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The Asian Film Awards has unveiled Korean veteran actor Jang Dong-gun and Chinese actress Tang Wei as this year’s recipients of the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award, which will be presented during the awards ceremony in Hong Kong on March 16.

With more than 30 years in the film and television industry, Jang has starred in top Korean films like Friend, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, No Tears for the Dead and A Normal Family, among others. He has also acted alongside Hong Kong talent like Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse in Chen Kaige’s pan-Asian production The Promise and reunited with Cheung in Dangerous Liaisons.

Tang played leading roles in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave and Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. She also co-starred with Chris Hemsworth in Michael Mann’s Blackhat and worked on numerous Hong Kong productions and co-productions like The Golden Era, Office...

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Leehom Wang, Wei Tang, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany | Written by Morgan Davis Foehl | Directed by Michael Mann

About an hour into my viewing of Blackhat I was struggling to remain conscious from boredom. About an hour later I was glued to my seat, my eyes and ears on full alert for whatever the film was going to throw at me next. So you’ll understand when I say I have considerably mixed feelings about crime maestro Michael Mann’s latest film. It’s his first since 2009′s Public Enemies, a film the subject of which (John Dillinger’s battle against the authorities in the 1920s) I was intrigued by but was severely ill-served by its amateurish and distracting digital handicam cinematography.

While that film disappointed after the electric promise of Collateral (I didn’t catch Miami Vice, perhaps luckily), my expectations were set lower for Blackhat, a...

Because he's best known for playing the lovably bumbling yet heroic and kindhearted Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chris Hemsworth impressive range as an actor tends to go unnoticed. From hardened anti-heroes in Blackhat and the Extraction series to comedic idiots in Ghostbusters' 2016 reboot, the actor can do a lot more than just be a clean-cut hero. That said, the one character archetype that Hemsworth actually excels in is that of the villain. Look no further than his film-stealing performance as Dementus in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, for proof of this.

To most moviegoers, Dementus was the first time they saw Hemsworth play such an irredeemable monster. Despite having the actor's natural charisma and often hilarious charm, Dementus was a brutal sadist and a dangerously incompetent nihilist who wanted the world to suffer as he did. As good a villain as Dementus was,...

Netflix has revealed the list of films and TV series that will be removed from the streaming service beginning on February 1, 2025, and continuing throughout the month.

There are two TV shows that are being removed: The Mindy Project and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. There are several fan fave movies that are departing as well, including the Fast and the Furious franchise.

We’ve compiled the full list here for you to see. Be sure to mark your calendars and stream these titles if you haven’t already!

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The Fast and the Furious

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Fast & Furious 6

The Pope’s Exorcist

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The Catcher Was a Spy...

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The MCU has been capturing the imagination of moviegoers and converting many of them to superhero nerds for almost two decades now, but it's also been responsible for drastically altering the career trajectories of many of its prominent stars. Among those most affected was Chris Hemsworth. The Aussie heartthrob may be a household name now, but before he first wielded Thor's mighty hammer, he wasn't well-known outside Australian soaps.

However, after a brief 2009 appearance as Kirk's father in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Hemsworth went on to gain some recognition for his gritty portrayal of Kyle Garrity in Perfect Getaway. His true break would come two years later when he was given the role of the title character...

It feels like Chris Hemsworth has been a full-fledged movie star for a long time, but he's a young pup compared to his "The Avengers" co-stars. While Hemsworth was well known in his native Australia after a series of television appearances in the 2000s, he didn't make his Hollywood feature debut until 2009 as the father of Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek." So, he was only two whole years into his film acting career when he landed his thus far defining role as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, he's worked with a couple of legendary auteurs ("Blackhat" with Michael Mann and "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" with George Miller), but for the most part he's clearly defined, perhaps even a tad typecast, as Thor.

Now that the MCU appears to be in a calling-all-cars brand conundrum in the wake of its post-"Avengers: Endgame...

Chris Hemsworth is taking Netflix by storm, and not just because of his Netflix original movies. The actor rose to prominence in his home country when he starred as Kim Hyde in the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2004 to 2007. However, Hemsworth gained worldwide recognition when he joined the cast of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor in 2011. He played the titular character, of course, and would go on to appear as Thor in ten more movies in the MCU, four of them his own.

