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Normally I sit an make faces at the monitor whenever I hear there's a remake movie based on a 70’s or 80’ TV show. So even though the Miami Vice movie will have Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs, I was pulling faces until I noted that Michael Mann is slotted to write, direct, and produce the movie. Now I'm just all-excited. Miami Vice brought movie-level budgets to TV -- what kind of budget will the movie version have? A space-program budget?

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