Exclusive: Netflix is hoping to solve the legend of D.B. Cooper, the mystery man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines passenger jet in November 1971 and escaped with 200,000, never to be seen again.
The streamer has ordered D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! from Fulwell 73 Productions and director Marina Zenovich’s Pmz Pictures.
The four-part doc series, which launches on July 13, marks the first true-crime project for Fulwell 73, which is best known for producing The Late Late Show with James Corden and Hulu’s The Kardashians.
The series looks at the 50-year quest to find Cooper, whose identity remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century and the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.
There have been multiple suspects in the case over the years including the possibility that Cooper was a Boeing employee, that he was former WWII paratrooper Kenneth Peter Christiansen, former leather worker...
The streamer has ordered D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! from Fulwell 73 Productions and director Marina Zenovich’s Pmz Pictures.
The four-part doc series, which launches on July 13, marks the first true-crime project for Fulwell 73, which is best known for producing The Late Late Show with James Corden and Hulu’s The Kardashians.
The series looks at the 50-year quest to find Cooper, whose identity remains one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century and the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.
There have been multiple suspects in the case over the years including the possibility that Cooper was a Boeing employee, that he was former WWII paratrooper Kenneth Peter Christiansen, former leather worker...
- 6/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Johnny Depp‘s career has been filled with wonderful movies like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Edward Scissorhands and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Unfortunately, though, it’s also been filled with a handful of stinkers like The Astronaut’s Wife, The Ninth Gate and Mortdecai. Yet, it’s somewhere in between these two vastly different levels of quality where you can find some of Depp’s most interesting work, even if the material itself doesn’t make for the best of his films.
One of the famous actor’s appearances that hovers in the realm of underrated movies is 2009’s Public Enemies, which was directed by Michael Mann and stars other great actors like Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard and Jason Clarke. For those unfamiliar with the pic, it’s an American biographical crime drama that adapts the story of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction novel, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime...
One of the famous actor’s appearances that hovers in the realm of underrated movies is 2009’s Public Enemies, which was directed by Michael Mann and stars other great actors like Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard and Jason Clarke. For those unfamiliar with the pic, it’s an American biographical crime drama that adapts the story of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction novel, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime...
- 5/24/2020
- by Billy Givens
- We Got This Covered
Following the Lance Bass-produced YouTube documentary The Boy Band Con, a biopic of Lou Pearlman is officially in the works. Transcon will tell the story of late boy band mogul turned Ponzi schemer, who died in prison in 2016.
Producer Edward R. Pressman and Greg Basser (previously the CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment) have teamed up for the biopic — along with hitmakers Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson and fashion guru David Anton. The group acquired the rights to the infamous 2007 Vanity Fair feature by Bryan Burrough, along with Tyler Grey’s...
Producer Edward R. Pressman and Greg Basser (previously the CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment) have teamed up for the biopic — along with hitmakers Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson and fashion guru David Anton. The group acquired the rights to the infamous 2007 Vanity Fair feature by Bryan Burrough, along with Tyler Grey’s...
- 7/19/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Truly Original has partnered with Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough to develop the true crime documentary series currently titled “The Kremlin’s Long Shadow.”
The series will chronicle Scotland Yard’s newly reopened investigations into 15 mysterious deaths that could underscore a diabolical Russian program.
Presented by Burrough, the series will explore a recent chain of bizarre deaths and assassination attempts, utilizing a network of exclusive sources, including widows and children, defectors and spies.
Following the March 2018 assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal via a military-grade nerve agent, the British government is reviewing the cases of 15 suspicious deaths, none of which were originally classified as murders. The series aims to connect the dots between each death.
Cases also include Boris Berezovsky, an anti-Putin Russian oligarch living in exile in London, found dead in what was deemed a suicide, not long after four of his British lawyers and three...
The series will chronicle Scotland Yard’s newly reopened investigations into 15 mysterious deaths that could underscore a diabolical Russian program.
Presented by Burrough, the series will explore a recent chain of bizarre deaths and assassination attempts, utilizing a network of exclusive sources, including widows and children, defectors and spies.
Following the March 2018 assassination attempt on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal via a military-grade nerve agent, the British government is reviewing the cases of 15 suspicious deaths, none of which were originally classified as murders. The series aims to connect the dots between each death.
Cases also include Boris Berezovsky, an anti-Putin Russian oligarch living in exile in London, found dead in what was deemed a suicide, not long after four of his British lawyers and three...
- 7/17/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon had already been adapted for the screen twice before John Huston’s version starring Humphrey Bogart. But it was the Huston film, originally released on October 3, 1941, that became a certified classic. The MacGuffin driving the film’s plot is a one-of-a-kind, life-sized statue of a bird. Memorably described by Bogart as “the stuff that dreams are made of,” the desirable trinket is revealed at the movie’s cruel climax to be a worthless lead fake.
That hasn’t prevented the falcon from becoming one of the most prized props in movie history, right alongside the ruby slippers from The Wizard Of Oz. But what really happened to the statue from the movie, and is it truly one of a kind? Earlier this year, Bryan Burrough researched the topic for a Vanity Fair article entitled “The Mystery Of The Maltese ...
That hasn’t prevented the falcon from becoming one of the most prized props in movie history, right alongside the ruby slippers from The Wizard Of Oz. But what really happened to the statue from the movie, and is it truly one of a kind? Earlier this year, Bryan Burrough researched the topic for a Vanity Fair article entitled “The Mystery Of The Maltese ...
