Michael Mann's latest effort is getting on the way in Israel as MAN OF THE PEOPLE gears up near Oum El-Fahm. Here's what Confucius Jones has to report on the subject...

Yair from Israel on this end of the web with some info you might find interesting.

Al Pacino arrived in Israel on Monday to shoot several scenes for Michael Mann's film "Man of the People". The location is Oum El-Fahm, an Arab city in the center of Israel which will double for the scene's actual location, Ba'al Beck in Lebanon. In "Man of the People" Pacino plays the "60 Minutes" reporter that gets hold of a story on corruption in the tabacco industry, a story that CBS didn't allow to broadcast. The Israeli scene is actually a flashback to that reporter's previous story, and has nothing to do with that plot line.

Shooting begins today (Tuesday). If anything interesting happens, I'll update.

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