Factors to weigh up include the auteur-credibility factor of the director involved, the number and quality of stars who might be dusted down for the red carpet, whether a Cannes showing will dovetail with an individual film's marketing campaign, and – most important of all – whether it will actually be finished in time.
The deal, which the two executives conducted without officially informing other board members, may have given the chairman, Gary Winnick, and the director involved, Steven J. Green, opportunities to benefit in ways not available to other executives or to creditors and shareholders of Global Crossing, a giant communications company.
Each episode will feature a relaxed, insightful, and entertaining conversation about an upcoming film release, as told by the director involved in its creation.
As written by Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois and Grant Thompson, "McFarland, USA" may sound like a white savior movie, one of those stories of light-skinned individuals improving the lot of their darker-skinned brethren, but it doesn't play that way in part because of the director involved.
The directors involved include Noel Clarke (director of Kidulthood and Adulthood), Paul Andrew Williams ( London to Brighton) and Saam Farahmand ( Part of the Weekend Never Dies).
When we love a show, we think of the skill and the gifts of those who created it, and of the actors, the writers, and possibly the directors involved, and occasionally the guy (it's always a guy, you may have noticed) who does the soundtrack.
To be sure, not all of the directors involved were directly responsible for the downfalls.
"And the other director involved has been in America.
Nor was Spielberg the only fledgling director involved: plenty of episodes were helmed by John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) and Jeannot Szwarc (Somewhere In Time), giving the show a fluid look that has worn well.
There were three poorly regarded sequels and a reboot that, despite the talented cast and director involved, was universally hated.
