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WATCH: 'Elysium' Trailer − Matt Damon's HULC Suit Vs. Lockheed-Martin's

WATCH: 'Elysium' Trailer − Matt Damon's HULC Suit Vs. Lockheed-Martin's

The new trailer for Neill Blomkamp's Elysium features some interesting contraptions, as you might expect from a science-fiction movie set 150 years into the future. And at least one of them is very plausible. more »

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Jodie Foster Talked About Retiring From Acting In 2011

Jodie Foster Talked About Retiring From Acting In 2011

While the rest of the world dissects the coming-out portion of Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech, I'd like to focus on another potential bombshell the 50-year-old filmmaker appeared to have dropped while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement:  The suggestion that she was somehow retiring from the business.   more »

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Jodie Foster On Her Elysium Character, Socially-Conscious Themes, and Today’s Femme-Driven Blockbusters

Jodie Foster - Elysium - Comic-Con (Getty Images)

Jodie Foster returns to the screen – and to sci-fi – in next spring’s Elysium, the latest from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Speaking with Movieline today at her first-ever Comic-Con, Foster described the dystopian future of the film, in which she plays a methodical bureaucrat controlling the “border” of an artificially-created space station (a character now named Delacourt - so take note, internet ). The movie-loving polymath also waxed ecstatic about her one-time Panic Room co-star Kristen Stewart, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and her current obsession: HBO’s True Blood.
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Matt Damon Is Shaved & Robotic in Elysium

Matt Damon Is Shaved & Robotic in Elysium

The first image of the mysterious Elysium has made its way onto the Internet and a smooth skulled Matt Damon sporting a severe weapon and futuristic bric-a-brac are revealed. Director Neill Blomkamp received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for District 9 in 2010, which made over $115 million in the U.S. alone. Not bad for a feature directorial debut and no doubt a pass to move onto bigger and brighter things.
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Jodie Foster on Her Human Character, Lack of CG Creatures in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

Jodie Foster on Her Human Character, Lack of CG Creatures in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

Few details are known about Neill Blomkamp's Elysium, the science fiction follow-up to Blomkamp's Oscar-nominated District 9 that's currently in pre-production for a 2013 release. But Elysium co-star Jodie Foster, who'll star alongside Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, and Matt Damon in the film, shared a few details of her character and the film's CG element with Movieline during a recent sit-down in Los Angeles.

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