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A Quick Look at the Works of Sam Mendes
slashfilm.com - 6/25/2009
A Quick Look at the Works of Sam Mendes
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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 into the film business (he had directed ...
Do Sam Mendes's Films Attack the State of American Marriage?
ropeofsilicon.com - 6/22/2009
Do Sam Mendes's Films Attack the State of American Marriage?
— 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 ... (more) Do Sam Mendes's Films Attack the State of American Marriage?

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variety.com - 6/19/2009
Sam Mendes, Focus in 2-year pact - Entertainment News, Film News, Media
— variety.com — 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 ... (more) Sam Mendes, Focus in 2-year pact - Entertainment News, ...

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independent.co.uk - 6/22/2009
Mendes beats Scorsese to Middlemarch movie
— independent.co.uk — It is a hefty tome of more than 800 pages, set in a fictitious town in the... Midlands and written as a penetrating study of provincial life, religion and political reform. (more) Mendes beats Scorsese to Middlemarch movie

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Movie Marketing Madness:  The “sponsored conversations” issue finally comes to the forefront

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The “sponsored conversations” issue finally comes to the forefront
Movie Marketing Madness — ... I’ve written about this idea before back when the topic was first brought back up and mostly agree with what Marshall Kirkpatrick at RWW says about the issue and still feel that full, pre-emptive disclosure coupled with an effort to not pass along PageRank so that search results aren’t manipulated goes a long way to alleviate the concerns I and many others have. But I bring it back up because the other day SlashFilm wrote a retrospective of director Sam Mendes that, it was later disclosed, was a component of an advertising ...

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