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Hollywood's superstars of summerPosted: May 14, 2009 07:15 AM
By Lauren StreibIt's blockbuster season, and Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are the early favorites. But only Public Enemies has Johnny Depp.
Why does that matter? Because when it comes to the movies, Johnny Depp is the most adept actor appearing in a movie this summer at bringing success to a film, at least according to Hollywood's power players. A history of strong project choices that include franchise mega hits (Pirates of the Caribbean) and cult classics (Edward Scissorhands and What's Eating Gilbert Grape) propelled Depp into a public and industry powerhouse long ago.
And star power is critical, even during a boom like this. Though economic number-crunchers debate the viability of the notion that recessions boost box-office returns, theaters are clearly benefiting from the current downturn. In the first four months of 2009, box office revenue is up 17%, a
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Christian Bale & 'Public Enemies' Co-Star Johnny Depp Kept Their Distance
May 11th, 2009Christian BaleThe teaming of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale may be this generation's equivalent of Heat, where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino first faced off. Like the previous Michael Mann film, Mann's Public Enemies also keeps the two stars mostly apart. Depp plays John Dillinger and Bale plays Melvin Purvis.
"We don't know each other in the slightest," said Bale. "I met him at the script read-through. We chatted for 5 or 10 minutes. Other than that, I had two scenes with him, one in which he's in a jail cell. I have a tendency, and it seemed like he was happy to do the same, I have at tendency to not really wish to talk unless we're doing the scene. I enjoy it that way.
"Then it just happened that the other scene we were doing we were about 200 feet away from each other, he was a silhouette in a window and I was shooting at him. I was behind a tree and he was shooting at me, and that was the closest we got that evening. I'll get to know Johnny somewhere down the track because it certainly didn't happen on the movie."
In his own role, Bale enjoyed the opportunity to delve into research in the era of the 1930s crime icons: "It's just a wonderful period in every way. The clothing, the cars, the guns even. It was sort of to me the last dying breath of the guns that seemed to have some sort of character to them. The ones we have nowadays are absolutely fatal and have incredible precision, much more so than the others, but these are the last ones where there's the kind of wood and I would actually like to smell it after wards and kind of enjoy carrying it around with me.
"The era is so fascinating as well in the conception of Hoover's idea of the bureau and the birth pangs of that, and how two apparently very similar characters, I'm talking now about Purvis and Hoover, people who admired each other so much, could, with both of them doing their job incredibly well, come to have such animosity between the two."
"Public Enemies" opens July 1.
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From the Hollywood Reporter
'Public Enemies' to bow at LAFF
Jon Voight will appear for ''Midnight Cowboy' talk
By Gregg Kilday and Jay A. FernandezMay 5, 2009, 07:58 PM ET
Universal Pictures' "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, will screen as the Centerpiece Premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs June 18-28.Directed by Michael Mann, whose "Collateral" screened as a sneak peek at the festival five years ago, "Enemies" also stars Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. The film opens nationally July 1.
Organized by Film Independent, the fest announced the bulk of its lineup Tuesday,encompassing more than 70 feature films, 70 shorts and 50 music videos drawn from more than 30 countries.
Said Rebecca Yeldham, who recently stepped into her new role as the festival's director: "The LAFF is a celebration of culture, cinema and community. We're dedicated to our public, and we're dedicated to our filmmakers. We see ourselves as part of the international community of artists and passionate cinephiles."
Joining Yeldham and programming director Rachel Rosen at the Hotel Palomar in Westwood, actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna talked up several selections from their traveling documentary project, the Ambulante Film Festival, now in its fourth year, which will be represented by three films at LAFF: "Born Without," "El General" and "Rehje."
Several popular Sundance titles also made the LAFF mix, including Sophie Barthes' "Cold Souls," Nicholas Jasenovec's "Paper Heart" and Lynn Shelton's "Humpday."
For the first time this year, international films will be included in the narrative and documentary competition categories.
The seven films in the narrative competition are Suzi Yoonessi's "Dear Lemon Lima," Bob Byington's "Harmony & Me," Jason Bushman's "Hollywood, je t'aime," Matt Bissonnette's "Passenger Side," Alicia Scherson's "Turistas," Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace's "Wah Do Dem (What They Do)," and Tariq Tapa's "Zero Bridge."
The seven in the doc competition are Hilla Medalia's "After the Storm," Brent Meeske's "Branson," AJ Schnack's "Convention," Jeremy Simmons' "The Last Beekeeper," Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's "October Country," Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman's "Those Who Remain" and Fredrik Gertten's "Bananas!"
While the festival is focussed on the Westwood area, it will branch out to other parts of the city for events including four outdoor screenings at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.
The fest will mark the 40th anniversary of "Midnight Cowboy" with a screening of the film and a conversation with star Jon Voight. Actor-director Tom Laughlin will also appear to discuss his film "Billy Jack."