- 10/3/2016
- by Joe Blevins
- avclub.com
Each week, Deadline’s Hot Reads presents what Hollywood’s power players are reading now and what they think is special about each book.
This week, film producer and Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum shares what he’s been reading as his latest film, Ouija, holds its spell over the Halloween weekend. The PG-13 horror feature is Blumhouse’s seventh micro-budget film to hit No. 1 – but Blum also has his first micro-budget drama, the Miles Teller-J.K. Simmons jazz two-hander Whiplash, an intense drama garnering strong critical and festival acclaim that has spawned Oscar hopes.
“I find that the books that I read not for work inform what I do and the decisions that I make in my business,” he said. “But people generally don’t like to adapt – especially successful people. They get onto something and they stick with it. It’s important no matter how successful you...
This week, film producer and Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum shares what he’s been reading as his latest film, Ouija, holds its spell over the Halloween weekend. The PG-13 horror feature is Blumhouse’s seventh micro-budget film to hit No. 1 – but Blum also has his first micro-budget drama, the Miles Teller-J.K. Simmons jazz two-hander Whiplash, an intense drama garnering strong critical and festival acclaim that has spawned Oscar hopes.
“I find that the books that I read not for work inform what I do and the decisions that I make in my business,” he said. “But people generally don’t like to adapt – especially successful people. They get onto something and they stick with it. It’s important no matter how successful you...
- 11/2/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Cover photograph by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Now available for Kindle and Nook, the second Vanity Fair e-book is features 20 probing, behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred stories about embattled News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, as collected by V.F. editor Graydon Carter. The e-book traces the rise of the ultimate media baron, illuminating the roots of his current predicament and painting a truly intimate portrait of Murdoch—from his days commanding tabloids on London’s Fleet Street to his cunning maneuvers on Wall Street, from his acquisition of 20th Century Fox to his launch of Fox News. It includes stories going back to 1984, and up through the current scandal, by Vanity Fair contributing editors Bryan Burrough, Sarah Ellison, Edward Klein, James Wolcott, and Michael Wolff, among others. See the table of contents, below.
- 7/29/2011
- Vanity Fair
Is Steve Cohen the embodiment of all that’s wrong with Wall Street—complete with $12 billion hedge fund, gigantic Greenwich mansion, world-class art collection, litigious ex-wife, and rumors of insider information? Or is he just a brilliant stock forecaster with a bad back, a bad temper, and really bad P.R.? Scoring one of only two published interviews Sac’s billionaire C.E.O. has given in his 30-year career, Bryan Burrough digs into Cohen’s Rain Man–like gift for reading the stock ticker, his reputation, and his suggestion that he may just walk away from it all.
- 5/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
Watch Out British Helmer Richard Ayoade, Harvey Scissorhands May Be Back Admittedly, we might be behind the times and some of us just started parsing Vanity Fair's fairly massive Hollywood Issue tome. Written by Bryan Burrough, (the author of " Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34" which spawned Michael Mann's 2009 movie) the thesis of the article is essentially what you see in its (and our) headline: Harvey Weinstein is back. Maybe a slightly more mature, warm and fuzzy Harvey Weinstein with 70% less temper tantrums and outbursts, but one that still knows…...
- 2/16/2011
- The Playlist
Photograph by Victor Demarchelier. Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough reports that, “after several months of negotiations, Disney quietly agreed to a settlement in which it will pay the Weinstein Company $32.5 million in cash, hand over its 50 percent stake in Project Runway, and reduce its share in four jointly owned films, including Scary Movie and Spy Kids, to 5 percent from 50 percent.” [Read the article.] According to Burrough, after Miramax was bought by a group of investors led by Ronald N. Tutor, “the Weinsteins brought in two of the country’s top attorneys, Bert Fields and David Boies, to confront Disney.” They were hired to prove something Harvey had argued all along: “The terms of the agreement they had made in 2005, when the Weinsteins left Disney, prevented certain Miramax movies from being assigned to third parties,” Burrough writes. “Once Fields and Boies got involved, they realized he had been right about his claim to the backlist films.
- 2/3/2011
- Vanity Fair
Leonardo Di-Caprio has announced that filming for Clint Eastwood’s Hoover biopic will begin in January/February 2011. The film will focus on controversial figure J. Edgar Hoover, who founded the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1930s and remained its director until his death nearly forty years later.
He came to prominence during the great crime wave of 1933 – 1934 when widespread career criminals caught the public’s imagination and the government off guard. Read Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction Public Enemies for a thrilling account.
Hoover was known to be a shady operator who kept files on countless public figures and world leaders – and was himself not immune to scandal – so there is plenty of great material for Eastwood and DiCaprio to work with.
On breaking with frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese, DiCaprio recently joked that “an infidelity is in place”.
Eastwood famously beat Scorsese and DiCaprio’s The Aviator to the Best...
He came to prominence during the great crime wave of 1933 – 1934 when widespread career criminals caught the public’s imagination and the government off guard. Read Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction Public Enemies for a thrilling account.
Hoover was known to be a shady operator who kept files on countless public figures and world leaders – and was himself not immune to scandal – so there is plenty of great material for Eastwood and DiCaprio to work with.
On breaking with frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese, DiCaprio recently joked that “an infidelity is in place”.
Eastwood famously beat Scorsese and DiCaprio’s The Aviator to the Best...
