Headlines for December, 2008

MySpace.com has posted a new behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen movie. In the new featurette, Snyder talks about Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' original graphic novel and its cultural importance, as well as the casting of the movie.
This morning Paramount Pictures released their ‘2009 Press Preview Kit.’ It includes brief overviews and some images for each of their 16 feature films slated for 2009. For Star Trek none of info was new and the four images were all previously released, however they were in super high resolution (including the image of the [...]
GateWorld asks Bill Nye about the likelihood of surviving a journey through a wormhole.
GateWorld asks Bill Nye about the likelihood of surviving a journey through a wormhole.
The third of our ‘Best of Trek 2008′ is devoted entirely to the new Star Trek movie. It is such a big deal for Trek it deserves its own list so we picked to top Star Trek movie stories from 2008, and there were quite a few to choose from, see below.
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A new promo has gone live for the upcoming new season of ABC's Lost, which debuts Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Reelz has posted a video about the battle to preserve Fanboys, the Star Wars-themed comedy film, in its original form.

A bunch of behind-the-scenes featurettes have gone live for Coraline, Henry Selick's upcoming stop-motion-animated movie, based on Neil Gaiman's book, and you can watch them all here!
The Dark Knight, which took in about $531 million domestically, topped the 2008 box office rankings, whose total will fall short of 2007's records, the wire services reported.
Today TrekMovie continues our ‘Best of Trek 2008′ series with our picks for the biggest real world news stories of the year, with a Star Trek twist. In 2008 Trek continued to show that it is a cultural touchstone in the world’s of politics, science, media and even gossip and celebrity news. See below for [...]
The first prototype images of the Star Trek 2009 movie "Barbie" line from Mattel Toys have surfaced at international online retailers this week. In fact, these images are the very first images of any toy from the 2009 feature film. Trekmovie.com provides the details and historical context of the Barbie Trek connection.
This review contains MINOR SPOILERS for the DVD release of “Babylon A.D.”"Babylon A.D.” is something of a guilty pleasure; a complete no-brainer that teeters on the edge of pointlessness, yet when the action starts it is hard to tear yourself away.Although it’s not quite the Hindenburg of disasters, Vin Diesel’s monosyllabic opening spiel fails to pack any kind of punch and instead comes with a touch of foreshadowing on what to expect through the rest of the movie: “life’s a bitch and then you die.”As the titles role and Diesel goes for a stroll (aided by some impressive camera pans over a broken world), the intended grittiness is very quickly lost by the accompanying rap music. Think “Dark Angel” without the coolness factor, the opening act proves to be a bitter disappointment as …