JJ Abrams Reviews, Interviews & More
Within the span of a few years suddenly filmmaker J.J. Abrams has turned into the go-to person to handle monstrous science fiction franchises. First he helped revive the Star Trek movie series, and now he's taking over the next film addition to the Star Wars universe. Some of us are wondering how he'll be able to have time to work on both Star...
There are certain things that have carried over into all of the Star Wars movies. Character-wise that's been limited to C-3PO and R2D2, but one of the few constants in the making of the films has been the scores by five-time Oscar winner John Williams. With J.J. Abrams coming aboard there were some who thought he would use Michael Giacchino, but Abrams has said he...
J.J. Abrams’ company Bad Robot wants to turn Stephen King's best selling novel 11/22/63 into a time travel TV show. Said novel tells the story of teacher who goes back in time with the intention of preventing Lee Harvey Oswald from killing JFK.
The final trailer for the highly anticipated Star Trek Into Darkness shows us a defeated Captain Kirk and very angry John Harrison. There's only one month left before the J.J. Abrams epic hits theaters, and if you weren't all that excited for the film, this lengthy, action-packed trailer will definitely get you on board.
Star Trek Into Darkness is certainly one of the most anticipated films of 2013—not only because of the never ending “is the villain secretly Khan?” debate—but also because the IMAX 3D CGI extravaganza (and any other trends you can think of—Smell-o-Vision? Is it in Smell-o-Vision, too?) likely marks the final moment in the Star Trek franchise...
Here's something that ought to keep the Star Trek high going. Paramount Pictures has released the first official image from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, which reveals the name of Benedict Cumberbatch's villainous character.
Paramount is continuing the trend of releasing a trailer for the trailer by dropping the first teaser for J.J. Abrams' highly-anticipated movie Star Trek Into Darkness. The clip, which runs a little over a minute, features tons of stunned faces, screams and explosions. Take a look.
The excitement is already building for Star Trek 2, despite the fact it might not be boldly making its way back into cinemas for the best part of another year; now Zachary Quinto been bragging that the filmmaking team is “bigging it up” in a recent interview. His comments come on the heels of star Chris Pine, who was also recently bragging about how the film is bigger and better...
Curious about the new Star Trek sequel? We know we are. And lucky us, Chris Pine has recently been raving to TotalFilm about the new movie, and apparently it won’t be adhering to the usual sequel pitch of, quote, "like the original, but darker…" When the magazine suggested that it might be a bit on the darker side, Pine was quick to dismiss it: "We're not making...
Well, sort of. At Sunday night’s MTV Movie Awards, there was a small skit about the preponderance of archery in the film’s of 2012. In it, we saw a brief talking head segment from J.J. Abrams, and in the background, well, let’s just say there was a distinctively lumpy-headed person from Star Trek 2 in the background.
2012’s biggest films of the early months are starting to hit DVD and Blu-ray, and we’ve got some of January and February’s surprise hits, and at least one of its failures. We’ve also got a great Criterion catalog title and a bunch of Disney films from the 1980’s and 90’s. Check out this week’s big releases below.
One of the more hotly debated elements concerning the upcoming sequel to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot was who, exactly, was the villain? After Eric Bana's not so memorable turn as a pointy-eared tattoo enthusiast hellbent on traveling through time to destroy the home planet of a guy who just couldn’t save Bana’s civilization in time (so, what, revenge for someone’s...
Potentially exciting news for fans of Star Trek and science fiction television: on the heels of the successfully rebooted Star Trek film franchise (2009’s Star Trek nearly made $400 million worldwide, with a highly anticipated sequel set for a May 2013 release), Bryan Singer and Heroes producer Bryan Fuller are currently...
While the world continues to debate whether or not Benicio Del Toro will be appearing as Star Trek super villain Khan in the upcoming Trek reboot sequel, Peter Weller (that’s the original RoboCop to you), has quietly joined the cast of the hyper-anticipated sequel.
There are about two schools of thought on J.J. Abrams and his love of "Puzzle Box" movies. One is that it's great to see a film where you know little to nothing about what the film is besides a vague impression going in. The other is that Abrams is the master of leading audience's to P.T. Barnum's famous Egress, where the mystery is just a way to con the audience. Abrams is back at his mystery...
Super 8 is the new No. 1 movie in America. The J.J. Abrams's sci-fi film topped the box office charts during its debut weekend by taking in a predictable $37 million. But the release of the Steven Spielberg flick, also brought films like last week's winner X-Men: First Class and the record-breaking The Hangover Part...
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...
Coverfield fans—didn’t get enough ‘big-ass monster beats the living tar out of New York City’ action last time around? Missing the whole ‘Blair Witch Project, please meet my friend Godzilla’ aesthetic of the original? Well, fret not: according to Cloverfield director...
This morning we got blown away by some good old fashioned science fiction thanks to the new trailer for JJ Abrams' Super 8. The film is produced by Steven Spielberg and we got a real E.T., Jurassic Park vibe from it, which is a good sign in our book! To follow up such a great piece of marketing, Paramount has released a poster for the film and it's a total...
Classic Steven Spielberg is back! The film legend is one of the producers for J.J. Abrams sci-fi flick Super 8, and it has old school Amblin written all over it. The first official trailer for the movie debuted during last night's Super Bowl and it did not disappoint. We got a great look at the cast, which includes Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning, and a mystical...
