Panic Attack! – YouTube-hit that makes money

This has got to be the deal breaker of the year – an amateur movie producer from Uruguay lands a $30 million Hollywood movie deal, thanks to a 4 minute movie he uploaded on YouTube.
Fede Alvarez of Uruguay uploaded his short movie entitled Ataque de Panico! (Panic Attack!) on YouTube and a few days after he received tons of emails from different Hollywood studios. One of them offered him $30 million for a full-length movie.

Ataque de Panico is a 4 minutes 48 seconds long movie that featured giant robots attacking Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. It had received 1.5 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded there. Read more at 901am.com.