On this day in movie history - Ali (2001)

Ali

directed by Michael Mann,

written by Michael Mann, Eric Roth, Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson,

based on a story by Gregory Allen Howard,

was released in the United States on December 25, 2001.

Music by Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard.

Cast:

Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Bentt, Robert Sale, James Toney, Charles Shufford, Mykelti Williamson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nona Gaye, Michael Michele, Joe Morton, Paul Rodriguez, Bruce McGill, Barry Shabaka Henley, Albert Hall, Giancarlo Esposito, David Haines, Laurence Mason, LeVar Burton, David Cubitt, Leon Robinson, Ted Levine, Malick Bowens, Victoria Dillard, David Elliott, Brad Greenquist.

On this day in movie history – The Keep (1983 movie & novel):

The Keep

directed and written by Michael Mann,

based on the novel by F. Paul Wilson,

released in the United States on December 16, 1983.

Music by Tangerine Dream.

Cast:

Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen, William Morgan Sheppard, Royston Tickner, Michael Carter, Phillip Joseph, John Vine, Jona Jones, Wolf Kahler, Rosalie Crutchley, Frederick Warder, Bruce Payne, David Cardy, John Eastham, Philip Bloomfield, Yashar Adem, Stephen Whittaker, Ian Ruskin, Stephen Jenn, Benedick Blythe, Robin Langford, Renny Krupinski, Peter Guinness, Sean Baker, Timothy Block, Owain Gwyn, Ralph G. Morse, Doug Robinson, Peter Ross-Murray.

Recommended reading:
 

The Keep

by F. Paul Wilson.

Published by New English Library.
First published 1981.

ISBN 13: 9780450054556
ISBN 10: 0450054551
ASIN: 0450054551

Description:

“Request immediate relocation. Something is murdering my men.”
The message, sent by Captain Klaus Woermann to German Army High Command.
The location: a medieval fortress overlooking the Dinu Pass, high in the Transylvanian Alps.

Where the German garrison was being taken and murdered one by one, night after night, and left, throats torn out, to drive the survivors mad with fear.

The solution: a reinforcing squad of terror-hardened SS Einsatzkommandos.

The mistake: ignorance. The legends of Transylvania meant nothing to them. Nor the existence of an evil centuries older and hideously more powerful than anything in even the most diseased imaginings of an SS killer.

On this day in movie history - Heat (1995)

Heat

directed and written by Michael Mann,

was released in the United States on December 15, 1995.

Previous filmed by Michael Mann as the TV movie L.A. Takedown (1986).

Music by Elliot Goldenthal.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert, William Fichtner, Natalie Portman, Tom Noonan, Kevin Gage, Hank Azaria, Susan Traylor, Kim Staunton, Danny Trejo, Henry Rollins, Jerry Trimble, Tone Loc, Ricky Harris, Ray Buktenica, Jeremy Piven, Xander Berkeley, Martin Ferrero, Hazelle Goodman, Paul Herman, Cindy Katz, Dan Martin, Rick Avery, Bill McIntosh, Thomas Rosales Jr., Patricia Healy, Yvonne Zima, Farrah Forke.

On this day in movie history - The Insider (1999)

The Insider

directed by Michael Mann,

written by Eric Roth and Michael Mann,

was released in the United States on November 5, 1999.

Based on the 1996 Vanity Fair article The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner.

Music by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke.

Cast:

Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse, Debi Mazar, Stephen Tobolowsky, Colm Feore, Bruce McGill, Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon, Rip Torn, Lynne Thigpen, Hallie Eisenberg, Michael Paul Chan, Linda Hart, Robert Harper, Nestor Serrano, Pete Hamill, Wings Hauser, Cliff Curtis, Renee Olstead, Mike Moore, Gary Sandy, Willie C. Carpenter, Paul Butler, Jack Palladino, Roger Bart, Alan Desatti, Sayed Badreya, Chris Ufland, Douglas McGrath, Bill Sage, Joseph Hindy, Dennis Garber, Tim Grimm, Paul Perri, Wanda De Jesus, Robert Patrick Brink, Vincent Foster, James Harper, Eyal Podell, Breckin Meyer, David Roberson, Gregg E. Muravchick, William P. Bradford, David Clyde Carr, Ann Reskin, Claire Slemmer, Steve Salge, Derrick Jones, Donald F. Burbrink, Vyto Ruginis, George R. Parsons, Isodine Loury, Charlene Bosarge, Saemi Nakamura, Ronal G. Yokley, Bob Lazarus, Robert J. Ragno Jr., Alvin L. Welch, Nathan Lewis Hill, Paula Bisbikos, Christi Evans, Knox White, Amy L. Caudill, Cara Briese, Brian Canberg, David C. Fisher, J.B. Flinn, Phil Hawn, Tom Jones, Zane Lamprey, Don Langley, Clyde Lee, Robert D. Parham, Roger Phenix, Scott Ritcher, Ted Speaker, Robbie G. Tomlin, Susan Wagner.

On this day in movie history - L.A. Takedown (1989)

L.A. Takedown

directed and written by Michael Mann,

was released in the United States on August 27, 1989.

Music by Tim Truman.

Cast:

Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Ely Pouget, Vincent Guastaferro, Richard Chaves, Victor Rivers, Laura Harrington, Daniel Baldwin, Clarence Gilyard Jr., R.D. Call, Peter Dobson, John Santucci, Xander Berkeley, Juan Fernández, Tony Xauet, Sam J. Jones, J.W. Smith, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mary Broussard, Aixa Clemente, Mike De Luna, Ed DeFusco, Robert Gammons, Donald Grant, Emmett Grennan, Al Jones, Anthony Lattanzio, Leo Lee, Mimi Lieber, Albert Michel Jr., Jan Munroe, Gilbert O. Parra, Dennis Scott, Jentry Tuvil, Daniel Villarreal, Robert Winley, Tony Winters, Rick Avery, Bud Davis.

On this day in movie history - Manhunter (1986)

Manhunter

directed and written by Michael Mann,

based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris,

was released in the United States on August 15, 1986.

Music by Michel Rubini and The Reds.

Cast:

William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan, David Seaman, Benjamin Hendrickson, Michael Talbott, Dan Butler, Michele Shay, Robin Moseley, Paul Perri, Patricia Charbonneau, Bill Cwikowski, Alexandra Neil, Norman Snow, Jim Zubiena, Frankie Faison, Garcelle Beauvais, Joanne Camp, David Allen Brooks, Elisabeth Ryall, Chris Elliott, Gary Chavaras, Chris Cianciolo, Ken Colquitt, Ron Fitzgerald, Dennis Quick, David Meeks, Sherman Michaels, Robin Trapp, L.A. Winters, Daniel T. Snow, Cynthia Chvatal, King White, Mickey Lloyd, Dawn Carmen, David Fitzsimmons, Robert A. Burton, Steve Hogan, Mickey Pugh, Kin Shriner, John Posey, Kristin Holby, Greg Kelly, Brian Kelly, Ryan Langhorne, Hannah Caggiano, Lindsey Fonora, Jason Frair, Bryant Arrants, Christopher Arrants, Melvin Clark, Renee Ayala, Dana Dewey, Stephen Hawkins, Leonard Johnson, Keith Pyles, Michael Russell, Michael Vitug, Pat Williams, Charles Yarbaugh, Bill Smitrovich, Peter Maloney, Michael D. Roberts, Marshall Bell, Gusmano Cesaretti, Melody Gold, Annie McEnroe.