The fest will offer free screenings of eight films, ranging from James Frawley's "The Muppet Movie" to Cherien Dabis' new film "Amreeka" and Wang Bing's "Crude Oil," which will receive its North American premiere.
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24.04.2009
Blockbuster film features Brody/Research Studios fontAuthor: Gina Lovett
Neville Brody and Research Studios has created the font for Michael Mann’s forthcoming blockbuster Public Enemies.
The graphic work for the film, due out in June in the UK, is currently ‘on the cutting desk’, according to a Research Studios spokesman.
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The studio was commissioned by Mann, having worked on graphic treatment for the director’s previous films The Insider and Heat.
‘It was a fairly loose brief to evoke the era of the 1930s, with streamlined shapes of cars and trains, and the architecture of the period,’ says the spokesman.
The consultancy worked with Miami’s Wolfsonian Museum, part of Florida International University, on research and period source material.
Research Studios has cut three weights of the font, New Deal, which will be applied across all marketing collateral, and will appear in the film as name cards, title cards, and throughout the story.
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New PUBLIC ENEMIES trailer!
Written by Craig Sharp | 01/05/09
The third trailer for Michael Mann's PUBLIC ENEMIES is here!In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)—the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone—from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillinger’s gang, thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw’s capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing “Clark Gable of the FBI.’’
However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis’ men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptised as agents) and orchestrating epic betrayals—from the infamous “Lady in Red’’ to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nitti—were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
The new trailer features much of the same footage as the two previous installments, but eagle eyed viewers will benefit from the new footage that's been seamlessly woven into the clip, check it out HERE
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Universal's
"Public Enemies"
(Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, et al.)Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - time TBA
(arrivals are likely to start between 5 PM and 6:30 PM)
at Mann's Village Theatre
961 Broxton Avenue, in Westwood Village
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Summer Action Heroes: Johnny Depp
May 1, 2009It's been over twelve months since Johnny Depp graced the big screen, in Sweeney Todd if you are curious, and two year since we saw him in an exciting summer flick.
And it's a change of pace from Pirates, which really did the business at the box office despite mixed reviews, this time around as he takes on the role of real-life criminal John Dillinger.
Directed by Heat filmmaker Michael Mann Public Enemies follows the FBI's man hunt for John Dillinger, the legendary Depression era bank robber.
No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard), to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillinger's ganglater including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI.
Comment on this ArticleHe made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One. Hoover sent in Purvis, the dashing "Clark Gable of the FBI". However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts.
Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) who were real gunfighters and orchestrating epic betrayals from the infamous "Lady in Red" to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nittiwere Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.
But to the people of America he was a hero, a modern day Robin Hood.
The film hasn't even been released into cinemas yet and there are already whispers of Oscar success surrounding this movie, could Depp finally get his hands on a Best Actor gong?
While the movie isn't in the vein of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek or X-Men Origins: Wolverine it still remains one of the most highly anticipated movies of the summer.
Michael Mann is behind the camera and he brought us the cop and robber classic Heat, which starred Robert De Niro and Al Pacino
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By Susan King
May 3, 2009
Billy Crudup gets asked the same two questions whenever he tells friends he's playing infamous FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover in Michael Mann's gangster thriller "Public Enemies."The first question is always an excited "Really?" says the 40-year-old Tony Award-winning actor. "The second question is, 'Did you put on a dress?'
"There you have it," says Crudup, who was last seen as the towering blue Dr. Manhattan in "Watchmen." Crudup promises he keeps this Hoover strictly in the closet.
Set in 1933, the action-thriller, which opens July 1, revolves around the legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), whose crime spree in Chicago made him Public Enemy No. 1 to Hoover and the recently formed FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale).
Crudup spent just two weeks working on the role last year in Chicago and Wisconsin, and said his time playing opposite Bale was great. But he's still looking forward to working with Depp -- the two had no scenes together.
Crudup says that the "Public Enemies" script, by Ronan Bennett and Mann and Ann Biderman, was rich with character development -- "filled with this mixture, which seemed always to be Hoover's problem, of ego and patriotism. That was more than enough for me to tackle him."
Mann, says Crudup, always sort of characterized Hoover as a visionary to the actor. " 'Visionary' to me speaks of somebody who is attempting to change society or culture for the good," Crudup says. "It was interesting to think of him in a somewhat positive light."
Crudup was in awe of Mann's skills as a filmmaker ("The Insider," "Heat").
"He's incredibly ambitious and has a fierce intellect and is driven to create spectacular work," he says. "He is fastidious about everything and really likes to be the singular voice behind, not just the spirit of, but the minutiae of the story he's telling. It's impressive . . . I barely have the mind to juggle my lines!"
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