- 11/17/2010
- by Craig Kell
- FilmShaft.com
Check out new images from 20th Century Fox's eagerly anticipated follow-up "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" starring Michael Douglas, Shia Labeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, with Susan Sarandon and Frank Langella. Oliver Stone directs the Edward R. Pressman-produced drama which unspools on September 24th (wide). Written by Allan Loeb, Bryan Burrough and Stephen Schiff based on the characters created by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser. Michael Douglas is back in his Oscar®-winning role as one of the screen’s most notorious villains, Gordon Gekko. Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter Winnie, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia Labeouf). But can Jacob and Winnie really trust the ex-financial titan, whose relentless efforts to redefine himself in a different era have unexpected consequences.Michael Douglas...
- 5/5/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There are movies in this world that for whatever reason hit all the right buttons, and when a flick finds that perfect mixture of actor, story, tone, and style, it doesn't matter what anyone says to sway you: you are convinced that this is the movie for you. For me, Public Enemies is that movie. For today's Songs We Love, I went with Otis Taylor's 10 Million Slaves, a song that wouldn't normally have made it into regular rotation, but, thanks to my love of Mann's period crime tale, has become a permanent fixture on my movie music playlist. The song originally appeared on Taylor's 2002 album, Truth is Not Fiction, made its first appearance in the trailer for the film and eventually became a recurring theme in the film.
Mann's 2009 film was based on Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI,...
Mann's 2009 film was based on Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI,...
- 3/31/2010
- by Jessica Barnes
- Cinematical
Double nominee Mark Seal talks to Bernie Madoff’s former secretary, Eleanor Squillari. Now that the Oscars are over, you thought you were done with awards season for a few blessed months, but no! Today, the American Society of Magazine Editors (that’s Asme to you and me) announced its nominees for National Magazine Awards. The winners will receive cool-looking Calder sculptures of elephants that are fondly known in the magazine world as “Ellies.” But enough back story! Congratulations to Graydon Carter, Mark Seal, Bryan Burrough, Michael Lewis, photo director Susan White, and the whole staff of Vanity Fair on a fine showing: five nominations, in the categories of Seal’s three-part series on Bernie Madoff), Feature Writing (Lewis’s “Wall Street on the Tundra”), Profile Writing (Seal again, for “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit”), and Profile Writing again (Burrough, for “Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny”). No word...
- 3/10/2010
- Vanity Fair
On the heels of the most devastating economic collapse in recent history, Vanity Fair presents The Great Hangover: 21 Tales of the New Recession from the Pages of Vanity Fair, out next week by Harper Perennial. The collection features stories on the crisis from some of the country's best business journalists, including Michael Lewis, Mark Seal, Bryan Burrough, Bethany McLean, and Mark Bowden. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Nina Munk reads from her article, “Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard,” which examined the worst financial fallout in Harvard’s 373-year history and offered a cautionary tale about how even America’s oldest and most famous university wasn’t immune to the hubris and recklessness that shattered the nation’s economy. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 3/2/2010
- Vanity Fair
See the trailer for the eagerly anticipated sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," starring Shia Labeouf, Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Charlie Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Ferlito, Julianne Michelle, John Bedford Lloyd and Keith Middlebrook. Oliver Stone, director of the original film back in 1987, returns to the helm. Allan Loeb, Bryan Burrough and Stephen Schiff write based on the characters created by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser. The global economy is on bordering on disaster. Jacob Moore (Shia Labeouf), a young trader on Wall Street, joins forces with disgraced former Wall Street hot shot Gordon Gekko...
- 1/28/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Early on a Sunday this fall, the sun rose over Wall Street, where Annie Leibovitz was shooting Michael Douglas and Shia Labeouf, the stars of Oliver Stone’s Money Never Sleeps. It being a weekend, the historic financial concourse was deserted save for the photographer and her team, some of Stone’s crew, and the occasional busload of Chinese tourists stunned to witness the return the great capitalist antihero, Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko (Douglas), walking down the steps of the Federal Hall for Leibovitz’s camera. During the course of the shoot, Leibovitz—who was thrilled to reunite with Douglas after photographing him for the January 1995 cover—learned the difference between the “full Gekko” and the “half Gekko.” (It involves hair gel.) What you see in the final shoot, and the behind-the-scenes video below, is the half Gekko. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove...
- 1/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
It’s no secret that I think Michael Mann is the greatest director of all-time, dead or otherwise. One can throw all the Scorsese, Kurosawa, Ford, or Spielberg they want and I’ll still conclude that Mann is better than all of them. His style is unparalleled and has influenced my own approach to the way I make films. Maybe it’s how cool he makes everyone appear in his movies, or maybe it’s how no one does action better than him. Mr. Mann just has a touch to his films that really speaks to me. I’m awed by how well and how different he’ll shoot his material and how he builds his characters for the actors. While not every one his films has been masterworks (Ali and The Keep come to mind) he rarely misses. Public Enemies, I’m proud to say, falls into the latter category.
- 12/8/2009
- by Philip Barrett
- ReelLoop.com
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Niall Ferguson, Bethany McLean, Bryan Burrough, and moderator Michael Lewis at last night’s Vanity Fair/Bloomberg discussion, “Covering the Crisis.” Photograph by Justin Bishop. Can business journalism save the world? Or, to be a bit less grandiose about it: Should business writers concern themselves first and foremost with telling great stories or with educating the public. For Niall Ferguson, the Scottish-born Harvard historian who discovered the subject of finance while investigating the causes of Hitler’s rise in Germany, writing about bank balance sheets is almost a holy mission. The fate of Planet Finance, as he called it in this 2008 article for Vanity Fair, is simply too important to leave in the hands of deeply biased participants. The public must be alerted. The arcane details of high finance must be explained and exposed. A worthy goal, to be sure, but Ferguson’s fellow participants in last...
