Some moviegoers who checked out Wolverine this past weekend came out muttering about the trailer for District 9, a sci-fi film that's set for release on August 14. Produced by Peter Jackson, the movie, which is set in Africa and deals with a segregated population of extraterrestrial visitors, marks the feature directing debut of Neill Blomkamp, a 29-year-old filmmaker who made a series of short promotional films for the Microsoft game Halo. Jackson and Blomkamp originally teamed up with the intention of making a movie version of Halo, but shifted their plans towards District 9 after funding fell through. Some excitable rumormongers online have spread the word that District 9 actually is the Halo movie, but the studio has decided to keep its true identity under wraps for fear that fans will go see it. In fact, the movie is an expansion of Alive in Joburg, a short film that Blomkamp made four years ago:

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