Question: Do both films Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Gattaca have the directors from the same country?

He wrote and directed" Gattaca"( 1997)," Simone"( 2002)," Lord of War"( 2005)," In Time"( 2011)," The Host"( 2013), and" Good Kill"( 2014). Andrew M. Niccol( born 10 June 1964) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He also wrote and co-produced" The Truman Show", which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. His films tend to explore social, cultural and political issues, as well as artificial realities or simulations. His film" Good Kill" was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. <SEP> It is the fourth installment in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Picking up immediately after the events of "Friday the 13th Part III", the story follows a presumed-dead Jason Voorhees brought to the morgue, where he spontaneously revives and escapes, returning to Crystal Lake to continue his killing spree. Much like "Part III", the film was originally supposed to be the final installment in the series. Mancuso Jr. wanted to conclude the series as he felt nobody respected him for his assisting work on the series regardless of how much the films earned at the box office, as well as wanting to work on other projects. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 American slasher film directed by Joseph Zito, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Kimberly Beck, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, and Ted White as Jason Voorhees. Paramount Pictures supported the decision, as they were aware of the declining popularity of slasher films at the time of its release. As a result, the film was marketed as "The Final Chapter" to ensure it as such. Make-up artist Tom Savini, who worked on the first film, returned because he wanted to help kill off Jason, whom he helped create. The film was originally scheduled to be released in October, but was pushed up to April 13, 1984. Upon its theatrical release, the film grossed $33 million in the U.S. on a budget of $2.6 million, making it the fourth most attendance of the "Friday the 13th" series with approximately 9,815,700 tickets sold. The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Despite being billed as the final film, its success prompted another sequel, , one year later. <SEP> Friday the 13th Part 2 is a 1981 American slasher film produced and directed by Steve Miner in his directorial debut, written by Ron Kurz, and starring Amy Steel and John Furey. The film also features the return of Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer and Walt Gorney, who respectively portrayed Alice Hardy, Pamela Voorhees, and Crazy Ralph in the prior installment. It is the second installment in the" Friday the 13th" film series and a direct sequel to" Friday the 13th"( 1980). It picks up five years later, where a new murderer begins stalking the camp counselors at a nearby training camp on Crystal Lake. Originally," Part 2" was intended to be part of an anthology series of films based on the Friday the 13th superstition. However, after the popularity of the original film's surprise ending, the filmmakers opted to continue the story and mythology surrounding Camp Crystal Lake, a trend which would be repeated in every film in the franchise. Like the original film," Part 2" faced opposition from the Motion Picture Association of America, who noted its" accumulative violence" as problematic, resulting in numerous cuts being made to allow an R rating. The film was released theatrically in North America on April 30, 1981. Although it did not gross as much as the original, the sequel grossed$ 21.7 million in the U.S. on a budget of$ 1.2 million. A sequel," Friday the 13th Part III", was released the following year. <SEP> Friday the 13th Part III( also known as Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D) is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Steve Miner, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., and starring Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, and Richard Brooker as Jason Voorhees. It is the third installment in the" Friday the 13th" film series. Set immediately after the events of" Friday the 13th Part 2", the plot follows a teenage girl and her friends at a house on Crystal Lake, where a wounded Jason Voorhees has taken refuge. The film marks the debut of Voorhees wearing his signature hockey mask, which has become a trademark of both the character and the franchise, as well as an icon in American cinema and the horror genre in general. The original storyline was supposed to focus on a post-traumatic Ginny Field who began learning self defense and returned to college after surviving her ordeal in the previous film. After finding Paul's corpse inside her dormitory, she prepares to track down Voorhees and face him in a final confrontation. However, this concept was abandoned when Amy Steel declined to reprise her role. " Part III" was theatrically released in 3D, and is the only film in the series to be released in that format. The film was intended to end the series as a trilogy, however the film did not include a moniker in its title to indicate it as such. The film was theatrically released on August 13, 1982, grossing$ 36.7 million at the US box office on a budget of$ 2.2 million and received negative reviews from critics. It was the first film to remove" E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial" from the number- one spot and became the second highest- grossing horror film of 1982, behind" Poltergeist". It has the third most attendance of the" Friday the 13th" franchise, with approximately 11,762,400 tickets sold. It was followed by. <SEP> It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of going into space. The film draws on concerns over reproductive technologies that facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society. It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives. Characters in" Gattaca" continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes. The film's title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA. Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The film flopped at the box office, but it received generally positive reviews and has since gained a cult following. <SEP> Joseph Zito( born May 14, 1946) is an American film director and producer, best known for directing several cult and genre films throughout the 1980s, such as" Missing in ActionInvasion U.S.A.Red Scorpion The Prowler", and, In 1985- 1986, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon version of" Spider- Man", a film that was evidently never actually made.