The power of YouTube!

by sine • 17 Dec 2009, 14:02 • Journals
Uruguayan producer Fede Alvarez uploaded a short film called "Ataque de Panico!" to YouTube and has been offered a $30m contract to make a Hollywood film.

The clip featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.

BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8417789.stm

YouTube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk

The thought of Sam Raimi scouring YouTube looking for funny cat videos and stumbling across this guy makes me happy :D
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crook 17 Dec 2009, 14:11
By the looks of it he was already pretty decent and engaged in filmmaking before he got the contract.
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mOsq 17 Dec 2009, 14:13
the promote vid looks great
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Fab 17 Dec 2009, 14:21
quite an awesome vid
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Nonix 17 Dec 2009, 14:27
seems someone learnt something from videocopilot :)))
the video is just pure awesomeness!
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Krein 17 Dec 2009, 14:45
amazing, one hell of a work done there :) i hope the movie will be at least as good as this vid :)
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pala 17 Dec 2009, 14:50
i rly don't get the hype of susan boyle, some really, REALLY ugly old lady who has never kissed before, started singing, big deal
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mst 17 Dec 2009, 15:09
Nothing impressive, same shit as War of the Worlds or Transformers etc.. Special effects are nice tho but it's gonna be another special-effects-crap-movie.
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sine 17 Dec 2009, 15:37
Was more the fact that he did it on a tiny budget single-handedly :)
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mst 17 Dec 2009, 15:42
Yes that's awesome but for me it's not full-length movie worthy.
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crook 17 Dec 2009, 17:09
The concept isnt very original, but the way he portrayed it shows alot of skill
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niSmO 17 Dec 2009, 16:58
yes, I love roleplaying. Dunno what the problem is? :D lack of phantasy? :) not my problem ;)
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