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Leonard Nimoy to Lend His Voice to Star Trek Online
22 December 2009 8:47 AM, PST
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Atari, Inc., one of the world's most recognized video game publishers, and acclaimed Mmo developer Cryptic Studios, announced today that Leonard Nimoy, the actor who originated the legendary and beloved Star Trek character of Spock more than 40 years ago, has joined the cast of Star Trek Online, the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (Mmorpg) ever set in the Star Trek universe. Nimoy, who recently reprised his role as Spock in 2009's Star Trek movie, will voice the introduction for Star Trek Online. Nimoy's voice, known to millions of fans all over the world, will also be heard during key scenes and events in-game. "I am happy to be involved with Star Trek Online. In this game, the essence of Star Trek - exploration and adventure - lives long and prospers," said Nimoy. "I'm pleased that a whole new generation of fans will be able to discover new frontiers in the Star Trek universe.
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It Happened in Hollywood Last Night: Nicholas Meyer and Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan at the Aero Theater
12 December 2009 11:22 AM, PST
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( Filmmaker Nicholas Meyer, above.)
by Terry Keefe
The American Cinematheque at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica presented a triple header of Star Trek films last night - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: In Search of Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Nicholas Meyer, the director of II, was there in person for a Q&A filled with some great stories. Some highlights included Meyer explaining that the script for Star Trek II was composited, in part, from the different elements of five previous drafts, and that it was written in some 12 days.
(Meyer being interviewed onstage by Geek Monthly editor Jeff Bond, above, and meeting with fans in the lobby afterwards, below.)
The upcoming schedule at the Aero Theater can be found on their website. With their near-nightly screenings of both new films and classics, which often include terrific guests who were
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Leonard Nimoy Won't Direct a Star Trek Sequel
9 October 2009 12:52 PM, PDT
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Leonard Nimoy enjoyed his return as Spock this summer in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek reboot, but despite having directed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Nimoy told Star Trek Magazine that he won't be directing a sequel.
[Star Trek] is technically on a scale that I would be not be able to handle. The technology has increased and evolved so far beyond the kinds of things that we were doing when I was making those films. It's beyond me. It takes a certain skill and an understanding of the technology that I do not have to achieve the integration of the sets with the extraordinary special effects that are in this film.
Despite saying he would not appear in a Star Trek last month, Nimoy said he would be willing to return if Abrams asks him to.
If the phone rings again, and its J.
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'Star Trek,' 'Wolverine' Close
4 October 2009 10:18 AM, PDT
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The summer's first two big movies, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek, officially ended their runs on Thursday, Oct. 1. That is to say, their distributors will no longer track them even though they might continue at a few theaters (Star Trek in particular).
Star Trek closed with a $257.7 million tally for its 147-day run, including $28.1 million from its IMAX run (which will continue at a trickle). The reboot of the venerable sci-fi franchise, which had a marketing campaign that slickly married the culturally iconic Trek with the promise of an epic, visceral adventure, ranks as the fifth-highest grossing picture of 2009 thus far.
More importantly, Star Trek stands as the highest-grossing Trek yet, soaring past Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ($109.7 million), and is a franchise best in terms of estimated total attendance, edging out the first Star Trek movie from 1979. This feat was made all the more impressive by its
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This Week on DVD: Observe and Report, Lymelife, Star Trek: Tng Motion Picture Collection
22 September 2009 9:52 AM, PDT
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Jody Hill's answer to Paul Blart is out on DVD today as Seth Rogen goes off the deep end in the dark and hilarious Observe and Report. On the flipside, we've also got the Matthew McConaughey rom-com Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the animated CG adventure Battle for Terra, and the direct-to-dvd Scooby Doo prequel Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins. Some potential hidden gems include the Sundance hit Lymelife, Clive Barker's Book of Blood, and Rob Zombie's animated sex comedy The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. New releases on Blu-ray include the Criterion release of Monterey Pop, Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, plus whole lot of Star Trek. See anything worth picking up?
