Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films Inks First-Look Deal With New Republic Pictures
hollywoodreporter.comDirty Films — the production banner from Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton — has signed a first-look film deal with New Republic Pictures.
New Republic, run by producers Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer, was behind the Elton John biopic Rocketman and Sam Mendes' World War I drama 1917.
Dirty Films' most recent credits are the FX on Hulu series Mrs. America andAustralianlimited series Stateless, which launches globally on Netflix in July.
In addition to the first-look deal, Los Angeles-based producer Coco Francini has joined Dirty Films as a partner. Francini served as a producer on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here.
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