Stephen Dorff turned 36 a few days ago, on the 29th of July. How time flies doesn’t it? As of yet we don’t know how Stephen celebrated his birthday, but in true Stephen style, I’m sure he had a kick-ass time! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stephen, and best wishes for the year ahead.

Just 10 days ago Stephen was seen holidaying in France with good friend and fellow actor,  Owen Wilson.  He was sporting a few new tattoos, including wings on his right arm, and was wearing a hat that read ‘Somewhere‘, the title of his latest movie that he is currently working on with director Sofia Coppola.

Stephen Dorff walked the red carpet alongside Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard and Giovanni Ribisi for the premiere of Public Enemies in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

I’m pleased to say there’s a ton of photos floating around. I have added some to the gallery, and I’m sure there will be more to come.

Public Enemies Los Angeles Film Festival Premiere gallery

For the second evening in a row, Hollywood proper came stomping through the more usually indie-centric environs of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Where Monday night had seen a lavish-to-the-point-of-ridiculous event celebrating the robot wars of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” with the attendant red carpet ruckus, Tuesday night was given over to a decidedly more dignified to-do for the Depression-era tale of bank robber John Dillinger in “Public Enemies.”

The event began with full-on star power from Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard, as well as appearances on the carpet by director Michael Mann and cast members Giovanni Ribisi, Leelee Sobieski, Carey Mulligan, Branka Katic, Rory Cochrane, Jason Clarke and Stephen Dorff, as well as Rosario Dawson, Vince Vaughn, Chan Marshall, Samm Levine, Amber Heard, Ondi Timoner, Shawn Hatosy, Peter Fonda, Jerry Bruckheimer and others.

Festival director Rebecca Yeldham introduced the screening by saying, “‘Public Enemies’ is unlike any movie I’ve ever seen.”

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*The Chicago Premiere of Public Enemies took place yesterday with stars Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cottilard walking the red carpet. It doesn’t look like Stephen attended. It was an invitation-only event, and it’s one of the few films to get a premiere in Chicago before it even premieres in L.A. There’s a great article about the premiere HERE.

*The L.A. premiere is on June 23, at Mann’s Village Theatre.

*The European premiere is in London on Monday, June 29th. The film will screen at the Empire in Leicester Square.

*Public Enemies will have its Paris premiere on Thursday, July 2nd, at UGC Normandie.

*To celebrate the release of Public Enemies, cable TV is unspooling promotional and behind-the-scenes looks at the Michael Mann film. Public Enemies: HBO First Look offers a 13-minute feature which goes behind the scenes of the film. The feature airs for the first time on Thursday, June 18th at 04:15 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. on HBO – EAST and at 7:15 p.m. on HBO – WEST. Don’t fret if you missed out. It will be repeated numerous times during the month of June and July.

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If you live in the UK this is your chance to get a get a ticket for free to the screening of Public Enemies.

To celebrate the release of Public Enemies, in cinemas 1st July, Empire Magazine is giving you the chance to see the film before it’s released at cinemas nationwide.

The Screenings
The free screenings are taking place at the following Odeon cinemas on June 29.

Birmingham
Bristol
Cardiff
Edinburgh Wester Hailes
Glasgow Braehead
Liverpool One
London Kingston
London Greenwich
Manchester Printworks
Newcastle, Gateshead

How To Get Your Free Tickets
Screenings will take place on Monday 29 June at 6 for 6.30pm at Odeon Cinemas across the country. To receive your free pair of tickets log onto www.tellten.co.uk and enter the reference code 367459 which will take you to a special page where you can print off your tickets to bring along with you on the night. Remember first come first served so be quick to avoid missing out.

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At the Ocean Drive party at the Fontainebleau’s LIV for Pamela Anderson last night, Anderson seen making out with ex beau Stephen Dorff in one of the club’s sky boxes.

Stephen Dorff not only invited pals Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Clifton Collins Jr. and Fred Durst to a special screening of “Felon” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also flew in two of the film’s stuntmen from Albuquerque for the Thursday night gig.

But Dorff thinks co-star Val Kilmer, who was stuck at his Arizona ranch due to “family issues,” gets credit for selecting the after-party venue. After all, Kilmer plays a philosophical prisoner-for-life in the, uh, captivating film.

“Val is a lifer inmate on-screen and Life is the right name for the spot for our wild party,” said Dorff, as he hugged movie bad-guy Harold Perrineau.

Other cast members claimed some credit for choosing the aptly named resto/bar Life on Wilshire.  “I told director Ric Roman Waugh that I’d only go to the after party if the name was appropriate for my baby and he chose Life,” said Marisol Nichols, who is seven months pregnant.

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I have added images from the screening in the gallery here.

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 7/17/08 – Val Kilmer didn’t get his wish to be one of the bad guys in ‘The Dark Knight’, but shows how menacing he can be starring in ‘Felon’. It’s not without irony that Stage 6 Films low budget ‘Felon’ releases the same day as Warner Bros. big budget ‘The Dark Knight’. Kilmer was Batman in ‘Batman Forever’ in 1995.

Val Kilmer shines as enigmatic killer John Smith. “When Val came in and I first got to see John Smith’s character, I didn’t even recognize him,” says star Stephen Dorff. “When I saw the finished film, I was blown away by his performance.  I knew what we were doing in this 3-foot by 5-foot foot cell was strong, and I felt connected to him in those scenes. But, seeing the film, I thought he was just spectacular.”

