Warner Bros. financial partners Legendary Pictures and Village Roadshow were among a number of potential backers who decided they didn’t want to board Alfonso Cuaron’s 3D space odyssey “Gravity.” Today, that seems like a galactic miscalculation.
Of course, these companies had no way of knowing they would be passing on one of the biggest box office phenoms in recent years. In just over two weeks, the film crossed $200 million worldwide. But during its long gestation, industry skeptics believed “Gravity” could crash and burn if Cuaron couldn’t develop the cutting-edge technology needed to make the story fly.
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