Observe and Report [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Lymelife [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Battle for Terra [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8])
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins [9] (DVD, Blu-ray [10])
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto [11] (DVD,
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: September 22, 2009
22 September 2009 12:19 AM, PDT
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The Paul Newman Tribute Collection
I just received this box set earlier today so I haven't had a chance to do anything more than open it and peek through the 136-page book, which has details on each film included as well as accompanying images. The movies in the set are The Long, Hot Summer, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, From the Terrace, Exodus, The Hustler Collector's Edition, Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man, What a Way to Go!, Hombre, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Collector's Edition, The Towering Inferno Special Edition, Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, Quintet and The Verdict Collector's Edition.
The set is priced at $62.99 at Amazon, which means you are looking at approximately $4.89 per movie and as you can see you are getting the 2-disc collector's editions of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
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3 New Star Trek DVD Sets to Hit the DVD and Blu-ray Shelves on September 22nd
20 July 2009 2:51 PM, PDT
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In anticipation of the home entertainment debut of J.J. Abrams' thrilling reinvention of the Star Trek franchise, Paramount Home Entertainment will give audiences the chance to revisit where it all began with a galaxy full of new DVD and Blu-ray releases. Docking on September 22, 2009 are the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection on DVD, which includes the first six "Star Trek" films and loads of special features; the Star Trek: The Next Generation Film Collection on DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray, featuring the four "Star Trek" films starring the Next Generation crew with new special features, plus a bonus disc with over an hour of additional content; Star Trek: The Original Series Season Two on Blu-ray in high definition for the first time ever; plus Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and
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Friday Report: 'Hangover' Wakes Up in First
6 June 2009 1:58 PM, PDT
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After last weekend's high-flying start, Up seemed poised to hang on to the top spot for a second weekend, but The Hangover rang in with a punchy opening day gross to top Friday and has a shot at maintaining that lead for the weekend as a whole.
The Hangover drew an estimated $16.5 million on approximately 4,500 screens at 3,269 sites. That's more in a single day than the entire opening weekends of pictures like Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and The Heartbreak Kid. Not only that, first day attendance was around 40 percent higher than for Wedding Crashers and more than 60 percent higher than Knocked Up, among past raunchy summer comedies that were pre-ordained hits like Hangover.
On this same weekend last year, You Don't Mess with the Zohan had a $14.9 million Friday and wound up with a $38.5 million weekend. If Hangover follows the same path, its weekend would come in at $43 million.
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Weekend Report: 'Up' Lifts Pixar to Tenth Smash
1 June 2009 12:19 PM, PDT
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Pixar's commercial track record ballooned to a sensational ten for ten with the release of Up. The adventure comedy swooped in with a $68.1 million start on approximately 6,700 screens at 3,766 sites, handily perched atop a weekend that grossed a bit less as a whole than the same timeframe last year when Sex and the City dominated. In the pantheon of Pixar debuts, Up slots in third place, behind The Incredibles and Finding Nemo and ahead of Wall-e, which opened to $63.1 million last year and closed with a $223.8 million total. However, adjusted for ticket price inflation, Up would rank fifth as Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. would rate significantly higher. When those pictures came out, though, computer animation was a fresher format and not dime a dozen like it seems to be today. Pixar has held up as a brand by focusing on story over spectacle, celebrity voices and pop culture references.
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Set Phasers To Awesome As Classic ‘Star Trek’ Movies Hit Blu-Ray
27 May 2009 9:35 AM, PDT
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Yesterday we told you that the first season of the classic “Trek” has arrived on Blu-ray, and now we’re back to report that all six of the “first generation” films have also made their way to HD. Remastered in high-def and sporting new audio tracks, the collection presents the “Star Trek” films as they have never been seen before.
Two different packages have been assembled, one collecting all six films and another collecting the first three. Each of the films carries over the special features from previous releases, but more importantly delivers nearly three hours of brand new bonus content specially recorded in high-def (and 14 hours total including the standard-def extra).
