Youtube movie short producer nets $30m + hollywood film deal with Sam Raimi's studio

[SunnyD]

Holy shit.

The video clip he produced.

An unknown producer from Uruguay, Fede Alvarez, shelled out about $300 to create a cool video of a robot invasion in Montevideo, the capitol of Uruguay. The four-minute short, "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack) features ginormous (but slow-moving) weapon-wielding robots that blow stuff up.

Well, apparently nothing gets by Hollywood these days. The lucky duck told the BBC, "I uploaded 'Ataque de Panico!' on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of emails from Hollywood studios." Long story short, a bidding war ensued. The offer he pocketed: A $30 million deal with Sam "Spiderman" Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. That's a nice return on investment.

Whatever he comes up with is gonna be one hell of a movie.

 

[Anonemous]

Wow, how did he do that for $300?

 

[TechBoyJK]

yea that video is tight. $300? maybe in capital outlay.. there's some serious production value there. he knows wtf he is doing for sure. $300 + labor.. apparently, thats about $30,000,300.

-Jason

 

[purbeast0]

wow, i must say, that is pretty damn awesome considering it was a one man project and $300.

 

[thegimp03]

That's impressive...

 

[rasczak]

i like it!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah that is awesome.

 

[sygyzy]

I don't understand how that could only cost $300.

 

[JS80]

I don't understand how that could only cost $300.

I'm curious to see an itemized list...

 

[0roo0roo]

lets hope he doesn't produce a delgo or sky captain.
one man wonders...

 

[Hacp]

Can you even buy a computer that can rendor those images for 300 dollars?

 

[TecHNooB]

Yea, no way that was $300.

 

[actuarial]

If he only spent $300, then he didn't pay anything to the dozens of actors in that film.

Regardless of outlay, a guy making that without the support of a huge studio is pretty incredible.

 

[Modelworks]

Not surprising at all. I know many studios that will finance a project if they like what they see, whether that is in a script or a short video. I get asked a lot how to get work at studios, what degree you need. None of that matters, they want to see what you can do, it is a visual medium, they don't care if you have 10 masters degrees if you can't do the work. The problem is just getting your stuff out there to be seen.

The bad part is once he goes to spend that $30 million it is going to go quick. Money in film spends faster than you can write the checks.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I too am impressed with this mans talents. It is a shame that the same sequence would have cost $300,000 to make if done by a studio. Talent is expensive, but if he can cheaply make a blockbuster, he will have a bright future in Hollywood.

 

[Noirish]

good for him, as for the plot, lots of that in anime.

 

[Ns1]

1 SAG extra costs 300/day. If he doesn't speak.

 

[rockyct]

That's some fuzzy math if he's calculating it to cost $300. Heck, you may as well say it cost only $50 for the gas to drive the actors/crew around. The only props were the toy robots, the mini camcorder, the tv camera, the anchorman's mic, and the stroller. If he's got access to that kind of software, I'd imagine he'd have those props.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I can believe the $300, depending on how he did it. It's probably computer generated. He did not actually build robots and ask permission to destroy a city. I've always wondered how they make people in movies like that though, they look way too real to be computer generated. Do they have the background computer generated then real people in front of a blue screen?

 

[sygyzy]

I can believe the $300, depending on how he did it. It's probably computer generated. He did not actually build robots and ask permission to destroy a city. I've always wondered how they make people in movies like that though, they look way too real to be computer generated. Do they have the background computer generated then real people in front of a blue screen?

Oh really? That's your logic? Thanks for sharing it with all of us. All along we thought that he built giant robots and the materials alone would exceed $300.

I didn't realize he did it with computers. Wow, I guess years of 3d modeling training, a renderfarm, shading, textures, models, etc don't cost as much as I thought.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh really? That's your logic? Thanks for sharing it with all of us. All along we thought that he built giant robots and the materials alone would exceed $300.

I didn't realize he did it with computers. Wow, I guess years of 3d modeling training, a renderfarm, shading, textures, models, etc don't cost as much as I thought.

I'm just guessing. I've never made a movie, but I just can't imagine having to actually build robots to do something like that.

 

[Modelworks]

Do they have the background computer generated then real people in front of a blue screen?

It is pre filmed then the animation is added over it. Green screen is on its way out as a method of mixing live and CG. Computers have gotten powerful enough that it is becoming possible to set up boundaries on a pre-filmed video and have the 3d actor scale and adapt to it. One of the most used products is called Matchmover. It is part of of Autodesk Maya.

It allows you to do things like film yourself throwing a football outside to a friend as you move the camera around the scene then bring that into Maya and change the football into a missle and have it scale and adapt to the scene. You could add a monster coming up behind your friend and have the camera match it completely . All without a green screen.

Matchmover page with video
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=13583239#channels_What's New

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

It's Uruguay.

$300 is greater than their annual GDP.

 

[SandEagle]

It's Uruguay.

$300 is greater than their annual GDP.

logic not needed here

 

[Udgnim]

30 million for a Michael Bay imitator?