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.
CinemaCon 2025: Here’s What Worked & Didn’t Work
deadline.comWith a domestic box office year now lagging behind last year’s by 6% (it was -11% as of last Sunday), the motion picture industry needed CinemaCon this week like a pop of Viagra.
Here are the takeaways from Las Vegas: There’s Still A Belief That Theatrical Can Work We are in a massive funk no doubt at the domestic box office with the big question as to whether we’ll ever get back to 2018 levels ($11.9 billion).
However, what was clear coming away from the Las Vegas studio-exhibitor love-in at Caesars Palace was that the studios aren’t bailing on theatrical: they delivered the stars, they delivered stunts (we’ll get into that) with a robust lineup of product in Avatar: Fire & Ash, Superman, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Ballerina, Lilo & Stich, Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning to indicate that better days are ahead.
In fact, after this weekend’s $135M+ opening for Warner Bros/Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie, we might be turning that corner right now.
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