The story surrounding the following video is as cool as the special effects in the video itself.
The basic gist is that Fede Alvarez spent about $300 producing “Panic Attack”, a 4 minute video of a robot invasion in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. Next Alvarez posted his video on YouTube, and it went viral. This was followed by emails from Hollywood execs ending with a $30 million deal with Ghost House Pictures.
For more details, see this post on Yahoo!