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 Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. 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”. Partner news | U.S., Armenia sign customs deal According to Armenian customs data, U.S.-Armenian trade reached $670 million last year. Glendale mayor to visit Yerevan Asatryan last visited Armenia in December 2022-January 2023 as she helped establish a partnership between Armenia’s Opera House and Los Angeles Opera. Ucom’s fixed network launches in Nor Hachn City residents will be able to use fixed-line Internet, mobile communications and television in one package at more affordable prices. Ambassador summoned to Russia returns to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin has returned to Yerevan more than two weeks after being recalled to Moscow for consultations. |