Question: Are director of film American Scary and director of film Cheaper By The Dozen 2 both from the same country?

Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 Technicolor film based upon the autobiographical book" Cheaper by the Dozen"( 1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe growing up in a family with twelve children, in Montclair, New Jersey. The title comes from one of Gilbreth's favorite jokes, which played out in the movie, that when he and his family were out driving and stopped at a red light, a pedestrian would ask:" Hey, Mister! How come you got so many kids?" Gilbreth would pretend to ponder the question carefully, and then, just as the light turned green, would say:" Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know", and drive off. <SEP> He was a judge on seasons 3–10 of the television program" So You Think You Can Dance". He began his professional career in musical theater, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman has choreographed dozens of films and directed several feature- length films, including" A Walk to RememberBringing Down the House The Pacifier" and the 2007 remake of" Hairspray". His company, Offspring Entertainment( which he co-owns with his sister) produces films and television for various studios and networks. Shankman is also currently co-writing young adult novels for Simon& Schuster imprint Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Adam Michael Shankman( born November 27, 1964) is an American film director, producer, dancer, author, actor, and choreographer. The books, co-written with author Laura Lee Sullivan, follow the story of rags to riches Lucille O' Malley as she becomes Hollywood's" it girl", navigating a murder mystery and meeting her match, Frederick van der Waals. <SEP> Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American family comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and stars Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. It is a remake of the 1950 film of the same name. The film was released on December 25, 2003, by 20th Century Fox and grossed$ 190.2 million worldwide against a$ 40 million budget. The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus criticizes its lack of humor. A sequel," Cheaper by the Dozen 2", was released in the United States on December 21, 2005. <SEP> American Scary is a 2006 American documentary film about the history and legacy of classic television horror hosts, written and directed by American independent filmmakers John E. Hudgens and Sandy Clark. The film features nearly 60 horror hosts, including interviews with and vintage clips of many of the genre's stars, such as Washington, DC's Count Gore De Vol, New York City's Zacherley, Los Angeles' Vampira, Cleveland's Ghoulardi, and Chicago's Svengoolie, among others. Non-host celebrities such as Neil Gaiman, Tim Conway, Forrest J Ackerman, Tom Savini, Leonard Maltin, Joel Hodgson, and Bob Burns appear to reminisce about the influence of horror hosts on their careers and/or lives, as well as many modern hosts who keep the tradition alive in modern shows on public-access television cable TV or the internet. The film premiered in October 2006 at the Hollywood Film Festival, and was released on DVD in February 2009. In April 2010, it won the award for Best Independent Production of 2009 at the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. <SEP> It is the sequel to the 2003 film" Cheaper by the Dozen". Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, Alyson Stoner, and Tom Welling reprise their roles as members of the twelve- child Baker family. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a 2005 American family comedy film directed by Adam Shankman. Eugene Levy co-stars as the patriarch of a rival family of eight children. Carmen Electra portrays his wife. <SEP> John E. Hudgens( born April 6, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an independent director, producer, and editor noted for his short" Star Wars" fan films and for many" Babylon 5" promotional videos. Hudgens went on to create" American Scary", a feature- length documentary about television horror hosts. On his own, Hudgens began editing" Babylon 5" videos cut to popular music beginning in 1994. " Babylon 5" creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski saw these early efforts and hired Hudgens to officially produce" B5" promotional music videos for science fiction fan conventions and other events. Eight official videos were produced, plus more unofficial videos shown at conventions and distributed on the Internet. Hudgens had also dabbled in fan films, producing" The Empire Strikes Quack" in the late 1980s. Beginning in 2000, Hudgens made the first of a series of noted" Star Wars" fan films," Crazy Watto", a two- minute parody of" Star Wars" and used car commercials. The film proved very popular and would go on to be an official selection at Lucasfilm's Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards and screen at the Cannes Film Festival. His second film," Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline", is a fast paced four- minute parody of many science fiction shows and films, and features Kevin J. Anderson, Claudia Christian and Peter David among others. This effort was the second runner- up for the Audience Choice Award at the 2002 Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards, an award he would win the next year for" The Jedi Hunter", a parody of" Star Wars" and" The Crocodile Hunter". He would win the Audience Choice Award once more in 2005 for" Sith Apprentice", his longest fan film to date, at twelve minutes. All of Hudgens fan films were produced, directed, shot, and edited by him, were made in collaboration with" The Men in Black" creator Lowell Cunningham, and were produced and released by Hudgens' Z- Team Productions company. The film premiered in October 2006 at the Hollywood Film Festival, and was released on DVD in February 2009. Hudgens' most recent effort was" Backyard Blockbusters," a 2012 documentary about the fan film genre and the people behind it.