ELYSIUM

☆☆ WEEKLY FEATURE MOVIE ☆☆
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In 2154, Earth is overpopulated, diseased, and heavily polluted from ecocide. The planet's citizens live in extreme poverty. In contrast, the rich and powerful live on Elysium, an orbiting space station just outside Earth's atmosphere, with luxuries including Med-Bays, medical devices that can heal any disease or condition.

Spider, a hacker living in Los Angeles, runs a space shuttle operation to smuggle people into Elysium. Elysium Defense Secretary Delacourt is in charge of preventing illegal entry to Elysium. She orders hired killer Kruger to shoot down Spider's space shuttles. Elysium President Patel reprimands Delacourt for her unorthodox methods, threatening to terminate her position for any more unauthorized actions. Patel then discharges Kruger. In retaliation, Delacourt offers Armadyne Corp CEO John Carlyle defense contracts for life if he creates a program allowing Delacourt to conduct a coup and install herself as president. Carlyle writes the program and stores it inside his brain.
Directed by - Neill Blomkamp
Written by - Neill Blomkamp
Produced by - Simon Kinberg, Bill Block, Neill Blomkamp
Starring - Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner
Cinematography - Trent Opaloch
Edited by - Julian Clarke, Lee Smith
Music by - Ryan Amon
Production companies - TriStar Pictures, Media Rights Capital, QED International, Alphacore, Kinberg Genre
Distributed by - Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates - August 7, 2013 (Taiwan), August 9, 2013 (United States)
Running time - 109 minutes
Country - United States
Language - English
Budget - $115 million
Box office - $286.1 million