Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:04AM - By traviswoods
While James Bond fans scored a big one today, fans of the Jack Ryan film franchise (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears) will have to keep holding their collective breaths—Paramount is putting the spy franchise on the back burner as the new Jack Ryan, Chris Pine, is going to be busy starring as Captain Kirk in the rushed-release of Star Trek 2 next summer.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010 4:08PM - By Krystal Clark
After the huge success of the Star Trek reboot in 2009 it was no surprise that a sequel was greenlit shortly after its release. The film already had a huge fan base thanks to the 40-plus years of previous television and movie installments to its credit. When you have such a sure deal you want to maximize the potential and expand the franchise as much as possible but according to screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, they’re not going into Star Trek 2 with the intent of setting up another sequel.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:38PM - By Krystal Clark
It looks like everyone is taking Christopher Nolan’s approach to sequels these days. One of the writers of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek 2 is Damon Lindelof (“Lost“), and he was recently juiced for info from the folks at EOnline about what we can expect from the new film. The response he gave was of epic, four star, critically acclaimed proportions…
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Friday, April 23, 2010 6:01PM - By Krystal Clark
Zoe Saldana will be hitting the big screen this weekend with the comic adaptation The Losers, after quietly appearing in last week’s Death at a Funeral. Over the past year she’s appeared in two major blockbusters Avatar and Star Trek and even though everyone loved the romance between Jake Sully and Neytiri we’re eager to find out if Uhura and Spock will eventually get it on. Saldana seems to think something might happen…
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Monday, April 5, 2010 1:02PM - By Krystal Clark
Avatar and Star Trek are two high profile films that debuted to plenty of fanfare in 2009. They made a boatload of money and now have highly anticipated sequels set for release in the near future. Besides commercial and critical success another thing both films share is actress Zoe Saldana. She played Lt. Uhura in Star Trek and Neyteri in Avatar, and when asked which sequel she thinks will come first she admitted that Star Trek’s in the lead.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 6:40PM - By Anet Hovhanesian
The winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Make-Up goes to Star Trek. Was there any doubt that this film would win in this category? Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow accepted the award on behalf of the film and thanked director JJ Abrams for keeping them inspired and Paramount Pictures for supporting them every step of the way.
See who they beat out this year in the Best Make-Up category…
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Monday, January 11, 2010 3:44PM - By Andrew Payne
The first thing you’ll notice when you look at this list of nominees is that there are many glaring omissions. Most notably, current Best Original Screenplay front-runner Inglorious Basterds. Not to worry, Tarantino fans, Basterds failed to qualify under WGA rules, which require scripts to be written for productions that are signatories to the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement, or the agreement of affiliated international guilds.
Other big-time Oscar contenders for screenplay awards that didn’t meet these requirements include District 9, An Education, In The Loop, Fantastic Mr. Fox, A Single Man and Up.
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Monday, January 11, 2010 12:28PM - By Krystal Clark
Trekkies from all over can unite knowing that another major development has been made regarding Star Trek 2. So far, we’ve heard about the preliminary script updates, and the the major cast members returning to reprise there roles in the film. According to ComingSoon, Paramount Pictures has recently released a star…..I mean release date for the anticipated sequel.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 11:01AM - By Andrew Payne
Following the suit of Oscar, the Producers Guild has expanded their nominee list to ten films this year, and that move has yielded a few surprises.
Sci-Fi crowd favorites Star Trek and District 9 found their way onto the Guild’s shortlist along with the requisite cadre of prestige pictures and critical darlings to round out the rest of the top ten. Notably absent from the list is Nine, whose Oscar hopes are fading fast.
Will Oscar follow the PGA’s lead and use its ten slots to throw in a few movies that audiences liked as well as critics? We’ll have to wait and see.
Check out all the nominees below. . .
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