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[CeCeUK]

Johnny Depp Goes 'Public'



LOS ANGELES, Calif. (December 6, 2007) – Johnny Depp becomes “Public” enemy number one.

Johnny Depp has signed on to star in the drama “Public Enemies,” Variety reports.

Directed by Michael Mann, the film is set during the great crime wave of 1933-1934, when J.Edgar Hoover was hot on the tail of criminal legends like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Depp will play Dillinger, one of the most notorious gangsters of the Depression era.

Shooting will begin March 10 in Chicago.

According to Variety, Depp and Mann agreed to the project just hours before his Hollywood premier of “Sweeney Todd” on Wednesday night.

[VelvetDreamer]

Great news....Michael Man is a fab director and well Mr. Depp I need say no more!!!!!!!!!! 

[VelvetDreamer]

WBay

Baraboo seen as possible filming site for Depp movie
 
Associated Press
December 26, 2007

BARABOO, Wis. (AP) - Don't look now, but star actor Johnny Depp could be showing up in the small Wisconsin city of Baraboo if producers settle on a downtown bank to film a crime by Depression-era robber John Dillinger, played by Depp.

Gene Dalhoff of the Baraboo Area Chamber of Commerce says Universal Pictures contacted the group earlier this month. A representative told him Baraboo is among 20 communities in Wisconsin being scouted as potential filming locations for director Michael Mann's "Public Enemies."

Baraboo National Bank CEO Merlin Zitzner says he got a call from a representative of Mann, saying the bank is being considered for filming a robbery. He says the bank and Baraboo's courthouse square have a vintage look that makes them appealing to the filmmakers.

"Public Enemies" is envisioned as a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34." It describes the FBI's transformation when confronted with crime sprees of Dillinger, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis.

Dillinger and his gang pulled off bank robberies across the Midwest and used a northwoods Wisconsin lodge as a hideout. Dillinger's crime wave ended when he was slain by FBI agents in Chicago in July 1934.

[TrulyMadlyDepply]

Hutchinson Leader

This article was submitted on the Hutchinson Leader a while back now, but I thought it appropriate for the article posted by CeCe Here

Will Johnny Depp rob banks?

Submitted by Jorge Sosa on December 4, 2007 - 11:16am.
 
Director Michael Mann is no stranger to heist films. Johnny Depp is no stranger to playing infamous criminals.

Teaming the two to tell the tale of notorious bank robber John Dillinger makes perfect sense.

Depp and Mann are reportedly in talks to make a movie about the Great Depression-era crime wave, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The as-yet untitled project would be based on a nonfiction book called “Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.” Something tells me they'll want to whack a few words from that title.

Depp is rumored to have an interest in playing the notorious hood John Dillinger.

Dillinger and his gang were serial bank robbers in the early 1930s. He became something of a populist hero in some circles. A squad of FBI agents and police gunned him down on July 22, 1934., outside a Chicago movie theater. Dillinger was 31.

Incidentally, I used to live in an efficiency apartment at 2214 Marshall Ave., St. Paul. The building was once used by the Dillinger Gang as an arms depot.

Tour buses used to stop in front of our building and I'd wave at them like a dork.

Although Mann's new film is expected to shoot on-location in Chicago, the rekindled Dillinger buzz might fuel more St. Paul tourism. Who knows?

(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)

[VelvetDreamer]

The Celebrity Cafe

“Public Enemies“ Will Begin Filming in Chicago this Winter

11-Jan-2008
Written by: Jessica Dines

The film “Public Enemies“ will be shot in Chicago this winter with actors Johnny Depp and Christian Bale

The movie “Public Enemies,” a crime drama set in 1930s Chicago, is currently being created with director Michael Mann and stars Johnny Depp. According to Reuters, Christian Bale will also be starring in this Universal Pictures film.

Based on Bryan Burrough’s book “Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43,” the film follows the government’s effort to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Depp will play Dillinger while Bale will play the character of Melvin Purvis, who led the FBI manhunt for these dangerous gangsters. The real Purvis captured more public enemies than any other agent in FBI history. He also was the one who confronted the real Dillinger in 1934 and uttered the famous expression “Stick ‘em up, Johnny” moments before FBI agents shot the criminal to death.

