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| Directed by | Juan Diego Solanas |
| Produced by | Claude Léger Dimitri Rassam Aton Soumache Jonathan Vanger Alexis Vonarb |
| Written by | Juan Diego Solanas |
| Starring | Jim Sturgess Kirsten Dunst |
| Cinematography | Pierre Gill |
| Editing by | Dominique Fortin Paul Jutras |
| Studio | Onyx Films Studio 37 |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures (France) Entertainment Film Distributors/Pathé (UK) |
| Release date(s) | 2012 |
| Country | France Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
Upside Down is an upcoming science fiction-romance film written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, the film is about a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth. Upside Down has finished filming and is now in post-production. Release is set for sometime in 2012.[1][2]
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Adam (Sturgess) is an ordinary guy in an extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach… a girl named Eve (Dunst). Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grown up Eve on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back… not even the laws of science.
The French production company Studio 37 initially searched for an American co-producer, and received positive response from Hollywood representatives who read the screenplay. However, because of cultural differences, they decided to look for European partners instead, as they thought it would be essential for the project to be driven primarily by its director.[3] The film was eventually produced by Studio 37, Onyx Films and the Montreal-based company Transfilm, for a budget of $50 million.[4]
Variety reported from the Cannes Film Market in 2009 that Kirsten Dunst and Emile Hirsch were in talks to play the film's two leading roles.[5] A few months later the same magazine reported that Jim Sturgess had been cast instead of Hirsch.[4]
Principal photography started in Montreal in February 2010.[4] Filming and post-production were located to Canada because of the country's low taxes for film productions. Producer Dimitri Rassam said: "We couldn't have made Upside Down without the French funding system but there was no way we could have shot [in France] because the tax rebate is not attractive enough."[6]
The film will be distributed in France through the local branch of Warner Bros.[7]