Chris Hemsworth's next projects include Stuntnuts: The Movie (the third film in the Kick-Ass series), Crime 101 (a crime movie also starring Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry), and Extraction 3.

Although he has continued to play the God of Thunder in the MCU many years after Thor (with a rumored fifth movie in the works), Hemsworth has experienced success outside of Marvel. He has starred in several action films,...

Content agencies from Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines presented their incentives and co-production initiatives at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf) on Thursday.

Malaysia’s National Film Development Corp (Finas) revealed that it plans to join the regional trend to launch a scheme designed to stimulate co-production with its domestic filmmakers.

“We’re moving towards gap financing and matching funds, which we’ll be announcing officially next year,” said Finas CEO Azmir Saifuddin Mutalib.

“We’re exploring how to get into gap financing and best match with our rebate systems. Moving forward, we want to encourage more private investors to enter the picture.”

Malaysia already has a location incentive for both local and international productions, Film In Malaysia Incentive (Fimi), which offers a 30% cash rebate on all qualifying Malaysian production expenditure, with an additional 5% rebate subject to a cultural test.

Fimi has so far supported 61 foreign titles, with combined cash payouts of $90M,...

Michael Mann's 2015 cyber-thriller "Blackhat," with its steely visuals and ultra-serious tone, clearly sought to update computer-based espionage movies for a new generation. A lot of time had passed since the days of "Hackers" and "The Net," and cyber-warriors — and their corresponding computer tools — now looked and behaved a lot differently. The film follows a computer engineer named Chen Lien (Tang Wei) and her cop brother Dawai (Leehom Wang) as they investigate a series of dangerous computer security breaches throughout China. They eventually find that the top-secret code used to hack their systems was written by hotshot hacker Nicholas Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth), who was Dawai's old MIT roommate. Hathaway, however, is not the man responsible. As such, Hathaway is released from prison (he was serving time for hacking bank systems) and enlisted to help the Feds find the real hacker.

The film is ploddingly paced, poorly photographed, and difficult to follow,...

Disney is eyeing Marvel star Chris Hemsworth for its live-action Prince Charming film. It was recently announced that Paddington director Paul King signed on to direct a film based on the Prince Charming character, who is something of a stock character among various Disney princes but is most commonly associated with Cinderella. Given the name Prince Charming, it certainly puts a lot of pressure on Disney to find the right actor to live up to that title, and the studio is pulling from its stable of Marvel stars to take on the role.

Deadline reports that Chris Hemsworth is in talks to play Prince Charming in the upcoming film. Hemsworth is best known for his portrayal of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with 2011's Thor and most recently in 2022's Thor: Love and Thunder. No deal has been made yet, but if Hemsworth were to take the role,...

Michael Mann Archives is a new website that includes mini documentaries, annotated scripts and other materials – at a cost.

Update 19th July 2024: Since this piece was published, we’ve had a response from the PR agency involved in the website; we’ve updated the post with their reply below.

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Eminent filmmaker Michael Mann has just launched a new website – and we’re not talking some hastily thrown-together Geocities affair set in Comic Sans, either. Called Michael Mann Archives, the project “offers an unprecedented exploration of the creative process within Mann’s films.”

The first batch of materials published on the website all comes from, logically enough, Ferrari – the motor racing biopic released to widespread praise (and disappointing box-office) in December 2023. Among those materials you’ll find 20 mini making-of documentaries, scripts – one of them covered in Mann’s notes and scribbles – pre-viz footage, and lots more besides.

When it comes to epic new character challenges for Chris Hemsworth, the question isn’t “Can he do it?” The question is “Does he have it in him… to make it epic?”

From “The Avengers” and “Blackhat” to more Avengers and “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” Hemsworth has been chewing through action roles since he was first cast as Captain Kirk’s dad in the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot that launched a thousand IMDb pages. He’s known across the world and throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thor: an ancient god dedicated to protecting Earth and the “Guardians of the Galaxy” IP with a heart of gold and a hammer the size of Rocket Raccoon. Sometimes he’s brave. Sometimes he’s goofy. And shaggy or shaven, the man sure can make a cape and eyepatch sexy.

Although the Thor role may have made Hemsworth a household name, he...

After his star-studded roles in other superhero and action franchises, including his long-term work as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the latest addition as Dr. Dementus in the Mad Max lore, Chris Hemsworth, seems to be all set to jump into his next big project. What’s more, his next role may reportedly be in a collision movie of two of the biggest action franchises of all time.

