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Jim Sturgess Joins Kate Beckinsale In Brad Anderson's Poe-Adapted Thriller Eliza Graves
2 April 2013 9:12 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
After years of directing better-than-average independent sleeper thrillers . except for 2010.s misstep Vanishing on 7th Street . Brad Anderson had a bit of a hit on his hands with The Call, which has earned $40 million in just over two weeks with just a $13 million budget. Lest one thought he.d be going for something more commercial, Anderson isn.t that kind of a guy. His latest project, the psychological thriller Eliza Graves, just added Jim Sturgess to its cast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sturgess has been on a sci-fi run as of late, with Juan Solanas. Upside Down and the Wachowski.s Cloud Atlas as his latest projects to hit theaters, and audiences will next see him in Mat Whitecross. thriller Ashes and Giuseppe Tornatore.s romantic drama The Best Offer, as well as the just-finished crime biopic Electric Slide. In this loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe.s early »
Film Review: Upside Down (2012): Juan Diego Solanas, Jim Sturgess
19 March 2013 10:03 PM, PDT | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
Upside Down (2012) Film Review, a movie directed by Juan Diego Solanas and starring Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Jayne Heitmeyer, Agnieshka Wnorowska, John Maclaren, Larry Day, Don Jordan, Heidi Hawkins, Holly O’Brien, Vincent Messina, Jesse Sherman, Frank M. Ahearn, and Holden Wong. While visually magnificent, Upside Down lacks the real punch necessary to deliver [...]
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- Rollo Tomasi
How the creators of 'Upside Down' pulled off the look of dual gravity
18 March 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Filmmakers have played with gravity for long time, from Fred Astaire’s 1951 ceiling dance to the ill-fated space mission of Apollo 13 to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s hallway fight in Inception. But when Argentine director Juan Solanas set out to make his romantic fantasy film Upside Down, he was presented with the challenge of filming a world not with zero gravity, but dual gravity.
Upside Down, which hit U.S. theaters this weekend, takes place on two planets that share the same atmosphere. Separate gravitational forces keep inhabitants of each on their own planet. The idea came to Solanas (who also »
- Emily Rome
Writer/Director Juan Solanas Talks Upside Down, Filming with a Limited Budget, and Four Ideas He Is Writing Now
16 March 2013 8:53 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The fantasy romance Upside Down, from writer/director Juan Solanas (The Man Without A Head), tells the uniquely original story of an interplanetary dystopian romance, in which opposite gravities literally keep the young lovers apart. Adam (Jim Sturgess) lives on the poverty-stricken planet below while Eden (Kirsten Dunst) is on the wealthy, exploitative world above, and even though their planets are so close that their highest mountain peaks almost touch, the numerous obstacles they much overcome to be together seem insurmountable. At the film’s press day, filmmaker Juan Solanas spoke to Collider, during both a roundtable and a 1-on-1 interview, about how the whole project started for him, how emotional it was for him to see the finished product of the very first vision he imagined for the film, why Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess were the perfect actors to bring his characters to life, the biggest challenges in »
- Christina Radish
Film Review: Odd Fairy Tale of ‘Upside Down’ is Also Inside Out
15 March 2013 10:51 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Definitely one of the strangest films so far in 2013 is “Upside Down,” featuring a dream pairing of Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. The problem is they exist as disparate lovers on opposing planets, with opposite gravitational pulls. Thus what is up for Kirsten is down for Jim, or vice-versa?
Rating: 2.5/5.0
With an opening prologue that tries to explain it all, it’s best to go with the easy of flow of lovers who are “upside down” from each other. Yes, this is shown on screen in vertigo inducing special effects. The planet that the Dunst character resides on is rich and powerful, which makes handsome Sturgess left with the dregs of the “other” planet. With elements of “Brave New World” and “1984,” there is also a corporation who wants to control this set-up, and only allows downers from Jim’s world to come “up” if they can profit from an invention. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
"Upside Down" Images and Trailer
15 March 2013 9:07 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek posters and a trailer from "Upside Down", the romantic fantasy feature, written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas, starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, opening March 15, 2013 :
"...'Adam' lives on a planet that has dual gravity, living in an orphanage 'Down Below' after losing his parents in an oil refinery explosion. As a child, Adam secretly climbs a mountain that gets very close to the 'Up' world, where he meets 'Eden'.
"Years later, they are friends as teenagers and into a romantic relationship, meeting on their mountains, with Adam using a rope to pull Eden towards Down.
"But they are found out and while Adam is trying to pass Eden back to her planet, he gets shot and returns home heartbroken.
