Question: Do both films Five Cartridges and Spider-Man: Homecoming have the directors from the same country?

In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film" Trace of Stones" was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film" Jacob the Liar" was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. Frank Paul Beyer( 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films. <SEP> Spider- Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Michael Chabon. A sequel to the 2002 film" Spider- Man", it is the second installment in the" Spider- Man" trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name. Tobey Maguire stars as Peter Parker/ Spider- Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and Donna Murphy. Set two years after the events of" Spider- Man", the film finds Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider- Man, which affects his civilian life dramatically. Meanwhile, Dr. Otto Octavius becomes a diabolical villain after a failed experiment kills his wife and leaves him neurologically fused to mechanical tentacles. Spider- Man must stop him from successfully recreating the experiment, which threatens to blow up the city, while dealing with a subconscious desire to stop being Spider- Man that is stripping him of his powers. Principal photography began in April 2003 in New York City and also took place in Los Angeles. " Spider- Man 2" was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30, 2004 and grossed$ 783 million worldwide, becoming the third highest- grossing film of the year. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was also nominated for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing; it also received five awards at the Saturn Awards, including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director for Raimi. It is considered as one of the most influential and best superhero films of all- time. Its success led to" Spider- Man 3"( 2007). <SEP> Five Cartridges is a 1960 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller- Stahl and Manfred Krug. <SEP> Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was directed by Sam Raimi from a screenplay by Raimi, his older brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent. It is the final installment in Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris and J. K. Simmons. Set shortly after the events of "Spider-Man 2", as Peter Parker prepares his future with Mary Jane Watson, he bonds with an extraterrestrial symbiote, bringing out his anger while facing three villains: Uncle Ben's true killer, Flint Marko, who becomes the Sandman after a freak accident; Harry Osborn, who seeks to avenge his father; and Eddie Brock, a rival photographer who becomes Venom after acquiring Peter's symbiote.
Development of "Spider-Man 3" began immediately after the release of "Spider-Man 2" for a 2007 release. During pre-production, Raimi originally wanted another villain to be included along with Sandman. At the request of producer Avi Arad, he added Venom and the producers also requested the addition of Gwen Stacy. Principal photography for the film began in January 2006, and took place in Los Angeles and Cleveland before moving to New York City from May until July 2006. Additional pick-up shots were made after August and the film wrapped in October 2006. During post-production, Sony Pictures Imageworks created over 900 visual effects shots. With an estimated production budget of $258 million, it was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release. "Spider-Man 3" premiered on April 16, 2007 in Tokyo, and was released in the United States in both conventional and IMAX theaters on May 4, 2007. The film grossed $890.9 million worldwide, making it the most successful film of the trilogy, the third-highest-grossing film of 2007 and was the highest-grossing "Spider-Man" film until it was surpassed by  in 2019. Unlike the previous installments, "Spider-Man 3" received a mixed reception from critics, who praised the performances, visual effects and action sequences, but criticized the overloaded storylines and subplots, alongside the unrefined pacing and overabundance of villains including the portrayal of Venom. The majority of these issues were later attributed to studio interferences and creative differences between Sony, Raimi and Arad. A fourth installment, titled "Spider-Man 4", was set to be released on May 6, 2011, followed by a "Venom" spin-off film, but both were cancelled due to Raimi's withdrawal over creative differences with the writers and producers. The "Spider-Man" film series was rebooted twice; first with "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield; and later a new film series set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland, beginning with  (2017). The "Venom" spin-off was revived in 2016 by Sony and was finally released in 2018 with "Venom", set within Sony's Marvel Universe directed by Ruben Fleischer. <SEP> Spider- Man: Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider- Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film is directed by Jon Watts, from a screenplay by the writing teams of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. It is the second Spider- Man film reboot and the sixteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe( MCU). Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker/ Spider- Man, alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr. In" Spider- Man: Homecoming", Peter Parker tries to balance high school life with being Spider- Man while facing the Vulture. In February 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony reached a deal to share the character rights of Spider- Man, integrating the character into the established MCU. The following June, Holland was cast as the title character and Watts was hired to direct. This was followed shortly by the hiring of Daley and Goldstein. In April 2016, the film's title was revealed, along with additional cast, including Downey in his MCU role of Tony Stark/ Iron Man. Principal photography began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, and continued in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. The other screenwriters were revealed during filming, which concluded in Berlin in October 2016. The production team made efforts to differentiate the film from previous Spider- Man films. " Spider- Man: Homecoming" premiered in Hollywood on June 28, 2017, and was released in the United States in 3D, IMAX, and IMAX 3D on July 7, 2017. " Homecoming" grossed over$ 880 million worldwide, becoming the second- most successful Spider- Man film and the sixth- highest- grossing film of 2017. It received praise for the light tone and focus on Parker's high school life, and the performances of Holland and Keaton. A sequel,, was released on July 2, 2019. A third film is in development, and is scheduled to be released on July 16, 2021. <SEP> Jon Watts( born June 28, 1981) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film and its sequel. He also directed and co-wrote the horror film" Clown", the thriller film" Cop Car", and directed numerous episodes of the parody television news series" Onion News Network".