Question: Do both films Where The Wild Things Are (Film) and A Modern Hero have the directors from the same country?

Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for" Freestylin' Magazine" and" Transworld Skateboarding", and co-founded the youth culture magazine" Dirt". Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential" Video Days"( 1991). Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in- demand director of music videos for much of the 1990s, resulting in collaborations with Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Björk, Kanye West and Arcade Fire. Jonze began his feature film directing career with" Being John Malkovich"( 1999) and" Adaptation."( 2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman; the former earned Jonze an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's" Jackass" reality franchise. Adam Spiegel( born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze( pronounced" Jones"), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. Jonze later began directing films based on his own screenplays, including" Where the Wild Things Are"( 2009) and" Her"( 2013); for the latter film, he won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, while receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Song(" The Moon Song"). He has worked as an actor sporadically throughout his career, co-starring in David O. Russell's war comedy" Three Kings"( 1999) and appeared in supporting roles in Bennett Miller's" Moneyball"( 2011) and Martin Scorsese's" The Wolf of Wall Street"( 2013), in addition to a recurring role in comedy series" The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret"( 2010 – 2012) and cameo appearances in his own films. Jonze co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company. He is currently the creative director of Vice Media, Inc. and its multinational television channel Viceland. <SEP> Maxwell Records( born June 18, 1997) is an American actor. He is most notable for his roles as Max in the film" Where the Wild Things Are", for which he won the 2009 Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film, and as Slater Pedulla in" The Sitter". He starred in the lead role of John Wayne Cleaver in the 2016 film titled" I Am Not A Serial Killer" based on the Dan Wells' 2009 novel of the same name which received positive reviews and ratings. He has also appeared as a guest on" The Tonight Show". <SEP> Where the Wild Things Written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, it is adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. It combines live- action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer- generated imagery( CGI). The film stars Max Records and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O' Hara, and Chris Cooper. The film centers on a lonely boy named Max who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the" Wild Things," who declare Max their king. In the early 1980s, Disney considered adapting the film as a blend of traditionally animated characters and computer- generated environments, but development did not go past a test film to see how the animation hybridizing would result. In 2001, Universal Studios acquired rights to the book's adaptation and initially attempted to develop a computer- animated adaptation with Disney animator Eric Goldberg, but the CGI concept was replaced with a live- action one in 2003, and Goldberg was dropped for Spike Jonze. The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone and made with an estimated budget of$ 100 million. Are is a 2009 fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze. " Where the Wild Things Are" was a joint production between Australia, Germany, and the United States, and was filmed principally in Melbourne. The film was released on October 16, 2009, in the United States, on December 3 in Australia, and on December 17 in Germany. The film was met with mostly positive reviews and appeared on many year- end top ten lists. However the film flopped commercially at the box office, making$ 100.1 million from a budget of$ 100 million. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 2, 2010. <SEP> Georg Wilhelm Pabst( 25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German- language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic. <SEP> Vincent Landay is a Canadian- American film producer. He has worked with Spike Jonze on his music videos and feature films since 1993. Some of the movies he has produced include" Being John Malkovich" and" Where the Wild Things Are", as well as the 2010 Canadian short film" Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life", created for the Blu-ray release of" Where the Wild Things Are". He has made music videos for Kanye West, REM, Jay Z and many more artists. <SEP> A Modern Hero is a 1934 American pre-Code romance drama film starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. It is based on the novel with the same title by Louis Bromfield. It was Pabst's only American talking film.