{"id":33275,"date":"2009-08-25T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33275"},"modified":"2009-08-25T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:39:51","slug":"scifimoviepage-com-talks-to-neill-blomkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/25\/33275-scifimoviepage-com-talks-to-neill-blomkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Scifimoviepage.com Talks to Neill Blomkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blomkamp-pic-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Neill Blomkamp\" title=\"Neill Blomkamp\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-33276 no-lazyload\" \/> From <strong>scifimoviepage.com<\/strong>: Feel that District 9, the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi box office hit about alien refugees in Johannesburg, South Africa being made to live in squatter camps has too much of an open-ended ending? Then don\u2019t fear. According to director Neill Blomkamp the studio already \u201cwants\u201d a sequel! And who can blame them? Boasting some impressive special effects by Jackson\u2019s WETA outfit, District 9 was made for a mere $30 million and has already scored an impressive $37.4 million at the US box office over the weekend making it the number one hit, edging out GI Joe: Rise of Cobra to the number two spot in the process. (In contrast the budget for GI Joe was rumored to be $170 million!) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifimoviepage.com\/upcoming\/previews\/district9-sequel.html\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Xoanon here, of note is the fact that Blomkamp mentions that filming for The Hobbit is expected to last <em>370 days<\/em>, starting in April 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From scifimoviepage.com: Feel that District 9, the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi box office hit about alien refugees in Johannesburg,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[435,4,74,334,148],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-33275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit","tag-neill-blomkamp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8EH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}