- 11/19/2009
- Vanity Fair
Marc Dreier—America’s second most notorious Ponzi schemer, and the subject of Bryan Burrough’s profile in the November issue of Vanity Fair—spoke with 60 Minutes last night about how his web of lies spun out of control, and outlined the flaws in his scheme. Watch CBS News Videos Online Read More: • Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny from the November issue • Marc Dreier's $400M Scam, the Inside Story on 60Minutes.com...
- 10/5/2009
- Vanity Fair
Read “Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny” Getting Marc Dreier to do an interview wasn’t easy, but once Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough sat down with the disgraced lawyer, who in July was sentenced to 20 years in prison for committing a $300 million fraud, the confession came tumbling out—and it quickly became apparent that this was not your average white-collar apologia. Discussing his tell-all December 2009 article, Burrough compares this overshadowed scam with Madoff’s, reveals what impressed him about Dreier, and explains which victims of this crime deserve the most sympathy. As far as scams go, how smart or how dumb was Dreier’s in comparison to Madoff’s and others? Dreier's scam was far riskier than Bernie Madoff's. Madoff at least had control over what he was doing and what his victims were seeing. Dreier's scam involved selling fake securities in the name of a real company that...
- 9/29/2009
- Vanity Fair
Great things were always expected of Marc Dreier, and he expected them for himself. He needed the hotshot litigating career and a life stuffed with rich men’s toys. He needed a Hamptons beachfront house. Thus began a four-year Ponzi scheme—involving audacious impersonations and $380 million stolen from 13 hedge funds—which all unraveled just days before the Madoff scandal broke, bringing the 59-year-old attorney a 20-year prison sentence. In conjunction with CBS’s 60 Minutes, the author gets Dreier’s blow-by-blow account of what it’s like to turn bad.
- 9/29/2009
- Vanity Fair
How did Maria Cruz, a 35-year-old analyst for Barclays Capital who vanished on April 13, 2003, end up buried beneath a concrete slab at an old mansion in Newark, New Jersey? The evidence would eventually point to Cruz’s laser specialist, Dean Faiello, a former construction worker, who was impersonating a doctor. With the help of Faiello’s friends and former lovers, the author follows a two-decade spiral of drugs, deception, and denial to its horrifying conclusion.
- 9/8/2009
- Vanity Fair
• The Daily News was the only New York paper to publish the news of Ted Kennedy’s passing this morning. When was the last the News scooped both the Times and the Post? Click here to see our slideshow of the long lost lion of the Senate. • Yesterday, Chris Brown was sentenced to five years’ probation for assaulting his ex-girlfriend Rihanna and banned from getting within 100 yards of her. In the course of the hearing, it was revealed that he had been involved in two previous incidents of domestic violence. But in the meantime, he was seen cruising down La Cienega and blasting his own music with the windows down. [Page Six] • President Obama is said to be on the brink of brokering a deal for peace in Israel. There is still time for him to bring up Rich Cohen's “Fake-State Solution,” which, while logistically complicated, is the only sure pathway to peace.
- 8/26/2009
- Vanity Fair
Director: Michael Mann Writer(s): Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann (screenplay) Bryan Burrough (book) Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Channing Tatum, Emilie de Ravin, Stephen Dorff, Giovanni Ribisi, Branka Katic Public Enemies is based on author Bryan Burrough's Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. The film opens in the depression age of 1933 with the virtually unstoppable John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and his partner John "Red" Hamilton, breaking themselves and the rest of their gang out of prison. A shootout ensues as the gang heads for the getaway car, with Dillinger's mentor Walter Dietrich being shot down in the process. Soon after the prison break, Dillinger meets Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), who he quickly falls for and sweeps her off her feet. Dillinger and Billie enjoy luxuries and the high life, but never in one place for too long.
- 7/6/2009
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The latest Michael Mann movie to hit the streets is the film adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book detailing the birth of the FBI and how master criminal John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) played a huge role in its creation.The year is 1933 and we as a nation are steeped in the Great Depression. Desperation begets crime begets the necessity for more efficient police work.Some of the heavies on the scene are Pretty Boy Floyd, George "Baby Face" Nelson and of course, John Dillinger. Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is the man who sets out to take these guys down with special interest on the ha...
- 7/5/2009
- MoviesOnline.ca
The day after I saw Michael Mann’s newest crime flick, I went out and bought the non-fiction book it is based on, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough. Burrough originally pitched the idea of a fictionalized re-telling of the American mythic gangsters as a miniseries [...]...
- 7/4/2009
- by Dave
- Filmonic.com
Public Enemies Directed by: Michael Mann Written by: Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann, Ann Biderman (screenplay), Bryan Burrough (book) Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Dorff, Channing Tatum, Billy Crudup, Leelee Sobieski, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Graham The prospect of Johnny Depp playing a 1930's gangster is probably all that was required to sell most people on Public Enemies, but with director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) at the helm, no one really knew whether to expect a summer action movie or a character-driven art piece. What's more, with the number of great gangster flicks that have been made over the years, Mann had his work cut out for him if he was hoping to create something that could measure up to some of the classics. His last film, Miami Vice, was a bit of a disappointment both critically and commercially despite having the star power of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.
