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.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor British luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin celebrates its 110th anniversary this year, but its eyes are firmly on the road ahead, not the rear-view mirror.
On May 24, at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Antibes, France, near Cannes, the company unveils the first of its next generation of sports cars (see teaser image, here) and the following evening the new model will go to the highest bidder at the AmfAR Charity Gala at the hotel.
Then, on May 28, a short dash along the Riviera, the brand’s Formula 1 team races at the Monaco Grand Prix. Commenting on the choice of the Cannes Film Festival as the venue to launch the new model, Aston Martin’s global chief brand and commercial officer, Marco Mattiacci, says: “The movie business is where we belong.” Aston Martin is perhaps best-known for its association with James Bond, which began when producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman selected the DB5 as 007’s car in 1964’s “Goldfinger.” In a statement, Bond’s current producers, Michael G.
Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, told Variety: “Sixty years later, we continue to share a very special relationship, with the brand’s vehicles playing major roles in 13 of the 25 films.” Mattiacci comments: “[The Bond franchise] has been a phenomenal platform to deliver awareness of and familiarity with our product.” Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s executive vice president and chief creative officer, reveals that the Bond production team had an unintended impact on one of the brand’s models, the Vantage. “One [of the Bond film directors], Sam Mendes, probably did influence the design of an Aston Martin because of the car that appears in ‘Spectre,’ the DB10.
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