Chris Hemsworth. | Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.

According to exclusive reports, Hemsworth is being eyed to star in a crossover movie of multi-billionaire G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises. But as much as this is a piece of fantastic news for all of his fans out there, Peter Cullen fans don’t seem to be all too happy about it. And, if anything, their anger just may be over nothing if these reports turn out to be true.

Chris Hemsworth is...

Los Angeles, California – May 01: Barbara Crampton attends the Film Independent special screening of “The Last Stop in Yuma County” at Harmony Gold on May 01, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Umbrelic Entertainment’s Brian Katz and Thomas Zambeck are proud to announce that filming has commenced for the horror film, The Possession At Gladstone Manor. Starring Caylee Cowan (Hypnotic), Jesse Metcalf (John Tucker Must Die), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning), Darren Weiss (Inside Man), Barbara Crampton, William Mapother (Blackhat), and Lin Shaye (Insidious Franchise), production is underway in Kansas City, utilizing the new Missouri state tax incentives.

Amp’s Anthony Buckner will be handling international sales at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.

“As die-hard fans of the horror genre, this project feels like a dream come true,” says Zambeck. “We’re thrilled to bring this dark vision to life, and scare audiences with this...

Umbrelic Entertainment has unveiled the cast of its upcoming horror film, “The Possession at Gladstone Manor,” which includes Caylee Cowan (“Hypnotic”), Jesse Metcalfe (“John Tucker Must Die”), Charlotte Kirk (“The Reckoning”), Darren Weiss (“Inside Man”), Barbara Crampton (“You’re Next”), William Mapother (“Blackhat”) and Lin Shaye (“Insidious” franchise).

Production is currently underway in Kansas City, and Amp’s Anthony Buckner is handling international sales at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

According to an official logline, “The Possession at Gladstone Manor” picks up “when Jamie Black discovers her mother has gone missing [and] resolves to investigate by applying for the same job her mother held at Gladstone Manor. Jamie soon finds evidence that her mother isn’t the only missing person, and that she may be dealing with sinister forces beyond this world.”

“As die-hard fans of the horror genre, this project feels like a dream come true,” said producer Thomas Zambeck.

Michael Mann teamed up with Chris Hemsworth in 2015 for an action thriller about hacking and cyber-terrorism. Blackhat follows Hemsworth as a convicted hacker who is released from prison to help aid in an investigation after a covert hacker organization sabotages a nuclear site in Hong Kong. As with many of Mann's films, the insistence on authenticity may leave audiences feeling jarred, but Blackhat is simply a movie that demands close attention. The movie was criticized for pacing and structural issues, as well as the casting of Hemsworth. Despite mixed reception at the time, Blackhat is revealing itself to be a movie that audiences may have just not been ready for at the time.

Over the past ten years, legendary director Michael Mann has dramatically reduced his filmmaking output. He's only made two films since 2010: Blackhat in 2015 and Ferrari in 2023. Now that he's nearly 81 years old, letting up on the gas is only natural, especially considering how visually distinctive and rigorously researched every Michael Mann film has been.

While some critics would assert that Michael Mann's filmography is hit-and-miss, one thing is abundantly clear. Each one of Mann's movies is irrepressible, with brooding characters who only slow down to occasionally stare into the depths of a cool blue ocean before ramping back up to engage in an energetic action sequence designed to get an audience's blood pumping.

Related 10 Best Action Movie Actors From the Past 10 Years The past decade has been huge for action movies, and actors like Tom Cruise and Chris Hemsworth have solidified themselves as action stars. Ali Was Almost a...

Reminiscing the past once in a while is something everyone does. That’s what Hollywood actor Chris Hemsworth has been up to, and has been generous enough to let his fans have an insight into it.

Chris Hemsworth in a still from Extraction 2

The Extraction II star took a trip down memory lane, quite literally, when he visited his childhood home in the Northern Territory of Australia. Hemsworth’s carousel post on Instagram was a mosaic of heartwarming moments of the present, an echo of what had been, and what is now; thirty-five years apart.

Chris Hemsworth Visited His Roots Chris Hemsworth as Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder

On Sunday, April 7, Chris Hemsworth posted a carousel on Instagram from his visit to Gulin Gulin, Bulman; a place where the star spent his “earliest and happiest memories”. The community members welcomed the star warmly, all dressed in red, and...

