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After premiering at Venice Film Festival in August and hitting theaters in December, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” will become available on digital starting Jan. 23, and on Blu-ray/DVD on March 12.

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Based on the biography “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine” by Brock Yates, Mann’s “Ferrari” is set during the summer of 1957 as the eponymous racer and entrepreneur (Adam Driver) must overcome threats of bankruptcy, divorce and the death of his son to save his business. Ferrari bets all on the Mile Miglia, a 1,000 mile-race across Italy. Also starring Penélope Cruz as Laura Ferrari, the supporting cast includes Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon, Jack O’Connell, Patrick Dempsey and Giuseppe Bonifati. Mann shot the film on location in Ferrari’s hometown of Modena.

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,...

Throughout his 40-plus year career, filmmaker Michael Mann has accumulated and proliferated many colorful phrases and bite-sized poetic philosophy. One of his most favored is the phrase "time is luck." The sentiment refers to how every second one can breathe — to ambulate and interact with the world around them, to manipulate and change it and, in turn, be changed by it — is an opportunity and a blessing.

Mann's personal and professional philosophies were heavily influenced by his time researching and befriending men who operated on both sides of the law, and he found that law enforcement officers as well as lifelong criminals tend to have an innate sense of a ticking clock in their lives. While the bulk of Mann's filmography deals with cops, criminals, and crime, there are several notable outliers — "The Keep," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Insider," and especially "Ali" — that point the way to his...

Take a look at more footage from "Ferrari", the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

Take a look at more footage from "Ferrari", the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

Take a look at more footage from "Ferrari", directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

The Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will wrap up its third edition next month with a closing-night gala screening on Dec. 7 of Ferrari, the biopic from Michael Mann starring Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley and Patrick Dempsey.

Organizers on Wednesday also unveiled the lineup for the International Spectacular program, which presents “cinema from around the globe and features celebrated auteurs and international filmmaking icons.” The festival highlighted that the section “showcases some of the most highly anticipated and talked about films of the year, screened for the first time in the Arab world.”

The International Spectacular program will also feature Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla, Ava Duvernay’s Origin, John Woo’s Silent Night, Léa Domenach’s Bernadette (The President’s Wife), which sees Catherine Deneuve starring as former French first lady Bernadette Chirac, Aardman’s Sam Fell-directed Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,...

"Ferrari" is the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

Adam Driver cursed out an audience member who criticized the crash scenes in “Ferrari” after a recent screening of the film at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival.

“What do you think about the crash scenes? They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me,” the audience member said. “What do you think?”

“F–k you, I don’t know. Next question,” Driver said. A video of the exchange that was posted to X has already been liked over 7.7 thousand times.

When someone in the audience says the crash scenes in Ferrari “looked pretty harsh, drastic and I must say cheesy for me” and asked Adam what he thought pic.twitter.com/mXaF1LlTuf

— Adam Driver Central (@adamdrivercentl) November 12, 2023

Directed by Michael Mann and written by Troy Kennedy Martin, “Ferrari” is based on Brock Yates 1991 biography “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine.” Driver stars...

Adam Driver, star of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” will travel to Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, to accept Special EnergaCamerimage Award for an Actor. He will also introduce the film, one of the entries in the Camerimage Main Competition and a prominent awards contender this season.

The fest will run in Toruń. Poland, from Nov. 11-18.

Driver has been called a a versatile actor who brings quiet intensity and emotional understanding to the plethora of characters he has inhabited over his career. His impressive filmography consists of collaborations with many of the industry’s most prominent and respected filmmakers, including J.J. Abrams, Noah Baumbach, Leos Carax, Joel and Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Lena Dunham, Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Rian Johnson, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh.

In the Michael Mann biopic, Driver stars as legendary racer and automobile entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari.

Driver is known...

Michael Mann’s strange and frequently beguiling Ferrari, which covers three eventful months in the life of Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), is a long-time passion project for its ever-idiosyncratic auteur. Mann wanted to make the film as far back as the early 2000s, when screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin’s adaptation of a 1991 Ferrari biography by journalist Brock Yates was brought to his attention. It took a few false starts and several major cast changes, in addition to what a massive number of executive producer credits suggest is a transglobal patchwork of financiers. The result bears the scars of a long and rocky gestation, though not always to its detriment.

