Win a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level Blu-ray Disc

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Calling all Trekkies – Star Trek: The Next Generation® – The Next Level, from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be beaming up on a single Blu-ray disc on 30th January 2012 to give fans a taste of the iconic series to be released in HD later this year and we have three [...]

Benedict Cumberbatch Cast as Villain in J.J Abrams’ Star Trek 2

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Last night we put up the news that Noel Clarke was set to join J.J. Abrams in his sequel to 2009 movie, Star Trek (currently named Star Trek 2) and this morning, Deadline have put up the news that Benedict Cumberbatch who seems to be in everything at the moment is all set to join [...]

British Actor Noel Clarke Cast in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 2

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**UPDATE: Woke up this morning to fnid out that Benedict Cumberbatch has also been cast in the movie to play a villain. More here.** Here’s some rather fabulous news for British Actor / Director Noel Clarke as Variety have just announced the news that the BAFTA winner has been cast in J.J. Abrams’ sequel to [...]

JJ Abrams Suggests 3D Post-Conversion For Star Trek 2

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Star Trek 2 is gearing up for principal shooting to kick off in the new year, which is welcome news. The reboot of the franchise was desperately needed and JJ Abrams’ first instalment was a sensational shot in the arm for a series that had become bogged down since the high water mark of First [...]

George Takei Brokers Star Peace And Calls On Star Trek And Star Wars Fans To Unite Against Twilight

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Back in September, William Shatner himself weighed in on the age-old debate over Star Trek vs. Star Wars that has taken place for decades among fans of both franchises as to which is the superior, which is more worthy of their loyal devotion. A brilliant new video has now surfaced, with thanks to Deadline for [...]

Benicio Del Toro Out Of Star Trek And Khan May Be The Villain

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Just yesterday, we got the news that Peter Weller, the original RoboCop, had joined the new additions to the cast of JJ Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek sequel, along with Alice Eve and Benicio del Toro. (You can catch up on all our Star Trek-related coverage right here.) Del Toro was the first of the new [...]

RoboCop Peter Weller Joins Star Trek Sequel

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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 [...]

Alice Eve Joins Star Trek 2

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Alice Eve (Big Nothing) has been cast in J.J. Abrams’ as-yet-untitled Star Trek sequel. The actress, best known for her role in She’s Out of My League, beat out Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Teresa Palmer (I am Number Four) for the unspecified role. Most of the original cast, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, [...]

Bringing to Life Those Robots in Disguise – The VFX of Transformers Dark of the Moon

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A glimpse into the creative process of those big, effects-heavy Hollywood blockbusters always offers a fun and fascinating prospect, and that’s precisely what happened when one of the industry big-hitters, Oscar-winning Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar, recently took the stage to chat about his experiences working on Transformers: Dark of the Moon. An employee of [...]

Star Trek Sequel to Debut May 17th 2013 + Will be in 3D

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We have a date to look forward to people and that date is 17th May 2013 for the sequel to the J.J. Abrams 2009 movie, Star Trek. I say May 17th, that is according to Deadline and no doubt that date with be for the North American market but since it’s 11pm now in the [...]

Review: The Captains – William Shatner’s Trek Documentary

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On Oct.13, 2011 William Shatner’s documentary ‘The Captains’  had a limited single day, single screening event across Canada in Cineplex theaters. So limited in fact, that even though you could purchase a ticket at the box office, some of the staff at the cinema had no idea it was playing in their own theater. If [...]

Set Phasers To Stun! Star Trek Sequel Starts Shooting In January

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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 [...]

Does Star Trek Have Its New Villain? JJ Abrams Opens Hailing Frequencies With Benicio Del Toro

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With JJ Abrams having recently confirmed that he will be returning to the director’s chair for the sequel to his 2009 blockbuster Star Trek and pre-production on the film now well under way, speculation has turned to who will follow in the footsteps of Eric Bana’s Nero and take the role of the movie’s villain. [...]

X-Men First Class’ Jason Flemyng Talks To HeyUGuys

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With X-Men First Class finally available on Blu-Ray this week (check out our review here), we got a chance to talk to our favourite teleporting Devil-a-like, Jason Flemyng. Given how many films the man’s been in over a 20 year long career, the hardest part of interviewing him is staying on the subject at hand [...]

X-Men: First Class Blu-ray Review

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In a year awash with superhero movies a new X-Men film was in danger of being overlooked, or even avoided altogether given the toxic slap of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Origins Wolverine and yet here we are with me telling you that X-Men: First Class is tremendous fun and edges up to X2 [...]

Dredd Director Pete Travis Walks – Alex Garland Taking Over The Film In the Edit?

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Worrying news from the LA Times today as they have a report that Pete Travis has been asked to leave the movie Dredd, following creative differences as the film enters the edit stage. The Times claim that writer and producer on the film Alex Garland is leading the project in the absence of its director [...]

Star Trek: The Next Generation Remastered & Coming to Blu-ray in 7.1 DTS

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Well this is some fabulous news and I need to start calling in all favours at Paramount to see if I can get me a copy when this little puppy comes out but the official website has just announced that one of the best TV series of all time (that would be Star Trek the [...]

Red Alert! Captain Kirk Says Star Trek Is Superior to Star Wars

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One subject guaranteed to ignite hours of passionate debate among science-fiction fans is the age-old question of which is better – Star Trek or Star Wars? And now, 45 years after he first stepped onto the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, the original Captain James T. Kirk himself has boldly stepped up to the plate [...]

Karl Urban Back For Another Confrontation With Riddick?

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As puzzling as a third film of the Riddick franchise heading into production seems (the decidedly STV titled, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking) Bloody Disgusting bring news that co-star from the previous film, Karl Urban, is also heading back to the world of the Necromongers. Reprising his role of the villainous Commander Vaako, [...]

The Future According To Films Infographic

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London-based Tremulant Design have created an awesome infographic of how the future might pan out if the predictions of movies prove to be anything like correct. It covers a whole range of futuristic movies such as Blade Runner, V for Vendetta and WALL-E and also covers all of the big movie series such as Terminator, [...]