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IGN.com has another video clip "Toe to Toe." HERE
ET's clip from June 17th is below
Here is another clip with Michael Mann and Johnny Depp
ET has an interview with Johnny and Christian Bale HERE
Johnny Depp vs. Christian Bale in 'Public Enemies'Johnny Depp and Christian Bale face off in the true-crime drama 'Public Enemies,' in theaters July 1, and ET has an exclusive first look behind the scenes! Johnny plays gangster John Dillinger in the movie, but would he rob a bank in real life?
"I'd rob a bank with any of those guys if they wanted to. Tomorrow," Johnny jests about the 'Public Enemies' crew.
The era is the early 1930s, and Dillinger has become the first-ever public enemy No. 1 for robbing banks across the heartland.
"On some level there was a sort of a Robin Hood in John Dillinger and he used that," says Johnny. "Dillinger was extremely savvy for a guy who basically came up from nowhere. He knew that his love for the people and the people's love for him would work in his favor."
The FBI was hot on Dillinger's tail, and agent Melvin Purvis, played by Christian, must take him down.
"It's cops and robbers in essence," says Christian. "That was what was so entertaining about that era, of why it continues to be so fascinating -- the notion of what people could get away with at that time."
Christian adds that a large number of downtrodden people loved Dillinger because of "the extreme feeling of us and them, the haves and have-nots, the fat cats, the banks -- so many people were resentful and had had their lives ruined that hearing about a man who was actually taking it back for himself, they couldn't help but idolize him."
Of course Johnny, the man who turned an ordinary pirate into an cinematic icon based on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, has a unique take on Dillinger: "He didn't see himself as a criminal in a bad way; he went out there as a rock 'n' roll star. He spoke to [the people] and owned them. He was very, very charismatic. Every time he spoke, he made [Herbert] Hoover and his boys look like chimps."
From FilmCentralHD
Deke Rivers posted scans of this article, by two of the editors who worked on PE, from the June issue of CinemaEditor on IMDB
From the Chicago Sun Times
Dillinger's South Side hat man
GRAHAM THOMPSON | Brims for new Depp flick on point thanks to Beverly specialty shop
CommentsJune 16, 2009
BY SANDRA GUY sguy@suntimes.comPay close attention to the hats worn by actors Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and other stars of the new John Dillinger movie, "Public Enemies."
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The movie "Public Enemies" features men's hats made by Chicago hat-maker Graham Thompson.
(Rich Hein/Sun-Times)Outfitting 'Public Enemies'
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Dillinger's blood evokes a dad's legacyThe film, being screened for critics in Chicago Thursday, opens July 1.
The 75 hats, mostly fedoras, are the result of the painstakingly detailed work of Chicago's Graham Thompson, owner of Optimo Hats (optimohats.com) in the Beverly neighborhood.
"Our business makes hats that are of the quality of the 'great hats' of the 1930s and 1940s," said Thompson, 37, who this year completed a 13-year quest to gather hat-making machines, techniques, shop manuals and old-timers' expertise at his shop. Custom felt hats start at $550 each, and straw hats start at $450.
"We can make thousands of styles with a variety of brim width, crown heights and color combinations," Thompson said.
The detail work impressed Depp, for whom Optimo made a handful of other hats for his personal use.
"He [Depp] is a real 'hat guy,' " Thompson said.
Thompson, who cringes when he sees wrong-period hats in movies, was impressed that the movie's director, Michael Mann, and costume designer, Colleen Atwood, were closely involved in making sure everything was historically correct.
Though Thompson made hats for "Cinderella Man," "Road to Perdition" and "The Lost City," he calls "Public Enemies" "the first one where the hats are spectacular."
"The designers really nailed the '30s," he said. "The hats are right."
From the official Public Enemies site some crops from Theresa at Johnny Depp Zone
and from CommauCinema
From JS Online
'Public Enemies' screenings are fund-raisers
By Duane Dudek of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Jun. 11, 2009Benefit screenings of the Johnny Depp film "Public Enemies" will be held June 30 in several cities around the state where filming took place.
Tickets for a reception at the Milwaukee County Historical Center, which appears in the film, and a screening at the Marcus Majestic Cinema in Brookfield, are $125, or $200 for VIP seating. The reception will feature a red-carpet entrance, vintage cars and costumes, food and beverages, and a silent auction of memorabilia.