- 7/3/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Michael Mann has said that he does not care about making scenes in his historical films identical to how they occured in real life. The director's new movie Public Enemies has drawn praise for its realism from author Bryan Burrough, who wrote the factual book on which it is based. However, Mann said at the press conference for the film: "I don't feel a slavish adherence to actuality. It's only when it's magical, or when it means something do you go there. "The magic of being able to shoot in the real Little Bohemia in Manitowish, (more)...
- 7/1/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Johnny Depp brings John Dillinger back, but not entirely alive.
Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies"
Photo: Universal Studios
John Dillinger's reign as America's most-wanted bank robber (or one of them) only spanned 10 months — from the fall of 1933, when he pulled his first such heist, to the summer of 1934, when federal agents shot him down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. Still, Dillinger has proved to be a durable celebrity desperado. Along with such fellow bank-job specialists as Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson (all of whom came to a bloody end the same year Dillinger did), he continues to embody the "public enemy" years of the Great Depression, when heartland gangsters became figures of public fascination by smiting the hated banks and repeatedly eluding the little-loved coppers who pursued them.
Dillinger's brief career has been the subject of several films. The latest is director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies,...
Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies"
Photo: Universal Studios
John Dillinger's reign as America's most-wanted bank robber (or one of them) only spanned 10 months — from the fall of 1933, when he pulled his first such heist, to the summer of 1934, when federal agents shot him down in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. Still, Dillinger has proved to be a durable celebrity desperado. Along with such fellow bank-job specialists as Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson (all of whom came to a bloody end the same year Dillinger did), he continues to embody the "public enemy" years of the Great Depression, when heartland gangsters became figures of public fascination by smiting the hated banks and repeatedly eluding the little-loved coppers who pursued them.
Dillinger's brief career has been the subject of several films. The latest is director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies,...
- 7/1/2009
- MTV Movie News
Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp in Public Enemies
Photo: Universal Pictures It's no secret how the life of John Dillinger came to an end; so when Michael Mann begins his telling of the Dillinger story in 1933 only allowing for just over a year's worth of story to be told he isn't giving himself a lot of time. However, in a matter of only a few scenes Mann establishes his lead as a calculated and loyal criminal capable of breaking his friends out of jail, but unwilling to lose one along the way -- that is unless you are the man upon which Dillinger places blame. Here is our hero, or anti-hero as it is, and Johnny Depp plays him with an accomplished steely gaze. It's a low-key performance surrounded by menace, desire and love, but at the same time this film won't be for everyone as its slow pace and...
Photo: Universal Pictures It's no secret how the life of John Dillinger came to an end; so when Michael Mann begins his telling of the Dillinger story in 1933 only allowing for just over a year's worth of story to be told he isn't giving himself a lot of time. However, in a matter of only a few scenes Mann establishes his lead as a calculated and loyal criminal capable of breaking his friends out of jail, but unwilling to lose one along the way -- that is unless you are the man upon which Dillinger places blame. Here is our hero, or anti-hero as it is, and Johnny Depp plays him with an accomplished steely gaze. It's a low-key performance surrounded by menace, desire and love, but at the same time this film won't be for everyone as its slow pace and...
- 7/1/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
In 1934, John Dillinger was famously shot dead coming out of a gangster movie.
The movie in question was a Clark Gable picture called Manhattan Madness. Perhaps sensing the obvious irony, director Michael Mann's vision of Dillinger resembles Gable's smooth gentlemanly rep. Handsome and persuasive, romantic even when he's violent.
Johnny Depp's Dillinger is a far cry from the way Lawrence Tierney or Warren Oates portrayed him in previous films about America's most notorious bank robber. This time he's lovesick and mostly troubled by unnecessary violence, behaving more like a prince charming than a dangerous criminal. Hence the many scenes of him spewing schmaltzy pick-up lines to Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), the gal who had the "honor" of calling herself Dillinger's girl. Elsewhere, a Napoleonic J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), wanting to push his Federal Bureau of Investigations out of infancy, assigns his super-agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) to lead the Dillinger manhunt.
The movie in question was a Clark Gable picture called Manhattan Madness. Perhaps sensing the obvious irony, director Michael Mann's vision of Dillinger resembles Gable's smooth gentlemanly rep. Handsome and persuasive, romantic even when he's violent.
Johnny Depp's Dillinger is a far cry from the way Lawrence Tierney or Warren Oates portrayed him in previous films about America's most notorious bank robber. This time he's lovesick and mostly troubled by unnecessary violence, behaving more like a prince charming than a dangerous criminal. Hence the many scenes of him spewing schmaltzy pick-up lines to Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), the gal who had the "honor" of calling herself Dillinger's girl. Elsewhere, a Napoleonic J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), wanting to push his Federal Bureau of Investigations out of infancy, assigns his super-agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) to lead the Dillinger manhunt.
- 7/1/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Seen on: June 29, 2009
The players: Director: Michael Mann, Writers: Michael Mann, Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, David Wenham, Billy Crudup
Facts of interest: Based on the book by Bryan Burrough.
The plot: The film tells the story of American bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), who kept the FBI pretty busy during the Great Depression.
Our thoughts: Michael Mann’s latest gangster drama “Public Enemies” is both intriguing and dull. The film works just fine as a big-budget production highlighting John Dillinger’s spectacular escapes, wild shoot-outs with the FBI and fast-paced robberies, but as an examination of the man’s character and the key players around him, it clearly fails.
The players: Director: Michael Mann, Writers: Michael Mann, Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, David Wenham, Billy Crudup
Facts of interest: Based on the book by Bryan Burrough.
The plot: The film tells the story of American bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), who kept the FBI pretty busy during the Great Depression.
