Tag: Blackhat
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Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’ Was Ahead of Its Time and Remains Underrated
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…
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Penélope Cruz’s Ferocious ‘Ferrari’ Performance Revs Up Oscar Prospects For Michael Mann’s Latest
Among all working U.S. filmmakers, few have built as faithful and fervent a following of critics and cinephiles as Michael Mann. Mann’s acolytes have secured such sleekly hard-boiled genre works as “Thief” and “Heat” a permanent place in the American canon, while staunchly advocating for the merits of more divisive titles like “Blackhat” and “Miami…
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Michael Mann Admits ‘Blackhat’ Script Was Unfinished: It Was ‘Not Ready to Shoot’
Michael Mann is revisiting the disaster that was “Blackhat.”Mann, whose upcoming “Ferrari” is his first film in eight years since 2015’s “Blackhat,” admitted to Variety that the feature was not ready to go into production.“It’s my responsibility,” Mann said. The script was not ready to shoot.”“Blackhat” starred Chris Hemsworth as a hacker, with Viola Davis…
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Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Has Been His Dream Project for 55 Years
After a hiatus since his 2016 film Blackhat, the legendary director Michael Mann makes a triumphant return to feature film direction. His latest project, Ferrari starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari, is poised to capture the spotlight during the upcoming awards season. This eagerly anticipated film delves into the compelling narrative of Italian racing legend…
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Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ Will Be The Closing Film Of The 2023 New York Film Festival
Cinephiles already know that “Ferrari,” Michael Mann‘s first film since 2015’s “Blackhat,” will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. But now Mann fans know when his biopic will have its North American premiere: as the closing film of the New York Film Festival on October 13.Read More: ‘Ferrari’:…
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Neon Buys Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari,’ Racing Drama With Adam Driver Will Open in 2023
Neon has acquired “Ferrari,” the next film from Michael Mann. It will release the drama in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. The film, Mann’s first since 2015’s “Blackhat,” will star Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penélope Cruz as his wife, Laura Ferrari.The ensemble includes Shailene Woodley, Jack O’Connell, Sarah Gadon, Patrick Dempsey and Gabriel…
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Jean-Claude Van Damme’s ‘Darkness of Mans’ Sells to Saban Films (Exclusive)
Saban Films has acquired the U.S., U.K. and other international rights to Jean-Claude Van Damme action-spy thriller “Darkness of Man.”Directed by James Cullen Bressack, the film sees Van Damme playing Interpol operative Russell Hatch, who witnesses the death of his last informant in a routine raid gone wrong. Years later, he takes on a father…
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Michael Mann’s Only Horror Film is a Surreal, Brilliant Disaster
Michael Mann’s film Blackhat was one of the biggest financial disasters of 2015. It scored “rotten” on Rotten Tomatoes, and its star Chris Hemsworth would express disappointment in his own performance. A year later, Mann debuted an extended cut as part of a career retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This is a director…
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The Best Movies Streaming Right Now: Blackhat, The Many Saints Of Newark, And More
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a weekly column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.)Let’s dive right into this, shall we? In this week’s Now Stream this, I bring you: Chris Hemsworth as a hacker, a “Sopranos” prequel, a horror anthology pic that should rightly be considered…