Check out the full specs after the jump.
* Star Trek: The Motion Picture: new audio commentary by Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Daren Dochterman, 3 HD featurettes (The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture, Special Star Trek
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[DVD Review] Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy
19 May 2009 8:33 PM, PDT
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The cast that made the original series a cult classic, returned to the silver screen time and again to create a definitive film anthology in sci-fi culture. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Walter Koenig, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols overcome enormous odds with each film to prove that galloping around the cosmos isn’t just a game for the young. The Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy takes three classic films that have stood the test of time and gives them a high-definition overhaul.
Among trekkies, the Star Trek films follow an odd pattern: the odd numbered films are bad; the even numbered films are great. The Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy on Blu-ray takes advantage of this theory and includes Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Not only does this
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News: We're All TREKies Now.
10 May 2009 8:19 AM, PDT
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The revamped and rebooted Star Trek did gangbuster numbers this weekend, dominating the box-office and ensuring a long and prosperous run at the theaters for the summer.
Dateline Hollwood is noting the weekend total at $72 million, between Friday and Sunday. Another $4m was pulled in with all of those advanced shows on Thursday. It's the second biggest opening weekend since last years' The Dark Knight.
It's also the best weekend opening of any Trek film. Boxoffice .Com broke down the adjusted openings of the other Trek films as follows:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): $34,668,706 (opening weekend)/ $239,115,674 (cume)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982): $35,038,451 / $192,290,437
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984): $35,629,102 / $163,237,856
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986): $32,671,686 / $212,328,919
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989): $31,267,457 / $93,951,918
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991): $30,976,050 / $127,720,425
Star Trek: Generations (1994): $39,707,107 / $129,980,545
Star Trek: First Contact (1996): $49,896,339 / $149,493,266
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998): $33,761,058 / $107,451,468
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): $22,918,195 / $53,387,173
In one weekend,
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Dear Hallmark Channel - I'm a nutcase and Catherine Hicks and her horror movies must be stopped!
9 May 2009 6:42 PM, PDT
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I just love nutjobs on the Internet, don't you? recently, on the Hallmark Channel community, a new crazy created a forum topic asking Hallmark Channel to please stop actress Catherine Hicks from appearing on the network anymore because of her work in horror movies. Hicks starred in Chucky's debut movie Child's Play, the thriller Turbulence, as Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and the 1982 slasher Death Valley. Oh! And she's also the mom on 7th Heaven, the obnoxious family show now running on The Hallmark Channel.
"She is sending out something subconscious in her onscreen work. The character Annie may be a ministers wife, but the actress Catherine Hicks is a mercenary - selling her own soul, and endangering the sensibilities of her viewers, just to make money." says Crazy...
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Star Trek Takes an Estimated $31 Million by Friday
9 May 2009 8:58 AM, PDT
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According to Variety, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek had taken an estimated $31 million by Friday, giving Paramount Picture its' second highest opening day ever at the box office for a live-action film.
Playing at 3,849 theaters, Star Trek ranked behind the first day gross of Paramount's Iron Man which made $38.7 million last May. Included in that figure was $4 million of Thursday evening and midnight runs. Previewing on a bulk of its entire theater count at 7 p.m., Star Trek accumulated $7 million on Thursday.
Star Trek also scored the biggest opening day for Abrams in his second outing as a feature director behind 2006's Mission: Impossible III ($16.6 million) and for the sci-fi pic franchise overall, besting the $12.9 million generated by 1996's Star Trek: First Contact. The film, which headlined the 1980s Star Trek: The Next Generation cast previously touted the biggest opening weekend ever for the franchise with $30.7 million.
