Matt Damon is heading to Sydney for the Australian Premiere of Elysium.

Sony Pictures Releasing is thrilled to announce that Academy Award®-winner Matt Damon and co-star Sharlto Copley (District 9) will visit Sydney next month to attend the Premiere of their new film Elysium.

The Premiere will be held on the evening of Monday, August 12th at Event Cinemas, George St, Sydney.

Elysium is a new action thriller set in the year 2154 directed by Neill Blomkamp, director of break-out hit District 9 in 2009.

In Elysium, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people of Earth are desperate to escape the crime and poverty that is now rampant throughout the land.

The only man with the chance to bring equality to these worlds is Max (Matt Damon), an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium. With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission – one that pits him against Elysium’s Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) and her hard-line forces – but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.

Elysium will release in Australian cinemas on August 15, 2013.

Source: Sony Press Release