variety.com - 6/19/2009
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First-look deal includes two potential projects Focus Features has made a two-year first-look deal with Sam Mendes and Neal Street Prods., the company the helmer partners in with Pippa Harris and Caro Newling. Deal includes the acquisition of two projects that could be potential directing ...
ropeofsilicon.com - 6/22/2009
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ropeofsilicon.com —
Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski play a happily
unmarried couple in Away We Go Photo: Focus Features
I was happy to see my article ranking director Sam Mendes's films getting more reads than I thought it would. I wasn't sure how many people ...
Do Sam Mendes's Films Attack the State of American Marriage?
variety.com - 6/19/2009
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variety.com —
Film News: First-look deal includes two potential projects
-- Focus Features has made a two-year first-look deal
with Sam Mendes and Neal Street Prods., the company the helmer partners in with Pippa Harris and Caro Newling.
Sam Mendes, Focus in 2-year pact
firstshowing.net - 6/22/2009
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firstshowing.net —
Another exclusive first-look deal for a great indie
filmmaker. Oscar winner Sam Mendes has signed a two-year
first-look deal with Focus Features , who most recently released his indie Away We Go . This deal includes the acquisition of two ...
Sam Mendes Signs a Two-Year Deal With Focus Features
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... Focus Features has Sam Mendes for two years. Variety reports the studio has made a first-look deal with Mendes, which includes “Butcher’s Crossing” and “Middlemarch.” Mendes is already set to produce “Butcher’s Crossing,” an epic about a man who decides to move to a small town in Kansas to hunt Buffalo herds over pursuing a Harvard education, but may take on directorial duties as well. “Middlemarch” is based on George Eliot’s novel about a provincial English community in the 1830s. ...
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This will be quite the strange post, I’m sure, but here’s a collection of fabulous quotes about characters I’ve read recently in other articles. First, The Hurt Locker, which has been on my radar for some time. I loved A.O. Scott’s review of the film and in particular, his character descriptions. That he gets the characters so well and feels compelled to articulate ...
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hwhills.com 6/2/2009 — Here are a few new clips today from Sam Mendes ‘ comedy “Away We Go.” Yes, that Sam Mendes who directed “American Beauty” and “Revolutionary Road” is putting out a comedy starring John Krasinski (”The Office”) and Maya Rudolph ...
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superherohype.com 5/31/2009 — ComingSoon.net talked to Away We Go director Sam Mendes about comic book adaptation Preacher , which he is set to direct from a script by John August at Columbia Pictures. Here's what he said:
CS: I'm personally very interested in the idea of you ...
Exclusive: Director Sam Mendes gives an update on PREACHER
collider.com 5/12/2009 — 5/11/2009 Posted by Frosty Written by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Yesterday was the Los Angeles press day for director Sam Mendes new movie Away We Go. As I said when I posted the movie clips earlier, I loved the movie. The film has a brilliant ...
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slashfilm.com 6/25/2009 —
Earlier this morning, we put up a post on /Film that featured a brief look at the works of Sam Mendes. At the beginning of the article, we included the following text: “This post is sponsored by Focus Features - See Sam Mendes’ new movie ...
A Quick Look at the Works of Sam Mendes
slashfilm.com 6/25/2009 —
This post is sponsored by Focus Features - See Sam Mendes’ new movie Away We Go in Theaters Now!
Few directors have ascended to the upper echelons of Hollywood talent as quickly as Sam Mendes. While Mendes was no slouch when he first got ...
Movie Review - 'Away We Go'
getthebigpicture.net 6/12/2009 —
Away We Go
Starring John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Directed by Sam Mendes
Rated R
There's a terrific moment in Sam Mendes ' Away We Go that doesn't hit you until later. You'll have to pardon my French, because it only works best with the ...
Riding to Perdition: Sam Mendes’s “Away We Go”
indiewire.com 6/1/2009 — Sam Mendes is quickly amassing one of the most idiotic contemporary bodies of work that otherwise reasonable people consider credible. His fifth film, “Away We Go,” continues the Brit stage director’s track record of tackling different eras in the American experience (earlier: the Thirties ...
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