{"id":795,"date":"2009-12-21T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-12-21T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:04:43","slug":"man-spends-300-to-make-video-earns-30-million-hollywood-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/man-spends-300-to-make-video-earns-30-million-hollywood-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Spends $300 To Make Video, Lands $30 Million Hollywood Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fede Alvarez<\/strong> was an unknown filmmaker from Uruguay.  He spent around $300 to make a short video about a robot invasion in his country&#8217;s capitol.  It was 4 minutes long and he called it <strong>Ataque de Panico!<\/strong>, which translates to panic attack.<\/p>\n<p>He uploaded the video to YouTube on a Thursday.  By Monday he said his inbox was flooded with offers from Hollywood.  A bidding war ensued and he finally inked a deal with the producers of Spiderman&#8230;for $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds hard to believe but it&#8217;s true.  And congratulations to Fede for practically changing his life overnight&#8230;just by making a video.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the clip he uploaded to YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-dadPWhEhVk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-dadPWhEhVk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fede Alvarez was an unknown filmmaker from Uruguay. He spent around $300 to make a short video about a robot invasion in his country&#8217;s capitol. It was 4 minutes long and he called it Ataque de Panico!, which translates to panic attack. He uploaded the video to YouTube on a Thursday. By Monday he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[394,393,395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}