Gravity‘s on everyone’s short list of films pretty much guaranteed to pick up a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and it should be in the running in the Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Score categories as well. And in support of its awards run, Warner Bros Pictures has just released this new behind-the-scenes featurette titled Gravity: From Script to Screen.
The new video features footage and interviews with Alfonso Cuarón, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón, Andy Nicholson, Mark Sanger, Tim Webber, Steven Price and Glenn Freemantle.
Gravity opened in theaters on October 4, 2013 and thus far has made $651 million worldwide.
The Plot:
Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
Stumble It! 
The list of performers set to help ring in the new year as part of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2014 has grown by one, with Billy Joel now committed to be a part of the show. Joel will perform live from Barclay’s Center and will have the honor of playing one of his classic songs as the first new song of 2014 on the show.
More than 4,500 applications were received and 33 animal welfare groups were chosen as the winners of Petco Foundation’s Holiday Wishes Grant Campaign. The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen’s “Halo, Purely for Pets” pet food company, and the Petco Foundation awarded the grants after thoroughly considering each of the applicants, with $500,000 (total) awarded to 33 animal welfare groups. The Pet Rescue Center in Mission Viejo received the grand prize of $100,000.
The eight-part miniseries The Assets will premiere on ABC on Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT. Based on the book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandy Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuile, The Assets was executive produced by Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Drew Chapman and stars Paul Rhys as Aldrich Ames, Jodie Whittaker as Sandy Grimes, Harriet Walter as Jeanne Vertefeuile, Stuart Milligan as Arthur O’Neill, Julian Ovenden as Gary Grimes, Christina Cole as Louisa Tilton, and Ralph Brown as Lawrence Winston. The book and miniseries are based on the true story of CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes.
