George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in Alfonso Cuaron's 'Gravity'

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MOVIE fans, grab your popcorn - here's the top 20 must-see flicks of 2012.

12. Gravity
Most of this sci-fi project has been kept under wraps, but what we do know is that Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play surviving astronauts in a damaged space station.

Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, the film has been elevated to superstar status, thanks to rumours such as a 20-minute opening shot and groundbreaking visual effects that left even James Cameron in awe.

melbert wrote:I still really, really want to see this, just don't know how I'll handle the 3-D with my chronic dizzy problem...

Sci-Fi thriller Gravity starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock will premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival on 08/29/12.

Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity is a film about a lone survivor of a space mission to repair the Hubble telescope who desperately tries to return to Earth and reunite with her daughter.

Filmed at Shepperton Studios in the UK in May 2011, it will be released on November 28, 2012.
It will also be available in 3D.

Katiedot wrote:I LOVE him going to Venice. I just slobber over those great pictures of him arriving by boat. Why does he always look so super cool in those shots?

party animal - not! wrote:Yep, you can quite see why he doesn't think it will catch on in a big
way. I believe him!

Venice works for him, doesn't it? He loves it, home's not far away, and of course he's working in Europe on Monuments Men. Good decision - maybe he influenced it

melbert wrote:I love his pics from Venice! He loves the grand entrance on the boat and always looks so dapper!!! He's a Dapper Dan man, you know!!

Alfonso Cuaron‘s Sandra Bullock & George Clooney Starring ‘Gravity’ To Open With A 17-Minute Take




As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to be excited for this film, Chris DeFaria, who oversees development of VFX and animation at Warner Bros, spoke at the “5D | FLUX conference” on Alfonso Cuaron‘s (Children Of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) forthcoming outer-space survival thriller ‘Gravity.’ DeFaria revealed that the film only has 156 shots in its two-hour runtime, many of which run “six, eight, ten minutes long.” ‘It was also revealed that ‘Gravity’ will open with a single 17-minute take, in a similar vein to the remarkable unbroken take at the end of Cuaron’s ‘Children Of Men.’ Here’s what DeFaria had to say:

“Instead of trying to create real people and what they’re doing, let’s turn it around and create almost an entirely animated film and then backwards engineer the people into that film,” he explained. “As a matter of fact, let’s not even engineer the people into the film, let’s engineer their faces. So you’ve got these little faces inside these little helmets. But there was a big hiccup that we came to I didn’t realize until later, which was that we began building it as an animated film and Alfonso had an idea that he wanted the shots to be incredibly long, and I said, ‘How long?’ And he said he wanted the first shot to be really long. And I said, ‘You mean, 40 seconds?’ ‘No, 17 minutes.’ So it ends up the film only has 156 shots in the entire two-hour movie, many of them six, eight, 10 minutes long.”

‘Gravity‘ is without doubt one of my most anticipated projects set for release in 2012. Cuaron’s ‘Children Of Men’ is one of my favourite films of the last decade, he really pushed the envelope with that film both visually and technically. The initial pairing for ‘Gravity’ was to have been Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Then came a protracted series of reversals that saw Jolie leave and come back, and actresses Marion Cotillard, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively and Natalie Portman involved with the movie to varying degrees. ‘Gravity’ is set for release November 21st. Check out the official synopsis below. Source: Immersed in Movies.



“Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.

The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.”
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First Reviews for Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" Sci-Fi Film, Starring Clooney and Bullock
Posted: May 5th, 2012 by WorstPreviews.com Staff


There have been a lot of talk about the upcoming "Gravity" sci-fi film (to be released on November 21st), that's directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), and stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

The cast is incredible, the plot is intriguing, and some of the filming techniques used have been called ground-breaking. And just recently, "Gravity" invited random people for a test screening. Special effects weren't fully finished, but the movie was all there.

But before we get to the reviews, check out the plot synopsis to get an idea of what the movie is about.

Plot: Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth... and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

Pretty interesting, right? Well, not everyone thought so.

* SlashFilm's Germain Lussier said: "VERY unfinished but heard it's visually ambitious, interesting but not world-changing."

* David Vendrell (screening attendee) said: "It was far from being done, but it will be a visual feast when it is... and nothing more."

* Briana Hernandez (screening attendee) said: "Worst movie ever!"

But there were also plenty of positive reviews.

* FilmStage's Jordan Raup said: "Despite rough FX, hear good things about last night's 'Gravity' screening. 'Masterpiece, phenomenal, visually amazing.'"

* AwardsDailyForums user said: "I still can't believe what a great movie this. Wow!!! I don't think anyone will doubt Sandra again after seing this. what a performance! Overall I thought it was a very suspenseful and engaging movie. Even with the extremely long takes it never dragged or became boring in my opinion."

* AICN user said: "This is not just next level sh*t, this is several levels ahead of next level sh*t, and quite possibly the highest level sh*t you could possibly make. This is like if 'Avatar' had been released in 1927 a week after 'The Jazz Singer.'"

And while a user on FilmExperience website thought the movie was fantastic, he explained that many will find the movie too boring to enjoy. "'Gravity' is Cuaron's masterpiece," he said. "It's gonna be divided. Half will think it's a self-indulgent borefest and half will think it's amazingly brilliant. The movie is 80% just Sandra Bullock."

He went on to say that Bullock could get an Oscar nomination, especially for her performance in the last fifteen minutes of the film.

Source: /Film


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