Production of the film will start later this winter in Chicago and throughout the Midwest.

x-posted in the Christian Bale forum

[VelvetDreamer]

FilmStew

Wisconsin Itching to Go Public
Last week’s press conference was abruptly cancelled. But Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton’s office is hoping to soon trumpet the first catch of the state’s newly enacted filmmaking Incentives Bill.

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM
By FilmStew Staff

Producer-director Michael Mann is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, so it seems only appropriate that it would be one of his films that would herald the new Film Wisconsin Incentives Bill, which went into law on January 1st. Offering a sales tax exemption, a 25% film investment tax credit and a further 25% refundable productions cost tax credit, the measure was passed in May of 2006 at the behest of the volunteer task force Film Wisconsin.

A press conference was all set for last Wednesday, January 9th, at which it was expected to be announced that Public Enemies, starring newly minted Golden Globe winner Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and perhaps, soon as well, Christian Bale in the role of FBI agent Melvin Purvis, will be rolling in Chicago and at various Wisconsin locations from March through July. But the announcement was abruptly canceled and a few days later, the office of Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton told Isthmus’ The Daily Page that it was indeed not yet authorized to crow about this Universal Studios production, one that would rank as the highest profile film ever to shoot in Wisconsin. The office added that a rescheduled announcement should be forthcoming this week or next.

Based on the 2004 Bryan Burrough book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, Mann’s newest enterprise is a massive affair, with more than 100 speaking parts filling out what is expected to be a two-and-a-half to three month shoot. It would be the second Dillinger flavored film to come to Wisconsin, following the 1991 movie Dillinger starring Mark Harmon and Sherilynn Fenn.

It’s not just the Wisconsin incentives package that is drawing Mann and co. to the state. Many of the state’s smaller towns such as Baraboo feature banks and other structures that can still pass for 1930’s Prohibition era America, when Dillinger and others cemented the term ‘Public Enemy’ with a rash of bank robberies.

Meanwhile, for Burrough, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and current Vanity Fair contributor, this would be his second book to be translated in high-profile fashion by Hollywood. In 1993, James Garner and Jonathan Pryce brought his Barbarians at the Gate to life as an acclaimed HBO movie. Burrough's paternal grandfather manned one of the road blocks set up during the manhunt for Bonnie and Clyde, two of the many other outlaws that grace his latest tome.

x-posted in the Christian Bale forum.

[VelvetDreamer]

Cinematical

Marion Cotillard to Join Depp and Bale in 'Public Enemies'

Posted Jan 28th 2008
by Christopher Campbell

If you've seen Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose, you've seen one heck of a great performance. But will we see another from the actress, or was playing Edith Piaf the role of a lifetime? While I can't imagine her ever making such a huge transformation or giving such a notable, career-defining performance again, I'm excited to see where her Oscar nomination takes her and I hope that she can at least follow it up with some interesting parts. We've already heard that her next major role will be in Rob Marshall's Nine, an adaptation of the musical inspired by Fellini's 8½. After that, she could be heading to Chicago (not Marshall's Chicago, the real city) for Michael Mann's Public Enemies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cotillard is in negotiations to play Billie Frechette, the torch singer girlfriend of John Dillinger, who will be played by Johnny Depp. Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke have also joined the cast.

As Monika relayed last week, Billie will be a major character in the plot of Public Enemies, which also stars Christian Bale. The movie will reportedly balance between Dillinger's crime story and his love life while also focusing on FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale), who famously pursued and caught Dillinger in the mid-1930s. It is interesting to note that Public Enemies will be another singing role for Cotillard, who did not actually perform any of the Piaf songs in La Vie en Rose. But while the actress is not a born singer nor a long-trained one, she did sing in in the 2001 French film Les Jolies Choses (Pretty Things) and will be singing in Nine. Also, if you think Cotillard is suddenly getting work just because of her La Vie en Rose acclaim, you're mistaken. You may have seen her in either of her two English-language movies (Ridley Scott's A Good Year and Tim Burton's Big Fish), in any of the three Taxi movies, as the female lead in the sweet Amelie wannabe Love Me If You Dare, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie follow-up, A Very Long Engagement or in any of the many other French films in which she has appeared.

x-posted in the Christian Bale forum

[VelvetDreamer]

Source

Yet More Public Enemies Cast
David Wenham, Stephen Graham sign up for gangster thriller.

by Orlando Parfitt, IGN UK

UK, February 22, 2008 - The talented cast of Michael Mann's gangster project Public Enemies just keeps on growing, with David Wenham and Stephen Graham now joining the crew, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

David Wenham, most famous for playing Faramir in The Lord of the Rings, will play Pete Peirpoint, a member of the Dillinger crew who had a 'violent hostility to all authority' (like the rest of the gang surely?).