Reviewing Mann’s 1986 serial-killer thriller Manhunter, Chicago Reader critic Pat Brown described it as “simultaneously hypnotic and enervating, meditative and empty, like a white-noise background or a field of electronic snow.” That sense of concurrent...

New York Film Festival Artistic Director Dennis Lim with Ferrari director Michael Mann and stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Gabriel Leone Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Michael Mann’s Ferrari, starring Adam Driver (as Enzo Ferrari) and Penélope Cruz (his wife Laura) with Gabriel Leone (Alfonso De Portago), Shailene Woodley (Lina Lardi), Patrick Dempsey (Piero Taruffi), and Jack O’Connell (Peter Collins) was the Closing Night Gala selection of the 61st New York Film Festival.

Michael Mann on the costumes: “You want to put on that period wardrobe. So that’s terribly important. The true richness to me is in being.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini is the go-to person when it comes to clothing characters of folktale or legend. Enzo Ferrari definitely fits into the larger-than-life category and his conservative tweed suits, pale yellow sweater vests and suspenders hide a maniac addicted...

"Ferrari" is the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

Neon has dropped the official trailer for the Michael Mann-directed biopic “Ferrari” starring Adam Driver as the iconic auto magnate Enzo Ferrari. The film also stars Penelope Cruz as his wife Laura and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. The film focuses on three pivotal months in the life of Ferrari in the summer of 1957, casting its lens on that year’s grueling 1,000-mile Mille Miglia auto endurance race across Italy and the love triangle between Enzo and his women as bankruptcy threatens his auto factory. His volatile marriage has also been battered by the loss of their son Dino a year earlier. Watch the trailer above.

See‘Ferrari’: Michael Mann, Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz discussed New York Film Festival’s closing night film [Watch]

Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Gordon, Gabriel Leone and Jack O’Connell also star in the film, which was written by Troy Kennedy Martin and...

While our first look at “Ferrari” released in late August featured lots of revving and flashes of Rosso Corsa but almost no dialogue whatsoever, a new trailer released Wednesday morning affords a deeper look into Michael Mann’s red-hot racing biopic slated for a Christmas Day release.

It’s 1957, and Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), founder of the world’s most iconic automotive and racing brand, is facing a crisis – win the 1,000-mile Mille Miglia, or face dissolution of his still-fledgling company.

We also see quite a bit more of Ferarri’s growing personal crisis as he struggles to hold together his marriage to his wife Laura (Penelope Cruz) as mistress Lina (Shailene Woodley) tries to get him to accept their son. The “Heat” and “The Insider” filmmaker only gave us visual flashes in this summer’s teaser trailer, but this new, fuller version (see above) hits on all cylinders.

Based...

"Ferrari" is the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

"Ferrari" is the new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

Oscar voters, start your engines.

On Thursday night at the Venice Film Festival, Adam Driver and Michael Mann officially kicked off awards season with the world premiere of their racing drama “Ferrari,” which debuted in competition.

The packed house at the Sala Grande Theatre showered Driver and Mann with a six-minute-standing ovation. Driver fought back tears at the tragic conclusion of the film. As he stayed in his seat, Mann helped him up to receive the applause for the Italian-set film.

“Ferrari” has been the big ticket of Venice, and the premiere didn’t disappoint, finally bringing some star power to the Lido. Driver, who plays racecar driver Enzo Ferrari in the film, approached crowds of screaming fans, scribbling out a few autographs. These groupies lined up for hours in the Italian sun to catch a glimpse of the actor best known for playing Kylo Ren in “Star Wars.”

Patrick Dempsey also attended the premiere,...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Neon releases the film in theaters on Monday, December 25.

For Enzo Ferrari, racing was a deadly passion, a terrible joy.

