Question: Which film whose director was born first, Michael And Mary or Shazam! (Film)?

He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. Victor Saville( 25 September 1895 – 8 May 1979) was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962. <SEP> Deepak Sareen is a Bollywood film director and assistant director. His first film as director was" Ranbhoomi" and last film as director was" Albela". <SEP> He is best known for his collective no- budget horror short films under the online pseudonym ponysmasher and for his 2016 directorial debut" Lights Out", based on his 2013 acclaimed horror short of the same name. He also directed The Conjuring Universe spin- off horror film( 2017) and" Shazam!"( 2019), the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe. David F. Sandberg( born 21 January 1981) is a Swedish filmmaker. <SEP> This was the first of the Edna Best and Herbert Marshall co-starring talkies. It was based on a play of the same name by A. A. Milne. With a running time of 76 minutes, it was distributed by Universal Studios. A.A. Milne's story was adapted by Victor Saville and Angus MacPhail. The play was performed on Friday, 13 December 1929 at the Charles Hopkins Theatre, NY. Michael and Mary was a 1931 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Elizabeth Allan, Edna Best, Frank Lawton, and Herbert Marshall. It starred Henry Hull, Edith Barrett and Harry Beresford. <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> Directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Henry Gayden, and a story by Gayden and Darren Lemke, the film stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a teenage boy who can transform into an adult superhero, played by Zachary Levi. Shazam! is a 2019 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character. Produced by New Line Cinema and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the seventh installment in the DC Extended Universe( DCEU). Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, and Djimon Hounsou also star. The plot follows Billy Batson, who is chosen by the ancient wizard Shazam as his new champion and receives various superpowers. Billy and his best friend Freddy Freeman( Grazer) must discover Billy's new powers in order to stop the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivana( Strong). Development of a live- action" Shazam!" film began at New Line in the early 2000s but was delayed for many years. The film went into pre-production in 2009 with director Peter Segal and writer John August and Dwayne Johnson considered to star as the villain Black Adam, but the project fell through; Dwayne Johnson acts as an executive producer on" Shazam!". William Goldman, Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen, Bill Birch, and Geoff Johns, among others, were all attached to the project as writers at various points. The film was officially announced in 2014, with Johnson attached to star as either Shazam or Black Adam. He would later be cast in January 2017 to lead a solo" Black Adam" development project, currently targeted for a December 2021 release. Sandberg signed on to direct" Shazam!" in February 2017 and Levi was cast that October, with Angel joining the following month. Principal photography began in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on January 29, 2018, with most of the film shot at Pinewood Toronto Studios, and wrapped on May 11, 2018. " Shazam!" was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX on April 5, 2019. The film grossed over$ 364 million worldwide, making it the lowest- grossing film of the DCEU but still a box office success. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Sandberg's direction and the performances of Levi, Grazer, and Angel, as well as its light tone and sense of fun. A sequel is set for release on April 1, 2022.