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The publication of Heat 2 this week marks writer-director Michael Mann's debut as a novelist, expands the mythology of perhaps his most beloved film, and becomes the first major release of the publishing imprint he set at William Morrow six years ago. From the TV series Miami Vice and Crime Story to his feature debut T…

Michael Mann greeted guests via video at a retrospective screening of Heat, saying he'd tested positive for Covid so had to stay away. Producer Art Linson and stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro took the stage at the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights without the writer/director of the iconic crime drama. But…

Taylor Swift, Common, Seth Meyers and cast and crew including Al Pacino and Robert De Niro reuniting to talk about Michael Mann’s Heat are a few of the headliners confirmed for the Tribeca Festival’s Talks and Reunions lineup. The festival will run from June 8-19 — a later slot than its longtime April-May home and a…

Following Deadline’s story about Michael Mann’s forthcoming prequel/sequel novel to his landmark film Heat — he co-wrote the book with Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner — the novel has quickly sold rights in major markets around the world. The novel, which hits bookstores August 9, has already sold in 13 major…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann is ready to rip on Heat 2, a novel he has written with Edgar-winner Meg Gardiner that expands the tapestry of his 1995 crime classic film. The surprise here: the novel coming August 9 from William Morrow through the HarperCollins-based Michael Mann Books imprint will tell an original story…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Michael Mann, after film triumphs from The Insider to Collateral, Last of the Mohicans, Heat and numerous others and TV shows like Miami Vice and Crime Story, is ready to take the leap and become the rare elite filmmaker to launch his own publishing imprint. Deadline revealed in 2016 the deal he mad…

EXCLUSIVE: After a long manhunt that involved months of interviews with substantial authors, Michael Mann has found his co-writer for the prequel novel to Mann’s landmark crime film Heat. Writing with Mann will be Reed Farrel Coleman, the four-time Edgar Award-nominated author who is up for the award tonight for his…

Sorry, conspiracy theorists: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro actually did act opposite one another in their iconic diner conversation scene in Michael Mann’s 1995 magnum opus Heat. That’s been confirmed many times over the years of course. But thanks to the fact that in the film’s final cut, all their scenes are composed…

Here’s an event that’s well worth re-opening Kate Mantilini’s on Wilshire Boulevard for: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are getting together again, but only onstage, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 4K DCP restoration of Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat on September 7 at 7 PM at the Samuel…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Michael Mann, long one of the most literate translators of words to the screen, has made a deal to launch Michael Mann Books. The imprint will generate a series of novels with a stable of writers and the properties will simultaneously be developed for film and television. Mann will look…

EXCLUSIVE: "So you write a story about a movie I'm not doing, and you make the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro share the screen together an afterthought?” That’s my recollection of the first words that Michael Mann ever said to me, after I wrote a Weekly Variety column about how he and Leonardo DiCaprio were…

AN APPRECIATION: It not only was perhaps the most consistently popular and cool restaurant in Beverly Hills, Kate Mantilini which is located at the corner of Wilshire Blvd and Doheny and just two blocks from the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, has in recent years become a key part of…