General-admission tickets for the screening alone are $25, although VIP seating is available for $50.
• ?Tickets for a Madison reception, at the Hilton Madison Monona Terrace, and the movie at the Marcus Point Ultra Screen are $50. Tickets for the Madison screening alone are $25.
• ?Tickets for an Oshkosh event, at First National Bank, and a screening at the Marcus Cinema Oshkosh are $75. Tickets for the screening alone are $30.
The events will benefit Film Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, Arts Wisconsin and the Oshkosh Facade Preservation Foundation. For ticket information, go to www.filmwisconsin.net.
"Public Enemies," directed by Michael Mann, opens in general release July 1.
From emma found at Paris Cinema
Festival Paris CinémaPublic Enemies de Michael Mann, Etats-Unis
présenté par Michael Mann, Marion Cotillard et Johnny DeppJeudi 2 juillet à 20h à l'UGC Normandie (salle sous réserve)
Michael Mann's Public Enemies, United States
presented by Michael Mann, Marion Cotillard and Johnny DeppThursday, July 2 at 20h at UGC Normandie (room to be confirmed)
From emma - found at Ruvr
Moscow film festival unveils its programThe 31st Moscow International Film Festival promises a whirlwind of premieres and emotions. With more than two weeks to go before its June 19 opening ceremony, Moscow movie fans have plenty of time to sort through their must-watch priorities. Presenting the festival’s playbill, its program director Kirill Razlogov said the films had been selected according to two main criteria.
First, it’s our vision of a film’s artistic quality, or to be more precise, the degree of perfection with which it has been made. Second, it’s our vision of a film’s innovative nature and its contribution to the development of cinematic art. Sometimes, preference is given to bright and astonishing exploratory movies rather than those made with impeccable quality but following the beaten path. At a time of toughening competition among the world’s movie forums, the Moscow event may find its niche in discovering new talents, names and trends.
Novelty is prevalent in the Moscow festival’s competition show with most entries never screened before. Contesting for the prizes will be films from Hungary, Japan, the United States, Iran, Israel, Poland, and three Russian movies: Alexander Proshkin’s “Wonder” about a girl who remained motionless for 100 days with a wonder-working icon in her hands and then miraculously came back to life; Nikolai Dostal’s documentary “Petya On his Way to Heaven”, a tragicomic tale about a kind and honest lad about whom people say that they have their heads in the clouds; and, finally, Karen Shakhnazarov’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6”, one of the gloomiest stories ever written with the action set in a home for the insane. Karen Shakhnazarov:
Chekhov’s greatness is that in his story he peers into an abyss we are normally afraid to look in. But it’s something we still have to do once in a while. I am not saying that we should live in that kind of state but it seems that such works as “Ward No. 6” are sort of a warning, a reminder about the true essence of life.
The festival’s off-competition program boasts numerous retrospects, theme and experimental shows, in all, some two dozen events, including the much-awaited Moscow premiere of “Public Enemies” starring the popular U.S. movie actor Johnny Depp.
Found by emmaUNIVERSAL LONDON PREMIERE
PRESENTS THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF
PUBLIC ENEMIESMonday 29th June 2009
EMPIRE, Leicester SquareTalent attending includes:
JOHNNY DEPP, MARION COTILLARD and director MICHAEL MANNOn Monday 29 June, the stars of Universal Pictures’ PUBLIC ENEMIES, Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard, and acclaimed film director Michael Mann, will be bring some ‘30s gangster glamour to the West End, when they attend the European Premiere at London’s Empire, Leicester Square.
Johnny Depp stars as Dillinger, 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 (Christian 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 (Marion 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 – later including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi) – 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 action-thriller is directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice), from a screenplay he wrote with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman, based on the book by Bryan Burrough. Produced by Kevin Misher and Michael Mann, with G. Mac Brown and Jane Rosenthal as executive producers, PUBLIC ENEMIES is a Universal Pictures presentation, in association with Relativity Media, Tribeca Productions and Appian Way.
PUBLIC ENEMIES will be released nationwide by Universal Pictures on Wednesday 1st July 2009.
Certificate: TBC Running Time: TBCPREMIERE TIMINGS:
4.00pm Press Pens Open
4.30pm Outside Photographers Draw
5.15pm Press Pens Close
5.30pm Jonny Depp Arrival
6.00pm Other Talent Arrivals
6.15pm Doors Open
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