{"id":3773,"date":"2013-08-02T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2013-08-02T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:43:06","slug":"europa-report-opens-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3773","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Europa Report&#8221; opens in theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the new film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2051879\/\" target=\"_d\">Europa Report <\/a> a few times here over the past several months. It is about a future privately funded mission to the Jupiter moon Europa and is done in a documentary, found-footage style. The mission is also depicted in a very scientifically rigorous manner, i.e. the film is of the rare &#8220;hard sci-fi&#8221; genre. It&#8217;s also in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/SolarSciFi\/index.html\">Solar Sci-Fi<\/a> category.<\/p>\n<p>The film has been available in video on demand and on line for awhile but today it has been released to theaters. Here are some reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/europa-report-is-a-space-opera-that-gets-it-right-1001685813\" target=\"_d\">Europa Report is a space opera that gets it right &#8211; io9.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/europa_report\/\" target=\"_d\">Europa Report &#8211; Rotten Tomatoes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/goingoutguide\/movies\/europa-report-movie-review\/2013\/07\/31\/3d89353a-f856-11e2-8e84-c56731a202fb_story.html\" target=\"_d\">\u2018Europa Report\u2019 movie review &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/02\/movies\/europa-report-directed-by-sebastian-cordero.html?_r=0\" target=\"_d\">\u2018Europa Report,\u2019 Directed by Sebasti\u00e1n Cordero &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/08\/01\/206636617\/beyond-earths-gravity-a-space-opera-goes-flat\" target=\"_d\">Movie Review &#8211; &#8216;Europa Report&#8217; &#8211; Beyond Earth&#8217;s Gravity, A Space Opera Goes Flat &#8211; NPR<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a report on a panel discussion of the movie at the recent Comic Con event in Las Vegas: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2338\/1\" target=\"_d\">Talk of an icy moon at Vegas for Nerds &#8211; The Space Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europaventuresllc.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Europa Ventures LLC<\/a> website is for the organization in the movie that ran the Europa mission.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trailer for the film:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2BfobyYOmU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More space and solar sci-fi film resources in the\u00a0<a class=\"linkLocal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyspace.com\/Movies\/index.html\">HobbySpace\u00a0 movies section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the new film\u00a0Europa Report a few times here over the past several months. It is about a future privately funded mission to the Jupiter moon Europa and is done in a documentary, found-footage style. The mission is also depicted in a very scientifically rigorous manner, i.e. the film is of the rare &#8220;hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Europa Report&#8221; opens in theaters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-YR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2429,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2429","url_meta":{"origin":3773,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;Europa Report&#8221; trailer","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The first trailer for the upcoming \"hard sci-fi\" film Europa Report , about a human mission to the Jupiter moon Europa, has been released: Phil Plait has seen the whole film and likes it: Europa Report trailer: Sci-fi movie with a lot of sci - Wired.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1091,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1091","url_meta":{"origin":3773,"position":1},"title":"The film &#8220;Europa Report&#8221; expected for summer release","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A movie based in the premise of human exploration of the Jupiter moon Europa will be released next summer. 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