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Pine To Present At MTV Awards + Quinto Wants To Host SNL + more ST09 Celeb Tidbits

Chris Pine, Star Trek’s new Captain Kirk, continues to move up the celebrity ranks, as MTV has just announced that he will be one of the announcers at this weekends MTV Movie Awards. We have more details on that, plus all the latest on the new Star Trek celebrities.      They may not yet be household [...]

Atlantis’ Joe Flanigan, BSG stars to guest on Warehouse 13

<i>Atlantis</i>' Joe Flanigan, <i>BSG</i> stars to guest on <i>Warehouse 13</i> Stargate Atlantis star Joe Flanigan will appear in SCI FI Channel's upcoming Warehouse 13, as will former Battlestar Galactica cast members Tricia Helfer, Michael Hogan and Mark Sheppard, SCI FI announced. Other guest stars include Gossip Girl's James Naughton; Roger Rees of Cheers; Eureka's Joe Morton, Erica Cerra and Niall Matter; and Ivan Sergei from Crossing Jordan.

Star Trek is now 2009′s top-grossing film

<i>Star Trek</i> is now 2009's top-grossing film

ShowBizData reports that J.J. Abrams' Star Trek became the highest-grossing movie of 2009 on Wednesday, surpassing previous champ Monsters vs. Aliens.

GoAnimate Mashup Contest Winners

Two weeks ago we announced the ‘mashup madness’ contest from GoAnimate.com for fans to mashup animations from Star Trek along with their other licensed channels (Street Fighter, Underdog, Willie Nelson, and It’s Happy Bunny). The contest ended yesterday and so below we present the three winning entries.   Mashup winners The rules of the contest were to ‘mash [...]

News briefs: Ride the Up blimp; Salvation on TNT

Ride the <i>Up</i> blimp; <i>Salvation</i> on TNT In a unique bit of thematically appropriate promotion for Disney/Pixar's 3-D animated Up, the San Francisco Bay Area-based Airship Ventures is offering special fares and promotions for rides in its Up-themed dirigible; click through to the Web site for more information. Terminator Salvation is headed to TNT as part of a 13-title Warner Brothers movie package nabbed by the network and sister cable net TBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter; the deal also covers Watchmen and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

Will Summer Glau enter Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse?

Will Summer Glau enter Joss Whedon's <i>Dollhouse</i>? Joss Whedon told Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello that he's trying to get his former Firefly star Summer Glau on Fox's Dollhouse in its second season, but not in a role you might expect.

Arnold speaks: What does the Governator really think of Terminator Salvation?

What does the Governator really think of <i>Terminator Salvation</i>?

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose face appears briefly in McG's current Terminator Salvation, proclaimed the movie "pretty good," but told CNN that James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day is still his favorite film. (You can watch the video of his interview after the jump.)

Season five of Doctor Who finally airing in the U.S., on BBC America

Season five of <i>Doctor Who</i> finally airing in the U.S., on BBC America Season five of Doctor Who will air in the United States on BBC America, Variety reported. "The Next Doctor," the series' Christmas special, will air at 9 p.m. June 27, and the next special, "Planet of the Dead," is set for July. Dates and times for the final three shows are to be determined, but the next incarnation of the show is already in the works, with Steven Moffat taking over from Russell T. Davies as show runner and Matt Smith replacing David Tennant as the Doctor. Doctor Who aired for four seasons on SCI FI Channel, with BBC America airing Davies' spinoff series Torchwood (which will continue) and also Doctor Who a season late. Torchwood will air as a five-episode cycle this year, as well, starting in July.

Viacom Chairman: Star Trek ‘So Important’ For Paramount’s Future + Box Office Update

Even before Star Trek hit theaters, Viacom’s Paramount inked deals with the filmmakers to prepare a sequel. Today in a conference call with investors, Viacom chairman Philippe Dauman talked up the performance of Star Trek and noted that the Trek franchise (and others) will be a key part of Paramount’s future. Details on that below, [...]

David Tennant To Finish ‘Doctor Who’ Run On BBCA

The final journey of David Tennant’s “Doctor Who” will not get first air on SciFi Channel in the United States as it has in the past. Instead, the series of specials that made up the show’s 2009 schedule will appear where one network executive said is its rightful home: BBC America. “If I’d been here [during the previous four seasons], we wouldn’t have sold it, to be quite honest,” BBCA president Garth Ancier told Variety. Although “Doctor Who” is aired in the United Kingdom on BBC, the American cable channel’s parent, BBCA has to bid for all shows coming across the pond with everyone else. In past years, that bidding war has gone by way of SciFi Channel, which has already aired the first four seasons. This time, BBCA was in the driver’s seat, and is expected to air the most recent …

Dangerous Days: What The Hell Is Wrong With People?

Have you ever finished watching a movie you really enjoyed and then taken to the Internet only to discover that your newest diamond-in-the-rough has been panned by your favorite film blogs and gotten a pitiful rating on Rotten Tomatoes? Have you ever been recommended a film by 10 of your best friends, who praised it like the Second Coming, only to watch it and scratch your head wondering how anyone could like, let alone recommend that crap? Obviously these are rhetorical questions because I know it’s happened to you. It’s happened to all of us at one point or another. And we all inevitably ask ourselves the same ubiquitous question: What the hell is wrong with people? How could you think “Jumper” was a good movie? How could you possibly hate “Star Trek XI?” How could anyone even sit through …

GateWorld Podcast: SG-1 Season Four

Darren and David talk about the excellent fourth season of Stargate SG-1! PLUS: Preview interview with Ryan Robbins.
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