For director Michael Mann, the automaker and his life’s obsession make for briskly entertaining melodrama in a moment-in-time portrait focused around Ferrari and the Mille Miglia race of 1957. Adam Driver, again playing an Italian historical figure after taking on Maurizio Gucci for another major American auteur in Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” stars as a grief-driven Enzo Ferrari, working to save his near-bankrupt company while trying to appease his business partner and wife, Laura. She’s played with jilted, internalized rage by Penélope Cruz in her best performance since winning an Oscar for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” In fact, you could argue that Laura, worn in as an old shoe and run dry by her husband’s dalliances and impulsive decision-making,...

It’s no secret that it’s taken decades of twists and turns in Hollywood to get Michael Mann’s anticipated “Ferrari,” which makes its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Aug. 31, to the big screen.

But what’s less known is that the journey of this drama about Italian sports car builder and racing pioneer Enzo Ferrari originated with Italy’s storied Cecchi Gori Group before the company went bust.

In 1991, Los Angeles-based Penta Pictures — which had been jointly founded by producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori and then-rising TV mogul Silvio Berlusconi — bought adaptation rights to the book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races” by Brock Yates that is the basis for Mann’s picture.

Cecchi Gori subsequently hired Troy Kennedy Martin to write the script and when Penta Pictures was dissolved in 1995 the “Ferrari” rights went to its U.S. arm, Cecchi Gori Pictures.

The project...

The story of an iconic car is coming to life.

On Wednesday, Neon dropped the first teaser trailer for director Michael Mann’s biopic “Ferrari”, starring Adam Driver as Italian sports car entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari.

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“It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis,” the official description reads.

“Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.”

Penélope Cruz co-stars in the film as Ferrari’s wife Laura,...

A teaser has landed for Michael Mann’s Ferrari ahead of its Venice world premiere tomorrow. Mann’s long-awaited return will then screen at the New York Film Festival before it hits theaters just in time for the holidays. Based on Brock Yates’s book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine, the film stars Adam Driver as the eponymous race car driver and entrepreneur, Penélope Cruz as his wife Laura and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey also star. Per an official synopsis: It is the summer of 1957. […]

The post Trailer Watch: Michael Mann’s Ferrari first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

A teaser has landed for Michael Mann’s Ferrari ahead of its Venice world premiere tomorrow. Mann’s long-awaited return will then screen at the New York Film Festival before it hits theaters just in time for the holidays. Based on Brock Yates’s book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine, the film stars Adam Driver as the eponymous race car driver and entrepreneur, Penélope Cruz as his wife Laura and Shailene Woodley as his mistress Lina Lardi. Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell and Patrick Dempsey also star. Per an official synopsis: It is the summer of 1957. […]

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The only thing missing from the official teaser trailer for Michael Mann’s Ferrari is an obscenely loud Charli Xcx hyperpop song about driving fast and being hot — but that song actually ended up in Barbie. But Ferrari does have Adam Driver slipping into the persona of a troubled Italian man once again. This time, he’s traded the fashion world of House of Gucci for the fast-tracked life of Formula 1 racer Enzo Ferrari.

The minute-and-a-half-long trailer is a suspense (and anxiety) building introduction to the chaos of Ferrari’s personal life.

Michael Mann’s last outing as a feature film director was eight years ago with the cyber crime film Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth. Now, the director of such classic films as The Last of the Mohicans and Heat returns with the story of Enzo Ferrari. Ironically, Mann had executive produced James Mangold’s 2019 racing film, Ford v Ferrari, in which the Italian brand was the main competition for the film’s protagonists. Mann’s Ferrari is naturally the story from the other side (albeit at a different time) as the film shows the auto giant navigating the issues of his personal life with the looming obstacles of an upcoming, dangerous 1,000-mile race.

The official synopsis from Neon reads,

“It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier.

Ahead of the film’s debut at the Venice Film Festival, Neon has dropped the first trailer for “Heat” and “The Insider” filmmaker Michael Mann’s new movie “Ferrari.” Not quite a biopic, the film chronicles Enzo Ferrari (played by Adam Driver) through the lens of one fateful summer.

