Which film director is the uncle of actor Jason Schwartzman?
"is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, cousin of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola and Christopher Coppola, and grandson of Italia Coppola (née Pennino) and Carmine Coppola (the source of his old stage name) and his niece, Gia Coppola. His brother is Jason Schwartzman, lead singer of the band Coconut Records (also an actor and former drummer of the band Phantom Planet) and his half-siblings are Stephanie Schwartzman and cinematographer John Schwartzman. Schwartzman is of Jewish descent on his father's side and of Catholic Italian descent on his mother's side. Schwartzman attended Windward School in Los Angeles, California and"
"Jason Schwartzman Jason Francesco Schwartzman (born June 26, 1980) is an American actor, screenwriter and musician. He is known for his frequent collaborations with Wes Anderson, such as ""Rushmore"" (1998), ""The Darjeeling Limited"" (2007), ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"" (2009), ""Moonrise Kingdom"" (2012) and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" (2014). He also starred in other films, such as ""Spun"" (2003), ""I Heart Huckabees"" (2004), ""Shopgirl"" (2005), ""Marie Antoinette"" (2006), ""Funny People"" (2009), ""Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"" (2010) and ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013). In addition to his film work, Schwartzman was the star of the HBO series ""Bored to Death"" (2009–2011), in which"
"Uncle John (film) Uncle John is a 2015 American film directed by Steven Piet, who co-wrote it with producer Erik Crary. It stars John Ashton in the title role as a respected and well-liked townsperson who murders a local bully. John must deal with a spontaneous visit by his nephew (Alex Moffat), who has brought along his love interest (Jenna Lyng), and the suspicions of the murdered man's brother (Ronnie Gene Blevins). The story blends elements of thriller, romantic comedy, and crime drama films. The film premiered at SXSW on March 16, 2015, and received a limited release from Filmbuff"
"John Schwartzman John Leonard Schwartzman, A.S.C. (born October 18, 1960) is an American cinematographer, best known for his work on ""Jurassic World"", ""The Amazing Spider-Man"", ""The Rock"" and ""Seabiscuit"", for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. Schwartzman was born on October 18, 1960 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of producer Jack Schwartzman and stepson of actress Talia Shire. He is the brother of Stephanie Schwartzman and half-brother to actors/musicians Jason and Robert Schwartzman. John graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1985. Schwartzman works as a cinematographer. He is"
"a new birthing center. He scored the 2013 film ""Palo Alto"" with Dev Hynes of Blood Orange. In 2016, Schwarzmann wrote and directed ""Dreamland"", starring Johnny Simmons and Amy Landecker. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 14, 2016. It was released in a limited release and through video on demand on November 11, 2016. In 2018, Schwartzman directed ""The Unicorn"" starring Lauren Lapkus and Nick Rutherford. It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018. Robert Schwartzman Robert Carmine Schwartzman (born December 24, 1982) is an American actor, screenwriter, director,"
"best known for his collaborations with directors Michael Bay, John Lee Hancock, and Colin Trevorrow. John Schwartzman John Leonard Schwartzman, A.S.C. (born October 18, 1960) is an American cinematographer, best known for his work on ""Jurassic World"", ""The Amazing Spider-Man"", ""The Rock"" and ""Seabiscuit"", for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. Schwartzman was born on October 18, 1960 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of producer Jack Schwartzman and stepson of actress Talia Shire. He is the brother of Stephanie Schwartzman and half-brother to actors/musicians Jason and Robert Schwartzman. John graduated from the University of"
"Steven Spielberg. The film followed a desperate TV producer convincing an old Armenian Uncle to star in a reality show. Cultures clash when Uncle Rafael is thrown into the Schumacher family household, a dysfunctional American family in the midst of falling apart. Pirhmazei won the Best Screenplay and Best Actor Awards from ARPA International Film Festival for My Uncle Rafael. It also earned the Best Director Award for Marc Fusco. In 2013 Vahik Pirhamzei wrote, directed, and starred in the feature film ""Guardian Angel"" and won Golden Pom Award from Pomegranate Film Festival Awards in Toronto. In 2013 Pirhamzei directed"
"Uncle (film) Uncle is a 2018 Indian Malayalam drama thriller film directed by Girish Damodar and produced by Joy Mathew and Sajai Sebastian under the banner of SJ Films. It stars Mammootty and Karthika Muralidharan in the lead roles, and Joy Mathew and Muthumani in supporting roles. It was released on 27 April 2018. The story revolves around two major characters Krishnakumar and Shruthi. Krishnakumar is a big businessman with a big circle of friends. Shruthi is the daughter of one of his friends. KK and Shruthi travel from Ootty to Kozhikkode together. Ashwin Baradwaj of lensmenreviews rated the film"
