Sam Mendes
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Sam Mendes to direct 4 Beatles films, each from different band members' perspectives
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The Boys villain Aya Cash is making another superhero satire, this time with HBO
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Daniel Craig's James Bond movies, ranked
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RRR director S.S. Rajamouli: 'It is the dream of every filmmaker across the world to make a film in Hollywood'
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Brendan Fraser shines in overwrought The Whale, and a fireplace shines in Adult Swim's WTF The Fireplace
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Olivia Colman would have been 'rather cross' if anyone else got her role in Empire of Light
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A troubled Olivia Colman refuses to give up in Empire of Light trailer
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The 16 movies we're most excited to see this holiday season
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Empire of Light star Micheal Ward says Olivia Colman was 'spitting fire' on set
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Empire of Light review: Olivia Colman shines in Sam Mendes' 1980s ode to cinema
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Taylor Swift, Weird Al Yankovic film, Squid Game star's directorial debut join TIFF 2022 lineup
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Every Leonardo DiCaprio film performance, ranked
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2002 rewatch: Road to Perdition brought prestige to blockbuster season. But was it any good?
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The Lehman Trilogy review: Financial drama becomes a post-modern thrill on Broadway
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How Skyfall cinematographer Roger Deakins made the best-looking Bond movie ever
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Skyfall producer says studio wanted to cut homoerotic line from Bond movie
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Mena Suvari felt 'weird and unusual' vibes from Kevin Spacey on American Beauty set
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Christina Hendricks explains how her hand wound up on the American Beauty poster
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A director royale? The James Bond series may just get handed to Mendes, Sam Mendes
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Spike Lee says he, Sam Mendes, and Jim Jarmusch 'have not written one single word' during quarantine
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Parasite pulls off stunning Oscars upset to become first foreign-language Best Picture winner
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Bong Joon Ho surprises with Best Director Oscar win: 'I thought I was done for the day'
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1917 stars spill secret about movie's 'one-take' approach, share their biggest awards season shocker
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Here are EW's predictions for the 2020 Oscar winners
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Oscars secret ballot: Academy members get shady on 'embarrassing,' 'genius' films in the race
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DGA Awards 2020 winners: Here's what they mean for the top Oscar categories
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See how Martin Scorsese is six-degrees separated from every Best Picture Oscar nominee
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Stars react to their 2020 Oscar nominations
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2020 PGA nominations boost Little Women, Parasite, more in Oscar race
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Joker leads BAFTA nominations, film chair slams 'infuriating' lack of diversity
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The Awardist podcast: What do the Golden Globes tell us about the Oscar race?
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Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins get in the trenches of their stunning 1917 collaboration
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Knives Out, Parasite among Writers Guild Awards nominees
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1917 is a serious Best Picture player. The Golden Globes just proved it
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1917 director Sam Mendes wins first Golden Globe since American Beauty
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Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, Steve McQueen, Sam Mendes, more receive new U.K. honors
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1917 cast, crew on getting 'lost' in the beauty of Sam Mendes' visual wartime poem
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Awards season tracker: Early winners ahead of the 2020 Oscars
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AFI top 10 raises Joker, Little Women, more in Oscar race
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Cats, more advance in Oscars VFX race
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Sam Mendes' breathtaking 1917 is a new kind of WWI movie: Review
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1917 cast and creators explain how they made the film to be one continuous shot
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How Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins shot 1917 to look like one unbroken take
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth wage war in gripping 1917 trailer
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Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Colin Firth board Sam Mendes' 1917
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The Ferryman forges a bone-chilling family drama: EW review
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Annette Bening named Venice Film Festival jury president, ending 10-year male streak
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Sam Mendes in early talks to direct live-action Pinocchio for Disney
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Beautiful Ruins: Sam Mendes to produce adaptation, may direct
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James Bond: Sam Mendes thinks it's time for new 007 director
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Sam Mendes to direct Gay Talese's Voyeur's Motel for DreamWorks
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Spectre makes off with $5.3 million from midnight shows
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'Spectre' reviews: What did the critics say?
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Spectre 007 stunts video
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James Bond finally gets the origin story we've been waiting for in Spectre
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Sam Mendes says Spectre will be his last Bond film
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James Bond will dance with the dead in Spectre
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James Bond races through Rome in new Spectre behind-the-scenes sequence
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Watch Shawn Mendes' 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' video
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New James Bond title has a 'SPECTRE' of the past
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From 'Psycho' to 'Gone Girl': the best director/composer teams
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Danny Boyle won't direct James Bond
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Helen Mirren calls out Sam Mendes at Empire Awards