Set in 1957, the film follows ex-racer Ferrari (Adam Driver) as he faces multiple crises: his factory and family are under threat of bankruptcy, his marriage is in shambles due to the loss of their son Dino, his relationship with his other son outside his marriage is strained and his drivers are pushed to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.

You’ll only get flashes of that in the first trailer, which is dialogue-free and instead opts for evocative imagery as a roaring race car revs over the footage. Mann worked for the...

You asked for it, and Michael Mann has delivered. Only a scant few years after Ridley Scott cast Adam Driver in the role of a lifetime as the ineffectual and very stereotypically Italian Maurizio Gucci in "House of Gucci," yet another legendary filmmaker has decided to pick up that baton and run with it. Mann fans have been all but chomping at the bit to catch a glimpse of the "Heat" and "The Last of the Mohicans" director's take on "Ferrari," the long in the works production (dating back more than two decades!) detailing the life of Enzo Ferrari and his most daring feat yet in bringing his prestigious car company to the next level. The story behind the world-famous automotive figurehead and entrepreneur might not seem to lend itself to a tone as garish and over-the-top as Driver channeled as the head of the Gucci family, but we have...

"Ferrari" is a new biographical feature, directed by Michael Mann, based on the 1991 biography "Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine" by Brock Yates. starring Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon and Jack O'Connell, releasing December 25, 2023 in theaters:

"...during the summer of 1957, ex-'Formula 1' racer 'Enzo Ferrari' is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, 'Laura', built from nothing 10 years earlier.

"His drivers’ lust to win pushes them out to the edge. He wagers all in a roll of the dice on one race...

".... the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the iconic 'Mille Miglia'..."

Click the images to enlarge....

The upcoming biographical drama film ‘Ferrari’, directed by Michael Mann and starring Adam Driver as the legendary Italian car maker Enzo Ferrari, has secured an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA, the union representing film and television actors, to allow its cast to promote the movie during the ongoing strike12.

The strike, which began on July 14, 2023, has affected the production and promotion of many Hollywood projects, as actors demand better compensation and working conditions from the studios. One of the main issues is the residual payments from streaming services, which have become the dominant mode of distribution in the industry3.

‘Ferrari’ is one of the few films that have received a waiver from SAG-AFTRA to continue publicity activities, such as interviews, press conferences, and red carpet appearances. This means that Driver, along with his co-stars Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon, Jack O’Connell, Patrick Dempsey, and others, will be able...

‘Ferrari‘ is a biographical drama directed by Michael Mann, starring Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley. The film is based on the book ‘Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine‘ by Brock Yates.

The movie will premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and will be released in December this year.

Premise

During the summer of 1957, former race car driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. All the dramatic forces of his life are in collision. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another. Enzo decides to counter his losses by rolling the dice on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy, the iconic Mille Miglia.

The Director Michael Mann Michael Mann

Born in Chicago in 1943, Mann initially made a name for himself in television, directing episodes of popular...

Michael Mann’s racing drama “Ferrari” is set to close the 61st annual New York Film Festival. The sports biopic, starring Adam Driver as automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, will make its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Oct. 13.

Michael Mann directed “Ferrari,” which is adapted from the 1991 biography “The Man and the Machine” by Brock Yates. The film, which was shot on location in Ferrari’s hometown of Modena, dramatizes the life of the Italian entrepreneur and one-time Formula 1 racer at a professional and personal fulcrum. Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Patrick Dempsey and Jack O’Connell round out the cast.

“It’s a great honor to close the esteemed New York Film Festival with Ferrari,” Mann said.

Neon is releasing the film, which will premiere at the at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in September. It lands in theaters on Dec. 25. STX Entertainment and its partners will distribute the movie internationally.

Neon is climbing into the passenger seat of Michael Mann’s Ferrari, a new film from the celebrated director starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz. Ferrari looks to premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of August, with Neon acquiring the rights in North America in a competitive situation. According to Deadline, Ferrari is racing into theaters on Christmas Day 2023. STX Entertainment, who helped get the film onto the pavement, is actively involved with all the Neon negotiations (which are still being determined as of this posting). STX set up and provided most of the financing to produce the movie. With Robert Simonds, Sam Brown, and Noah Fogelson executive producing, Ferrari will be distributed internationally through STX Entertainment and its partners.

