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GRAN TURISMO Review: This Is Not a Game. It's Barely a Movie.
David Harbour valiantly performs CPR on director Neill Blomkamp's latest. Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, and Djimon Hounsou also appear.
Review: DEMONIC Exorcises What Would Have Made it Really Entertaining
Carly has been having nightmares recently where she’s following her mom Angela’s voice into dark buildings. She wants to brush them off but then her ex-boyfriend Martin shows up after a few years claiming he’s seen her mom recently. Thing...
DEMONIC Interview: Neill Blomkamp On Combining Science Fiction With Supernatural Horror
The first contact in District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s powerful first feature film, turns out to be different than we might anticipate. The aliens stranded on a spaceship on the skyline of Johannesburg, South Africa, are malnourished, dirty, and without direction....
DEMONIC Official Trailer: 'Don't Be Scared'. Actually, We Think We Will Be.
Oh. Golly. Here is the official trailer for Neill Blomkamp's deep dive into horror, his new film Demonic. From the director of District 9 and Elysium, a young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root...
ANTHEM: CONVICTION: Neill Blomkamp Releases Live Action Game Trailer
Neill Blomkamp and his Oats Studios have partnered with BioWare and EA games to produce an epic live-action trailer / short film set in the world of Anthem, decades before the events of the game. The results are as expected...
Blomkamp's ADAM: THE MIRROR Changes Things Up ...
Director Neill Blomkamp breaks some different ground with his latest Oats Studio short film, Adam: The Mirror. It's the first of this series of shorts not done in live action, for one thing, with the entire short animated and rendered...
Neill Blomkamp Tackles Creature Features With ZYGOTE Short
Ever wondered how Dakota Fanning would fare against a hideous abomination ‘Frankensteined’ together from a multitude of limbs harvested from several bodies? Well, you’re in luck because so has mad scientist Neill Blomkamp! What the latest Oats offering lacks in...
Blomkamp Enters The FIREBASE With Latest Short Film
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp returns with the second short film from his new Oats Sudio released for free online. And after the alien invasion story of his first Oats effort, Blomkamp this time turns to the past with a...
Watch Neill Blomkamp's RAKKA Now!
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp drew a whole lot of attention with news of his new independent studio project Oats over the past couple weeks and why not? When the director of one of the most critically acclaimed scifi films...
Neill Blomkamp Sows His Oats With New Short Films
Having gone through the big budget grinder to varying degrees of success over his feature career, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is getting back to his roots. Which, in his case, means making cool stuff the way he wats to,...
BMW Films' THE HIRE Gets A New Chapter With Clive Owen
Back in 2001, automaker BMW spent a fair bit of money to hire A-list directors to write, produce and shoot a series of short films that had only one stipulation: Clive Owen had to drive a BMW in them at...
THE LEVIATHAN: Simon Kinberg And Neill Blomkamp Join As Producers
Things are ramping up for Ruairi Robinson's potentially awesome sci-fi pic, The Leviathan. It has only been a short while since the director dropped his proof of concept like an atomic bomb last week, clocking in over 1 million views already....
The Many Faces Of Sigourney Weaver
This week sees the release of Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, starring an eclectic mix of actors, non-actors and special effects. Loïc saw the film and had mixed feelings. Among the cast members is Sigourney Weaver though, and that is always worth...
Destroy All Monsters: ALIENS And The Burden Of Canon
Having now - I hope! - been convinced that Neill Blomkamp's comments last week (re: removing Alien3 and Alien Resurrection from the Alien franchise's continuity for his forthcoming Alien 5 sequel) were taken out of context or otherwise misconstrued, a...
Review: CHAPPIE, Thug Life Doesn't Pay Off
Neill Blomkamp is on everyone's radar now that he's been chosen to direct the new Alien movie. His latest effort, Chappie, might fuel the raging debate, as it shows a weird mixture of sci-fi within the gangsta universe of rap...
Neill Blomkamp Takes On ALIEN
Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9, Elysium, and the imminent Chappie, appears to not only have landed an Alien movie, but to have enticed Sigourney Weaver to return to the franchise.Next to nothing is known about the project other than it...
CHAPPIE: New UK Trailer And Other Tidbits Offer A Deeper Look
As director Neill Blomkamp is wont to do, details about Chappie have been scarce up until now. However, with the film fast approaching we are starting to see a flurry of trailers and articles with fresh insights.In addition to the...
New Trailer: "If You Want To Survive CHAPPIE, You Must Fight!"
The new Chappie trailer up!More robots. More explosions. Less Die Antwoord. A lot more Jackman (sporting his full Aussie accent), Patel, and Weaver. And a whole lotta Sharlto Copley's Chappie bringing the fight!This one drops March 6th, and as is...
I Am Consciousness. I Am Alive. I Am CHAPPIE. We Have Our First Trailer!
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Chappie poster comes our first trailer.It looks like we have another heady science fiction treatment by Neill Blomkamp, with little of the rumoured humour in the film showing face in this trailer. Plenty of heart...
First Poster For Blomkamp's CHAPPIE
He's carved out a reputation as arguably the leading purveyor of high octane science fiction laced with heady ideas in the world today, more or less occupying the space that Steven Spielberg filled in his earlier days. And now it...
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