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Following on from the recent casting additions we’ve been getting in the past few weeks, with the brilliant Benicio del Toro and Alice Eve joining the cast, JJ Abrams’ highly anticipated Star Trek sequel has another new cast member, Deadline report, in the form of Peter Weller. Weller is best known for his role as [...]
After what seems to have been years of waiting, we’re finally starting to hear some concrete news about the sequel to 2009’s hit Star Trek movie; OK, so maybe the floodgates aren’t quite flying open, but there’s certainly a few leaks: first, after months of speculation J.J. Abrams confirmed that he would indeed be returning [...]
To celebrate the Sept. 26th Blu-ray/DVD release of the Fringe Season Three we’re giving away three copies on Blu-ray! The Fringe Division are back and using further unconventional FBI and ‘fringe’ science methods to investigate mysterious and horrifying incidences that threaten the safety of the United States in FRINGE, the series created by J.J. Abrams [...]
After months of speculation, JJ Abrams has finally gone ahead and confirmed what we were all expecting anyway: he’s going to direct Star Trek XII. Or II. Whatever it’s going to be called, he’s directing it. Despite the phenomenal success of 2009’s critically acclaimed reboot the Star Trek sequel has faced a number of delays, [...]
Olivia Wilde (Tron: Legacy) has been cast in Dreamworks’ forthcoming drama Welcome to People. Welcome to People centers on a businessman (Pine) who returns home after his estranged father’s death and discovers that he has an alcoholic sister (Banks) with a 12-year-old son. Wilde joins Chris Pine (Unstoppable) and Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days), [...]
Star Trek 2 is still very much in pre-production mode, with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (who wrote the first film, along with Transformers and next summer’s Cowboys and Aliens) working hard on putting together a script that will do justice to critic and fanboy expectations, a job made all the more difficult by [...]
Two stories ran on Deadline last night which attached a star and a director to the US TV adaptation of Joe Hill’s comic book series Locke & Key. The director is a HeyUGuys favourite, Mark Romanek, whose recent film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is attracting talk of Oscar and was a [...]
UK magazine SFX have been talking with Star Trek reboot director and producer JJ Abrams, as well as scripters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman about their various ideas for the sequel, which is currently in development over at Paramount. Trekmovie.com have extensive excerpts from the interview, which you can look at here, but here are the [...]
A couple of days ago, we reported on the news that writers Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci were adapting the graphic novel Locke & Key for Spielberg’s small screen production department, DreamWorks TV. Vulture have now revealed that Kurtzman will also make his directorial debut for Speilberg in the form of a feature film, entitled [...]
In a somewhat inevitable move (given his productivity in television and his love for meticulously storyboarding his own films) it looks like the great man himself, Mr Steven Spielberg is jumping aboard the comic book live-action adaptation bandwagon. News has come in via Vulture that Hollywood’s hot scriptwriting duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and [...]
Aline Brosh McKenna has 27 Dresses, The Devil Wears Prada and the forthcoming Rachel McAdams/Harrison Ford movie Morning Gloy to her name and there’s news tonight of her next project. Last year McKenna met with the team of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, whose recent sterling work with J.J. Abrams and, to a lesser extent, [...]
Casting speculation is all the rage these days, and some of it will no doubt be pure fanboy wish fulfillment but there’s few rumours flying around with the same potency of expectation as this one. Putting Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crushed Promise aside for a moment there are few stars with the [...]
J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is one of the most successful and entertaining reboots in years, and with the weight of expectation from a fanbase known for its rabid passion for the series Abrams and his writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman surprised us all when the end result was a frantic, funny and thrilling film. [...]
