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Majel Barrett Roddenberry passes away
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the USS Enterprise computer, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, died overnight of leukemia.
Majel Barrett Roddenberry passed away this morning, December 18, 2008, at 12:27 AM in her Bel Air home. She died peacefully, in her sleep, and was surrounded by family and loved ones.
“My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that Star Trek fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years. It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away.” - Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, Jr. [source]
Recently Mrs. Roddenberry had reprised her roll as the voice of USS Enterprise computer for J.J. Abrams upcoming Star Trek due out in May 2009. She was 76.
Posted at 2:22PM by Mike
Star Trek to be released as IMAX
Monday, December 15, 2008
As well as releasing the above cool crew banner to slathering Star Trek fans, Paramount and IMAX also sent a press release out announcing the fact that you can see this epic film on a gargantuan IMAX screen. The press release is in its entirety below:
LOS ANGELES, CA, December 12, 2008 – Paramount Pictures and IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ: IMAX; TSX: IMX) today announced that Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III”, “Lost” and “Alias”), will be simultaneously released to both IMAX® and conventional theatres worldwide on May 8, 2009. Star Trek, which chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members, will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. Paramount Pictures will be the exclusive distributor of the film to IMAX theatres worldwide.
Continue reading…Posted at 5:37PM by Mike
Star Trek vs. Star Wars mashup
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
I know some of you have seen this before, but it came to our attention today and we thought it was worth another look:
[source geekologie and Dan]
Picard and Vader sharing the screen? Wow!
Fairly well done and funny to boot.
Were these two worlds ever to truly collide there would be an explosive nerd climax of epic proportions. However, I think I’ll listen to Patrick drone on and on about why this would be impossible and would never actually take place.
I really believe some people know far too much about this stuff.
Posted at 2:51PM by Mike
New Star Trek trailer online
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Ain’t it Cool News is offering an exclusive look at the new HD version of the trailer for the much anticipated JJ Abrams take on Star Trek. However, if you can’t wait to download it and don’t give a crap about HD you can have a look at it right here after the jump:
Posted at 2:28PM by Mike
Two new looks for Star Trek
Friday, November 21, 2008
Paramount Pictures just handed us two brand new teaser poster for the new Star Trek movie, due out next May, and they show us that black-and-white photography is still alive and well in the 23rd century. Click on through for a look at Eric Bana as the film’s Romulan villain Nero and Zoe Saldana as the new Uhura. Continue reading…
Posted at 3:41PM by Patrick
William Shatner’s views on the new Star Trek trailer
Thursday, November 20, 2008
This found on YouTube: a short video showing what the original Captain Kirk, one William Shatner, thinks of being recast by a younger actor in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek movie. Yeah, I can see the logic to his thinking.
Posted at 9:42AM by Patrick
New vs. old Star Trek
Friday, October 17, 2008
Quickly, answer the following: which Kirk is wearing the girdle?
Now that we’ve finally had our first taste of what we can expect to see in J.J. Abrams new Star Trek movie, Cinemablend has put together a comparison between the old and the new versions of the characters, the costumes and the bridge of the Enterprise. For example, on the left we’ve got 27-year-old Chris Pine playing Captain Kirk at the start of his command and on the right we’ve got thirtysomething William Shatner as the original Captain Kirk from the 1960s TV series. Speaking for myself, Pine looks too young for my sensibility; I just can’t buy this guy commanding a starship. Modeling for a JCrew catalogue, yes.
To see the entire side-by-side comparison gallery, visit Cinemablend.
Posted at 5:07PM by admin
This is not your father’s Star Trek
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Paramount has been holding all of its promo material for their reboot of the Star Trek franchise tightly to their corporate chest. Now — today — the grip has been loosened. The studio has released five stills from the $150 million adventure due out next summer including our first real looks at the new people playing Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty and Uhura. I’ve got mixed feelings about what I saw.First things first: I’m a Star Trek nerd. Sure, there’s some crap but what other movie or television franchise has 40+ years of continuity spread out over hundreds of TV episodes and 10 movies? It’s given us bad nightmares like Star Trek: Nemesis and all of Voyager but awesome stuff like The Wrath of Khan or the tribbles episode. And I know that the franchise desperately needed an enema; it’s bloated and somewhere along the way it lost it’s focus about examining the human condition with high adventure.
