Filming continued at the Biograph Area Thursday and Friday. Filming will continue in Chicago next week, scheduled to shoot Tuesday June-03 & Wednesday Jun-04 at the Aragon Ballroom. They'll begin prep Saturday May-31.
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FIlming Public Enemies Biograph Theatre
Filming continued at the Biograph Area Thursday and Friday. Filming will continue in Chicago next week, scheduled to shoot Tuesday June-03 & Wednesday Jun-04 at the Aragon Ballroom. They'll begin prep Saturday May-31.
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Public Enemies Shooting In South Florida
Public Enemies may be shooting in South Florida in late June as reported in the Miami Herald on May 17th and The production crew are looking for vintage cars 1928-1935. The cast and crew will be gone for the memorial weekend 24,25,& 27th May.
A fan of Johnny Depp to play alongside hin in Public Enemies
Apparentley a Fan paid 91,000 to star alongside Johnny Depp as an extra in the movie Public Enemies. The money from the charitybuzz.com auction will go to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, a living memorial which aims to "advance the human rights movement through providing innovative support to courageous human rights defenders around the world who have won the RFK Human Rights Award".Description from charitybuzz.com
Auction No 13567 Includes: A featured extra, non-speaking role in a scene with Johnny Depp to be filmed on a single day -- to be determined by the producers and subject to change -- in the period of May 19 - May 31, 2008, inclusive, in the Chicago, IL area. Must be at least 18 years or older. Travel arrangements, travel to the Chicago area and accommodations are NOT included in the auction and will be the responsibility of the winning bidder. Ground transport, as determined by the producers, directly to and from the set within the greater Chicago area will be provided. Please be reminded that strict rules govern the production, and decisions exercised by the producers, Mr. Mann, or their designees, are final.
Johnny Nominated for 2008 MTV Awards
Okay people Johnny Depp Is up for MTV 2008 Awards on June 1st @ 8pm ETLook under the following Catagories to vote if you think he deserves to win.
Best Comedic Performance: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Best Villain : Sweeney Todd
So if you think he is worthy get those fingers going and vote @ MTV
Michael Mann talks about 'Public Enemies'
Published by: Brad Boron of The Daily Cardinal here is a great article on Michael Mann, Director of Public Enemies with Johnny Depp as Dillinger.
Stepping off the elevator in the Wisconsin State Capitol, one almost feels out of place among the building’s current occupants, who are all dressed in 1930s attire with hair so slick it reflects the light. In the next room over, actor Billy Crudup, playing FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, is asking a committee for more appropriations for his “G-men,” clearly restraining the emotion that threatens to overtake him at any second. Suddenly, the meeting is over, and Crudup and his men, angry at the decision, storm out of the room.
And so ends a typical “morning” of shooting for director Michael Mann, who’s in Madison this week to shoot his latest film, “Public Enemies”—due for release in July of 2009. While it’s nearly midnight, the cast is now breaking for “lunch” and will be back to work in under an hour.
Mann is famously elusive while directing his films, preferring to concentrate on his work during shooting. But for Mann—writer and director of films like “Collateral,” “Heat” and “Miami Vice”—this is a special occasion; it’s homecoming for the UW-Madison alum from a journey that started almost 40 years ago.
Mann said his love of film started at UW-Madison, with the introduction of the school’s first film course and with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” at the Orpheum Theater.
“I didn’t really know what I was going to do after graduation. ‘Dr. Strangelove’ was a revelation. It knocked me out,” Mann said. “It was one of those moments where it just occurred to me: ‘This is what you have to do. You want to make films.’”
That career trajectory has never failed Mann. He’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, won an Emmy and directed some of the greatest actors of our time, including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Daniel Day-Lewis and, in “Public Enemies,” Christian Bale and Johnny Depp. One would think a director with Mann’s reputation would be used to dealing with marquee names, but Mann approaches each actor he works with differently.
“What I am conscious of is my obligation to communicate to actors in the most telling way,” he said. “But what I do find in common in all of my actors is a sense of adventure about how they approach their character.”
Mann is also regarded for his outstanding eye for scenery and location shooting, which brought him back to Wisconsin to film segments of “Enemies.” While scouting for locations to shoot, Mann was informed by his cousin, a prosecutor in La Crosse, that many of the towns in southwest Wisconsin have kept much of their architecture from the early 1900s, the perfect background for a Depression-era drama.
“Public Enemies” marks the first time since Mann adapted and directed “The Insider” in 1999 that he has chosen to directly adapt a book rather than create his own story.
