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Jun 13 2013 09:35 PM ET

Matt Damon is a smart-ass and a bad-ass in new 'Elysium' trailer -- VIDEO

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Matt Damon sci-fi movie Elysium doesn’t hit theaters until August, but until then you can feast your eyes on newly released footage from the film in the latest trailer.

While previous trailers and reports have given us a good idea of what the future of Elysium looks like, this newest preview provides some more details on what Damon’s character, Max, is after and what his life is like before he decides to break into Elysium, the space station for the rich orbiting above a poverty-stricken Earth.

There’s more footage of Max fighting villain Kruger (Sharlto Copley, teaming up again with his District 9 director, Neill Blomkamp), and there’s also Max serving up smart-ass, mocking responses to a robot. Looks like this guy has a little bit of snark.

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Apr 30 2013 06:50 PM ET

Sharlto Copley will star in 'District 9' director Neill Blomkamp's next sci-fi film

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Sharlto Copley is teaming up with Neill Blomkamp for a third time.

The South African actor will play the lead role in Blomkamp’s next film, Chappie, Copley’s reps tell EW. Copley first teased the news in brief Facebook post this weekend.

Blomkamp is keeping details about the project largely under wraps, but he has described it as “a science-fiction comedy” in an “unusual setting.” Details on Copley’s character are also still under wraps. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 9 2013 07:22 PM ET

Matt Damon suits up in new 'Elysium' trailer, plus five burning questions answered -- VIDEO

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First, check out the new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi movie Elysium from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp below — we have been waiting since last year’s Comic-Con for a full scale look at the film, which imagines the rich escaping to a space station called Elysium, leaving a poverty-stricken Earth behind. Then see below for answers to your burning questions about the Matt Damon-starrer, which will be released in theaters on August 9.
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Apr 8 2013 10:34 PM ET

'Elysium': Robotics, but no slime -- inside scoop from Blomkamp, Damon, more

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Matt Damon — via satellite from Berlin — joined Elysium star Sharlto Copley, producer Simon Kinberg, and writer/director Neill Blomkamp in Hollywood on Monday to talk about the highly-anticipated film and gave away more than a few secrets about the upcoming sci fi flick in the process.

Damon commended fanboys and girls for using “excellent judgement” to take their lunch hour and enjoy the world premiere of the trailer for his summer film Elysium.

The film, (we were treated to the trailer as well as a 10-minute sizzle reel) is visually stunning. The backbone of the story is that the very rich left earth to enjoy a life free from disease, war, and poverty on the space station Elysium. Everyone else is left on Earth, and it’s an earth transformed into miles and miles of shantytown slums.

Elysium, the off-planet paradise, was shot on location in Canada. Future Earth was shot in Mexico City, which according to Blomkamp is famous for pre-meditated kidnappings.
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Oct 19 2012 03:41 PM ET

Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' remake set for release October 2013

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Spike Lee’s English language remake of South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2003 classic revenge thriller Oldboy is set for wide release on Oct. 11, 2013, announced FilmDistrict, the independent film company distributing the movie, on Friday.

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Jul 13 2012 11:13 PM ET

'Elysium' Comic-Con panel: Matt Damon talks about the time he was covered in fecal matter

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The Project: Elysium

The Panel: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, writer-director Neill Blomkamp, producer Simon Kinberg

Footage Screened: Blomkamp prefaced the screening admitting that the only time he’s comfortable with the “salesmanship” aspect of his job is when he is screening footage at Comic-Con for true fans. And even though almost all of the visual effects were very much in the rough stages, he did not skimp on delivering some tasty new footage.

It’s 2154. Earth, explains some title cards, is “diseased, polluted, and vastly over-populated.” It’s a wasteland, packed so tight with people that roofs of major skyscrapers have been converted into slums. So the very wealthy have escaped to Elysium, a vast, circular space station in a far orbit around Earth where there is no poverty, no sickness, and no war. Over this explanation, we see a model-perfect woman in a palatial home getting scanned for, and cured of, cancer, in a matter of seconds.  READ FULL STORY »

May 3 2012 09:51 PM ET

Casting Net: Joseph Gordon-Levitt developing new 'Little Shop of Horrors.' Plus: Sharlto Copley, Nick Frost, Amber Heard

