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Gravity (2013 film)

Gravity
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Produced by Alfonso Cuarón
David Heyman
Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Jonás Cuarón
Starring Sandra Bullock
George Clooney
Music by Steven Price
Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki
Edited by Alfonso Cuarón
Mark Sanger
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 28, 2013 (2013-08-28) (Venice)
  • October 4, 2013 (2013-10-04) (United States)
  • November 7, 2013 (2013-11-07) (United Kingdom)
Running time
91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Budget $100 million
Box office $723.2 million

Gravity is a 2013 British-American science fiction adventure film co-written, co-edited, produced and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle, and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.

Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the film at Universal Pictures. The rights were sold to Warner Bros. Pictures, where the project eventually found traction. David Heyman, who previously worked with Cuarón on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), produced the film with him. Gravity was produced entirely in the United Kingdom, where the British visual effects company Framestore spent more than three years creating most of the film's visual effects, which make up over 80 of its 91 minutes.

Gravity opened the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013 and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. Upon its release in both the Telluride Film Festival in August, and its October 4, 2013 release in the United States and Canada, Gravity was met with near-universal critical acclaim, and has been regarded as one of the best films of the 2010s. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography, Steven Price's musical score, Cuarón's direction, Bullock's performance, Framestore's visual effects, and its use of 3D were all particularly praised by numerous critics. The film became the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2013 with a worldwide gross of over US$723 million against production budget of only $100 million.


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