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10 July 2004: It's Official! No release date announced, but the announcement of it's release is the next best thing!

Universal Charges Into TV-to-DVD Marketplace With Emmy(R) Award-Winning and Groundbreaking Television Programs

(excerpt of press release)

The trend continues when MIAMI VICE, the television show that captured a decade and defined popular culture, will be released on DVD. Executive produced by director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider, Ali) and Dick Wolf (Law & Order franchise), the multiple Emmy(R)- winning action-packed police drama, MIAMI VICE, set trends in fashion, music and filmmaking. Starring Don Johnson (Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Rico Tubbs), MIAMI VICE is set under the pulse and rhythm of the glamorous resort city of Miami and is juxtaposed against the seedy haunts of the drug underworld. Led by a notable line-up of season one guest stars including Bruce Willis, Jimmy Smits ("NYPD Blue"), Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible), Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) and John Turturro (O Brother Where Art Thou?), MIAMI VICE: SEASON ONE, will be a must-own for any DVD fan.

30 May 2004:
News from TVShowsOnDVD.com: Miami Vice on DVD may be closer than we think!

28 Aug 2003:
The Miami Vice Chronicles has undergone major site makeover, hopefully making the viewing experience more consistent and clean for all our visitors. The site should be easier to navigate, as well as be easier to find your favorite episodes and vote for them.

Many thanks to Galaxy Maps for their permission to use the beautiful panoramic views of Miami and Miami Beach still in use on this site.

3 Dec 2002:
Work has begun in organizing a 20th Anniversary Miami Vice Convention in mid-September 2004. Details about the plan can be read here: Miami Vice Convention 2004

5 Jun 2002:
Want an easy way to keep tabs on the production developments of the proposed Miami Vice movie? Just keep an eye on the Coming Attractions Miami Vice page. These guys are the absolute best with keeping up-to-date on the status of movies in production.

Be patient, it could be months until the next time some new tidbit is posted. Be sure to read their Glossary of Film Terms to know what the different development stages they use are.

27 May 2002:
There's a petition out, asking Michael Mann and the producers of the announced Miami Vice movie to please include the original cast members.

"Please include the original cast in the next Miami Vice movie" is the name of the petition, hosted by PetitionOnline.com, and started by members of the Miami Vice mailing list.

9 May 2002:
culled from the Miami Vice mailing list:

Variety.com http://www.variety.com/

Posted: Wed., May 8, 2002, 10:00pm PT

Dish: Mann over 'Miami'
U, helmer adapt TV classic for bigscreen
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Joining the recent spate of classic TV series-turned-features, Universal Pictures and Michael Mann will give bigscreen treatment to the seminal '80s cop series "Miami Vice."

Film will be creatively steered by the man who gave the series a look and style that made it a cultural touchstone of the decade. Mann, who exec produced the series before moving on to become helmer of films including "The Insider," "Heat" and "Ali," will write the film script and produce with Forward Pass partner Sandy Climan. Series creator Anthony Yerkovich will exec produce. Once he completes the script, the CAA-repped Mann will decide whether to direct. It would become one of several next projects he's zeroing in on, with other contenders including an Eric Roth-scripted Western, a sci-fi project, an espionage thriller and a David Self-scripted adaptation of the Spartan epic "Gates of Fire."

Like another series-to-movie transformation, "Hawaii Five-O," "Miami Vice" need only retain a geographical location and theme song, but is not dependent on replicating iconic characters in the same way Paramount's "Honeymooners" remake is. Mann and U can exploit a branded title that portends a big opening weekend, even while making a film that is not meant as a trip down memory lane. Mann's goal is not to prompt baby boomers to dust off their pastel suits, go sockless or replicate fashion trends set by the show. Rather, he will look to create a contemporary crime detective story set in Miami. The series, which was a core part of a Brandon Tartikoff-led resurgence of NBC, revolved around detectives Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas). They were dashing but troubled undercover vice cops who wore designer duds, drove the coolest cars and boats, romanced gorgeous women as they collared drug dealers.

Defined by movie-quality cinematography and a Jan Hammer-created synthesizer background, "Vice" proved a hatching ground for talent like Bruce Willis, Chris Rock, Liam Neeson and Dennis Farina, the latter of whom went on to topline Mann's series "Crime Story." Mann and Climan just supervised the pilot of an untitled series for CBS revolving around the robbery/homicide division of the LAPD, toplined by Mann's "Heat" star Tom Sizemore.

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