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.
Christopher Nolan, Edgar Wright, Steve McQueen & More Warn That UK Cinema Is “On The Edge Of An Abyss”
theplaylist.netA lot of the discussion surrounding Christopher Nolan last year was how he wanted to release “Tenet” in theaters to help provide a spark for the industry to hopefully bring people back to cinemas and help resuscitate an industry that has been hit incredibly hard since the pandemic began.
Now, almost a year after theaters around the world shut down, most territories are still struggling to get back to 100% and theaters (especially in North America and Europe) just haven’t seen the recovery that they were hoping.
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