"Ten years later, Adam is working on creating 'anti-gravity' using a formula inherited from his great-aunt, allowing matter to field both gravitational fields at once. While developing »
- Michael Stevens
Director Juan Solanas on Filming Upside Down With Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess
15 March 2013 5:11 PM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
In Upside Down, director Juan Solanas creates a love story set on two neighboring planets with double gravity - a unique concept, to say the least. When I recently sat down with the filmmaker in San Francisco, he talked about where he got the idea for the film and what it was like seeing his dream come to fruition. Watch! »
- Becky Kirsch
Director Juan Solanas on Filming Upside Down With Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess
15 March 2013 5:11 PM, PDT | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
In Upside Down, director Juan Solanas creates a love story set on two neighboring planets with double gravity - a unique concept, to say the least. When I recently sat down with the filmmaker in San Francisco, he talked about where he got the idea for the film and what it was like seeing his dream come to fruition. Watch! »
- Becky Kirsch
Exclusive: Upside Down Clip
15 March 2013 8:41 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess challenge the laws of gravity in this exclusive clip from Upside Down, debuting in theaters starting today, March 15. The story is set in a strange world of twin planets, a poorer land below and a more affluent world above, with each planet's gravitational fields pulling in opposite directions. This scene features Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) using the opposite gravity to their advantage to go on a fun and bizarre piggy-back ride in director Juan Diego Solanas' drama.
Upside Down - Exclusive "Imagine If"
Ever since Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) fell in love as teens, their bond has faced astronomical odds. The pair are separated not just by social class and a political system bent on keeping them apart, but also by a freak planetary condition: they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions-he on the poverty-stricken planet below, »
- MovieWeb
The Most Convoluted Movie Of The Year?
15 March 2013 5:45 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles — You practically need an advanced degree in physics to fully comprehend the convoluted physical machinations depicted in "Upside Down," Juan Solanas' dizzyingly loopy sci-fi romance. Depicting the Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls, this head-scratcher boasts visual imagination to spare even as its logistical complexities and heavy-handed symbolism ultimately prove off-putting.
The lovers – none so subtly named Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) – first meet as children who manage to forge a spiritual connection even if they're literally upside down from each other. Unfortunately, contact between the inhabitants of the two worlds is strictly forbidden by the dominant one, Up Top, which exploits the resources of its neighbor planet, Down Below. Connecting the two worlds is a massive tower owned by an exploitative megacorporation named – what else? -- TransWorld.
Ten years after their initial encounter, which ended with Eden apparently falling to her death, »
- AP
Upside Down Movie Review
15 March 2013 2:37 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Upside Down Director: Juan Solanas Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma, Nicholas Rose, James Kidnie, Vlasta Vrana What begins as a grand concept full of unusual possibilities — twinned, touching planets with opposing gravitational fields — quickly succumbs to a frustrating mixture of pretentiousness and torpor in “Upside Down,” Argentinean-born writer-director Juan Solanas’ dystopian romance, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess. A gussied-up, threadbare fairytale narrative that unfolds in perpetual pursuit of memorable images over narrative sensibility, this misfire illustrates the axiom that even if not all good ideas are original, all original ideas are certainly not good. Unfolding against a backdrop of inter-world tension, the basic split [ Read More ]
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- bsimon
Solanas unveils $60 mn sci-fi flick in Hollywood
15 March 2013 12:07 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Los Angeles, March 15 (Ians/Efe) Argentine director Juan Diego Solanas, whose visually stunning, $60 million science-fiction romance "Upside Down" is set to premiere in Us theaters, said the film was an exhausting "odyssey" whose cost spiralled to double the original budget.
"I find it almost incredible that I survived this odyssey," the director, who has devoted the past seven years of his life to the project, told Efe.
"The film needed at least twice the budget to do it normally. We knew it would be crazy and I'm telling you it was. It was the worst experience of my life. I wouldn't do this again for any reason, not for all. »
- Abhijeet Sen
Upcoming Movies This Weekend: Burt Wonderstone meets a greater wizard in Oz. The Call, Spring Breakers open
14 March 2013 11:55 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
This weekend, Warner Bros.' The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will fall under the spell of current box office sensation Oz the Great and Powerful. Despite opening in a decent 3,160 theaters, and holding a strong, well known cast of Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini, the New Line film will need some real magic to cross the $20 million mark this weekend. Disney's Oz, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Zach Braff, should show a drop of around 45% in its sophomore weekend at play, turning in a gross in the mid $40 million range. Opening from Sony is Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin thriller The Call, finding release in 2,507 theaters. Pic helmed by Brad Anderson from the script by Richard D'Ovidio, also includes Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli, Ella Rae Peck, Roma Maffia, Michael Eklund and Justina Machado. The remainder of the field are limited openers, »
Upcoming Movies This Weekend: Burt Wonderstone meets a greater wizard in Oz. The Call, Spring Breakers open
14 March 2013 11:55 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
