MOON by Jacob Smith
Production
Moon is the British Feature film directed by Duncan Jones (Born as Zowie Bowie) who has now directed the Movie Source code, Produced by Trudie Snyder (one of the geniuses behind the gangster comedy snatch) and written was co-written by Nathan Parker who is now working on the pre-production for the film 2:22 which is due next year.The movie helped Launch Actor Sam Rockwell's Career as he is the lead and practically the only role in the movie. The companies behind the screenings were shown theatrically by Sony pictures classics and then released on DVD by stage 6 films.
The movie had a cheap budget of only 3.23206206 pounds (5 million dollars) to fund every aspect of the film, the director kept cost to a minimum by shooting every scene within a studio and by keeping the cast list short (10 people in total).
Every thing was filmed within 33 days and was recorded in a 360 degree set. The designer of the rover landers and the harvesters was the Bill Pearson who created the initial designs for the Movie Alien.
The budget was so small that the parent company Sony refused to have it observed by the Oscar panel due to the cost and in case it were pirated.
Kevin Spacey who voiced the robot GERTY in the film waited for the film to be finished before recording the voice of GERTY.
Distribution and Exhibition
Sony picture classics also helped to distribute other small films such as ' House of flying daggers' and 'Layer cake'.