Our thoughts: Michael Mann’s latest gangster drama “Public Enemies” is both intriguing and dull. The film works just fine as a big-budget production highlighting John Dillinger’s spectacular escapes, wild shoot-outs with the FBI and fast-paced robberies, but as an examination of the man’s character and the key players around him, it clearly fails.
- 7/1/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Last Week the Academy announced that it was expanding the nominations for best film from 5 to 10. Well, “Public Enemies” may be just the first one on that list. An adaptation of the non-fiction book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34″ by Bryan Burrough, with a screenplay and direction by one of Americas’ best crime film directors Michael Mann. Public Enemies delivers big in every department. Read Full Public Enemies Review...
- 7/1/2009
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
While researching Public Enemies, his masterful 2004 account of the gangster wars that transfixed the nation in the 1930s, contributing editor Bryan Burrough trawled through millions of pages of F.B.I. reports and countless Midwestern newspapers, retracing the steps of John Dillinger and his acolytes. With Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the book (starring V.F. cover boy Johnny Depp!) hitting theaters, Burroughs tells Vf Daily how the tommy-gun toters changed the country, and how closely the movie adheres to history.
- 6/30/2009
- Vanity Fair
Readers are often disappointed by Hollywood's attempts to turn their favorite books into films. For every success — The Notebook — there are dozens of films that simply don't live up to the source material, such as most Stephen King adaptations. But, it's not just the fans that feel slighted when a poor film is made from a great book. From Alan Moore (Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) to Ursala K. Le Guin (Earthsea), disappointed and disillusioned authors have been very vocal in condemning films they believe are not true to their source material.
However, that is not the case with Michael Mann's latest film. Partially based on the book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough, the film follows FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his attempt to capture the infamous bank-robber-turned Depression-era-hero John Dillinger (Johnny Depp...
However, that is not the case with Michael Mann's latest film. Partially based on the book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough, the film follows FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his attempt to capture the infamous bank-robber-turned Depression-era-hero John Dillinger (Johnny Depp...
- 6/30/2009
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
After hosting the Los Angeles premiere of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Monday, June 22, Mann Village Theatre was used for the world premiere of "Public Enemies". On Tuesday evening, June 23, the movie which is the centerpiece of 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival received its red carpet treatment.
While it was not as star-studded as the premiere of the "Transformers" sequel, the special screening still saw the attendance of Hollywood A-listers. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard were among them. The three were also joined by director Michael Mann and cast members, including Stephen Dorff, Giovanni Ribisi, LeeLee Sobieski and Carey Mulligan.
Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer, Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson, and Universal Pictures co-chairmen David Linde and Marc Shmuger were present as well. Meanwhile, other celebrities spotted making an appearance at the red carpet included Rosario Dawson, Amber Heard and Peter Fonda.
From the director of...
While it was not as star-studded as the premiere of the "Transformers" sequel, the special screening still saw the attendance of Hollywood A-listers. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard were among them. The three were also joined by director Michael Mann and cast members, including Stephen Dorff, Giovanni Ribisi, LeeLee Sobieski and Carey Mulligan.
Universal Studios president and COO Ron Meyer, Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson, and Universal Pictures co-chairmen David Linde and Marc Shmuger were present as well. Meanwhile, other celebrities spotted making an appearance at the red carpet included Rosario Dawson, Amber Heard and Peter Fonda.
From the director of...
- 6/24/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Christian Bale, who played resistance leader John Connor in Terminator Salvation, says there has been no movement on a further film in the franchise.
The 35-year-old actor was asked about a fifth movie during promotions for upcoming crime drama Public Enemies.
According to Sci Fi Wire, Bale told a press conference in Beverly Hills, California: "We've had no talks about it or discussions about it".
He indicated that his involvement was not contractually guaranteed. "It all purely depends upon script," Bale said.
Terminator Salvation takes place in 2018, when Connor fronts the human battle against machines which have become self-aware and are trying to wipe out mankind.
The film's final scenes suggested Connor would lead the resistance in other parts of the world after destroying Skynet's San Francisco HQ.
Terminator Salvation has widely been regarded as a disappointment, although I didn't think it as bad as some of the critics made out.
The 35-year-old actor was asked about a fifth movie during promotions for upcoming crime drama Public Enemies.
According to Sci Fi Wire, Bale told a press conference in Beverly Hills, California: "We've had no talks about it or discussions about it".
He indicated that his involvement was not contractually guaranteed. "It all purely depends upon script," Bale said.
Terminator Salvation takes place in 2018, when Connor fronts the human battle against machines which have become self-aware and are trying to wipe out mankind.
The film's final scenes suggested Connor would lead the resistance in other parts of the world after destroying Skynet's San Francisco HQ.
Terminator Salvation has widely been regarded as a disappointment, although I didn't think it as bad as some of the critics made out.
- 6/23/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
The folks at Cinema Blend have posted a fascinating behind-the-scenes clip in which Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and director Michael Mann discuss the mythology and the history behind Public Enemies.
The movie is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of Chicago gangster John Dillinger (Depp) in the 1930s. FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) pursued Dillinger and eventually gunned him down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31.
In this clip, Depp, Bale, and Mann talk about how the economic hardships of the Great Depression allowed Dillinger and his escapades to be seen as heroic rather than criminal. They even get into Dillinger's psychology, explaining why he might have lived the lifestyle he did.
And yes, there are plenty of tantalizing shots from the movie itself, some...
The movie is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of Chicago gangster John Dillinger (Depp) in the 1930s. FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) pursued Dillinger and eventually gunned him down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31.
