October 6, 2013
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Gravity Stuns with Record $55M Launch
Alfonso Cuarón's outer space survival thriller Gravity defied conventions both creatively and commercially and smashed the opening weekend record for October with a sensational $55.6M, according to estimates, to lead the North American box office accounting for half of all ticket sales in the top ten. The Warner Bros. release starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney took advantage of a perfect storm of sensational reviews, strong starpower, and awards buzz attracting a huge turnout which was especially impressive given that it was an original film with no built-in audience. It opened like a summer tentpole.
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October 2, 2013
Video Interview: Cast & Director of Gravity
In Alfonso Cuarón's groundbreaking new film, Sandra Bullock is a mission specialist lost in space. Grae Drake talks to Bullock about how the script had great emotional importance to her, and how she can't put together Ikea products to save her life. Cuarón shares his intention with the script's subtext, and how he convinced Bullock to take on the physical challenge.
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September 7, 2013
15 Must-See Films from Venice 2013
With this year's diverse Toronto International Film Festival underway, and both the New York and London fests soon to follow, summer blockbuster malaise has given way -- for critics, anyway -- to the beginning of that months-long circus known as awards season. To get things rolling, here's a look at 15 of the most buzzed-about titles to look out for from the just-wrapped Venice film festival -- with the critics weighing in on new stuff from the likes of Miyazaki, Glazer, Gilliam, Cuarón and (yes, yet another) Coppola.
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September 7, 2013
Venice 2013: Italian Doco Sacro GRA Surprise Winner
VENICE: While much of the critical buzz surrounded the likes of Alfonso Cuarón's out-of-competition Gravity, the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival has quietly gone to Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro GRA, an Italian documentary in which the filmmaker spent two years touring Rome's enormous ring road -- the "GRA" -- and chronicling the disparate lives around it.
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July 20, 2013
Comic-Con 2013: "The Visionaries" With Marc Webb, Edgar Wright and Alfonso Cuarón
At Comic-Con International in San Diego, Entertainment Weekly celebrated three filmmakers whose voices are always apparent in their work: Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gravity) and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, The World's End). At a panel called "The Visionaries," these creators spoke about their perspectives and processes to the audience assembled in Hall H.
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October 26, 2010
Robert Downey, Jr. Exiting Cuaron's Gravity?
Poor, poor Alfonso Cuaron: After months of turmoil and turnover with the female leading role in "Gravity," it now looks like scheduling conflicts will force Robert Downey, Jr. to abandon his part, too.
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September 2, 2010
Jolie Leaves Cuaron's Gravity
Angelina Jolie has departed Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity," leaving the project without a star...and with its future very much in doubt.
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