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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.

Adam Driver in Ferrari Photo: Lorenzo Sisti/Neon With Ferrari, director Michael Mann pops the hood and takes a look at the engine powering one man’s journey towards icon status during a tumultuous time. Through this titular, fallible protagonist, the audacious auteur explores many of his favorite recurring themes about the male identity,...

Adam Driver in FerrariPhoto: Lorenzo Sisti/Neon

With Ferrari, director Michael Mann pops the hood and takes a look at the engine powering one man’s journey towards icon status during a tumultuous time. Through this titular, fallible protagonist, the audacious auteur explores many of his favorite recurring themes about the male identity,...

Adam Driver takes the lead in the first trailer for Michael Mann's biopic Ferrari, playing Enzo Ferrari. The film follows Enzo Ferrari during a difficult time, with bankruptcy threatening his company and his marriage on the brink after the loss of their son. Ferrari is described as a "spectacularly operatic melodrama," exploring the collision of Enzo Ferrari's past and future.

The first trailer for renowned director Michael Mann’s upcoming biopic, Ferrari, has now been unveiled, and finds Star Wars and Academy Award nominee Adam Driver in the driving seat as Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, Enzo Ferrari. Coming coutesy of Neon, Ferrari is all set to be released this festive season, and it already expected to be a major favorite come awards season. Check out the new Ferrari trailer below.

The official synopsis for Ferrari reads as follows:

It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1,...

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,...

In Michael Mann’s heady, intricately dark, raptly absorbing “Ferrari,” there’s a quiet scene that takes place the night before the Mille Miglia, the spectacular 1,500-kilometer motorsport endurance race. Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), the Italian sports-car magnate who needs to win the race (the survival of the company that bears his name depends on it), has five drivers who are scheduled to compete. In a kind of calm-before-the-storm ritual, several of them write notes to their romantic partners, telling them how much they love them, just in case they don’t survive the race.

This is no mere superstitious formality. In the Mille Miglia, the possibility of crashing and burning, as the cars zoom at 150 kilometers per hour through the open roads of Italy, is all too real. That’s the ominous underside of racing’s power. The speed is thrilling because it represents a challenge to the universe,...

Michael Mann's latest project, "Ferrari," will bring to life the tragic story of Enzo Ferrari with a focus on the emotional and violent elements of the story. The movie will recreate a tragic crash and its aftermath from the point of view of one of the young victims' families, promising one of the most intense sequences ever made. Mann's vision for the film is to explore the dramatic aspects of Enzo Ferrari's life, including his struggling marriage and his desperation to regain recognition through a risky race.

The life of Enzo Ferrari will soon come to the big screen thanks to Michael Mann and his latest project, Ferrari, which will be an emotional, violent and epic ride that's now been in the works for three decades. In a recent interview with Variety, Mann explains the sheer level of investigation and research that he did for the movie, which took him to Guidizzolo,...

‘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...