In this clip, Depp, Bale, and Mann talk about how the economic hardships of the Great Depression allowed Dillinger and his escapades to be seen as heroic rather than criminal. They even get into Dillinger's psychology, explaining why he might have lived the lifestyle he did.
And yes, there are plenty of tantalizing shots from the movie itself, some...
- 6/23/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
With little more than laserlike ambition and a brash Texas charm, Allen Stanford built an $8 billion Caribbean banking empire, exposed in February as perhaps the second-largest Ponzi scheme (after Madoff’s) in history. How did a bankrupt Waco health-club owner vault onto the Forbes Four Hundred, while the S.E.C., the F.B.I., and others mounted investigation after investigation of his shadowy business? From Stanford Financial’s Antiguan headquarters, the author follows Stanford’s improbable trail, complete with multiple families, a moated Miami mansion, and a passion for cricket.
- 6/22/2009
- Vanity Fair
The first full clip from Michael Mann's Public Enemies is now online. Just follow the link here.
The scene is a full-blown night shoot-out complete with tommy guns, broken glass, and a heck of a lot of bullet holes. FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his team attempt an ambush outside the forest hideout of gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp). In terms of style, the scene seems to borrow not only from Scarface (the 1932 Howard Hawks version), but also the first big shoot-out scene in The Godfather: Part II, which sees Al Pacino diving for cover indoors while shooters ambush from a wooded area outside.
Public Enemies is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of Dillinger in the 1930s. Melvin Purvis pursued Dillinger and eventually...
The scene is a full-blown night shoot-out complete with tommy guns, broken glass, and a heck of a lot of bullet holes. FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and his team attempt an ambush outside the forest hideout of gangster John Dillinger (Johnny Depp). In terms of style, the scene seems to borrow not only from Scarface (the 1932 Howard Hawks version), but also the first big shoot-out scene in The Godfather: Part II, which sees Al Pacino diving for cover indoors while shooters ambush from a wooded area outside.
Public Enemies is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of Dillinger in the 1930s. Melvin Purvis pursued Dillinger and eventually...
- 6/18/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
Yahoo! Movies has got a hold of the first ever clip from "Public Enemies" and has put it out for viewing pleasure. Entitled "Assault", the one minute sneak peek features the action scene wherein John Dillinger and his outlaw gang are fighting back the police raid led by FBI Agent Melvin Purvis in the middle of the night.
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber Dillinger whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent Purvis, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. It is adapted from Bryan Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".
Presenting a collaboration of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis respectively, the crime drama for Universal Pictures sees also the likes of Marion Cotillard,...
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber Dillinger whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent Purvis, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. It is adapted from Bryan Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".
Presenting a collaboration of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis respectively, the crime drama for Universal Pictures sees also the likes of Marion Cotillard,...
- 6/18/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Universal Pictures has released two new TV spots for Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which opens on July 1.
The movie is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of 1930s Chicago gangster John Dillinger. FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursued Dillinger and eventually gunned him down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31.
The spots feature Johnny Depp, who plays Dillinger; Christian Bale, who plays Purvis; and Marion Cotillard, who plays Dillinger's girlfriend and accomplice.
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Link | Posted 6/8/2009 by Rich Z
Christian Bale | Johnny Depp | Michael Mann | Marion Cotillard | Public Enemies...
The movie is based on the Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, which tells the stories behind the rise and fall of 1930s Chicago gangster John Dillinger. FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursued Dillinger and eventually gunned him down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31.
The spots feature Johnny Depp, who plays Dillinger; Christian Bale, who plays Purvis; and Marion Cotillard, who plays Dillinger's girlfriend and accomplice.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 6/8/2009 by Rich Z
Christian Bale | Johnny Depp | Michael Mann | Marion Cotillard | Public Enemies...
- 6/8/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
Universal seems to be keeping Public Enemies very closer to their chest. We've seen a few trailers, but not that many TV spots or not much new footage. But that may all change soon, I hope. This behind-the-scenes featurette actually aired earlier in the week during the MTV Movie Awards, but I wanted to feature it anyway. Director Michael Mann talks about the character of John Dillinger and is joined by Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as well. The most fascinating part of this is when Bale talks about Dillinger and how he became idolized in America Now that is the story I definitely can't wait to see on the big screen. Watch the behind-the-scenes featurette for Public Enemies: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/public-enemies-bts-feat.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/public-enemies-bts-feat.jpg 502 212] Public Enemies is directed by Michael Mann, of Heat, Ali, Collateral, and Miami Vice previously. The screenplay is based on Bryan Burrough's book of the same name and was...
- 6/4/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A brand new featurette of "Public Enemies" has made its way out. Filled with footage from the forthcoming crime drama, the video contains also commentary from director Michael Mann as well as two of the movie's stars, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. All of them discussed mostly on John Dillinger who becomes the center of the story in the movie.
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber, John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. It is adapted from Bryan Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".
Aside from Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, the crime drama for Universal Pictures features also the likes of Marion Cotillard,...
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber, John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. It is adapted from Bryan Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34".
Aside from Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, the crime drama for Universal Pictures features also the likes of Marion Cotillard,...
- 6/1/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The July 1st release date for Channing Tatum's upcoming Depression-era crime drama ' Public Enemies' is quickly approaching, and Empire Magazine just released a huge expose on the film in their July 2009 issue.
Based on the New York Times Best Selling author Bryan Burrough’s true crime book, ' Public Enemies' follows the FBI hunt for 1930’s gangster John Dillinger.
