{"id":234427,"date":"2025-10-18T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234427\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:31:09","slug":"michael-mann-talks-amazon-heat-2-deal-ai-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234427\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mann Talks Amazon Heat 2 Deal, AI & US Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Mann<\/a> addressed his move from Warner Bros. to Amazon MGM Studio division United Artist<\/a> with his long gestated upcoming feature Heat 2<\/a> at a press conference on Saturday at the Lumi\u00e8re Festival in Lyon, where he is being feted with its honorary Lumi\u00e8re Award this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe director was asked if the deal with the steaming giant could compromise the film\u2019s theatrical release in the same way as Ferrari, which bypassed cinemas in a number of key European territories such as France and Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\tMann said he expected Heat 2 to get a U.S. theatrical release on 4,000 cinemas for at least 45 days, and added he felt the streamer was entering a new era with regards to exhibition and distribution.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAmazon is in transition, which is why they bought Bond. They\u2019re in a transition to become something more than a streaming service. They have ambitions be a major, I don\u2019t want to speak for Amazon, a major figure in exhibition, in theatrical.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe potential, because the movie would come out in almost two years from now, the potential of the synergy within Amazon is massive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said the move to United Artists<\/a> with Heat 2 had been due mainly to the high cost of making the movie, linked partly to the fact it is shooting in multiple territories.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHeat 2 is\u2026 an expensive movie to make, but I believe it should be made at the proper size and scale. It\u2019s going to shoot in Chicago, Los Angeles, Paraguay, and possibly some parts in Singapore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s complex. People make dramas at a certain budget level\u2026 because of the costs, Heat 2 is probably double that. So, if it was at a low, low price, I could have made it anywhere. But it\u2019s complex. I can\u2019t get into all the politics of it, but we moved from Warner Brothers to Amazon and United Artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the conference, Mann was asked (by Deadline) about his opinion on AI and whether he had or planned to use the technology, given his reputation for being at the cutting edge of using new technological advances in his work throughout his career.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said he had not used the technology as yet but was mulling the use of AI in Heat 2 to support the aging and de-aging process of the characters of Detective Vincent Hanna, Neil McCauley and Chris Shiherlis, with the film revisiting their stories prior to the original\u2019s 1995 setting. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t experiment with technology gratuitously. [If] I have a dramatic need or aesthetic need for it then I go deep into what I need,\u201d he said. \u201cFor example, aging and de-aging will be very important in the film (Heat 2),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked why he was so keen to revisit the characters of Heat, when he had never done sequels in the past, Mann revealed it was due partly to his deep connection with the characters.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe characters of Heat are so alive to me that I know everything about outside the boundaries of the film. I know what De Niro\u2019s character looked like when he was basically state raised as an 11-year-old, wearing clothes that didn\u2019t match, being ostracized, which then made them aggressive and violent, which led to juvenile facilities,\u201d said the director.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know everything about these characters. I always wanted to do more with these people, but I couldn\u2019t figure out how to do it because one\u2019s dead at the end of Heat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThen the idea occurred to me based on the rapport between the two lethal adversaries, Pacino\u2019s Hanna and De Niro\u2019s Macaulay about how to do both before the events of Heat and after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMann said Heat 2 would not deal with the events of 1995 in the original movie but would start rather one day after, with only Hanna\u2019s associate Chris Shiherlis, played by Val Kilmer still alive.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOnly Val Kilmer is alive, and he has to flee United States and then it goes seven years earlier. It\u2019s 1988. Hanna is a detective in Chicago, not Los Angeles\u2026 In 1988, they are not the same people as they are in 1995. It\u2019s the events of 1988 which then turned them into the characters of 1995.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor example, Macaulay, De Niro, who has an idea of no attachment, having nothing in your life that you can\u2019t walk up from in 30 seconds flat. 1988 he has a wife, he has a stepdaughter. He has a nuclear family that is very attached to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Mann addressed his move from Warner Bros. to Amazon MGM Studio division United Artist with his long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,12779,181,507,130170,130171,126776,74,111124],"class_list":["post-234427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-heat-2","tag-lumiere-festival","tag-michael-mann","tag-technology","tag-united-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}