Free Willy 3: The Rescue
Free Willy 3:
The Rescue is a 1997 family film directed by Sam Pillsbury, and starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg.
Released by Warner Bros. Pictures under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment banner, it is the third film in the "Free Willy" franchise, and the final installment of the original storyline.
It is also the final one to be released theatrically.
This is the first "Free Willy" movie to not have a Michael Jackson song nor to be composed by Basil Poledouris (although some inserts from his old themes can be heard in some parts).
At 86 minutes, "The Rescue" is the shortest of the "Free Willy" films.
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is a 1995 American family film, directed by Dwight Little, and distributed by Warner Bros. under their Warner Bros.
Family Entertainment label.
It is a sequel to the 1993 film" Free Willy", also starring Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg., was subsequently released in 1997, making a trilogy.
A fourth nonconsecutive film, was released on DVD in Spring 2010.
Keiko the Orca does not actually appear in this film unlike the original film.
Willy is played by a robotic double while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring him to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated for poor health.
Simon Wincer
Simon Wincer( born 1943 in Sydney) is an Australian director and producer of film and television.
He attended Cranbrook School, Sydney, from 1950 to 1961.
On leaving school he worked as a stagehand at TV Station Channel 7.
By the 1980s he had directed over 200 hours of television.
In 1986 he directed the telemovie" The Last Frontier" and also won a Christopher Award.
Free Willy
Free Willy is a 1993 American family drama film, directed by Simon Wincer, produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Jennie Lew Tugend, and written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman from a story by Walker.
The film stars Jason James Richter as a foster boy who befriends a captive orca.
The film received positive attention from critics and was a commercial success, grossing$ 153.6 million from a$ 20 million budget.
It grew into a small franchise, including a television series, three sequels and a video game companion.
Michael Jackson produced and performed" Will You Be There", the theme for the film, which can be heard during the film's credits.
The song won the MTV Movie Award for" Best Song in a Movie" in 1994.
It was also included on Jackson's album," Dangerous", and on" All Time Greatest Movie Songs", released by Sony in 1999.
Jackson also performed songs for the film's first sequel.
John Mattson
John Mattson is an American screenwriter and author.
His screenplay for the film" Milk Money" sold to Paramount Pictures for an outright purchase of$ 1.1 million($ in 2018 US dollars) after Paramount topped a$ 1 million bid from Dino De Laurentiis Communications.
He is the co-writer of Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home( for which he won the 1996 Environmental Media Award) and the writer of Free Willy 3: The Rescue.
Ebert and Siskel called Free Willy 3" the best of the Free Willy movies."
His story" Figure and Ground" won the 2018 R. N. Kinder Prize for Realistic Fiction, and was published by" Pleiades" Magazine in 2019.
His story" Eric Clapton's Girlfriend" won the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award for Flash Fiction, judged by Rob Koertge and will be published by the" Los Angeles Review" in 2019.
Keiko: The Untold Story
Keiko: The Untold story is a 2010 documentary film about Keiko, the Orca best known for starring in the film" Free Willy" and it s two sequels.
It was directed and produced by Theresa Demarest.
The film made the official selection list of many film festivals, including the Southern Utah International Documentary Film Festival, the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival and the Denver Film Festival.
In August 2013 a HD version of the film entitled Keiko:
The Untold Story of the Star of Free Willy( HD) premiered at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood during the 20th Anniversary Celebration Benefit for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation.
The World Premiere of the film included a Blue Carpet Ceremony with the stars and director of both Free Willy and the documentary.
Midnight (1939 film)
Midnight is a 1939 American screwball comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, and Elaine Barrie.
Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz, the film is about an unemployed American showgirl stranded in Paris who is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man.
In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen( October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.
Panama Lady
Panama Lady is a 1939 film starring Lucille Ball.
Mickey the Kid
Mickey the Kid is a 1939 film.
It was directed by Arthur Lubin.

Question: Are the directors of films Midnight (1939 film) and Free Willy both from the same country?
Answer: no