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This week's favorite Oscar topic, besides last night's announcement that Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will be co-hosting the awards, is where all the original screenplays have gone. The Hollywood Reporter's Steven Zeitchik points out the a dearth of obvious candidates for the "Best...
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As someone who dug the way this year's "Star Trek" reboot dug up memories from a few years of a wasted youth (let's not talk about it), I'm none too thrilled at this piece in the LA Times that suggests that for the sequel, J.J. Abrams & co. are considering adding topical political...
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Clearly someone at Variety was crunching numbers every Sunday night and waiting for the moment they could announce that this was the highest-grossing summer EVER; late Monday afternoon, with all the box office estimates confirmed, it was time to drop the good news. Yes, this summer set records all over...
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Long ago, when the ratings system was new, its standards wouldn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense to today's zealous parents. In 1968, "Planet of The Apes," was a G movie, and in 1976 "The Bad News Bears" was PG -- alleged family fare with enough beer consumption and...
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By Steven Zeitchik The news today that Chris Pine had finally taken his first post-Star Trek role resolves a question for a certain segment of the Tiger Beat audience (or whatever the Tiger Beat audience reads instead of Tiger Beat... Read More...
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By Steven Zeitchik Forget all those bad 'boldly going' puns. The real headline in the "Star Trek" take of nearly $77 million this weekend this weekend is not all the talk about whether it could ultimately beat "Wolverine" or...
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By Steven Zeitchik The media around the new Star Trek is getting seriously weird. It was odd enough when Paramount worked in a new exclusive scene to the title sequence of "Lost" last week -- the name of the show... Read More...
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By Steven Zeitchik Love, true love -- the love kids have for chocolate ice cream and Harvey Levin has for a celebrity getting off an airplane -- is the kind of love that THR critic Ray Bennett feels for the... Read More...
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By Steven Zeitchik Paramount is going hard after young, mainstream audiences for the new Star Trek. That we knew. But hard enough that it's now courting...the Vegas crowd? The above photo adorns the elevators at the young-ish Planet Hollywood in....
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By Steven Zeitchik Just hours before its world premiere in Australia and Star Trek is still a matter of national security. Try to elicit info on the plot or even how the actors feel about it and you'll feel like... Read More...
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CBS Consumer Products is expanding its “Star Trek” merchandising program, extending its deal with Mattel. The CBS Entertainment division also has signed new partners USAopoly, Funko and Fundex. Mattel’s agreement includes a line of Barbie Collector dolls, Tyco flying radio-controlled vehicles, a Scene...
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“Star Trek: The Next Generation” returns to broadcast syndication after eight years, CBS Television Distribution announced today. “Star Trek” is cleared as a daily Monday-Friday show in 83% of the country, including 29 of the top 30 markets, CBS said. Tribune, Sinclair, CBS and LIN stations are among...
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When it comes to stories about the strange and unusual, nothing beats science fiction. Whether it’s exploring the mystery of life on other planets, in other dimensions or in our own backyards, this is one genre where there are no boundaries except the imagination. Because of that, sci-fi is also a genre...
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By Borys Kit Anyone who's been within three miles of a Star Trek episode in the last several decades probably has some feelings about Par's upcoming reboot. Yesterday the studio and director JJ Abrams did a presentation offering a surprising....
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Game developer Cryptic Studios has secured the rights to develop "Star Trek" as an online multi-player game from franchise owner CBS Consumer Products. A preview of the game, Star Trek Online, will be shown Aug. 10 at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas and webcast live at www.startrekonline...