{"id":5960,"date":"2026-11-01T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/movie-director-michael-mann-accidentally-shoots-self\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T21:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:18:30","slug":"movie-director-michael-mann-accidentally-shoots-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/movie-director-michael-mann-accidentally-shoots-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie director Michael Mann accidentally shoots self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>Michael Mann, the acclaimed director of crime classics \u201cHeat\u201d and \u201cCollateral,\u201d accidentally shot himself at a gun range in Los Angeles, resulting in minor injuries, a statement released on Sunday said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered, resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann. He was treated and is being released,\u201d a representative of the filmmaker said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that they had responded to a \u201cshots fired\u201d incident around 4:00 pm local time and that the shooting was \u201cdetermined to be accidental.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Mann, 83, is said to be an experienced target shooter and is known for the intense and realistic gunplay in his movies, many of which are staples of the crime thriller genre.<\/p>\n<p>He has directed an array of well-known films, including \u201cThief,\u201d \u201cThe Last of the Mohicans,\u201d \u201cPublic Enemies,\u201d \u201cThe Insider\u201d and \u201cAli.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>But he is perhaps best known for \u201cHeat,\u201d which pitted Robert De Niro playing a master criminal against Al Pacino\u2019s police officer in a taut thriller.\n<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s iconic final scene sees Pacino stalking De Niro in the dark beside an airport runway, both men with their guns drawn.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#9febf7fafafbf6ebf0eddfefeaf1fcf7f1f8b1fcf0f2\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"afdbc7cacacbc6dbc0ddefdfdac1ccc7c1c881ccc0c2\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mann, the acclaimed director of crime classics \u201cHeat\u201d and \u201cCollateral,\u201d accidentally shot himself at a gun range in Los Angeles, resulting in minor injuries, a statement released on Sunday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}