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Chris Pine, who takes on the iconic role of James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek, told SCI FI Wire that the main challenge in rebooting the franchise was to create a first adventure that appealed to longtime fans and also brought new fans into the fold.

Pine steps into William Shatner's boots in the May 8 release, playing a young version of Kirk. In the film, Kirk begins to emerge as the man who'll become a legendary Starfleet captain and barrels into action with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, which includes Spock (Zachary Quinto), Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana).

Terminator Salvation star Christian Bale told Total Film that his trust was violated by the person who leaked his by-now well-known on-set rant: "There is an essential trust, and it's not a tacit one, it's a verbal one, a spoken one, which is [that] every sound guy says, 'We are not only not recording, we're not even listening.' So, well, there goes that."
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Director Robert Zemeckis confirmed to MTV.com that he's been "buzzing" about a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit: "I'll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability—the digital tools, performance capture—I'm starting to think about Roger Rabbit," he said.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Leonard Nimoy will get special kudos at this year's Saturn Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Katzenberg will receive the Visionary Award for his role in spearheading 3-D and his long career in animation, while Nimoy will get the Lifetime Achievement Award in ceremonies on June 24 in Burbank, Calif.
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TV Addict has posted the first image of Leonard Nimoy as the mysterious William Bell in Fox's sci-fi series Fringe. Click through to see the full image.

Nimoy's Bell appears in the upcoming first-season finale, which airs May 12. Fringe aris Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

The cast and creators of Fox's sci-fi series Fringe, including J.J. Abrams and stars Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson, talked exclusively with us about what's next in interviews at the Paley Festival in Los Angeles last week.

With “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and the re-launched “Star Trek” hitting multiplexes over the next couple of weeks, it seems sci-fi fans will have a lot to celebrate this summer. Although fantasy, sci-fi and horror films are typically among the biggest box office hits, biopics, period pieces and pretty much any film starring Kate Winslet continually snatch all the recognition during awards season, regardless of how worthy a genre film might be of walking away with the big prize on Oscar night. The perfect example occurred during this year’s Oscar race, wherein the Winslet-starring period drama “The Reader” landed in the Best Picture shortlist, precluding the universally-praised Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” from earning a nod. Find me one person that can say with a straight face that …