With the film industry focusing more on remaking and retelling the stories from past times, Benedict Cumberbatch seems to be jumping on this bandwagon as he prepares to star in a reimagined version of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses, which is newly titled The Roses.

Along with the MCU star, we will also witness Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Colman playing the role of the female lead in the upcoming film.

Benedict Cumberbatch in and as Sherlock

With this reimagination being made for modern times, the themes and elements of this classic film might be changed to a certain extent, which will be interesting to see. But at the same time, this news has not been taken too joyfully by audiences who loved the original and are calling it out for being non-creative and unnecessary.

Remake Of 1989’s The War Of The Roses Is Set To Star Benedict...

The legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in action in the upcoming thriller Darkness of Man, which is set to receive a digital release on May 21st. With that date just a couple months away, a trailer for the film has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Directed by James Cullen Bressack, who crafted the story with Jcvd and wrote the screenplay with Alethea Hnatko-Cho, Darkness of Man has the following synopsis: Russell Hatch (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a washed-up, former Interpol operative who vowed to protect the son of an informant killed years earlier in a raid gone wrong. When merciless street gangs start an all-out turf war and the kid is caught in the middle, Hatch will stop at nothing to keep him safe and fight anyone who gets in his way.

Van Damme is joined in the cast by Emerson Min...

When it was released back in 1995, Michael Mann’s film Heat became a global hit. This action thriller starring acting legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, as well as then-upcoming actor Val Kilmer, was one of the biggest films of the decade and has become a pillar of the genre. Although Mann had already been an established director by then, Heat further cemented his place in the history of cinema, making him one of the most important creators in the history.

Mann had a relatively long “dry streak” after 2009’s Public Enemies (Blackhat is basically a forgotten movie), to use this term, before last year’s Ferrari was released to solid reviews, with praise directed at Driver’s performance. His return to the spotlight also reignited rumors about a possible sequel to Heat, something that Hollywood has been gossiping about for some time, with Heat 2 becoming a more palpable possibility at the time.

Talk To Me breakout star Sophie Wilde is set to appear in Watch Dogs, a long-in-gestation adaptation of Ubisoft’s hacking-based videogame series.

As such Hollywood films as Blackhat and Hackers have taught us, only the coolest and most photogenic people engage in cybercrime. The cool-and-trendy-hacker theme was continued in Watch Dogs, a series of sandbox action adventure videogames first published by Ubisoft in 2014.

Spawning a hit franchise comprising two sequels and counting, Watch Dogs sees high-tech outlaws cause all kinds of digital mischief in cities around the world, with each game taking in stealth, driving, fisticuffs, shooting and tinkering with electronic devices.

A film adaptation based on the series was first floated by Ubisoft Motion Pictures back in 2013, before the original game was even released. The division’s plans for a multitude of movies based on its games took something of a body blow, however, when 2016’s Assassin’s Creed,...

Ferrari has bypassed theaters and will be racing out online only in Germany.

Amazon, which picked up rights in Germany and Austria for Michael Mann’s race car biopic, will release the Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz starrer directly online. The film, which premiered in Venice last year and was released theatrically in the U.S. by Neon, will bow on Amazon’s Prime Video service in the two territories on March 1. Amazon took the same track in France, where Ferrari will go out on exclusively on Amazon Prime on March 8. Ferrari was pre-sold to Amazon in the territories (as well in India and the Nordic territories). The producers of the film noted that after the Amazon deal was done there were no plans to release the movie theatrically in those territories.

While generally well-received by U.S. critics, Ferrari got trashed by many Euro reviewers, who took issue with...

Michael Mann's film Ferrari has been met with disappointing box-office results, making it his least commercially successful film in over 35 years. The release of Ford v Ferrari in 2019, which received critical acclaim and commercial success, may have hurt the box-office performance of Ferrari due to perceived similarities. The failure of Ferrari highlights Michael Mann's struggle to consistently attract a large audience to his films, despite his reputation as a filmmaker.

The biographical sports drama film Ferrari marks Michael Mann’s first feature directorial outing since the 2015 action thriller film Blackhat, which became one of the biggest box-office flops of the past decade but has, like so many of Mann’s films, gained an enthusiastic following over time.

