Sam Mendes to direct “Voyeur's Motel” for DreamWorksApril 15, 2016 - 14:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - DreamWorks and Sam Mendes are checking into The Voyeur's Motel, The Hollywood Reporter said. The studio has swooped in to buy film rights to the Gay Talese-penned article that ran in the April 11 issue of The New Yorker. Mendes is attached to direct the project, which had several studios in pursuit over the past day. Steven Spielberg will produce. The nonfiction piece, which spans decades, follows Gerald Foos, who bought a motel in order to watch his guests having sex. He wound up witnessing a murder. The unsettling story is written in the first person and recounts the first time Foos reached out to the famed journalist in 1980 in the form of an anonymous letter. The sprawling narrative is an excerpt from a book that is set to be published July 12 by Grove Press. Mendes, who also will produce Voyeur's Motel through his Neal Street Prods. banner, has a long history with DreamWorks, dating back to his best picture winner American Beauty (1999). But his last two films have been in the James Bond franchise with Spectre and Skyfall. Voyeur's Motel would represent a return to the something-rotten-in-suburbia terrain of American Beauty. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Viva-MTS: Tech solutions to modernize infrastructure of border village The border village has been the focus of Viva-MTS and the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Values since 2015. Ucom's fixed network launched in Artashat To mark this occasion, the company has introduced a special offer exclusively for Artashat residents. “By Your Side”: IDBank's new support program for displaced Artsakh citizens IDBank is launching a long-term social support program for forcibly displaced Artsakh residents. The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. |