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- Mike Rampton
- Ex Machina used Tinder as part of its promotional campaign. When the film was shown at SXSW, some festival attendees found themselves ever so slightly duped.
- It contains what might be the most dense, obscure in-joke in cinema history. When Caleb begins coding at Nathan‘s computer, he enters an algorithm known as the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which is designed to find prime numbers.
- The film was inspired by a number of educational texts. Other books Garland cites as a big influence on the film include 1953‘s Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein; 1983‘s Machine Language for Beginners by Richard Mansfield; 1989‘s The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose; and The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005) and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (2012), both by Ray Kurzweil.
- You can spend the night at Oscar Isaac‘s (on-screen) home. The Juvet Landscape Hotel in Norway was used as Nathan‘s house. The hotel prides itself on being “in the middle of nowhere” and is situated “in a remote part of a remote village in a remote region.”
A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac. It follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent humanoid robot. Ex Machina premiered at the BFI Southbank on 16 December 2014.
- $37.3 million
- $15 million
Jan 12, 2016 · Ex Machina may not have had a huge budget by Hollywood standards, but thanks to VFX house Double Negative (also Milk VFX and Utopia), it certainly had some of the most impressive effects in a film last year. Bringing the Ava robot to life took a terrific Golden Globe-nominated performance from Alicia Vikander, but it was the intricate VFX that ...
- Joe Marine
Apr 11, 2015 · By Kristy Puchko. Published Apr 11, 2015. 'Ex Machina' stars Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander discuss the film's limited budget, its amazing visual effects, and more. This weekend sees the release of the science-fiction thriller that took SXSW by storm.
Apr 10, 2015 · An inside look at "Ex Machina," the new film from director Alex Garland starring Domnhall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander, which opens in theaters today.
- Beckett Mufson
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May 8, 2015 · At the center of it all is the relationship between two characters: a shy programmer named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) and a robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander), who may represent the first example...
Dec 12, 2013 · Alicia Vikander, a no-brainer inclusion on our On the Rise list from March 2012, definitely falls into the latter category, making a vivid impression first in her feature debut “Pure,” and ...
