Watch ‘Rakka,’ Director Neill Blomkamp’s First Oats Studios Short Film

Last month, director Neill Blomkamp officially revealed his Oats Studios project, a series of short films that would be released for free on YouTube and Steam (a wildly popular platform for PC games). The first of those shorts, titled Rakka, is online and you watch it right now. As you’d expect from a film directed by the man […]

Neill Blomkamp’s Incredibly Honest Take on the Failure Of ‘Chappie’

Every director has their hits and misses, and Neill Blomkamp is no exception. After exploding on the scene with his revelatory 2009 alien movie District 9, all eyes were on Blomkamp. He followed up with rumors about Halo and Alien movies, and two middling sci-fi films in 2013 and 2015, Elysium and Chappie. Both were […]

Neill Blomkamp Finally Kills ‘Alien 5,’ Revives ‘District 9’ Spin-Off Idea

Neill Blomkamp may be temporarily stepping away from feature films to focus his energies on his new experimental Oats Studios, but that doesn’t mean he’s not entertaining the notion of returning to the world of District 9, the sci-fi movie that put him on the map. It does mean, however, that he’s finally killing that Alien […]

Neill Blomkamp Embarks on Experimental Film Project Oats Studios; Watch the Trailer

Neill Blomkamp broke into the scene with shorts like Landfall and Alive in Joburg, a gritty sci-fi documentary that became the basis for his feature film debut and biggest hit to date, District 9. After making the modestly-to-poorly received sci-fi films Elysium and Chappie, Blomkamp may be stepping away from trying to live up to early praise of […]

Ridley Scott on Neill Blomkamp’s Alien Sequel: “There Was Never Even a Script”

In about two weeks, we’ll have a good idea of how hungry the world is for more Alien films. Sir Ridley Scott has a couple of sequels in mind, and he envisions himself ready to shoot one next year after he makes All the Money in the World. Right now, Scott is steering the Alien ship, and it probably won’t […]

Ridley Scott Says Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 Won't Happen

Image: Alien (1979) Not only won’t happen, Scott says it was never that close to happening. His Covenant and whatever comes after it will be the only development in the Alien universe for a while. Advertisement Answering a question from Allocine, Scott was asked if Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 would ever happen and his answer […]

Alien 5 horror: Ridley Scott SHOOTS DOWN Neill Blomkamp & Sigourney Weaver sequel comments

Blomkamp has tweeted constantly about Alien 5 and Weaver has gushed about his ideas and “incredible script.” Now Ridley Scott has told a French magazine that the chances were “pretty slim” of Alien 5 ever making it to the big screen. He has also cast a shadow over the comments made by his fellow director […]