Indeed, despite his recent inactivity, Mann’s lofty reputation as a filmmaker has, over the past decade, increased to mythic proportions, boosted by the continuously upwardly adjusted critical appraisals for films like Heat,...

Holt McCallany is enjoying a career renaissance right now thanks to “The Iron Claw,” but let’s not pretend this hasn’t been going on for a while now. McCallany’s recognition is well-deserved, with top-notch performances over the past decade in “Blackhat,” “Nightmare Alley,” and “Wrath Of Man,” among others. But his most memorable and accalimed role may be in David Fincher‘s shortlived but much beloved Netflix series “Mindhunter” as FBI agent Bill Tench.

Continue reading Holt McCallany Remains “Hopeful” For Another Season Of ‘Mindhunter’: “If It Comes Back, I’m Coming Back With It” at The Playlist.

Director Michael Mann reveals that he's still working on the script for Heat 2, but he expects to shoot the project in 2024. Like the novel, Heat 2 will be both a sequel and a prequel. Mann's Ferrari has significantly underperformed at the box office, continuing a disappointing trend for the filmmaker, which could potentially affect plans for the Heat sequel.

Heat 2 director Michael Mann provides an update on the highly-anticipated sequel, revealing a filming start window. Released in 1995, Mann's crime thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino has gone down as one of the best heist movies of all time. The Heat 2 novel was released in 2022, continuing the story of Val Kilmer's Chris Shiherlis while simultaneously serving as a prequel for De Niro's Neil McCauley and Pacino's Vincent Hanna.

Now, with no Heat 2 release date yet in sight, Mann reveals on the Variety...

The Christmas and New Year's box office capped off 2023 with a hefty unexpected bounty. Despite not having a single outright mega-blockbuster hit like "Spider-Man: No Way Home" or "Avatar: The Way of Water" like 2021 and 2022 had, the overall final frame of the year was big enough to push the final domestic tally for the year past the $9 billion mark. A unique aspect of the most recent week was that we had a slew of movies -- "Wonka," "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom," "The Color Purple," and "Migration," among others -- carrying the load. The love was spread around, which was very nice to see. Unfortunately, that love did not extend to Michael Mann's "Ferrari," which now finds itself in a precarious situation financially.

Released in theaters on Christmas Day, Mann's first movie since 2015's "Blackhat" did not find much of an audience. The film, a biopic about legendary car-maker...

Stars: Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Giuseppe Festinese, Derek Hill, Leonardo Caimi, Gabriel Leone, Michele Savoia | Written by Troy Kennedy Martin, Brock Yates | Directed by Michael Mann

It has been 8 years since Michael Mann last had a film in cinemas, the hugely underrated Blackhat. Now he is back, and we can only hope he doesn’t have another 8-year gap between movies. Now he is telling the story of Enzo Ferrari, the founder of the iconic car brand. The film takes aim and focuses on the summer of 1957 when Ferrari’s passion in his personal life, and passion for his work, head towards crisis.

Adam Driver is Enzo Ferrari, and as he has many times before, he becomes the man himself. Only a few moments into the film, the image of Driver fades away and we are only left with the presence of Enzo Ferrari. A deeply complicated man throughout,...

Content warning: This article discusses the death of a child and contains spoilers for "Ferrari."

Director Michael Mann is back with his first feature film since 2015's "Blackhat." This time, the acclaimed filmmaker is bringing a long-gestating passion project to the big screen in the form of "Ferrari," a biopic about famed car maker Enzo Ferrari, played by Adam Driver. Specifically, it chronicles a very tumultuous period for the historical figure that takes place in the summer of 1957. It all leads up to one of the most horrific accidents in the history of racing — one that Mann captured on screen in gruesome detail.

Anyone who has seen the movie knows the scene: Alfonso de Portago (portrayed by Gabriel Leone in the film) is racing in the Mille Miglia during the film's climax. After his tire is punctured, the car is flung into the air and smashes into a group of onlookers,...

Something interesting happened the other day. I reached out to Arrow Video to get a review copy of their upcoming Conan the Barbarian 4k release, The Conan Chronicles (which also features Conan the Destroyer). I was told their retail stock of the much-anticipated title had already sold out (don’t worry – more is on the way). To me, this is a very promising sign, with interesting companies like Arrow, Scream/Shout Factory, and Kino Lorber making really thoughtful, beautifully assembled 4K collector’s editions of cult hits on physical media that, despite being more niche than they were twenty or so years ago, are actually selling really well.

