie audiences in darkened theaters across the nation cheered when Dillinger's image appeared on the screen. They hissed when BOI special agents were shown.
Growing up, Dillinger went to the movies (not yet the talkies) where he would watch John Barrymore in films such as "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman," a 1917 film about a gentleman thief, or Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckling through "The Mark of Zorro" in 1920 and " Robin Hood" in 1922.
Dillinger's later life would seem to mimic the definition of such heroes — "swaggering, flamboyantly reckless and boastful," and after his death outside a movie theater, his story would be told over and over on the screen.
There was "Dillinger" in 1945; and, in 1973, another film of the same name starring Warren Oates. A TV series in 1971 called "Appointment With Destiny" devoted one episode to "The Last Days of John Dillinger."
A 1991 made-for-TV movie, again called "Dillinger," with Mark Harmon as Dillinger featured Milwaukee portraying Chicago. A documentary, "Public Enemy #1" appeared on PBS in 2002. That same year, Variety reported a deal that would have David Mamet write a script for a Warner Brothers film about Dillinger. That project seems to have been sidetracked.
Mark Wolper was the producer of the Harmon film and checked out a story about Dillinger that he ended up not filming.
"It would come across as too unbelievable," he said then.
It seems that, during one of the gang's robberies, some people happened to walk into the lobby of the bank. "What's going on here?" one asked. Dillinger turned and smiled. "We're making a movie," he said.
Found the Chicago Sun Times
(excerpt)
Money woes $$$$ . . .April 2, 2008
MICHAEL SNEED
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Deep Depp . . .Depp data: Precautions have been taken to prevent actor Johnny Depp from being accosted by uproarious fan congestion near the set of his latest movie, "Public Enemies," which is now being filmed in Chicago.
• To wit: To keep the Depp machine out of fan depth, film makers aren't allowing him to go into crowds like he did on location in Wisconsin and Indiana recently.
• The flipside: Although they are trying to keep shooting locations top secret, Sneed is told a shoot 'em up scene was shot last week at Surf Street and Pine Grove Avenue in the Lake View neighborhood and a police motorcade transporting Depp, who plays legendary gangster John Dillinger, was filmed at 35th and King Drive Monday night.
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