A year after filming started for 鈥淢iles Ahead,鈥� Don Cheadle鈥檚 Miles Davis movie, no release date has been set for the film. The International Movie Database just says 鈥�2015鈥� for the release date.
Cheadle began his directorial debut filming downtown on July 7, 2014, in front of the Cincinnati Bell building, 209 W. Seventh St., which was portraying CBS headquarters in New York City in 1979.
Cheadle, dressed as jazz icon Davis, and Ewan McGregor, as a long-haired 鈥淩olling Stone鈥� reporter, were going to talk to CBS executives about a recording stolen from the musician鈥檚 home. The script, co-written by Cheadle, was set in 1979 as Davis was ending his five-year self-imposed 鈥渟ilent period鈥� out of the public eye.
As Davis, Cheadle drove a green Jaguar with 鈥淭RUMPET 1鈥� license plates up to the front doors of the CBS building.
His director鈥檚 chair to monitor scenes was on the northwest corner of Elm & Seventh Streets, facing the spectators, TV cameras, reporters and an Enquirer photographer gathered on the east side of Elm Street.
Of all the people on the city sidewalk, behind the movie鈥檚 security guy, 鈥淢iles Ahead鈥� producer Pamela Hirsch was only concerned about me and the Enquirer photographer. She asked us to go away for a couple of days, or not to shoot Cheadle in character (even though TV cameras were shooting the filming). She claimed Cheadle was just trying to get into the character. I told her we had a right to take pictures on a city street, behind the film鈥檚 security lines, just as anyone else.
Late that night we found out the real reason we were hassled: Entertainment Weekly鈥檚 website posted an exclusive photo of Cheadle as Davis, taken by WKRQ-FM鈥檚 Brian Douglas. So to protect the EW deal, she wanted us to leave. When we didn鈥檛, the security guy on the corner was instructed to step in front of the Enquirer photographer every time she raised her camera to take a picture.
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