Studios have all but abandoned physical media, at least as far as library titles go. Some studios, like Paramount, still re-release their classics through labels like Paramount Presents, but for many companies, these titles are an afterthought, even for their biggest movies.

Although its simple, direct title implies a more expansive take on the man who founded one of the world's most famous and successful car companies, Michael Mann's Ferrari covers only a short time in the life of Italian automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver). Rather than attempt to take on Enzo's entire life, Mann and screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin cover only a short period in 1957 when Enzo was dealing with especially difficult personal and professional circumstances. That's a smart move since it gives Ferrari a sharper focus, with one central climactic event and a handful of important character relationships. The narrative still feels a bit shapeless at times, but Mann delivers a mostly engaging meditation on masculine power and insecurity.

Those are common themes in Mann's movies, and while Ferrari is his first feature film since 2015's ill-fated hacker thriller Blackhat, it fits in perfectly with his previous work.

Director Michael Mann has made several of the greatest action movies ever made, ranked here from worst to best. Mann's film "Ferrari" is a dramatized biopic about Enzo Ferrari and features Adam Driver in the lead role. "Heat" is considered Mann's most iconic and culturally influential film, setting the stage for a potential sequel in the future.

Director Michael Mann has made several of the greatest action movies ever made, ranked here from worst to best. With the recent release of his celebrated Ferarri starring Adam Driver, it is somewhat surprising that the acclaimed director only has a total of twelve feature films under his belt as a director. Ferarri is the first film that Mann has directed since 2015's Blackhat, which is arguably one of his weakest efforts as a director. The 80-year-old director and producer was an executive producer on the 2018 hit Ford v. Ferrari, which was one of the year's best films.

Clockwise from top right: Robert De Niro in Heat, Colin Farrell in Miami Vice, Chris Hemsworth in Blackhat, James Caan in Thief, Tom Cruise in Collateral, Will Smith in Ali. Screenshot: YouTube There have been several reasons for cinephiles to rejoice in 2023, but few are more exciting than the return of Michael Mann.

Clockwise from top right: Robert De Niro in Heat, Colin Farrell in Miami Vice, Chris Hemsworth in Blackhat, James Caan in Thief, Tom Cruise in Collateral, Will Smith in Ali.Screenshot: YouTube

There have been several reasons for cinephiles to rejoice in 2023, but few are more exciting than the return of Michael Mann.

There's been a lot of buzz for the upcoming biopic, Ferrari, this year. Aside from it being Oscar-nominated director, Michael Mann's first film in seven years, the movie stars Adam Driver as the luxury sports car magnate, Enzo Ferrari, in a performance that sees the actor "playing to his strengths," and evoking one Robert De Niro, according to Collider's Ross Bonaime.

Michael Mann is one of the top directors in Hollywood, long used to calling his own shots. When Joe Roth was running Disney Motion Pictures, he asked Mann if his “60 Minutes” expose “The Insider” with Russell Crowe and Al Pacino (1999) would make money. “Probably not,” Mann said. Roth made it anyway. It wasn’t a hit ($60 million worldwide), but it scored seven Oscar nominations, including Picture, Director, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. Like many of Mann’s movies, it also gained stature over time.

But for all of Mann’s classic films, there are as many movies that didn’t get made in his oeuvre. It takes a lot for him to decide that he should expend the time and energy to go forward with a project, partly because his standards of performance are so high. For example, after directing four movies with high degrees of difficulty in a row Mann...

Michael Mann's Ferrari has an exclusive theatrical release with many showtimes available before streaming. The film received positive reviews for its racing scenes and strong performances from Driver, Cruz, and Woodley. It is expected that Ferrari will be released on streaming (likely Hulu) in April 2024 or earlier, and on digital platforms in early 2024.

Michael Mann's Ferrari has an exclusive theatrical release with many showtimes available before the movie can be watched at home on streaming. The biopic for Enzo Ferrari stars Adam Driver as the Italian racer and businessman. Excitement for Ferrari has been high ever since that casting announcement came in February 2022 when Driver replaced Hugh Jackman as the lead. The surrounding Ferrari cast for Driver includes Shailene Woodley, Penélope Cruz, Jack O'Connell, and Patrick Dempsey. It's Michael Mann's first movie in eight years, as 2015's Blackhat was the last time the accomplished filmmaker delivered a new project.