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Blu-Ray Review: See Origins of Kirk, Spock in ‘Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy’
8 May 2009 9:36 AM, PDT
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Chicago – It’s a cliched line, but the Blu-Ray release of “Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy” has something for everyone. It’s a release that will satisfy a generation that grew up in the prime theatrical era of this franchise and give young viewers who fall in love wiht J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” more of their new favorite series of films.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Buyers unfamiliar with the history of the franchise would naturally assume that “Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy” consists of the first three films in the now-eleven film series. Nope. Paramount cuts out the first film, the mediocre “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” and focuses on what is easily the most beloved sub-series in the entire theatrical run of the Enterprise - “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Star Trek III: The Search For Spock,” and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Not All Treks Are Created Equal: Ranking the ‘Star Trek’ Films
8 May 2009 8:44 AM, PDT
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Chicago – With the eleventh (and best) “Star Trek” movie landing in theaters today, we thought we’d take a look back at the ten-pack that came before, the films that defined the Trek universe (along with the TV incarnations, of course).
The “Star Trek” filmography is wildly varying in quality, stretching the spectrum from beloved sci-fi classic to total disaster. Which one was the worst? Which was the pre-J.J. Abrams best? Let us guide the way where so many have gone before.
10. “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”
Easily the worst of the Trek films, original series, or Next Generation cast, it’s honestly surprising that the franchise could survive a film this bad. If “The Next Generation” TV series hadn’t injected life back into the solar system of characters that Gene Roddenberry created and the universe was simply film-based at this point, the series probably would have stopped after five films.
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Star Trek The Marathon: There Be Whales Here!
6 May 2009 4:57 PM, PDT
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Our Star Trek marathon warps on with our fourth film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Katey remains a total Trek noob and Josh is, as always, a huge nerd. Follow along with our entire marathon by going right here.
Josh: After the success of Wrath of Khan, I'd really hoped Search for Spock would seal the deal and make Katey a lifelong Trekker. But she didn't buy into my insistence that Star Trek III is better than it gets credit for, and seemed to get all hung up on seeing Doc Brown as a bony-headed Klingon. For once though, Katey's mood doesn't matter. No need to beg, plead or bribe to keep her involved in this one. She started out a Star Trek virgin but by now, thanks to me, she's knee-deep in Federation education. Tonight we're here for time travel and humpback whales. As I settle in on
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Spock + Awe!
6 May 2009 6:10 AM, PDT
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Never a huge "Star Trek" fan -- especially of the 10 previous movies, with one notable exception -- I actually found myself misting up at the conclusion of J.J. Abrams' smart, epic and eye-popping reboot.
After the diminishing returns from all those TV series and movies over 43 years, Abrams has restored order to the increasingly convoluted "Star Trek" universe -- and, more importantly, crafted the first movie accessible to non-Trekkies since my beloved "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" -- by essentially blowing it up.
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Everybody Loves Whales
5 May 2009 1:18 AM, PDT
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Why haven't we gotten a decent nature movie about whales? It's one thing to film penguins, after all they just sort of sit there and waddle around and at the end of the day, you could probably go to the zoo and get pretty much the same experience, provided Morgan Freeman was there with you to narrate a mostly inaccurate story ascribing human attributes to their instinct-driven, animal behavior. But whales! That's the thing. They're elusive and except for the occasional Orca, they're mostly too big to be seen at your local Sea World. For most people, their vision of our gigantic undersea brethren is still probably the humpbacks they saw in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and most of those shots were animatronics.
Where's the whales goddammit? These asshole nature documentarians are apparently too damn lazy to put on a snorkel and hang out in the water near
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Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy to be honoured at Saturn Awards
1 May 2009 4:18 AM, PDT
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Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy is to receive a special gong at this year's Saturn Awards.
The 78-year-old actor will be presented with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his work as an actor and director.
The Saturns are given out by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
Nimoy became a sci-fi icon after playing Spock, the half-Vulcan half-human crew member, in Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969.
He earned three Emmy nominations and later reprised the role in movie sequels and the spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Nimoy also directed two of the films: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Nimoy appears as an older version of Spock in the new Star Trek movie released on May 8. The younger version is played by Heroes actor Zachary Quinto.
The nominations for this year's Saturn Awards,
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