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• Suddenly Seymour? Let’s hope! Joseph Gordon-Levitt is working with Warner Bros. and Wanted producer Marc Platt on a new big screen version of the musical horror-comedy Little Shop of Horrors, with the hope Gordon-Levitt would play the mild-mannered florist who discovers one of his plants lives on human blood. Robert Aguirre-Sacasa — who’s written on Big Love and Glee, and was brought in to revise the book for Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark — is penning the script. No director is attached. [THR]

• District 9 star Sharlto Copley is suddenly very popular. He’s currently in talks to star opposite Angelina Jolie in Maleficent as King Stefan. Earlier this week, he signed onto both the horror film Open Grave and Spike Lee‘s English language remake of Oldboy. [Deadline]

• Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), and Olivia Colman (Hot Fuzz) have signed onto the comedy Cuban Fury, about a man (Frost) with a zeal for salsa dancing. The film is based on an idea by Frost. James Griffiths (Up All Night, Free Agents) will direct. [Variety]

• Amber Heard (The Rum Diary) is in talks to play an assassin named Miss San Antonio in Robert Rodriguez‘s Machete Kills. [Variety]

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Casting Net: Julia Louis-Dreyfus angling to crush on James Gandolfini. Plus: Elijah Wood, Jon Favreau, Demian Bechir
Casting Net: Michelle Rodriguez back for ‘Fast and Furious’ 6 and ‘Machete Kills.’ Plus: Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Sharlto Copley
Casting Net: Emma Watson, Jason Segel to face the ‘End of the World.’ Plus: Bernadette Peters, Sandra Oh

May 1 2012 08:57 PM ET

Casting Net: Michelle Rodriguez back for 'Fast and Furious' 6 and 'Machete Kills.' Plus: Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Sharlto Copley

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• It’s official: As teased in a post-credits scene of Fast Five, Michelle Rodriguez will reprise her role as Leticia “Letty” Ortiz in the sixth Fast and Furious film, to be directed by Justin Lin. The actress will also return for Robert Rodriguez‘s follow-up to 2010′s Machete, the brilliantly titled Machete Kills. [Variety]

• Pierce Brosnan is joining Owen Wilson in the international thriller The Coup, about an American family living through a bloody revolt in a Southeast Asian country. John Erick Dowdle (Devil) is directing. [Variety]

• Steve Coogan will lend his distinctive voice for an unspecified role in Despicable Me 2. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kristen Wiig are all reprising their roles; Al Pacino will play the heavy. [THR]

• District 9 star Sharlto Copley will star in the grisly thriller Open Grave, about a man who wakens to find himself in a literal open grave filled with corpses. Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (Apollo 18) will direct. Copley also officially signed up to play the main villain in Spike Lee‘s English-language remake of Oldboy. [Deadline]

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Casting Net: Emma Watson, Jason Segel to face the ‘End of the World.’ Plus: Bernadette Peters, Sandra Oh
Casting Net: Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia to romance in ‘Admissions.’ Plus: Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Emile Hirsch
Casting Net: Rooney Mara replacing Carey Mulligan in Spike Jonze film

Apr 12 2012 08:09 PM ET

Casting Net: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem circling Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor.'

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• Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem are in talks to join The Counselor, about a lawyer (Michael Fassbender) who gets pulled in too deep after flirting with the illegal drug trade. Ridley Scott is directing the thriller, from a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy. Which is all to say that this movie is getting seriously cool, seriously fast. [Deadline]

• District 9 star Sharlto Copley is in early talks to play the main villain in Spike Lee‘s English-language version of the South Korean cult classic thriller Oldboy. He’d join Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. [Variety]

• Kevin Hart is considering joining the comedy Con Ed, about two escaped cons who evade capture by posing as college frat boys. Charles Stone III (Drumline) will direct. [Variety]

Read more:
Casting Net: Donald Glover to appear in Spidey’s bedroom, Elle Fanning may join movie musical
Casting Net: ‘Iron Man 3′ gets its villain, and Steve Carell may have a ‘Very Bad Day.’ Plus: Selena Gomez, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks
Casting Net: Aziz Ansari to play Aziz Ansari in ‘The Apocalypse.’ Plus: Terrence Howard, Ron Livingston, Sam Shepard

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