- BBC, Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:30 PM
In a development sure to infuriate many a Hollywood resident, a producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November was just offered a $30m contract to make a Hollywood film. The
movie is expected to be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films. Fede Alvarez's short film "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack!) features giant robots
invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The movie Alvarez has been asked to produce is a sci-fi film to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina, which he intends to start from scratch and
develop a new story for the project. "If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it," Alvarez tells the BBC.
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Ooops. Paradigm shift. The real question is - why pay him $30 million?