Stephen Dorff is phenomenal as an ordinary Joe whose life is shattered after killing a burglar. Dorff’s brilliant performance takes us through a hellish physical and emotional journey during his prison transformation. ‘Felon’ is based on actual events and atrocities of California’s Corcoran State Prison.

“The details are real,” says Dorff. “Corcoran state prison was shut down by the FBI around seven years ago. Mike Wallace went in with a film crew. They were shooting inmates, staging gladiator type fights with the inmates and betting on the outcomes.”

“How to stay alive in this nightmare that he keeps waking up to everyday,” says Dorff. “It was a tour de force character on the page,” says Dorff. “It’s a down and dirty realistic film about this guy and this world he enters into.”

“It was a fantastic script, simply the best script I’d read in the past five years,” says Dorff. “From the minute I read it I wanted to do it. I think that the prison films that have been good are more period films like ‘Shawshank Redemption’ and ‘Escape from Alcatraz’. There hasn’t been any contemporary films that reflect what people see on TV like ‘Lockdown’.”

“All the cast out in the yard are real parolees, real guys who have served time, real guys who looked the part,” says Dorff. “The tats are real. There’s no Hollywood character actors trying to portray gangsters.” Writer-director Ric Roman Waugh spent two years visiting prison facilities researching ‘Felon’. The film was shot in New Mexico State Penitentiary, the scene of the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history.

Harold Perrineau, from the HBO prison drama ‘OZ’, gives a fantastic performance as a vicious and vengeful corrections officer. “I worked with Harold on ‘Blood and Wine,’” says Dorff.  “He was able to find his character and play this corrections officer who loses control. There is this darkness that he has that’s just incredible.”

‘Felon’ is a riveting film that takes the viewer to an unimaginable, harrowing world. Dorff’s brilliant performance takes us through a hellish physical and emotional journey during his prison transformation. “Some of it felt so real, it felt like a documentary,” says Dorff. For all its realistic low budget grit, ‘Felon’ is sparkling diamond that, hopefully, will be remembered during award season.

‘Felon’ is an intense, riveting sentence for moviegoers.

Sony Pictures announced the launch of Stage 6 Films last year, a label to acquire and produce films in the $1 million to $10 million budget range for theatrical and direct-to-DVD release.

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Actor STEPHEN DORFF has a permanent reminder of his time on the set of gritty prison drama FELON – a former inmate he bonded with during the shoot tattooed him.
Dorff, co-star Val Kilmer and the cast and crew of the film mingled with real-life prisoners and ex-convicts while shooting the movie at a working correctional facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
And the Backbeat star admits it was difficult not to befriend guys who had committed terrible crimes.
He explains, “What was tricky was we’re all in this prison yard and you talk to people in between lighting set-ups and (you) get to know people and make friends.
“Some of these guys were really cool and really nice and they wanted to hang out with you. Ric (Roman Waugh, the director) would constantly have to remind me, `Stephen, don’t get too close because you don’t want to be inviting them home for the weekend.’
“But, I made friends with one guy, who’s name was Isaac… He was an incredibly sweet guy; he had been in prison for about eight years, grew up in juvenile hall with prison values.
“While we were shooting Felon together he told me about his two little kids and his wife and everything was really sweet.
“He’s a tattoo artist and I became friends with him, so, after the movie, he gave me two tattoos; one of my initials on my forearm and then a rose that I got for my family. I connected with him.”

Stephen Dorff, Johnny Depp and other cast members have wrapped filming of Public Enemies in California. Official production of filming wrapped just over a week ago with Depp handing out gift bags and mementos to the cast and crew. Dorff received an antique wooden toy pistol as they drank Coronas.

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Depp also hosted a private wrap party at Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse in Chicago. The actor invited about 50 people – and the wine was flowing. No media were allowed at the private party. Guests included the film’s director Michael Mann, and co-star Marion Cotillard.

The $80-million film by Universal Studios was one of the largest productions to hit the Chicago area and Northwestern Indiana in recent years. The film which also stars Christian Bale, Giovanni Ribisi, and Billy Crudup, is set to be released in July 2009.

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After weeks of speculation, visits by Hollywood scouts and casting calls, Governor Jim Doyle officially announced a deal with Universal Pictures to bring the film Public Enemies to the Badger State this spring. The production will be shot in multiple locations around Wisconsin.

Based on the book of the same name by Bryan Burrough, the movie will follow the exploits of John Dillinger, the original “Public Enemy Number One,” as he and his gang are pursued by the FBI across the Upper Midwest from 1933-’34. It is being produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Michael Mann.

Public Enemies boasts an impressive cast, one that is growing in profile week by week. Leading the way as Dillinger is Johnny Depp. Christian Bale will be playing FBI agent Melvin Purvis, and Marion Cotillard, is playing Evelyn “Billie” Frechette, a young Wisconsin-born woman who was Dillinger’s main squeeze during his final year in action.

Rounding out the cast is Channing Tatum as Pretty Boy Floyd, Giovanni Ribisi as Alvin Karpis, and Stephen Dorff as Homer Van Meter.

Dorff is currently in Chicago for pre-production and has been all over the place, including catching shows at the House of Blues and rockin’ out with DJ Whiteshadow at Manor. The film will shoot in Chicago and around Wisconsin from March through June.