Stephen Graham meanwhile seems to be perfectly cast as Baby Face Nelson. The Brit actor recently turned in a great performance in the brilliant This is England.

They join an impressive roster of talent, with Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi and Stephen Dorff all signed up for the depression-era drama, which revolves around John Dillinger's gang and the FBI's attempts to catch them.

The film is due in 2009.

x-posted in the Christian Bale thread.

[VelvetDreamer]

Source

It's official: Johnny Depp is coming to Wisconsin

By SCOTT BAUER | Associated Press Writer
February 26, 2008

MADISON, Wis. - It may have been the worst kept secret in Wisconsin film making history.

But now it's official: Johnny Depp is coming to Wisconsin.

Gov. Jim Doyle's office confirmed Tuesday that Depp will be in the state to star as bank robber John Dillinger in "Public Enemies."

The news that Depp was coming has been around for months as filmmakers scouted locations, held casting calls for extras and sought vintage automobiles.

But official word of the film coming to Wisconsin had to wait until after NBC Universal signed an agreement with the state on tax credits last Wednesday.

The film will co-star Christian Bale and be directed and produced by University of Wisconsin graduate Michael Mann. Bale will play FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis, who led the manhunt for Dillinger in the 1930s.

Filming is expected to start in Wisconsin next month, but the governor's office said there is no official timeline yet. Parts will be shot in the Chicago area as well.

Mann said in a statement that Wisconsin was an attractive filming location because many communities have high quality historic buildings. Mann and others associated with the film have scouted locations in Baraboo and Columbus and looked at 1930s-era cars from collectors in the Madison area.

Dillinger used a northwoods Wisconsin lodge as a hideout during his crime spree, which ended when FBI agents shot him to death outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in July 1934.

The movie is a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough's 2004 book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34." It describes the FBI's transformation when confronted with crime sprees by Dillinger, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis.

Depp starred last year in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." An annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co. put him first in 2006 and 2007 in generating box office revenue for theaters.

"Public Enemies" is the first major production to come to Wisconsin after new tax incentives took effect Jan. 1. Doyle's office said the film company, which plans to spend nearly $20 million in the state, will earn about $3.9 million in tax credits.

Under the law, a production company qualifies for a tax credit of 25 percent of the wages paid to employees to produce a film, video, electronic game, broadcast advertisement or television production in the state. Also included are credits for sales tax, construction, wardrobes, clothing and visual effects.

x-posted in the Christian Bale thread

[BulletTheBlueSky90]

Hooray for Wisconsin! ;)

They've been looking at a bank in Eau Claire to use as the interior of a bank for the movie.  But they wanted to come look at it and we got a snowstorm so they didn't get here.  Everyone is still hoping but it sounds more and more likely that it will be shot in Columbus, near Madison.

Wisconsin was a favorite "hideout" for Chicago gangsters because of its rurality and because up north, there were woods to conceal you.  Al Capone's hideout is now a museum open to the public for tours.  My Nana claimed to have seen Capone on the streets of Hayward, where she grew up.

[VelvetDreamer]

Are any of those places near you?  Wouldn't it be fabulous if you got to see Christian & Depp in the flesh...oh  my!!!! 

[yazpistachio19]

Or go be an extra! That would be exciting.

[yazpistachio19]

See Heidi? I told you!

WISN

Extras Needed For Johnny Depp Movie

POSTED: 10:26 am CST March 5, 2008


MILWAUKEE -- Johnny Depp fans around Wisconsin will get a chance to be in a movie with the movie star.

The Hollywood heartthrob's new movie "Public Enemies" is being shot in Wisconsin beginning in the middle of March.

They need extras for the movie.
 
Producers will hold auditions Friday night from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. That's at 631 E. Chicago Street.

Men should be no taller than 6-foot-1 and wear a dark suit and overcoat.

Women should be no taller than 5 feet 8 inches and wear a dark dress and overcoat.

People should also bring a recent color picture of themselves.

[TrulyMadlyDepply]

   

[VelvetDreamer]

Oh I hope she does it....that would be so cool!!!!