Andrew Lynford "EastEnders", Lynford started presenting various shows for television, including "Wild Thing", "Taste Today" and the comedy quiz "Arty Facts", which he also devised. He still acts and has recently appeared as Mike in "Making Time", a BBC pilot, and on tour in various plays around the UK. Lynford has also written a 1970s musical called "Disco Crazee", which was produced by Bruce James in 2005, at the Edinburgh Festival and subsequently toured Britain. More recently, Lynford directed "The Cheeky Chappie", a play about the comedian Max Miller, "Side By Side By Sondheim" and Ken Hill's "The Curse of the Werewolf"
Chappie (film) and both "Tempbot" and his 2006 short/advertisement "Yellow" deal with a thinking and learning robot which tries to assimilate into society. Blomkamp has cited the "Appleseed" character Briareos as an influence on the design of Chappie. On February 6, 2015, IMAX Corporation and Sony announced that the film would be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX format and released into IMAX theatres domestically on March 6, 2015. The film made its New York premiere on March 4, 2015. The film was released in the United States on March 6, 2015. "Chappie" grossed $31.6 million in North America and $70 million in