This weekend, Warner Bros.' The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will fall under the spell of current box office sensation Oz the Great and Powerful. Despite opening in a decent 3,160 theaters, and holding a strong, well known cast of Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Jim Carrey, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin and James Gandolfini, the New Line film will need some real magic to cross the $20 million mark this weekend. Disney's Oz, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Zach Braff, should show a drop of around 45% in its sophomore weekend at play, turning in a gross in the mid $40 million range. Opening from Sony is Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin thriller The Call, finding release in 2,507 theaters. Pic helmed by Brad Anderson from the script by Richard D'Ovidio, also includes Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli, Ella Rae Peck, Roma Maffia, Michael Eklund and Justina Machado. The remainder of the field are limited openers, »
Jim Sturgess on the Disappointment of 'Cloud Atlas,' Meeting The Beatles and His New Sci-Fi Film
14 March 2013 6:36 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Jim Sturgess stars in a sci-fi film as one half of a love forbidden by a totalitarian and barbaric oligarchy on a future earth. Yes, again. And ironically enough, his new movie, Upside Down, was shot long before last fall's colossal, 3D, mind-bending, big-budget think piece, Cloud Atlas. It's just taken Argentine director Juan Solanas this long to put the whole thing together. The movie is semi-high concept, featuring a pair of twin planets that touch at the north and south poles. The lower planet, where Sturgess lives, is a moribund police state that has been
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- Jordan Zakarin
Cine Latino: Director Juan Solanas, on the Challenges of Making the Alternate-Universe Romance 'Upside Down'
13 March 2013 9:13 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Cine Latino covers, well, all things relating to Latino culture and the movies, every Wednesday. It's safe to say that Kirsten Dunst's latest indie project Upside Down is a feast for the eyes. The romantic fantasy-drama follows a young man's search for the long-lost girl of his dreams. Helming the project is Argentinian director Juan Solanas, who gives this forbidden love tale a new twist by setting the two lovebirds (Jim Sturgess and Dunst) in twinned planets with opposite gravities: he lives on poverty-stricken "Down," while she lives on the wealthy and exploitative "Up"—where people from "Down" are strictly forbidden. In a recent phone interview, Solanas told us the film was inspired by a single image that came in...
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- Elisa Osegueda
Cine Latino: Director Juan Solanas, on the Challenges of Making the Alternate-Universe Romance 'Upside Down'
13 March 2013 6:19 PM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Cine Latino covers, well, all things relating to Latino culture and the movies, every Wednesday. It's safe to say that Kirsten Dunst's latest indie project, Upside Down, is a feast for the eyes. The romantic-fantasy-drama follows a young man's search for the long-lost girl of his dreams. Helming the project is Argentinian director Juan Solanas, who gives this forbidden love tale a new twist by setting the two lovebirds (Jim Sturgess and Dunst) in twinned planets with opposite gravities: he lives on poverty-stricken "Down," while she lives on the wealthy and exploitative "Up"—where people from "Down" are strictly forbidden. In a recent phone interview, Solanas told us the film was inspired by a single image that came in a...
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Upside Down: Film Review
13 March 2013 11:18 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
You practically need an advanced degree in physics to fully comprehend the convoluted physical machinations depicted in Upside Down, Juan Solanas’ dizzyingly loopy sci-fi romance. Depicting the Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls, this head-scratcher boasts visual imagination to spare even as its logistical complexities and heavy-handed symbolism ultimately prove off-putting. The lovers -- none so subtly named Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) -- first meet as children who manage to forge a spiritual connection even if they’re literally upside down from each other. Unfortunately, contact between the
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- Frank Scheck
Upside Down Review
13 March 2013 9:54 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Upside Down is one of the most visually arresting movies to come out so far in 2013 (second to Stoker), and the visuals are endlessly beautiful. The problem is, that while director Juan Diego Solanas has spent a lot of time and energy on the eye candy, he could have spent just as much time crafting a better story to surround them.
The plot revolves around two worlds inhabited by the haves and have-nots, and it descends into a Romeo & Juliet-like story with some of George Orwell’s 1984 thrown in for good measure. Despite the gallant efforts of a very talented cast, Upside Down doesn’t quite suck you into its visually arousing display the way it wants to.
The story takes place in a world where two planets reside next to one another and their gravities pull in opposite directions. The upside world is inhabited with the rich and prosperous »
- Ben Kenber
Jim Sturgess Talks Upside Down, Calling it “Stunning and Beautiful,” Plus Auditioning for Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy
12 March 2013 10:32 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The fantasy romance Upside Down, from writer/director Juan Solanas (The Man Without A Head), tells the uniquely original story of an interplanetary dystopian romance, in which opposite gravities literally keep the young lovers apart. Adam (Jim Sturgess) lives on the poverty-stricken planet below while Eden (Kirsten Dunst) is on the wealthy, exploitative world above, and even though their planets are so close that their highest mountain peaks almost touch, the numerous obstacles they much overcome to be together seem insurmountable. At the film’s press day, actor Jim Sturgess spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how he came to be a part of the film, what interested him about the story and character, the director’s vision for the fantasy landscape, how stunning and beautiful he found the finished product, and what it’s like to have to react to your own imagination. He also talked about »
- Christina Radish
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