Tag: Gravity
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‘Gravity’ Ending Explained: Does Sandra Bullock Get Home From Space?
In 2013, director Alfonso Cuarón, the keen and decidedly selective filmmaker known for such films as Children of Men, Y Tu Mamá También, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, brought Gravity into the world. Written by Cuarón and his son, Jonás Cuarón, Gravity is a swift hour-and-a-half of heart-pounding peril wrapped in the…
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Scarlett Johansson Says Failed ‘Gravity’ Audition Was ‘Just Sitting in a Chair With a Helmet on’ and ‘Pretending I Was Floating in Space’
Scarlett Johansson revealed to Variety last month that she auditioned for the lead role in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2013 3D space epic “Gravity,” which became a box office blockbuster with over $720 million worldwide and earned 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture. Cuarón won the best director prize, while Sandra Bullock was nominated for best actress.…
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Scarlett Johansson Recalls ‘Weird’ Screen Test for ‘Gravity’: ‘I Was Just Sitting in a Chair with a Helmet on’
Scarlett Johansson couldn’t get her audition for Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” off the ground.The “Under the Skin” star told Entertainment Tonight about doing a screen test for Cuarón’s Oscar-winning 2013 film that eventually starred Sandra Bullock as an astronaut whose space shuttle is destroyed.Johansson revealed that she has “done a lot of weird screen tests” and…
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Simon Franglen’s ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Score Holds World Premiere Performance at Krakow Film Music Festival
“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “E.T.” were just some of the films recognized at the 16th Krakow Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. The festival concluded on Monday, wrapping up the celebration of this year’s celestial lineup.“Faced by the challenges posed by the pandemic, as well as the war that broke out at our…
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How ‘Fanboy’ Helmer Cedric Ido Defied Gravity to Make a Genre Movie Despite French Biz Resistance (Exclusive)
The planets aligned for self-declared fanboy French Burkinabé director Cédric Ido, to will his long-gestating sci-fi caper – the futuristic and gritty Parisian-set thriller “The Gravity” into being, despite reluctance from the French film biz to dig into funding for genre movies.The actor-director deftly mixes up Japanese mythology and a mysterious solar system alignment for…
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‘Tár’ and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Tie for Best Picture at Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
It was the west coast critics’ turn to hand out honors for the best films and performances of 2022, with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Lafca) landing on a tie for their top honors, between A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Focus Features’ “Tár.” It was the fourth time the group tied in…
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The 15 Best Survival Movies, from ‘Cast Away’ to ‘The Revenant’
From “Gravity ” and “Wild” to “The Way Back” and “Jaws,” the most compelling survival movies fearlessly examine characters’ will to live, imbuing their perilous struggles with the intensely personal motivations and desires that make every person unique. These stories allow audiences to consider what specific obstacles along one person’s quest for survival and happiness…
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For Gaspar Noé, One Of The Best Parts Of Almost Dying Was Watching “Gravity”
Gaspar Noé is an entertaining interview — no matter what other adjectives you would use to describe his career or his approach as a filmmaker, you have to give him this. And with his latest film, “Vortex,” receiving a limited theatrical release this month, fans of, ah, candid Hollywood interviews are about to get more…
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Why Sandra Bullock Is Giving Up Her Ban on Movie Sequels
Nearly ten years ago, Sandra Bullock pledged she would never again make a sequel to one of her many memorable movies.It was 2013, the year she and Melissa McCarthy released the buddy cop comedy “The Heat” — which grossed nearly $230 million at the worldwide box office. While simultaneously making the awards rounds for “Gravity”…
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‘Submersible’ Review: A Grimy, Claustrophobic, Deeply Generic Submarine Thriller
There are lost-at-sea thrillers that make a virtue of the leanness of their narratives. J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost,” Wolfgang Fischer’s “Styx” and Chris Kentis’ legitimately traumatizing “Open Water” (not to mention Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” if we switch in space for ocean) all spun gripping tales of survival — or not — using minimal dialogue…