Nearly nine years since Blackhat with one hour-long TV pilot and big novel in-between doesn’t mean Michael Mann’s spent the much-better part of a decade lying dormant. The man(n) develops, develops, and develops, which is plenty effort for a noted perfectionist whose projects of late haven’t been so financially viable. Fingers crossed Ferrari––a solid, expressive bit of work––does business: he’s holding on to some long-stewing projects and hinting at ones we haven’t even heard word of yet.

In a recent interview with Uproxx, Mann reaffirms interest in a Vietnam-set project––likely his semi-recent attempts to adapt Mark Bowden’s Hue 1968, about the war’s turning-point Tet Offensive, though the outlet (I’m guessing incorrectly) refer to it as the “Battle of Wai.” In 2017 it was sketched as a 10-part FX series on which Mann would serve as a multi-episode director, but no...

Arrow Video is proud to announce the release of Michael Mann’s contemporary espionage thriller Blackhat starring Chris Hemsworth – available now on 4K Uhd and Blu-ray – which includes the rarely-seen Director’s Cut, never before released on home video!

“Back in February, when we announced our release of Blackhat (FCD2373 / AV502) some of our customers expressed disappointment that it did not include the Director’s Cut of the film. Arrow Video has heard your pleas…

After an extensive search, we have managed to track down the rarely-seen Director’s Cut, never before released on home video. The original digital files have been retrieved and we are very pleased to confirm that it will now be included as a second Blu-ray Disc.

To allow time for disc authoring and quality control, we have had to push the release date back to 27th November 2023 in the UK and 28th November 2023 in the US and Canada.

Retired U.S. Marine Eric Terashima evaluates the realism of 2018's 12 Strong, which stars Chris Hemsworth as the leader of a special forces unit in Afghanistan. Terashima praises the film's depiction of the value of horses during the Afghan War, but takes issue with various combat tactics, awarding the movie 6 out of 10. 12 Strong earned mostly mixed reviews, but it helped to further establish Hemsworth as a gritty action movie star.

12 Strong, Chris Hemsworth's 2018 war movie, gets put under the microscope by a real combat veteran, who praises its horse scenes. Starring Hemsworth as Captain Mitch Nelson, 12 Strong is directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, with a supporting cast that includes Michael Peña, Michael Shannon, Navid Negahban, and Trevante Rhodes. The film, which received mixed reviews from critics, follows the first Special Forces team to be deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11.

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On Christmas Day, Ferrari will roar into theaters. The first film from acclaimed director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) since 2015’s Blackhat.

Set in 1957, the drama sees Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) on the brink of professional and personal ruin. His Italian car company is about to face bankruptcy, his wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) has had it with his affairs — particularly his second family with Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley) — and he and Laura are still spiraling after the tragic death of his son Dino. So, Enzo and Laura are at each other’s throats.

In just under a month, Michael Mann's new biopic Ferrari will race into theaters and tell the story of the grief and crisis surrounding Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) in the summer of 1957. To prepare for the Oscar nominee's first film since 2015's Blackhat, Letterboxd exclusively shared a set of character posters highlighting the key players in and around Ferrari during this tumultuous time for the luxury sports car manufacturer. All five figures shown will collide as Enzo looks to bring glory to the Ferrari name through the infamous Mille Miglia race that also could destroy everything he's ever worked for.

The holidays are upon us, so whether you looking for film-related gifts or simply want to pick up some of the finest the year had to offer in the category for yourself, we have a gift guide for you. Including must-have books on filmmaking, the best from the Criterion Collection and more home-video picks, subscriptions, magazines, music, and more, dive in below.

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In celebration of our holiday gift guide, we’ll be doing a number of giveaways! First up, we’re giving away My First Movie Vol. 2, a three-part ‘lil cinephile series by Cory Everett and illustrator Julie Olivi, featuring My First Spaghetti Western, My First Yakuza Movie, and My First Hollywood Musical.

Enter on Instagram (for My First Yakuza Movie), Twitter (for My First Hollywood Musical), and/or Facebook (for My First Spaghetti Western) by Sunday, November 26 at 11:59pm Et. Those that enter on all three platforms...

