After making his English language debut with 2011’s Apollo 18, Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego returns with another horror-thriller this year in Open Grave.
Led by Sharlto Copley, who really looks to be going from strength to strength, the film is set to be released in Italy this August, and the first international teaser trailer has surfaced online, along with a handful of images to set the tone nicely.
Six people wake up with in a remote forest next to an open grave of rotting bodies, with no memory of what happened. Not knowing if one among them is the murderer, they must piece together the mysterious set of circumstances that brought them together before it’s too late.
Copley stars alongside Erin Richards (Breaking In), Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Josie Ho (Exiled), and Max Wrottesley (The Cosmonaut).
López-Gallego is directing from a script co-written by brothers Chris and Eddie Borey,...
Led by Sharlto Copley, who really looks to be going from strength to strength, the film is set to be released in Italy this August, and the first international teaser trailer has surfaced online, along with a handful of images to set the tone nicely.
Six people wake up with in a remote forest next to an open grave of rotting bodies, with no memory of what happened. Not knowing if one among them is the murderer, they must piece together the mysterious set of circumstances that brought them together before it’s too late.
Copley stars alongside Erin Richards (Breaking In), Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Josie Ho (Exiled), and Max Wrottesley (The Cosmonaut).
López-Gallego is directing from a script co-written by brothers Chris and Eddie Borey,...
- 7/8/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With all the discussion about the future of Kickstarter in recent weeks, it may be appropriate that a film that began its campaign at the beginning of the crowdfunding movement is finally coming out this Saturday. The Cosmonaut — a Spanish-made English-language film directed by Nicolás Alcalá and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor — raised over €300,000 from 5,000 contributors. It was the first crowdfunded film in Spain and helped pave the way for the foundation of Lánzanos, Spain’s Kickstarter equivalent. The Cosmonaut will be available to watch for free on Saturday on the film’s website; the DVD, theatrical …...
- 5/16/2013
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
While the debate continues to rage about the role celebrities/people-with-connections should have to crowd-funding projects, the bottom line is this paradigm breaking approach is helping to get ambitious projects of all sizes get made. The latest example is "The Cosmonaut," which found support from over 4000 backers to help bring it to the big screen. Today, we have a taste of the sci-fi movie as it begins to roll out. A years in the making effort, kicking off with a short film version in 2008, the movie's progress to the big screen is fascinating (it's detailed right here) and it included losing financing from a Russian backer at one point, only for the crowd-funding community to come back and support "The Cosmonaut" with three times as much money than they were short. But it's all about the final result and writer/director Nicolás Alcalá seems to have made those who got behind him proud.
- 5/14/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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