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$300 Sci-Fi YouTube Video Lands $30m Movie Deal
krou writes "A producer from Uruguay who made a short science fiction film and uploaded it to YouTube has landed a film deal with Sam Raimi's Ghost House worth $300 million. The film, which shows spaceships and giant robots attacking Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, was made by Fede Alvarez for around $30. 'I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,' he said. Alvarez is to develop and direct a film based on one of his ideas, but there is no word yet on the writer."
By simply doing what this guy obviously did. Rented Independence Day. While entertaining, it was far from original. And I call BS on the $300 budget. He surely isn't factoring in all of the crap he's been accumulating over the last few years in order to put this all together. The $300 maybe would have covered what it cost to pay that lady off to let her kid roll away in the stroller.
Aliens, annoyed by movies portraying them as dumsheets obsessed with Blowing Sheet Up, blanket earth with pathogens.
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Hollywood is not an Artistic consortium.
And Fox News is not a reputable news source.
They both serve the same market... stupid people. And stupid people buy more stuff.