COLUMBUS - Set contractors are busy remodeling downtown Columbus for the movie "Public Enemies," which is expected to start shooting next week.

They're making alterations to some stores to fit the movie about bank robber John Dillinger, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.

Director and University of Wisconsin grad Michael Mann says Columbus has just the right history for the movie location.

There are more than 240 homes and businesses on the National Historic Registry -- in fact the entire downtown is a historic district.

NBC Universal plans to spend $20 million of the movie's $150 million budget in Wisconsin.

Columbus Mayor Nancy Osterhous says the local lumberyard, restaurants, hotels and other businesses are the beneficiaries of that spending.

Osterhous says Columbus has plenty of snow cover, but she says the movie makers will add some artificial snow to shoot the winter scenes.

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