Terri Tatchell

Date of Birth

1978-01-01

Place of Birth

Canada

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Ex. Neill Blomkamp on the future of Oats Studios & funding a Firebase sequel

Posted 8 years ago

Last year, director Neill Blomkamp (DISTRICT 9, ELYSIUM, CHAPPIE) kicked off a strange, cool and exciting new project called Oats Studios, which is essentially a crowd-funded studio that creates a healthy mix of odd and awesome content, from short films...

Blomkamp to premiere second installment of Adam: The Prophet at SIGGRAPH

Posted 9 years ago

Neil Blomkamp and OATS Studios are gearing up for the debut of ADAM: The Prophet, the third installment of the ADAM franchise. As part of the announcement, Unity Technologies, creator of the world's most popular creation engine that has over...

Watch Oats Studios Volume 1 now and our exclusive chat with Neill Blomkamp!

Posted 9 years ago

Director Neill Blomkamp has released the first volume of his experimental new venture Oats Studios with "Rakka" which stars Sigourney Weaver in an alien invasion saga with some intriguing concepts and visual punch that's sure to appeal to fans of...

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Neill Blomkamp opens up about the “unbelievably painful” failure of Chappie

Posted 9 years ago

Neither ELYSIUM nor CHAPPIE garnered the sort of praise which DISTRICT 9 received, but for Neill Blomkamp, it's the failure of CHAPPIE which stings the most. The sci-fi flick followed an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot, nicknamed Chappie, as he...

Neill Blomkamp in talks with Fox to write & direct sci-fi pic The Gone World

Posted 11 years ago

Last month Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN movie was put into hypersleep for the time being, leaving him free to work on other projects, and one of them might be THE GONE WORLD, a film version of the upcoming sci-fi novel of...

XYZ Films acquires Apocalypse Now Now

Posted 11 years ago

Today it was announced that the Canadian company Redlab Digital, in association with the LA-based XYZ Films has acquired the film rights to the Charlie Human urban fantasy novel Apocalypse Now Now to be a South African co-production with Be Phat...

Weekend Box Office Report: March 6-8, 2015

Posted 11 years ago

Chappie is happy to take #1! Audiences wanted to see artificial intelligence in action this weekend, putting CHAPPIE on top at the box office with an estimated $13.3 million! Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp's violent R-rated robot adventure led a sluggish weekend...

Make-up test images for Neill Blomkamp’s Alien featuring a disfigured Hicks

Posted 11 years ago

One of the most interesting images from the concept art that was released for Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN movie was the one pictured above featuring Sigourney Weaver's Ripley and Michael Biehn's Hicks, and now several make-up test images for Hicks have...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview: Sigourney Weaver talks Chappie!

Posted 11 years ago

I’ll be honest, I don’t usually get nervous during these press junkets; having done this thing for quite a while, I’ve long ago lost the capacity to be star-struck. However, there are exceptions: On this day I was meeting Sigourney...

Neill Blomkamp’s Alien will break new ground plus his idea for District 10

Posted 11 years ago

Neill Blomkamp's latest hits theaters this Friday (you can check out our review of CHAPPIE here) but in case you were more curious about what the director has in-store for his future, it looks to be filled with sequel-itis! His...

Review: Chappie

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In a futuristic South Africa patrolled by police robots, one defective model is given human emotions by his creator (Dev Patel). Now known as Chappie (Sharlto Copley) the robot falls into the hands of a group of thugs who...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview: Sharlto Copley talks Chappie!

Posted 11 years ago

Sharlto Copley doesn't go into any gig anything less than full throttle. The actor, who first broke onto the scene in 2009's District 9, has in a few short years gained a reputation as an intense and fiercely committed performer;...

Exclusive 1:1 Interview: Hugh Jackman talks Chappie!

Posted 11 years ago

We all associate Hugh Jackman with being a buff badass usually on the side of good, but in CHAPPIE, Neill Blomkamp's latest sci-fi action film, he's anything but. Jackman is going against type playing a weaselly, insecure (and mullet-rocking) office...

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