Movies
This past weekend, Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi pic “Elysium” opened to $30.5 million.
Aug. 12, 2013
Box office: Matt Damon’s ‘Elysium’ latest sign of a surreal summer
Selfish one-percenters, honorable blue-collar characters, portraits of excess and decay -- Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” and Neill Blomkamp’s “Elysium” are very different movies, but they grapple with the issue of income inequality in some surprisingly similar ways.
Aug. 8, 2013
‘Elysium’ is solid sci-fi, but no ‘District 9,’ critics say
Aug. 9, 2013
Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s unheralded feature debut, “District 9,” arrived like a bolt of lightning in 2009.
Awards
Matt Damon rose above the competition at the box office this weekend, where his sci-fi film “Elysium” was No. 1 as four new films hit theaters.
Aug. 11, 2013
Matt Damon can’t save the politically conscious, pedestrian ‘Elysium.’ Neill Blomkamp (‘District 9’) directs.
‘Elysium’ director: ‘Chappie’ will be ‘like RoboCop but hilarious’
Aug. 13, 2013
Four days after “Elysium” hit theaters, the science fiction movie’s backers announced Tuesday that they have greenlighted director Neill Blomkamp’s next film, “Chappie.”