"greatness."" Uncle (film) Uncle is a 2018 Indian Malayalam drama thriller film directed by Girish Damodar and produced by Joy Mathew and Sajai Sebastian under the banner of SJ Films. It stars Mammootty and Karthika Muralidharan in the lead roles, and Joy Mathew and Muthumani in supporting roles. It was released on 27 April 2018. The story revolves around two major characters Krishnakumar and Shruthi. Krishnakumar is a big businessman with a big circle of friends. Shruthi is the daughter of one of his friends. KK and Shruthi travel from Ootty to Kozhikkode together. Ashwin Baradwaj of lensmenreviews rated the"
"Coppola, and Christopher Coppola, and grandson of Italia Coppola (née Pennino) and Carmine Coppola. His first cousin once removed, his father Jack's first cousin is novelist and screenwriter Elliott B. Oppenheim. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants, while his mother is Italian American and Catholic. He attended Windward School in West Los Angeles. Schwartzman's acting career began when he was 17 years old, when he starred in Wes Anderson's ""Rushmore"" in 1998. Prior to ""Rushmore"", he had no acting experience. Shortly after in 2000, Jason had a guest role in the short-lived series ""Freaks and Geeks"". In 2001, he"
"of ""The Austin Chronicle"" wrote that it ""plays like two completely different movies that have been skillfully intercut"" and ""confounds expectations at seemingly every turn"". Rex Reed of ""The New York Observer"" called it ""meticulously observed and startlingly good"". Uncle John (film) Uncle John is a 2015 American film directed by Steven Piet, who co-wrote it with producer Erik Crary. It stars John Ashton in the title role as a respected and well-liked townsperson who murders a local bully. John must deal with a spontaneous visit by his nephew (Alex Moffat), who has brought along his love interest (Jenna Lyng),"
"Alex Kurtzman Alex Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American film and television writer, producer, and director. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to ""Transformers"", ""Star Trek"", ""Star Trek Into Darkness"", and ""The Amazing Spider-Man 2"" with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing ""The Mummy"". Kurtzman was born and raised to a secular Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Orci. He attended Wesleyan University. Kurtzman first teamed with Orci on television on the syndicated series "","" for the television unit of"
"Dirty Grandpa Dirty Grandpa is a 2016 American comedy film about a lawyer who drives his grandfather to Florida during spring break. The film was directed by Dan Mazer and written by John Phillips. It stars Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza, and Zoey Deutch. Filming began on January 19, 2015, in Atlanta and ended on May 9. It was theatrically released on January 22, 2016, by Lionsgate and received scathing reviews from critics, but succeeded in the box office, grossing over $105 million worldwide. Jason Kelly is a lawyer who works for his father. Jason's grandmother dies, and"
"Sam Raimi Samuel M. Raimi (; born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer who created the cult horror ""Evil Dead"" series, and directed the original ""Spider-Man"" trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film ""Darkman"", and the 2013 Disney fantasy film ""Oz the Great and Powerful"". Raimi has also produced several successful television series and founded the production company Renaissance Pictures in 1979. Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to a Conservative Jewish family. His ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary. He is the older brother of actor Ted Raimi and the younger brother of"
"Robert Schwartzman Robert Carmine Schwartzman (born December 24, 1982) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and musician. Schwartzman is also best known as the lead vocalist of the rock/pop band Rooney. He has also acted in the short black-and-white film ""Lick the Star"" and ""The Virgin Suicides"", both directed and co-written by his cousin Sofia Coppola, as well as ""The Princess Diaries"". Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, he is the youngest of three boys of Talia Shire (née Coppola) and the late producer Jack Schwartzman. Many other members of Schwartzman's family are involved in film: he"
"personality. On July 16, 2014, Universal announced that they had tapped Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to develop all classic movie monsters which include Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Mummy. The first film they will develop together will be ""The Mummy"", for which they had begun the meetings. So on July 30, Kurtzman was set to direct the film. Next day, the film's release date was pushed back to March 27, 2017, when Universal announced the April 22 for its new film ""The Huntsman"". The film's plot"