The Universal Studios film is directed by Michael Mann and boasts a stunning cast that includes Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Branka Katic, Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi, Emilie de Ravin, John Michael Bolger, Stephen Dorff, Christian Stolte and Leelee Sobieski.
Here's what Empire Magazine had to say about the film that's at the top of their summer movie watching list...
Public Enemies: Johnny Depp. Michael Mann. Christian Bale. The question is why you’re still here reading this instead of booking tickets for Public Enemies,...
Based on the New York Times Best Selling author Bryan Burrough’s true crime book, ' Public Enemies' follows the FBI hunt for 1930’s gangster John Dillinger.
The Universal Studios film is directed by Michael Mann and boasts a stunning cast that includes Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale, Branka Katic, Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi, Emilie de Ravin, John Michael Bolger, Stephen Dorff, Christian Stolte and Leelee Sobieski.
Here's what Empire Magazine had to say about the film that's at the top of their summer movie watching list...
Public Enemies: Johnny Depp. Michael Mann. Christian Bale. The question is why you’re still here reading this instead of booking tickets for Public Enemies,...
- 5/31/2009
- by Blog Expert
- Channing Tatum Unwrapped
Universal has released three new teaser posters for Michael Mann's Public Enemies, starting the build up for the movie's July 1 release. The posters feature full-frame stills of stars Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard. You can see large versions of them here.
Based on Bryan Burrough's book, Public Enemies dramatizes the rise and fall of 1930's Chicago gangster John Dillinger (Depp). Dillinger was pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) and gunned down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31. Cotillard plays Dillinger's girlfriend, Billie Frechette, who sometimes drove his getaway car.
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Link | Posted 5/15/2009 by Rich Z
Christian Bale | Johnny Depp | Michael Mann | Marion Cotillard | Public Enemies...
Based on Bryan Burrough's book, Public Enemies dramatizes the rise and fall of 1930's Chicago gangster John Dillinger (Depp). Dillinger was pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) and gunned down outside the Biograph Theater at the age of 31. Cotillard plays Dillinger's girlfriend, Billie Frechette, who sometimes drove his getaway car.
Next Showing:
Link | Posted 5/15/2009 by Rich Z
Christian Bale | Johnny Depp | Michael Mann | Marion Cotillard | Public Enemies...
- 5/15/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
The two newly-released TV spots for "Public Enemies" offer never-before-seen footage as well as fresh dialog. Clocking in at around 30 seconds each, the two television promos titled "Indiana" and "Myth" focus on presenting Johnny Depp as American legend John Dillinger.
"Public Enemies" revolves around legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger and FBI agent Melvin Purvis. In the time when the Great Depression storms America, Dillinger and his gang are unstoppable in robbing banks. Trying to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover declares that Dillinger is America's first Public Enemy Number One and sends Purvis in the thrill ride to capture the charismatic bank robber.
Adapted from Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, the crime drama is directed and co-written by "Collateral" helmer Michael Mann. It sees Johnny Depp,...
"Public Enemies" revolves around legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger and FBI agent Melvin Purvis. In the time when the Great Depression storms America, Dillinger and his gang are unstoppable in robbing banks. Trying to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover declares that Dillinger is America's first Public Enemy Number One and sends Purvis in the thrill ride to capture the charismatic bank robber.
Adapted from Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, the crime drama is directed and co-written by "Collateral" helmer Michael Mann. It sees Johnny Depp,...
- 5/15/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
“Public Enemies” is a 1930’s gangster movie based on the true story of Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), who became the first ever Public Enemy Number One in America, and was instrumental in leading J. Edgar Hoover to overhaul the F.B.I and send his leading Agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale) to capture him by almost any means necessary including elaborate betrayals, plots and the hiring of western gunslingers and fighters to combat Dillinger’s gang members in the streets of Chicago.
Based on Bryan Burrough’s book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34″, Michael Mann directed the film and co-wrote it’s screenplay. Mann assembled an all-star cast including: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff, Channing Tatum, Emilie de Ravin, Lili Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Rory Cochrane and David Wenham.
Public Enemies will be...
Based on Bryan Burrough’s book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34″, Michael Mann directed the film and co-wrote it’s screenplay. Mann assembled an all-star cast including: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff, Channing Tatum, Emilie de Ravin, Lili Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Rory Cochrane and David Wenham.
Public Enemies will be...
- 5/14/2009
- by Paul Larn
- The Cinema Post
Gearing up to the July theatrical release of "Public Enemies", Universal Pictures have brought forth three brand new character posters for the forthcoming crime drama film. Each of the one-sheets takes a close-up look at Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard as Billie Frechette and Christian Bale as FBI's top agent Melvin Purvis.
Both of the Dillinger and Purvis' posters see Depp and Bale with gun in their hand. Dillinger's one-sheet displays the bank robber hanging on a car with one hand and handling his gun with the other, while Purvis' exhibits the agent standing vigilant behind a tree. Frechette's poster, on the other hand, exposes the Dillinger's lover wearing fur shawl.
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber, John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent,...
Both of the Dillinger and Purvis' posters see Depp and Bale with gun in their hand. Dillinger's one-sheet displays the bank robber hanging on a car with one hand and handling his gun with the other, while Purvis' exhibits the agent standing vigilant behind a tree. Frechette's poster, on the other hand, exposes the Dillinger's lover wearing fur shawl.
From the director of "Collateral" comes "Public Enemies", a movie about charismatic bank robber, John Dillinger, whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent,...
- 5/14/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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