The film will also have its world premiere at the gala
Los Angeles:
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's much awaited sci-fi film Gravity, featuring Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, will be the opening film at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
The out of competition film will have its world premiere in 3D on August 28 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony, said a statement on the festival's official website.
Curaron has been a part of the festival since 2001. His critically acclaimed Y tu mama tambien won the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
In 2006, Cuaron's Children of Men won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography.
A Warner Bros Pictures thriller, the films has Bullock playing Dr Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness with little oxygen supply left.
The last time Venice opened with a science fiction movie was in 2000 with Space Cowboys by Clint Eastwood.
Venice unveiled its line-up with 20 films vying for the Golden Lion in the official competition.
The prominent films in this category are Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem, Stephen Frears' Judi Dench starrer Philomena, James Franco's directorial effort Child of God, John Curran's Tracks, Jonathan Glazer's Scarlett Johansson starrer Under the Skin, Peter Landesman's Parkland, David Gordon Green's JOE and Kelly Reichardt Night Moves. -*-
The out of competition film will have its world premiere in 3D on August 28 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony, said a statement on the festival's official website.
Curaron has been a part of the festival since 2001. His critically acclaimed Y tu mama tambien won the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
In 2006, Cuaron's Children of Men won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography.
A Warner Bros Pictures thriller, the films has Bullock playing Dr Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness with little oxygen supply left.
The last time Venice opened with a science fiction movie was in 2000 with Space Cowboys by Clint Eastwood.
Venice unveiled its line-up with 20 films vying for the Golden Lion in the official competition.
The prominent films in this category are Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem, Stephen Frears' Judi Dench starrer Philomena, James Franco's directorial effort Child of God, John Curran's Tracks, Jonathan Glazer's Scarlett Johansson starrer Under the Skin, Peter Landesman's Parkland, David Gordon Green's JOE and Kelly Reichardt Night Moves. -*-
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