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Rosario T. Calabria on February 11, 2009 at 7:14 pm
As if we needed another reason to go check out Watchmen on March 6th. Paramount Pictures yesterday announced that they will be debuting a third trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek film in theaters attached to Watchmen on March 6th. The trailer, which will feature new footage, will also be available online on Apple.com in [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on February 1, 2009 at 1:33 am
The 30-sec Super Bowl spot for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is now online. While short and containing several elements seen previously in other trailers/spots, there’s also a fair amount of new content including more of Kirk in a bar fight, more interaction between Kirk and McCoy and more space and Earth footage including San Francisco. [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 31, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Esurance, a new promotional partner for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, has launched a new website for the film and has a new featurette. The featurette doesn’t have any new footage, but does include some cast and crew commentary. While on the site, you can also sign up for Esurance’s “Biggest Trekkie Contest”, where you can [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Chris Pine, who plays James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, spoke with The Associated Press about the upcoming film. Here are some excerpts:
“For Kirk and Spock, it’s charting their lives to a small extent from boyhood and their first encounter, which is a bit contentious, to kind of the beginning of the [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on January 8, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Lenovo, a promotional partner for Paramount’s Star Trek, is displaying three props from the new film at CES in Las Vegas. TrekMovie has the first look at Kirk’s communicator, Dr. McCoy’s medical tricorder and Uhura’s communications unit:
Click here to read more about the props and to get a closer a look.
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 26, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Star Trek director J.J. Abrams has put up a production update on the film’s official Facebook page:
“We’re just making final tweaks to the movie — we should be totally locked next week. Then we’re going to flash-freeze it so it’s totally fresh for you in May. I can’t wait for you to see the movie. [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 19, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, passed away from leukemia yesterday at the age of 76. Majel passed away peacefully at her home in Bel Air, surrounded by her son Eugene ‘Rod’ Roddenberry along with family and friends.
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in her [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on December 16, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Abrams conducted a short interview with MTV where the Star Trek director discussed several aspects of the film, including its humor, Leonard Nimoy’s involvment and the difference between his ‘Trek’ and Trek films of the past.
Paramount also released a new banner of the crew, which you’ll find posted above. Click to enlarge.
Here’s some of the [...]