“Michael Mann, one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema, was moved by the power of this intensely dramatic story to persist for years...

From “House of Gucci” to the engines of “Ferrari,” Adam Driver channels his Italian accent once again.

The Academy Award nominee stars as Enzo Ferrari, the real-life former race car driver whose tumultuous marriage to Laura Ferrari, played by Penelope Cruz, leads to him betting it all on one last race. Michael Mann directs the biopic “Ferrari,” using a script co-written by Troy Kennedy Martin (“The Italian Job”).

Four-time Oscar nominee Mann is also producing the film through his Moto Pictures alongside P.J. van Sandwijk and John Lesher, as well as John Friedberg, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher, Gareth West and Thomas Hayslip with major support from producers Andrea Iervolino & Monika Bacardi and their production service company, Ilbe, and are joined by executive producer, Niels Juul.

The also cast includes Shailene Woodley, Patrick Dempsey, Jack O’Connell, Sarah Gadon, and Gabriel Leone.

The official synopsis reads: “Ferrari” is set during the summer of 1957. Ex-race car driver,...

Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” is one of the longest-gestating projects in Hollywood, with the “Heat” director trying to get the racing drama off the ground for the better part of two decades. The film, tells the story of Enzo Ferrari, the auto executive who turned his passion for racing into the most iconic sports car brand on the planet. Adam Driver is set to play Enzo Ferrari, taking over the role that Hugh Jackman was previously in talks to play.

With the cast finally settled and financing in place, Mann is finally gearing up to shoot his passion project in Italy this July. While various iterations of the film have come close to being greenlit, this is by far the closest Mann has come to seeing his vision become reality. And today, Deadline has reported that the director is currently in Italy, immersing himself in pre-production for the shoot.

“Ferrari...

Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Michael Mann’s upcoming film, “Ferrari,” as the eponymous Enzo Ferrari.

Written by the late Troy Kennedy Martin (“The Italian Job”) and Mann, the film is about the life of the luxury race car maker and is based on the book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine” by Brock Yates. Set in the summer of 1957, “Ferrari” follows a moment in the carmarker’s life when his company is going broke, his marriage is suffering after the death of their son and Ferrari seems to put all on the line for one 1,000-mile race: the 1957 Mille Miglia.

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Principal photography is expected to begin in spring 2021. CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s U.S. rights, while Stx is overseeing international sales at Cannes and will be the distributor in the U.

Action specialist Doug Liman is in early negotiations to direct a remake of “The Cannonball Run” for Warner Bros.

Jesse Ehrman and Paul Perez are overseeing the project for the studio. Warner Bros. was negotiating last year with “Central Intelligence” director Rawson Thurber to helm a reboot of the “Cannonball Run” franchise and “Reno 911” stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant were in talks to write the script. Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer are producing the movie.

The original franchise starred Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dom DeLuise. The films centered on an illegal cross-country race where the participants played dirty tricks on one another.

The series produced three films, with the first, “The Cannonball Run,” released in 1981 by Fox with an impressive $72 million in box office. Warner Bros. acquired all sequel and remake rights to the franchise from original copyright owners Brock Yates,...

Exclusive: We are hearing that Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman is in early talks to take over the directing reigns of Warner Bros.’ reboot The Cannonball Run, the 1980s action comedy franchise made popular by star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham.

Warner Bros. production executives Jesse Ehrman and Paul Perez are overseeing the re-imagining for the studio.

Last year, Skyscraper filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber was in talks to direct a Cannonball Run reboot from a script by Night at the Museum scribes Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. A deal with Thurber wasn’t reached. Word is Liman will work off of Lennon and Garant’s version with a new scribe to be announced.

Cannonball Run I and II were directed by Needham and featured all star ensembles with ’80s stars like Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Dom DeLuise. They played roles...

Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie may make it to the finish line after all. Hugh Jackman is now in negotiations to star as Enzo Ferrari in the biopic, with Noomi Rapace playing his estranged wife Linda; Christian Bale was previously attached to the long-in-the-making film, but departed early last year due to a scheduling conflict.

