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About the Legend, But Not the Man
Among the marquee titles that played briefly before the end of 2001 to qualify for Academy Awards but are just now opening their regular commercial runs, Michael Mann’s Ali is big enough and ambitious...
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The Kid Holds Onto the Picture
In the Melrose Avenue office of his production company, Acappella Pictures, Charles Evans Jr. was sorting through a box of oversized photos depicting major moments in Howard Hughes’ life. There was a...
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Holy Collateral ! Tom Cruise Acts
Battered by diabolical summer con jobs like Jonathan Demme’s bloated, preposterous and infuriating remake of John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece The Manchurian Candidate , and in a heightened state of my...
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Michael Mann’s Collateral Cruises L.A.’s Dark Side
It’s a strange coincidence that Michael Mann’s Collateral , the current thriller par excellence, arrives on our screens at almost the same time as Thom Andersen’s muckraking documentary, Los Angeles...
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Intercontinental Intrigue Ravishes Screen in Vice
Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, from his own screenplay, celebrates a world of drug crime and undercover police infiltration in a manner far more passionately romantic and picturesquely intercontinental...
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Mann Replaces Scorsese for Frankie Machine
CHUD via Variety: Four months ago, it looked as though Don Winslow’s aging hitman saga, The Winter of Frankie Machine, was going to be the (potentially) perfect coda to the Martin Scorsese/Robert De...
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What Will You Be Watching in 2009?
Proving that it’s never too early to peer into the future, the Times Online has published their list of the 50 most anticipated films of 2009. We’re onto next year already? We still have to catch up on...
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Summer Movie Sneak Peek: Ten Big Flicks!
Break out the SPF 50! The summer movie season starts in earnest this weekend with the openings of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and, frankly, we could not be more excited....
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A Little Depp’ll Do Ya! Johnny Gets His Gun
Public EnemiesRunning time 143 minutesWritten by Ronan Bennett, Michael Mann and Ann BidermanDirected by Michael MannStarring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Stephen...
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Box Office Breakdown: Ice Age 3 and Transformers 2 Play to a Tie, While...
Ladies and gentlemen: We have a draw! Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs each pulled down an estimated $42.5 over Fourth of July weekend to tie atop the charts,...
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The Three Big Myths About Public Enemies: Don’t Believe Everything You Read!
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is suffocated by historical accuracies, coming as it does from such a notoriously detail-oriented director. Not so! Mr. Mann’s script,...
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Box Office Breakdown: Bruno Tiptoes Past Ice Age, Beth Cooper Gets Left Back
What’s Austrian for “not as good as we thought?” It was a tale of two weekends for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno. On the one hand, the guerrilla comedy pulled down an estimated $30.4 million in ticket...
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HBO Gets Lucky With Luck, But Does it Top Boardwalk Empire?
Yesterday, when HBO announced that they were going ahead with a series order for Luck, most of the internet met the news with a collective shrug. Not because Luck isn’t poised to be one of the most...
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Breaking: HBO Responds to Racing Show Luck’s Real-Life Horse Fatalities
Unlucky break for 'Luck' Critics have already been effusive in their praise for Luck, the new HBO show created by David Milch. Executive produced by Michael Mann and by star Dustin Hoffman, the series...
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HBO Out of Luck: Show Canceled Due to All the Horse Deaths
Luck (HBO) This is unexpected but not totally unsurprising news in light of today’s third horse death on Michael Mann‘s HBO show Luck. Which is now officially canceled, after the American Humane...
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Entertaining AF: Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett, and the Ladies Who Lunch
After covering what seems like hundreds of red carpet events, never in my life have I seen what happened at Larry King’s 60th Anniversary in Broadcasting Party on Monday (May 1) at Hyde Sunset.
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