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Sony Pictures has released a new extended TV spot for one of our most anticipated films of late summer, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9. It has hit the web via the folks at The Movie Box, and it shows plenty more footage from the Peter Jackson produced sci-fi adventure.

As you can see in the spot below, the story follows a government officer, played by Sharlto Copley, who enters the secret government quarantine area known as District 9 on a routine inspection. And as he inspects the dwelling of South Africa’s “illegal alien” visitors, he begins to discover that there are a lot of secrets inside District 9.

I’ve been eying District 9 since the viral marketing campaign began at Comic Con last year, and I’m immensely excited to see how it all turns out. If Neill Blomkamp’s short film Alive in Joburg is any indicator, I think that audiences are in for a real treat. For those attending this year’s Comic Con event in San Diego (which gets underway tomorrow night), keep an eye out for a possible secret screening on Thursday night and a panel presentation in Hall H on Friday at 3:45p that will feature new footage and a presentation with producer Peter Jackson, director Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley.

District 9 is in theaters on August 14, 2009. Have a look at the new extended TV spot below, followed by the film’s official synopsis.

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them.

Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare – they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens’ awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.

The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable – he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.