"Paul Saltzman Paul Saltzman is a two-time Canadian Emmy Award-winning film and television producer-director with more than 300 films, both dramas and documentaries, to his credit. The 2008 documentary feature, ""Prom Night in Mississippi"", featuring actor Morgan Freeman, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. His most recent film, the feature documentary, ""The Last White Knight—Is Reconciliation Possible?"" premiered at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2012. It features Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay de la Beckwith (son of Byron De La Beckwith) as well as Saltzman himself. He is also founder, CEO and president of the charitable, non-profit organization"
"Cinqué Lee Cinqué Lee (born July 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee has worked in number of different positions of his older brother's films, as a camera operator, video archivist and most notably as a co-screenwriter in the 1994 film ""Crooklyn"". He also had small roles in ""School Daze"" (1988) and ""Oldboy"" (2013). As an actor, he appeared in the Jim Jarmusch-directed films ""Mystery Train"" (1989) and ""Coffee and Cigarettes"" (2003), and a number of other independent films. Lee is also a filmmaker himself, directing, producing and writing the"
"Justin Kurzel Justin Dallas Kurzel (born 3 August 1974) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. Kurzel was born in Gawler, South Australia to a family of immigrant roots, his father hailing from Poland and his mother from Malta. His younger brother, Jed Kurzel, is a blues rock musician who has scored most of Justin's films. Kurzel is married to actress Essie Davis. In 1999 he was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship. His feature film debut was the Australian film ""Snowtown"" (2011), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Direction. His 2015 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"""
"N. Weiss, Jay Scherick and David Ronn. By early August 2011, the first draft of the script was completed. On April 26, 2012, Sony announced that the film went into production. Filming took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The film also marked the last appearance of Jonathan Winters, who voiced Grandpa Smurf on the 1980s TV series and Papa Smurf in ""The Smurfs"" (2011). Winters died on April 11, 2013 (by then, work had already ended on this film). On July 11, 2013, it was announced that Sofía Vergara's role was cut from the film. Gosnell, the director of the"
"(2011), ""The Gift"" (2015), ""Office Christmas Party"", ""Zootopia"" (both 2016) and ""Game Night"" (2018). Bateman made his directorial debut with the black comedy ""Bad Words"" (2013), in which he also starred. He has since directed and starred in ""The Family Fang"" (2015) and the Netflix crime drama series ""Ozark"" (2017–present). Bateman was born in Rye, New York, and was 4 years old when his family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and later to California. His mother, Victoria Elizabeth, was a flight attendant for Pan Am who was originally from Shrewsbury, United Kingdom (UK). His father, Kent Bateman, is an"
"Chen Shi-Zheng Chen Shi-Zheng (; born 1963 in Changsha, Hunan, China) is a New York-based theater director. Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Chen's directorial debut film, ""Dark Matter"", was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's"
"Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau (; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. As an actor, he is known for roles in films such as ""Rudy"" (1993), ""Swingers"" (1996) (which he also wrote), ""Very Bad Things"" (1998), ""The Break-Up"" (2006), ""Friends"" (1994-2004), ""Couples Retreat"" (2009), and ""Chef"" (2014) (which he also directed). He has additionally directed the films ""Elf"" (2003), """" (2005), ""Iron Man"" (2008), ""Iron Man 2"" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011), and ""The Jungle Book"" (2016), and served as an executive producer on ""The Avengers"" (2012), ""Iron Man 3"" (2013), """" (2015), """""
"with ""The Mummy"" (2017), was to be followed by ""Bride of Frankenstein"" in 2019. Franchise producer Alex Kurtzman stated that fans should expect at least one film per year in the shared film universe. But on November 8, 2017, Kurtzman and Chris Morgan moved on to other projects, leaving the future of the ""Dark Universe"" in doubt. The Invisible Man (1933 film) The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale. It was based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel ""The Invisible Man"", published in 1897, as adapted by R.C. Sherriff, Philip"
"dockworker in ""Darkman"". As of 2009, Lustig is the CEO of Blue Underground; an entertainment company specializing in the release of obscure films and exploitation films on DVD. He also produced both remakes of his films ""Maniac"" (2012) and ""Maniac Cop"" (2016), the latter co-produced with Nicolas Winding Refn. William Lustig William Lustig (born February 1, 1955 in The Bronx, New York), also known as Bill Lustig, is an American film director and producer who has worked primarily in the horror film genre. He is the nephew of former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta. As a film director, Lustig is best"
