Question: Do both films: Thunderball (film) and Blankman have the directors from the same country?

Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the" James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. The movie would have been the first of the Bond series if not for legal disputes over copyright issues. The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world to ransom for £ 100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either the United Kingdom or the United States( later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card- playing, eye patch- wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. It was the third and final Bond film to be directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes. " Thunderball" was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have a running time of over two hours. " Thunderball" was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Ian Fleming collaborators Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had written in a failed cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Bond film series producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, fearing a rival McClory film, allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's story, plot, and characters, and for McClory to receive sole producer credit on this film; Broccoli and Saltzman instead served as executive producers. The film was a success, earning a total of$ 141.2 million worldwide, exceeding the earnings of the three previous Bond films. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and production designer Ken Adam was also nominated for a BAFTA award. " Thunderball" is the most financially successful film of the series in North America when adjusting for ticket price inflation. Some critics and viewers showered praise on the film and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged length. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title" Never Say Never Again", with McClory as executive producer. <SEP> It was written by Wayans and J. F. Lawton, whose biggest success was writing "Pretty Woman" and "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". Blankman is a 1994 American superhero comedy parody film directed by Mike Binder and starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier, both of whom were also cast members of the 1990-1994 Fox sketch comedy television series "In Living Color". <SEP> Martine Beswick( born 26 September 1941) is an English actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films," From Russia with Love"( 1963) and" Thunderball"( 1965), who went on to appear in a several other notable films in the 1960s. <SEP> Mike Binder( born June 2, 1958) is an award winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. <SEP> Charles K. Gifford is an American banker and businessman. He is the chairman emeritus of Bank of America having served on its board of directors from 2004 to 2016. <SEP> All three films starred Sean Connery as Bond. Shaun Terence Young( 20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, including the first two films in the series," Dr. No"( 1962) and" From Russia with Love"( 1963), as well as" Thunderball"( 1965).