jj abrams
Big Screen
Justin Timberlake Lands Role Of His Lifetime: Yogi’s Sidekick
4:30AM Richard Rushfield | Since he first stepped into the solo spotlight, Justin Timberlake has been Hollywood’s prince in waiting, just one perfect role away from claiming his crown as the biggest star in the world forever. Now he has found that part. More »
Big Screen
Star Trek To Roll Out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
5:49AM Brian Moylan | Remember when sci-fi movies were about blowing up aliens and attacking Godzilla? Those days are gone, my friend. Thanks to Battlestar Galactica and District 9, the genre now exists to please the intelligentsia. The latest victim, the Star Trek sequel. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Spoiler Alert: The Winner In Monsters Vs. Aliens Is…Dreamworks!
1:35AM John Cook | Monsters vs Aliens opens, J.J. Abrams gets extended, and Ricky Gervais’ next film will be unlike anything he’s ever done before except for The Office. More »
7:02AM Kyle Buchanan | Reality Bites: We’ve been agitating for a while to get an image of Winona Ryder donning her Vulcan ears as Spock’s mum for J.J. Abrams’s new film Star Trek: Underwear, and thanks to /film’s helpful selection of big still frames from the trailer, we got what we wanted — almost. Yes, that’s the first image of Ryder in character, but the “babuschka chic” look covers her…wait, what’s that? Spock’s mum is human, not Vulcan? Then we have no earthly explanation for how the 37-year-old Ryder apparently popped out Spock’s portrayer, 31-year-old Zachary Quinto, at age six. [/film] More »
New ‘Star Trek’ Trailer Promises Hot Sex, Bad Dialogue
1:55AM STV | The first real trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot emerged in theatres last Friday, spilling a dark, sprawling shadow over the Bond film that followed it and confirming our suspicions that about .003% of its rumoured $US200 million budget went to anything resembling a screenplay. Like we care: Our audience tuned out every platitude and ultimatum that followed the introduction of young troublemaker James Tiberius Kirk, lapsing into an effects coma from which we’re only beginning to emerge this morning. Paramount will have an official HD trailer online later today, but in the meantime, bask in the bootlegged bombast available now: Monsters! Sex! Simon Pegg! And a pissed-off Spock who puts those uncanny Katie Holmes comparisons to rest in seconds flat, thank God. [YouTube] More »
OMG! It’s A Really Young-Looking Enterprise!
7:20AM Seth | Behold, your first look at J.J. Abrams’s vision of the Enterprise for the upcoming Star Trek—both incredibly familiar, and yet…totally familiar. But that’s intentional, says he: “If you’re going to do the Enterprise, it better look like the Enterprise, because otherwise, what are you doing?” It certainly hews closer to the original than its bridge does, already derailed by purists as far too Apple Store Genius Bar-y to adequately photon torpedo Klingons. (See how down with the mythology we are?) We get more of a Famima! checkout counter vibe from it, however, which is fine with us. Set a course for Char Siew Pork Steamy Buns! Mmmmm… (Click for full-size view.) [EW] More »
‘Lost’ ‘09: Everyone Gets a Gun!
9:34AM Kyle Buchanan | Just when we’d managed to shake our uncontrollable addiction to Lostpedia, brand-new footage from the upcoming Season 5 of Lost has hit the internet. What do we learn (after an interminable recap of previous storylines) about the island hijinks we’ll be seeing come January 2009? Sayid gets a gun! Hurley gets a gun! Kate gets a gun! Probably even the baby gets a gun! As is par for the course with Lost, the footage only raises new questions; specifically, where is the return of Michelle Rodriguez? And, perhaps most importantly, is Jack’s missing chest hair still in the clutches of the smoke monster? [The Lost Vault] More »
More Amazing Pictures Released From ‘Star Trek: Muppet Babies’
2:46AM Kyle Buchanan | Yesterday, we spent time dissecting Entertainment Weekly’s new cover devoted to the J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek, starring a Marfan’s-afflicted Katie Holmes and the president of Pi Kapp. Today, even more images were released for the film, which comes out next summer but is being heavily promoted now, in October, because the strike-wary studios have fuck-all for you until next year. Let’s have a look, shall we?
Is This Your New Spock From ‘Star Trek,’ Or a Melty-Faced Katie Holmes?
8:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Today, Entertainment Weekly released images from its upcoming issue devoted to J.J. Abrams’s reboot of Star Trek, and featured on the cover were the two clearest looks yet at Zachary Quinto as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk (what, were Tyler Perry and Winona Ryder busy?). Heroes star Quinto has seemed like a natural to don Leonard Nimoy’s ears ever since the casting was announced, but we must admit that this cover gave us pause. Is it the amped-up drag queen eyebrows? Or is it that Quinto, with his severe bob and vacant expression, resembles a Marfan’s-afflicted Katie Holmes? Let’s do a side-by-side: More »