"Uncle Drew Uncle Drew is a 2018 American sports comedy film directed by Charles Stone III and written by Jay Longino. It stars Kyrie Irving as the title character from his Pepsi Max advertisements that began airing in 2012, along with former NBA players Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, and Nate Robinson, as well as former WNBA player Lisa Leslie. Lil Rel Howery, Erica Ash, J. B. Smoove, Mike Epps, Tiffany Haddish, and Nick Kroll also star. The film was released in the United States by Lionsgate on June 29, 2018 and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised"
"The Longest Week The Longest Week is a 2014 comedy-drama film, written and directed by Peter Glanz. The film stars Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde and Billy Crudup in the lead roles. It has been produced by Uday Chopra, along with Neda Armian. It is the first project of Yash Raj Film's subsidiary Hollywood production house YRF Entertainment. Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and in love. The Director and the financier had two very different versions of the film,"
"Dusty and Brad discover that Brad's new stepdad is Chesley ""Sully"" Sullenberger, the pilot of the ""Miracle on the Hudson"" flight. Brad and Dusty remember that they watched the film ""Sully"" together not too long ago, and Brad appears to be welcoming towards him. Brad runs down the terminal and says that Sully will never replace his father, because Sully has only one great personal story, whereas his father has a million stories. In April 2016, the sequel was announced, with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg reprising their roles, Sean Anders and John Morris writing the script, and Anders directing."
"Scribbler"", and ""Cheap Thrills"". In 2013, Cowan produced ""Just Before I Go"", Courteney Cox's directorial debut. Cowan grew up in Los Angeles. His grandfather created ""The $64,000 Question"", and Spike Jonze is his 3rd cousin. Cowan's great-great-grandfather was Joseph Spiegel, the founder of the Spiegel Catalog. His great-grandfather, Modie J. Spiegel, eventually took over the catalog in 1893. Modie's brother, Arthur Spiegel, was the great-grandfather of Spike Jonez. Gabriel Cowan Gabriel Cowan is a film director, composer and film producer. He has made documentaries, horror films, dramas, and comedies. Gabriel Cowan was originally a musician. At 18, he worked with"
"to allow more work to be done on the script. The 2014 film ""Dracula Untold"" was originally considered to be the first film in the series; however, since the film's release, the connection to ""Dark Universe"" was downplayed, and ""The Mummy"" was re-positioned as the first film in the series. The Mummy (2017 film) The Mummy is a 2017 American action-adventure film directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman, with a story by Kurtzman, Jon Spaihts and Jenny Lumet. It is a reboot of ""The Mummy"" franchise and the first installment in Universal's"
"USC. He is in a relationship with Beth Pontrelli and has two children, Jack and Eva Letterman. Rob Letterman Robert Thomas Letterman (born October 31, 1970) is an American film director who started with animation and moved on to live-action. He is known for directing ""Monsters vs. Aliens"" (2009) and ""Shark Tale"" which he received a nomination for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production on the latter. Prior to Letterman's joining DreamWorks Animation, he directed the short film ""Los Gringos"", which was accepted at 2000's Sundance Film Festival. In 2010 Letterman directed the live-action film ""Gulliver's Travels"","
"Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer Jason Friedberg (born October 13, 1971) and Aaron Seltzer (born January 12, 1974) are an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter team known for making parody movies that have received extremely unfavorable reviews, but have generally done well at the box office. They were part of the writing team for ""Scary Movie"" and ""Spy Hard"", and have written/directed films such as ""Date Movie"", ""Epic Movie"", ""Meet the Spartans"", ""Disaster Movie"", ""Vampires Suck"", ""The Starving Games"", ""Best Night Ever"", and ""Superfast!"". Their career of spoof filmmaking began when Friedberg's father showed Leslie Nielsen a script his son"
"Jack Schwartzman Jack Schwartzman (July 22, 1932 – June 15, 1994) was an American film producer. Jack Schwartzman was born on July 22, 1932 in New York City. He had a brother, Leonard Schwartzman, who became a physician. Schwartzman was an entertainment attorney (clients included director Hal Ashby) and in the late 1970s was an executive at Lorimar Films (a division of Lorimar) along with Peter Bart. Among other films, Lorimar made the 1979 film ""Being There,"" starring Peter Sellers and Melvyn Douglas and directed by Ashby. Schwartzman later became a film producer; among the films he produced were the"