Neill Blomkamp

Writer-director Neill Blomkamp pushes all his chips onto the table with this fascinating sci-fi gamble that dares you not to be entertained. Derivative, ultra-violent, and completely baffling, Chappie also manages to be insightful and sweet at times. This technically-accomplished and thematically-suspect ­­­­­­robot melodrama has something for everyone to love (and hate). Mostly, it offers the giddy exhilaration of a movie that’s determined to tell its story, no matter how bat-shit crazy it is.

New Projects is a weekly round up of movies and TV shows recently announced and currently in development for the near future.  To be honest, I was a little skeptical of the news last week that Neill Blomkamp would be helming an Alien remake. Elysium was a bust, the jury is still out on Chappie, …

What is it about the Alien franchise that has made it so enduring? Ripley’s a hell of a female character for sure, but then the undying terror of a faceless, yet iconic monster only bent on destruction is also a good enough catalyst that everyone from Ridley Scott to James Cameron to David Fincher to …

Elysium Directed by Neill Blomkamp Written by Neill Blomkamp USA, Canada, and Mexico, 2013 District 9 offered the promise of a fresh new talent in writer-director Neill Blomkamp. Elysium doesn’t totally squander that promise, but at least raises the disturbing possibility that District 9 may have been a fluke. More likely, Blomkamp will be best …

[callout] Synopsis: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet’s crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care …

Last month a Deadline exlusive claimed that Jodie Foster (The Brave One) had committed to writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi thriller Elysium, his last feature being 2009’s critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated sleeper hit District 9. Foster was said to be co-starring along side confirmed participants Matt Damon (The Adjustment Bureau, True Grit) and Sharlto Copley (District 9, The …

Recently a mysterious video linked to filmmaker Neill Blomkamp was found on the YouTube channel. The video which was included in the latest iPad digtial version of WiReD Magazine (issue number 18.12) and later on the Splash page credited simply as “Video By: Neill Blomkamp,” is believed to be a teaser for the director’s next …

Empire has caught up with Sharlto Copley about the possibility of a District 9 sequel with director Neill Blomkamp, in fact, from what he tells Empire is that there may be a prequel in the works. I’m sure it’s not going to be called Distrcit 8, but perhaps that got your attention anyways.

Some people don’t like the first Dune by David Lynch, but of course, they’re crazy. With a stunning cast like the effortless Kyle MacLachlan, badass Sting, the mysterious Jürgen Prochnow, the black-goop-dripping Kenneth McMillan, the incomparable Linda Hunt as Shadout Mapes…coupled with the as-cool-and-strange-as-it-gets-for-1984 effects, not to mention the storyline itself… come on, it rocks! …

Both critically and commercially, District 9 is one of the biggest hits of the year. Now Media Rights Capital has committed to fund filmmaker Neill Blomkamp’s next film, an untitled science fiction film which will be set on another planet. Blomkamp hopes his new film will be commercial but says that “it is very much …