Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract's entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. Injured, he awakens back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. GERTY tells him that a rescue team named Eliza will come to the station to clean up the aftermath of the accident. After his recuperation, he takes an unauthorized trip back to the broken harvester, where he makes an unexpected discovery. Because of his find, he begins to doubt his sanity, then his true identity, then the company and GERTY's willingness to do what is best for him. Because of his resulting beliefs, his sole mission becomes how to get back to Earth on his own.

The trailer looks pretty sick.


Good recommendation, you should come by more often.

Twitter storm stirring over missing screeners for Duncan Jones' 'Moon'
December 30, 2009 - 12:58 pm By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit



A little dust-up is occurring in the world of Academy screeners.

Apparently, Sony has not included copies of the Sony Pictures Classics film "Moon," written by Nathan Parker and directed by Duncan Jones, in its package of awards-season screeners. News of this exclusion comes from Jones, who has been tweeting with supporters about the situation, since it severely kneecaps the film's — and star Sam Rockwell's — chances at Oscar consideration.

Among Jones' tweets Wednesday, are these references to Sony and its decision:

"we have more than asked.. we've knocked heads. they have chosen the films they are backing & we are not in their plans."

"They say it costs too much for our little film as they would need to be water-marked copies as our DVD isnt out yet in the US."

Neil Gaiman has offered his help to Jones via tweet, and others have suggested enlisting Jon Favreau to the cause, since he is rumored to be disappointed by Sony's disinclusion of "Moon." (There's also a petition circulating to get Rockwell an Oscar nomination.)

It's unlikely that the effort will change any minds at Sony, but it's invigorating to see another example of filmmakers working outside the blockbuster system — and the filmgoers who support their films — using new technology to fight for exposure. At the very least, these partisans know that their techno-agitating will likely lead to more people seeing the film.

And that's always the goal.

Duncan Jones getting screwed out of DVD cash for Moon
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by: Paul Tassi Apr. 1, 2010

If you're like me, you spent about a month trying to track down a local theater that was actually playing MOON when it was released. When that didn't pan out, I waited until it was on DVD (eons later) and rented it then, only to discover it was in fact one of my favorite films of the year.

Well, it turns out by renting it, I was inadvertently shafting over Duncan Jones and the crew. I’m sorry, I didn’t know! An angry Jones explains via Twitter.

Im actually quite upset right now.

UK DVD sales of Moon a healthy 120,000+. US numbers? Less than half that… due to huge number of “free” copies given to rental companies.

then they can split rental revenue with those chains, and pay the film makers… you guessed it… nothing.

Did you know that sometimes, when a studio wants to screw an indie film, they actually “give away” the DVD to large rental chains? ...

Just learned how we got “got” by the studio on Moon, and wont be getting any revenue from it. Very angry.

This is a shitty practice to begin with, but it's especially a big fat shaft for a movie like MOON, who couldn’t bank on ticket sales to make cash since distribution was horrific. By taking away a huge chunk of the DVD money and spiltting it with rental change, Jones and friends are getting reamed.

I'm not sure why Sony hates this movie so much. As you'll recall, MOON wasn't nominated for any Oscars mainly because the studio didn't send the Academy any screeners (due to "piracy concerns"), and now there's this DVD bullshit.

In the spirit of charity, and because it’s a great movie, pick up a copy of MOON on Blu-ray.

Source: Indiewire