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Troy Kennedy-Martin (“The Italian Job,” “Edge of Darkness”) wrote the screenplay, which takes place in 1957 and is based on Brock Yates’ book “Enzo Ferrari, the Man, the Cars, the Races.” Mann first began working on the project in the very early aughts, initially in collaboration with the late Sydney Pollack.

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Jackman most recently starred in “Logan,” of course, while...

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Jackman is in talks to take over the lead role that Christian Bale exited in Michael Mann‘s Ferrari, according to Deadline. With Noomi Rapace still attached to play Enzo Ferrari’s wife, Linda, the film will depict their tumultuous relationship. The automotive legend had a “tyrannical and manipulative nature,” even pushing his drivers to death as he battled Maserati. Scripted by Mann and based on Brock Yates‘ Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars,...

Brock Yates, the auto enthusiast and writer behind The Cannonball Run (both the actual race and the film series it inspired), died on Wednesday due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, Deadline reports. The Lockport, NY native authored 14 automotive-themed books and served as executive editor of Car And Driver magazine for many years. He was 82.

In 1971, Yates and fellow C&D staffer Steve Smith conceived the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an automotive race with no set route from New York City to Redondo Beach, California, as a tongue-in-cheek protest against increasingly strict traffic laws. Although the first race wasn’t particularly competitive, due to only one car participating, Yates did manage to win the first actual contest later that same year.

Yates co-wrote the screenplay to the 1980 box office hit Smokey And The Bandit II, alongside the film’s director Hal Needham, leading to an ...

Brock Yates, a legendary automobile racing journalist and author who conceived of the cross-country race popularly known as the Cannonball Run and who wrote the script for the film series’ first installment, died Wednesday of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 82. The son of author Raymond F. Yates, Brock was born and raised in Lockport, New York. A graduate of Hobart College, Yates also served in the United States Navy before embarking on his career as…...

Brock Yates, a legendary automobile racing journalist and author who conceived of the cross-country race popularly known as the Cannonball Run and who wrote the script for the film series’ first installment, died Wednesday of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 82. The son of author Raymond F. Yates, Brock was born and raised in Lockport, New York. A graduate of Hobart College, Yates also served in the United States Navy before embarking on his career as…...

Writer/director Etan Cohen has been hired by Warner Brothers to write and direct a remake of Cannonball Run.

The original film and its sequel were directed by legendary stuntman Hal Needham and depicted an "illegal cross-country race where the participants were not above playing dirty tricks on one another."

WB bought the rights to Cannonball Run, as well as all sequels and remakes, from Brock Yates, the Hal Needham Estate and Fortune Star Ltd.

The original films were loaded with big celebrities from the 80s including, but not limited to, Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Dom DeLuise. 

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The British actor has departed biopic Enzo Ferrari over health concerns, according to reports.

Bale, nominated last week for a best supporting actor Oscar for The Big Short, felt he would be unable to put on enough weight to play the Italian auto pioneer in time for a summer start in Italy.

Paramount holds North America and most of the world on Michael Mann’s upcoming biopic and is now searching for a replacement.

Christopher Woodrow’s Vendian Entertainment and YooZoo Bliss Film Fund are financing the project. Wild Bunch’s La-based Insiders handled select territories at Afm last November.

Enzo Ferrari takes place in 1957 as the motor racing pioneer endures a tumultuous year and fights for survival.

Troy Kennedy-Martin wrote the screenplay with revisions by David Rayfiel and Mann. The script is based on Brock Yates’ book Enzo Ferrari, The Man, The Cars, The Races.

CAA arranged financing for the film and brokered the distribution deals. Production...

Christian Bale has dropped out of Michael Mann's upcoming Enzo Ferrari biopic which plans to begin filming in the Spring.

Bale has had to depart the project due to health concerns that surrounded the weight he would have to gain and the time in which to do it in order to play the part of the legendary car manufacturer.

Bale is famous for intense bouts of weight gain and loss for roles, something which has impacted his roles and his body over the years.