Update, November 13: Camerimage Film Festival director Marek Żydowicz has released the following statement about Driver’s exchange with a fan.

“As the founder and director of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival, I was very honored to have Adam Driver as our guest at the festival. We prepared a very demanding festival schedule for him, one that Adam embraced with great openness and commitment. Despite the very tight program of his visit to Toruń related to his honorary Golden Frog award and promotion of the film Ferrari as part of the Main Competition at our festival, he participated in meetings and discussions about EnergaCAMERIMAGE film festival and the art of cinematography, met with the admirers of his talent as well as cinema aficionados, and asked for the conversation following the screening to be open to the public to have that direct dialogue with people who came to see the film. He...

The first notable images in Blackhat are of a synchronized series of white lights, flashing rapidly as digital poison courses through the inner workings of a computer mainframe, the camera trailing along on this tumbling journey through the darkness. This is a scarcely graceful bit of eye-catching CG spectacle, seemingly injected to enliven the usually drab proceedings of the hacker movie, a subgenre of thrillers in which fleet-fingered desperadoes are prone to squaring off against one another across the bland conduit of static computer prompts. Yet despite a fair share of clunky elements, director Michael Mann’s elegant work ultimately elevates the film above the level of the material, turning that initial image—of light and dark contrasted within a seemingly all-encompassing grid, its rigidity offset by a sinuous flow of wordless movement—into a gracefully expanding visual motif.

Utilizing a variety of flourishes stemming from agile, expressive camerawork courtesy of Stuart Dryburgh,...

Michael Mann is back at it. The director is making a triumphant return to the film world after a less-than-stellar reception to his 2015 tech thriller, Blackhat, which starred Chris Hemsworth. This year marks the release of Ferrari, his biopic of Enzo Ferrari starring Adam Driver, which is already generating positive word-of-mouth, including talk of a Best Supporting Actress nod for Driver’s co-star Penelope Cruz. Mann also has said that he will be moving on to a film adaptation of his crime novel sequel to his prolific 1995 drama, Heat. That project is also rumored to star Adam Driver.

According to Variety, Michael Mann is already at work on another project as he is now developing a remake of the Korean action-thriller-comedyVeteran from Ryoo Seung-wan. It is not yet known if Mann plans to direct the film or only be attached as a writer and producer. He is currently working with the U.

With Michael Mann finally returning to feature filmmaking this fall with Ferrari, which is enjoying a festival run ahead of its Christmas debut, the filmmaker is eying what to do next. It seems like an Adam Driver-led Heat 2 is very much in the cards––though one wonders if WB’s greenlit status will be dependent on the success of Ferrari. In the meantime, the director is also developing another project.

Variety reports the Miami Vice helmer is working on an adaptation of Ryoo Seung-wan’s 2015 crime thriller Veteran, a massive hit in South Korea as it is currently the 5th-highest-grossing film in the country. The crowd-pleaser follows a detective who is tracking down a young, wealthy, and privileged business owner who is running his own crime syndicate.

Currently in the development stage, it’s not decided yet if Mann will just produce and script or direct the project himself.

“Ferrari” director Michael Mann is planning to make a U.S. adaptation of South Korean crime thriller “Veteran.”

The project is at development stage, and Mann is working with the U.S. and Korean wings of Cj Enm, Korea’s leading film and TV conglomerate. It is currently undecided whether Mann himself will direct or just take production and writing credits.

“We are developing a script with Michael Mann, but his role and our schedule are not fixed yet,” a source close to Cj Enm told Variety.

Work halted on the project during the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike and it is unclear when development will pick up in earnest.

Mann is currently focusing on the development of “Heat 2,” which he recently confirmed as his next directing outing. The project, which is set up at Warner Bros., is the sequel to his genre-defining 1995 noir “Heat.”

“Veteran” has some similarities with “Heat...

Adam Driver in Ferrari Screenshot: Neon Michael Mann’s long-gestating passion project, Ferrari, is almost here. Ferrari stars Adam Driver, who, with his refined House Of Gucci accent, plays the automotive legend Enzo Ferrari. Opposite his wife (Penelope Cruz) and his lover (Shailene Woodley), Ferrari is struggling to save his collapsing racecar factory,...