News - Sam Mendes
LONDON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today presented the cast of the 23rd James Bond adventure, entitled SKYFALL. The film, from Albert R.
British theater and movie director Sam Mendes is producing a stage musical adaptation of the children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mendes helmed the films American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Away We Go, as well as the 1998 stage production of Cabaret. Playwright David Greig is penning
British film star Kate Winslet won two Golden Globes Sunday night -- for best actress in a drama and best supporting actress in a motion picture. Winslet, who previously starred in the movies Iris and Little Children, won the best actress award for her performance in Revolutionary Road and a best supporting actress honor for The Reader. I have a habit of not winning things, a surprised-looking Winslet said as she took the stage to collect her supporting actress statuette, the first award given out at the ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. She then said of The Reader's producers, Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died before the movie was released, I hope they would have been proud. Revolutionary Road was directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes.
British movie and stage director Sam Mendes has agreed to direct a movie based on the graphic novel "Preacher," which is about an evil-battling Texas minister. Mendes directed the Oscar-winning "American Beauty," as well as "Road to Perdition," another graphic-novel adaptation.