Mann is currently working on re-casting the part so the spring shoot can move forward. Troy Kennedy-Martin penned the script based on the book by Brock Yates.

Source: THR...

With an $80 million price tag, Michael Mann's brewing biopic, "Enzo Ferrari," needs a big name to make that return on investment. He had one in Christian Bale, who signed on for the picture last year. However, with a summer start date looming, the actor has gotten cold feet about the project. Read More: Christian Bale Thought Teresa Palmer Was A Stripper While Shooting Terrence Malick's 'Knight Of Cups' Deadline reports that Bale has exited the movie, citing health concerns over the weight gain he needed to achieve to play the role. The actor has slimmed down ("The Machinist," "The Fighter"), bulked up ("The Dark Knight" movies), and pudged out ("American Hustle") for roles over the years, but I'd imagine you can only do that so many times before your body starts to revolt. Based on Brock Yates’s book, “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars,...

Throughout his career, Christian Bale has turned yo-yo dieting into an art form. Literally. While many actors may shy away from piling on the pounds, bulking up or starving themselves within an inch of death, for Bale that type of method acting only proved his dedication to the craft. It’s been a bit barmy watching him balloon and then suddenly – Pop! – back to his regular size, and it looks as if he hasn’t got the energy to chow down on anymore deep fried pizzas. The actor has left Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic due to this very issue.

Deadline reported the news, citing “health concerns” as the main contributing factor toward his departure. Coming straight off The Big Short, where he’s pretty much normal size, Bale would have had to hit the carbs with a shovel to reach his target weight to play the iconic Italian racing car driver.

Paramount will release Academy Award-nominated director Michael Mann’s (Heat, The Insider, Collateral) Enzo Ferrari, starring Academy Award-winner Christian Bale (Dark Knight Trilogy, The Fighter, American Hustle) as Ferrari.

It takes place in one pivotal year, 1957. It is the personal story of a passionate man and his sprawling world, at times hilarious and at the next moment devastating, as he faces a brutal challenge to his survival.

Vendian Entertainment and YooZoo Bliss Film Fund have come on to finance the heavily-anticipated project, which will shoot next summer in Italy. Mann will produce along with Vendian and YooZoo Bliss. YooZoo Pictures also will distribute Enzo Ferrari in China. Vincent Maraval’s Insiders will commence international sales on selected territories at next month’s American Film Market.

Enzo Ferrari was written by Troy Kennedy-Martin (The Italian Job, Kelly’S Heroes, Edge Of Darkness), revised by David Rayfiel (The Firm, Sabrina) and Michael Mann...

"Blackhat" may have tanked, but it speaks to the respect Michael Mann has in the industry, not to mention the star power of Christian Bale, that the director's next movie has found a major studio distribution home. And today news has arrived for the project that is coming together to shoot next summer. THR reports that Noomi Rapace is in talks to join "Enzo Ferrari." Based on Brock Yates’ book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races” with a script by Troy Kennedy Martin (“The Italian Job”) and David Rayfield (“Out of Africa”), the film tells story of the founder of one of the most famous car company's in the world. A romance will feature as part of the story, and I'd presume that would be the one between Bale's Enzo Ferrari and Rapace's Laura Dominica, the carmaker's wife. Paramount Pictures has picked up the distribution rights to the movie,...

Michael Mann fans may rejoice. Following recent news that his long-developing Enzo Ferrari biopic would boast Christian Bale as its lead, Paramount has announced its role as the distributor. But that’s not all: along with an official title, Enzo Ferrari (adding a thrilling first name to the long-assumed title), the picture’s added Noomi Rapace as the wife of an utterly consumed genius who doesn’t know how to express or direct affection. This is a Mann picture, after all. [THR]

Said wife, Laura Dominica, was forced to deal with a husband marked by a “tyrannical and manipulative nature, his pushing drivers to the breaking point (and even death), his hatred of his lifelong marriage and his many affairs.” (Brock Yates’ source material, Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, which has been worked into a script by Troy Kennedy Martin, and David Rayfield, and Mann, was perhaps not a sugar-coating affair.