This coming Friday (February 4th), the James Cameron produced Sanctum 3D hits cinemas on both sides of the Atlantic.
The 3D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea.
Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s team-including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)-are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?
Shot on location off the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, Sanctum employs 3-D photography techniques Cameron developed to lens Avatar. Designed to operate in extreme environments, the technology used to shoot the action-thriller will bring audiences on a breathless journey across plunging cliffs and into the furthest reaches of our subterranean world.
The SANCTUM YouTube channel is hosted by Andrew Wight, the producer of the film and allows users to find out to what extremes they would go to for the sake of adventure. The channel hosts several extreme videos from previously existing YouTube content and filmmaker-provided footage, with a voting system for each video. Users are able to vote if they would/wouldn’t/already have done the things in the video. We then determine the users’ threshold for risk and how far they will go to reach an adrenaline high or discover the unknown. The user’s threshold level then determines which personality type they fit into. Users are able to share the videos, their votes, and their personality results on Facebook or Twitter. Users can also write and share their own extreme stories, and explore what others are saying about the movie in our social sphere.
We have a bunch of new images from the film, plus a review hitting the website tomorrow!
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