The world premiere of Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi thriller Gravity will open the upcoming Venice Film Festival, organizers said Wednesday. It will be the first time the 70-year-old Venice festival opened with a 3D film, organizers said. The astronaut thriller will play out of competition at the festival, which runs August 28 to September 7.
The world premiere of Gravity will be screened in 3D on August 28 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony.
In Gravity, Bullock plays a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with a veteran astronaut (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes and the shuttle is destroyed, leaving the pair completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
The film will be distributed worldwide in 3D, 2D and IMAX, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Source: hollywoodreporter.com