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J.J. Abrams Is Definitely Still Directing the New Star Wars Movie…Probably
Well, that got out of hand pretty fast. Yesterday, Devin Faraci at BadAssDigest.com published a report claiming to have the inside scoop on who might script the next Star Trek movie (more on that in a...
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Fans Wrongly Vote Stark Trek Into Darkness as the Worst Star Trek Film of All...
It is a strange feeling to be a fan of a film or television franchise which appears to no longer care about you. A lot of longtime Star Trek fans have felt this way about director J.J. Abram’s revival...
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Why 15 Recent Films Were Delayed & How It Worked Out for Them at the Box Office
Undoubtedly sensing that we’re all kind of giggling over how unintentionally funny Channing Tatum looks in the trailers, Warner Bros. made the seemingly surprising move yesterday to delay the...
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Roberto Orci Apparently Really Wanted to Make Up For Destroying Planet Vulcan...
Roberto Orci is no longer directing Star Trek 3, meaning Paramount is no longer letting a guy with no experience directing anything ever handle the Star Trek film currently scheduled to arrive sometime...
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Roberto Orci is Out, Justin Lin is In, But Does It Really Matter Who Directs...
So, Roberto Orci is out, Justin Lin is in, and we have a release date, July 8, 2016. That’s where we’re at with Star Trek 3 now. Back in May when Orci was first announced as the director of Star Trek...
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Have We Forgotten How to Have Fun With Big Budget Movies?
There’s an odd thing about being an American sports fan: You never want the athletes to gain a sense of perspective (or at least you’re supposed to be worried once they do). The second they start...
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Why We Still Don’t Have a New Star Trek TV Series & How It Could Come Back
What is Star Trek about? I don’t mean who made it (Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, JJ Abrams), who starred in it (Shatner, Nimoy, Stewart, Quinto, etc.), or what was the basic premise (the adventures of...
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We Apparently Have Only Ourselves to Blame for the Glut of Spoiler-Heavy...
This article contains spoilers for Southpaw, Terminator: Genisys, Jurassic World, Star Trek Into Darkness, Terminator 3, Terminator Salvation and even Rocky V I’ve seen Jake Gyllenhaal’s new movie...
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JJ Abrams & Star Wars: Not the Lens Flares You’re Looking For
JJ Abrams has been asked about those Star Trek lens flares plenty of times now. Yesterday during a two-hour sit-down interview with Stephen Colbert at the Montclair Film Festival Fundraiser was simply...
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What the Heck is Going On In the New Star Trek Beyond Trailer?
No, seriously, what the heck is going on in the new Star Trek Beyond trailer? The basics, I get: Something bad happens which destroys the Enterprise and maroons the surviving crew members [translation:...
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Star Trek Beyond Will Pretty Much Ignore Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness, alternately known as “The Wrath of Spock,” ended with several clear directions they could take things in a sequel. The Federation was going to have to deal with its looming...
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Who Is J.J. Abrams? – A Film Guide for Force Awakens Newbies
In 2011, multiple friends asked me the same question, seeking out my opinion as a film fan: Is J.J. Abrams really the next Spielberg? It was an understandable question. His new movie at the time,...
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3 Reactions to the New Star Trek Beyond Trailer
It’s Star Trek‘s 50th anniversary, yet Star Trek Beyond (due 7/22) has mostly flown under the radar this year. At long last, though, here’s the second trailer. Let’s watch and discuss. So the plot is…....
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Box Office: How Much Does Star Trek Beyond Need to Gross to Guarantee Star...
UPDATED: For follow-up articles, head here for Star Trek Beyond‘s Week 3 numbers and here for the Week 5 numbers. Star Trek 4 is officially a go, and Chris Hemsworth’s returning as Captain Kirk’s dad,...
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Box Office: Why Did Star Trek Beyond Fall So Far Below Star Trek Into Darkness?
Star Trek Beyond‘s weekend box office estimates are in, and it’s a real good news, bad news situation. In this summer of sequelitis, Beyond‘s performance is being greeted as perfectly adequate, but...
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What Does Your Updated Ranking of Star Trek Movies Look Like?
There’s a new Star Trek movie in theaters right now. Cool. Let’s rank it. Hold on there buddy. Why can’t we stop and appreciate it, remember the good times (those Spock/McCoy scenes), lament the bad...
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Box Office: Star Trek Beyond is Pretty Much Toast Until China
UPDATED 8-22-16: For a follow-up article, here for Star Trek Beyond‘s Week 5 numbers. In the days leading up to the release of Star Trek Beyond, Paramount announced a sequel was already in development,...
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Star Trek Beyond Box Office Update: Week 5
Star Trek Beyond fell out of the top 10 at the domestic box office this weekend, doing so two weeks faster than Into Darkness and three weeks faster than Star Trek. I previously declared Beyond was...
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Is Paramount Right? Has Star Trek Hit Its Financial Ceiling as a Film Franchise?
Star Trek, in the Shatner years, was a hit franchise in the States. The Motion Picture, The Voyage Home, Wrath of Khan, and Search for Spock easily solid tickets on par with, in some cases superior to...
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Watchmen, Star Wars & The State of Hollywood Fan Fiction
The Rise of Skywalker – highly advertised by Disney as the end of the line for the saga of Anakin, Luke and Rey – is not a true ending to the story; it’s J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy’s version of...
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