AUSTIN, Texas — Just as some people are better at their jobs than others, some movie stars are just good at being movie stars. At Saturday night's SXSW premiere of "The Lost City," Sandra Bullock had a good day at the office, taking over the Austin, Texas, Paramount Theatre with an amiable ease.
Directors and co-writers Adam and Aaron Nee were at the SXSW Film Festival in 2006 with their first feature "The Last Romantic" — which they noted they had made for $18,000 — and have now returned with a movie being released by Paramount Pictures later this month. "I remember the filmmakers with the big movies and being like, 'Those guys aren't indie guys,'" said Adam Nee, "And so now we're those guys."
The screenplay is credited to Oren Uziel, Dana Fox and the Nee brothers, from a story by Seth Gordon. In introducing "The Lost City," Adam Nee said, "We just feel like it's a great escape, like the movies that we grew up on when we were young, like 'Raiders' and 'Romancing the Stone' where it just feels like a joyful fun escape from life. And I hope it's that for you."
