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What suggestions would you give your successor? Luyolo Mkonto, JOHANNESBURG...
...American theaters, pulling in an otherworldly $37 million (according to early studio estimates) and winning the weekend by outgrossing the previous box-office champ, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, by nearly $15 million. The results, which far exceeded industry expectations, instantly turns Blomkamp, the 29-year-old from Johannesburg, into the new prince of a town 10,000 miles away. Hollywood loves a guy who makes a smart, popular movie that in three days earns considerably more than its skimpy $30 million budget. Already the town is whispering its favorite word - franchise - in Blomkamp's ear. District 10 cannot...
...giant spaceship hovers over a world capital, just as in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Only this time it's Johannesburg, not Washington. And the beings that emerge aren't elegant, superior dudes like Michael Rennie and Keanu Reeves; they're large, icky insect types, with wriggling worms where their noses might be. Nor do they issue the lofty proclamation that the peoples of the world must resolve to live in peace (or we'll all be killed). Instead, these space things, more than a million of them, hang around for 20 years in a ratty part of Joburg...
Even more impressive is the way this feature-film novice director sells his vision of Johannesburg as a dusty sump hole, a place of sapping heat and blinding glare. The creatures aren't caressed with the moody lighting of most monster films; by sticking them out in the sun, Blomkamp demystifies them and shows off their CGI sophistication. (Virtually all the aliens were created digitally; he used very few puppets.) "I wanted the image to feel incredibly raw and unmanipulated," he says, "almost like it came straight from the camera sensors right onto the screen. So instead of setting...
...Johannesburg A Short Honeymoon for Zuma After a rousing May vote that saw scandal-plagued African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma elected President on a populist ticket, his charmed leadership has hit the rocks. With nearly 250,000 jobs eliminated in recent months, labor unions have taken to the streets to protest. Construction workers have threatened further strikes; earlier actions have already hindered projects planned for the 2010 soccer World...