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What was the budget?  Didn't he make District 9 for precisely $8 and a portion of fries?

Blomkamp's definitely a guy to watch.

 Please let this be awesome....

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

I take one every morning.

Anally.

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Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

I'll be seriously disappointed if Beethoven doesn't make it into the soundtrack.

I'll be OK with an absence of Beethoven, as long as Schiller is quoted somewhere. It's Schiller's line originally, after all. Beethoven added some lines of his own, but that wasn't one of them.

Highbrow!

MATT DAAAAAAMMMMMONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, Jodie Foster.  :)

Wilfred's a big fan of Matt Damon.

I always said Matt Damon would make it big one of these days.

Can this be an impromptu "Guess Elysium's opening weekend box office gross thread" thread?

Sure, I'll go first.

$30,000,000.

Sci-Fi has been having a shit time lately.  Oblivion didn't live up to expectations and After Earth tanked.

Supes is sorta sci-fi, but it's also Supes so doesn't count.

I think it might be low.  Could word of mouth make it low, but with long legs?  Will the kind of fans who stayed at home becuase of the Cruiser-Thetan and the Shymalan kiss-of-cinematic death come out to see what Distict 9 guy does next? 

Clearly, we have to get to work.

Even Star Trek didn't slay at the box office despite great reviews.  Anything remotely spacey (except you, of course) seems to be struggling.

Will the new Star Wars films count?  Are they due 2014 or was it 2015?

The Star Wars films are 100% review proof. They will be huge. They have 3 generations worth of fans to milk.

Even the people like Ipsilon that (somehow) got beat up for liking Star Wars will go see it!

I went to see all 3 prequels at the theatre.

However I own absolutely none of the prequels on DVD or BluRay.

Then there's smaller features like Moon and Europa Report, coming out next week on VOD and limted theatrical release next month.

Gravity soon.  Plus that Chris Nolan sci-fi thingamajig.

Europa Report???

I sent Patrick the scoop.

http://coronacomingattractions.com/movie/europa-report

 So I saw "Elysium" today. Overall it was very good, although I thought it relied more on genre conventions (particularly with Jodie Foster's stereotyped baddie and the action-heavy ending) than "District 9." Still, it was pretty entertaining and very inventive in its world-building. Matt Damon was fucking awesome because he's fucking Matt Damon. Well worth a look.

 I didn't even realise it was out yet.  Dammit!  I think this is a film I will be seeing on my own.

 And just to make Spacey ecstatic, I saw "Europa Report" today and it was superb. Totally believable about what real space travel might look like in the near future, unencumbered by Hollywood expectations that SF conform to action movie standards (unlike Elysium), and yet completely absorbing and suspenseful.

It's available to rent on iTunes if you can't find it at a theatre near you. That might be the best option for Spacey, so his moans of pleasure don't disturb other theatre goers.

 Michael Nyqvist is in it! That means it's good! Thanks for the tip, Negs!