Michael Mann's Heat is considered one of the best crime films of all time. Now we're getting a sequel and we do know some things about Heat 2.

Legendary director Michael Mann explains that the need for Heat 2 has been a long time coming.

Michael Mann is already working on bringing Heat 2 to the big screen.

Michael Mann wants to turn Heat 2, his upcoming part-prequel, part-sequel novel, into a movie.

It appears as though filmmaker Michael Mann is finally getting ready to make his Enzo Ferrari movie a reality. We hope. It was announced this past weekend that Hugh Jackman will be taking on the lead role in Mann’s long-in-the-works biopic, which is titled Ferrari and is aiming to start filming in Spring 2021. The Heat filmmaker has been trying to get this one off the ground for ages, with Christian Bale previously attached to play the racing icon before bowing out over health concerns—the versatile actor hit a point where he no longer wanted …

The film will focus on the infamous 1957 Mille Miglia race.

Bleary sunsets, neon lights against wet streets, electric guitars and synths and electronic tom toms just wailing, professionals just being capital p Professionals, Al Pacino screaming "'Cause she's got a grrrRRREAT ASS!" Clearly, Michael Mann is one of our premiere film stylists, an auteur whose sensibilities and proclivities are defined and refined as early as his debut picture. In fact, the Chicago-born Mann, a tough-talker notorious for running tough sets built on authenticity over everything else, sometimes gets dinged for a "style over substance" approach, especially in his iconic TV work like Miami Vice. But underneath the …

This has been a long time coming.

Joker director Todd Phillips has a lot to celebrate about. His film, a hardboiled take on the popular DC Comics archvillain, recently became the first R-rated film to make over $1 billion. It received lots of praise from fans and industry members alike, especially for its central Joaquin Phoenix performance. And now, another celebrated filmmaker of dark narratives about broken men just publicly praised his work. As IndieWire reported, director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) wrote Phillips and his creative team an effusive letter complimenting the hell out of their work on Joker. Phillips was screening Joker in Los …

Michael Mann will be directing the pilot episode of Tokyo Vice, the crime drama series set to premiere on HBO’s forthcoming streaming platform HBO Max. In addition to serving as executive producer, Mann will also potentially direct further episodes of the show starring Ken Watanabe and Ansel Elgort, which is set to begin filming in February of 2020. Tokyo Vice seems like familiar territory for Mann. He executive produced Miami Vice, a detective show that now serves as a visual shorthand for the 1980s, and directed several gritty crime thrillers like Manhunter, Heat, Collateral, and Public Enemies. His other …