Headlines for June, 2009
Star Trek just finished its 8th weekend in general release and it is still in the top 10 for ticket sales. We have all the latest box office details below, plus the head of Paramount talking up the future of the franchise. We also have more from Bob and Alex and Karl Urban getting a [...]
Over the weekend there were two Star Trek events held in the middle of America, TrekFest in Riverside, Iowa and TrekExpo in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Celebrities attending these events include Leonard Nimoy, Marina Sirtis, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Denise Crosby, and Walter Koenig. Below we have links and excerpts from news reports, plus images and vidoes [...]
Two more Star Trek celebrities are headed to TNT series Leverage, this time Wil Wheaton and Jeri Ryan. And we have more Trek celeb news including a new interview with Jonathan Frakes, Linda Park headed for a ‘Crash’, a new movie for Kate Mulgrew, and more .
Ryan and Wheaton have ‘Leverage’
Two Star Trek regulars [...]
If you watched Fox's TV movie
Virtuality on Friday and want more, well, like the ill-fated Commander Pike, you shouldn't hold your breath.
The sci-fi pilot, from
Battlestar Galactica producers Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, crashed and burned in its only outing, drawing only 1.8 million viewers and scoring a wan 0.5 adult demo rating,
The Hollywood Reporter's
Live Feed column reported:
As usual, all things about ABC's Lost are hush hush, lest any posters on the Fuselage message boards get wind of spoilers, but rumors persist that long-departed cast members such as Maggie Grace may return for at least one appearance in the show's sixth and final season.
First things first though: Are the regulars still coming back? Season five ended with a bomb exploding in the past, possibly erasing the entire present of the show.
Warner Bro.s have officially announced the DVD and Blu-Ray release of their animated film Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. Read about the film, release details, see some images and watch the trailer here.
When NBC's Heroes returns for its fourth season this September, it will be back-to-school time for Hayden Panettiere's indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet: After three years (in TV time), the blond superhero will finally graduate high school and head to college, the actress told reporters.
"She's in college, and she's got a great roommate," Panettiere said in a group interview over the weekend in Santa Monica, Calif., where she was promoting the film I Love You, Beth Cooper. "You kind of don't know about [the roommate] in the beginning."
In yet another interview for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman opine on the differences between working on Trek and Transformers fans and what could be next in the Star Trek sequel. We have excerpts below, plus details on a new project for Bob and Alex. . [...]
A brand new G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra poster has been released featuring Rachel Nichols as Shana ‘Scarlett’ O’Hara. Check it out below courtesy of Film School Rejects:
The film follows an elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe who take on an evil organization led by a notorious [...]
Tonight another awards show has integrated some Star Trek, this time the BET Awards had the first ever appearance of the two Uhuras together with Zoe Saldana and Nichelle Nichols presenting an award. We have pictures and video below.
The two Uhuras, Nichelle Nichols and Zoe Saldana presented the award for best new artist [...]
By now you’d be aware that The Dark Knight won more awards than any other film or television show at the 35th annual Saturn Awards (full list of winners here).
One of the awards The Dark Knight scored was ‘Best Music’ courtesy of a brilliant score by famed music composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton [...]
This week the Library Computer begins an ongoing series of retro novel reviews, spotlighting the best books for a specific character. We start with three classic tales with the first lady of linguistics, Nyota Uhura..
UHURA SPOTLIGHT
So like many fans, I am of the opinion that Nichelle Nichols’ Uhura was magnificently underused throughout [...]
