RELATED STORIES Pop TV has caught itself some more Flack, renewing the Anna Paquin-led drama for a second season. The cabler also announced that Paquin’s The Piano co-star, Sam Neill, as well as Hawaii Five-0 alum Daniel Dae Kim, have boarded the cast for Season 2, while executive producer (and husband-of-Paquin) Stephen Moyer will direct […]
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New ‘RoboCop’ Movie Coming from ‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ Director Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp could never get his Alien movie off the ground, so he’s latching onto another classic sci-fi franchise instead. The District 9 and Chappie director will helm a new RoboCop movie, titled RoboCop Returns. The film is said to be both a reboot and a sequel to the original franchise. Deadline has the scoop […]
Daily Podcast: Inappropriate Books We Read As A Kid, Is DC Copying Marvel By Hiring Sundance Directors? Pet Sematary, Avengers 4, King of Kong, Neill Blomkamp, HTTYD 3 & PTA
On the April 17, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about Pet Sematary remake casting, the title for Avengers 4, Harley Quinn movie director, an update on King of Kong champion Billy Mitchell, Neill Blomkamp crowdfunding his next […]
James Bond audition: Sam Neill ‘I dodged a BULLET when Timothy Dalton was cast instead’
Following 1985’s A View To A Kill, Sir Roger Moore bowed out as James Bond for the final time after seven movies. The hunt was on for the fourth official actor to play 007 in 1987’s The Living Daylights. While Dalton was eventually cast, future Jurassic Park star Neill auditioned, but he’s now really glad […]
James Bond audition: Sam Neill SPEAKS OUT – ‘It was a BAD dream’
Back in 1986 Sir Roger Moore had retired as James Bond after starring in seven movies. MGM were holding 007 auditions for 1987’s The Living Daylights, which eventually went to Timothy Dalton. And one actor who impressed the producers but just missed out was Kiki actor Sam Neill. Now in a new interview with the […]
Sequel Bits: Pitch Perfect 4, Ridley Scott Talks More Alien, Neill Blomkamp Has Moved On From Alien 5, and More
In this edition of Sequel Bits: Pitch Perfect 3 director talks about a potential Pitch Perfect 4 Alien: Covenant‘s Ridley Scott compares Alien to Star Wars and Star Trek and gives an update about his planned sequel Neill Blomkamp says he’s “moved on” from his take on Alien 5 A Power Rangers actor explains how his character will change […]
New ‘Alien 5’ Concept Art Revealed by Neill Blomkamp
I regret to inform you that Neill Blomkamp is at it again. The filmmaker behind District 9 and Elysium has released even more potential Alien 5 concept art, teasing the Alien sequel he never got a chance to make. Does this indicate the previously thought to be dead project might be alive again, or is Blomkamp just having some fun? Let’s […]
Watch: Neill Blomkamp’s Newest Short Film That Was Rendered in Real Time
In movies like Chappie, District 9, and Elysium, director Neill Blomkamp has explored the intersection of humanity and technology. It’s a topic he returns to again and again, and it’s something he’s obsessed with as a storyteller. So it’s no surprise that Blomkamp is exploring the same concept in a new way with Adam: The Mirror, a new […]
Neill Blomkamp’s Next Sci-Fi Film Will Be ‘The Gone World’
After temporarily setting aside his film ambitions to focus on his experimental Oats Studios, Neill Blomkamp is set to return to the feature film world to helm an adaptation of the sci-fi thriller The Gone World. Blomkamp is making a faster return to the feature films than I initially thought. It seemed like he was going through […]
It’s Dakota Fanning Versus a Monster in Neill Blomkamp’s Creepy Short ‘Zygote’
After months of teasers and social media hints, Neill Blomkamp is getting the ball rolling with his experimental short film project Oats Studios. The studio’s latest release is a creepy 22-minute sci-fi short starring Dakota Fanning and Jose Pablo Cantillo as they try to escape an amorphous monster in a remote outpost in the Arctic. […]