So when I looked at today’s photos I saw stuff that I liked and stuff that I hated. I like the slight changes to the 1960s crew uniforms. I love the way that Karl Urban is channeling the physical mannerisms of DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy. I dig Zachary Quinto as Spock.
However, that new bridge design is awful. Why couldn’t the production designer just moderize the old TV bridge? This looks like a trendy bar in L.A. right down to the hostess table.
I’m also not too big about the way that Simon Pegg looks as Scotty, and I definitely think that the guy playing Kirk looks waaaaay too young to be in command, but I can reserve final judgment until I see them on screen and acting. But really, that bridge design sucks Klingon bumper.
Want to see the other Trek movie photos that surfaced today? Check out MTV, JoBlo, IGN and TrekMovie.
Posted at 11:59PM by admin
The Dailies: Dark Knight, Comic Con, trailer and finding that perfect "10" again
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Welcome to Friday and the last edition of “The Dailies” for this week. Quite a bit of news is happening in the world of film thanks to a huge pop culture convention happening next week as well as the release of the latest Batman movie and an ABBA musical. Let’s find out what’s new.
– Movie producers are looking for a new 10. Production company Hyde Park Entertainment has grabbed the rights to remake Blake Edward’s 1979 romantic comedy and make it for a new generation. The producers want to soon begin a worldwide search for the next 10, that perfect physical specimen epitomized by a cornrowed Bo Derek in the original film. The original starred Dudley More as a nebbish man who faces middle age by lusting after a beautiful woman he spots from afar. I bet that the remake will also have a slo-mo sequence where the 10 jogs on a beach.
– The Hollywood Reporter does some pre-weekend forecasting for The Dark Knight’s opening box office tally and what factors are working for and against the event picture. The good things in favor of a $100 million dollar plus three day gross are the number of screens the film is playing at (a record 4,366), the early sell-out of Dark Knight IMAX screenings, almost uniform glowing reviews for the sequel and Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker, and the tremendous good will that director Christopher Nolan got for the Batman franchise after rebooting the series with Batman Begins three years ago. The negatives are the film’s running time, two-and-a-half hours, which may not play well for audience members expecting a popcorn movie, as well as the counter-programming move by Universal to release the ABBA musical Mamma Mia! against Bats. Still, most industry analysts are predicting Dark Knight to rake in over $100 million and Mamma Mia! around $25 mil, possibly breaking records for the highest grossing weekend for the box office ever.
…if you want to see a high quality Watchmen trailer (the one from yesterday got yanked shortly after launch) Apple now has it and in high def too.
…and another new trailer for Twilight can be watched on Yahoo Movies which puts new emphasis on the film’s driving storyline. Hey, it’s not just about teens making googly eyes for each other!
…and Entertainment Weekly is doing a special issue devoted to Comic Con which hits the San Diego Convention Center next week. Over 125,000 fans of action, sci-fi, fantasy and pop culture will walk through doors and attend panels hyping next year’s big movie releases. One of those new films will be Paramount’s reboot of its Star Trek franchise and finally Trekkies who have been waiting to see the first look at the new actors playing the iconic roles of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Lt. Uhura have been rewarded for their patience. EW has a photo of the new actors playing their Star Trek characters as well as a look at the film’s villain, the Romulan Nero (played by Munich’s Eric Bana.) Each of the four photos are actually posters that will be handed out to Comic Con attendees, with the four images assembling into one large Star Trek poster. With a rumored budget of $150 million you’ll be hearing a lot more about this new Star Trek movie as we move into 2009.
Alright, that’s it for another week of “The Dailies”. Go stand in line and see a movie this weekend, will ya?
Posted at 11:25PM by admin