“Whether you write an original story or do an adaptation, you still have to find the story for the movie,” Mann said. “You have to ask yourself, ‘what is the story for the movie?’ You have to find your own psychology and your own attitudes.”
Mann added that it’s necessary to make each character’s emotional reasoning accessible to modern audiences to make the story worth telling.
“In 1933, they thought idiomatically; like ‘there’s a bullet somewhere with your name on it’- a certain kind of fatalism,” he said. “There are some good reasons why they’d have that way of thinking. But you have to decide your film’s story.”
At about 12:30 a.m. it’s back to work for Mann and his crew during this long night of shooting. It’s no bullet, but “Public Enemies” is all the better for having Michael Mann’s name on it.
Stepping off the elevator in the Wisconsin State Capitol, one almost feels out of place among the building’s current occupants, who are all dressed in 1930s attire with hair so slick it reflects the light. In the next room over, actor Billy Crudup, playing FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, is asking a committee for more appropriations for his “G-men,” clearly restraining the emotion that threatens to overtake him at any second. Suddenly, the meeting is over, and Crudup and his men, angry at the decision, storm out of the room.
And so ends a typical “morning” of shooting for director Michael Mann, who’s in Madison this week to shoot his latest film, “Public Enemies”—due for release in July of 2009. While it’s nearly midnight, the cast is now breaking for “lunch” and will be back to work in under an hour.
Mann is famously elusive while directing his films, preferring to concentrate on his work during shooting. But for Mann—writer and director of films like “Collateral,” “Heat” and “Miami Vice”—this is a special occasion; it’s homecoming for the UW-Madison alum from a journey that started almost 40 years ago.
Mann said his love of film started at UW-Madison, with the introduction of the school’s first film course and with a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” at the Orpheum Theater.
“I didn’t really know what I was going to do after graduation. ‘Dr. Strangelove’ was a revelation. It knocked me out,” Mann said. “It was one of those moments where it just occurred to me: ‘This is what you have to do. You want to make films.’”
That career trajectory has never failed Mann. He’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, won an Emmy and directed some of the greatest actors of our time, including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Daniel Day-Lewis and, in “Public Enemies,” Christian Bale and Johnny Depp. One would think a director with Mann’s reputation would be used to dealing with marquee names, but Mann approaches each actor he works with differently.
“What I am conscious of is my obligation to communicate to actors in the most telling way,” he said. “But what I do find in common in all of my actors is a sense of adventure about how they approach their character.”
Mann is also regarded for his outstanding eye for scenery and location shooting, which brought him back to Wisconsin to film segments of “Enemies.” While scouting for locations to shoot, Mann was informed by his cousin, a prosecutor in La Crosse, that many of the towns in southwest Wisconsin have kept much of their architecture from the early 1900s, the perfect background for a Depression-era drama.
“Public Enemies” marks the first time since Mann adapted and directed “The Insider” in 1999 that he has chosen to directly adapt a book rather than create his own story.
“Whether you write an original story or do an adaptation, you still have to find the story for the movie,” Mann said. “You have to ask yourself, ‘what is the story for the movie?’ You have to find your own psychology and your own attitudes.”
Mann added that it’s necessary to make each character’s emotional reasoning accessible to modern audiences to make the story worth telling.
“In 1933, they thought idiomatically; like ‘there’s a bullet somewhere with your name on it’- a certain kind of fatalism,” he said. “There are some good reasons why they’d have that way of thinking. But you have to decide your film’s story.”
At about 12:30 a.m. it’s back to work for Mann and his crew during this long night of shooting. It’s no bullet, but “Public Enemies” is all the better for having Michael Mann’s name on it.
Public Enemies - Filming Today With Christian Bale
The cast and crew were back today, spending most of the morning filming on the E. Washington Ave. side of the Capitol with Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent in charge of tracking Dillinger (Johnny Depp). The production then shifted late afternoon to the State St. side of the Capitol.
Public Enemies - Location Changes
Since the closed shoot at Manitowish Waters... it has been difficult to keep up with location changes, For the second week in a row filming scheduled for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, was cancelled. Then on Friday 2nd May the crew was busy preparing various locations inside the Wisconsin Capitol building for shoot that began Friday evening and run overnight into early Saturday morning. The center of the action was in the the North Hearing Room, which has been made over into the set of a congressional hearing room in Washington, D.C. A second day of shooting will take place on Monday in Madison (open shoot), this time outside of the Capitol. The locations for these shoots are scheduled for the sidewalks and stairways outside of the building at its State Street and Wisconsin Avenue entrances.
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