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Looking forward to further adventures of JJ Abrams' rebooted Enterprise crew on their ongoing Star Trek? Keep looking - Pocket Books has indefinitely postponed the spin-off titles scheduled to be released this summer. But why? More »
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Buried deep down in the bottom of New York Times' interview with Paramount's Chariman Brad Grey was the news that neither the Star Trek sequel nor Mission Impossible 4 may be J.J. Abrams' next film project. But what is? More »
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After two weekends of sold-out midnight-only limited release, Paranormal Activity (AKA, this year's new Blair Witch) has been allowed out during daylight. Has the film become less scary, or just convinced the studio that it can make money? More »
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If you've ever sat around and reenacted scenes from G.I. Joe with your toys, Paramount's viral movie is for you. The Hasbro toys star in an affectionate parody of the cartoon — right down to the public service announcement. More »
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Box office estimates place Star Trek somewhere in the region of a $70 million domestic take for its opening weekend, roughly half of the JJ Abrams movie's estimated budget. But what does that actually mean? More »
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Paramount Pictures’ kid brother, Nickelodeon, has designs on turning some of those badass graffiti-influenced Kid Robot toys into, we can only hope, badass graffiti-influenced cinema. According to Variety, Kid Robot's parent company, W!ldbrain Incorporated—which already produces the hipster Yo Gabba Gabba! kids show for Nick Jr.—will work with the studio on these movie projects that will be a "mix of animation and live action." (Hasbro, incidentally, announced similar intentions late last year to extract more lucre out of their arsenal of playthings.) Just who will script this exercise in potential awesomeness? And which action figures will get the big-screen treatment? Kid Robot and Paramount won’t say yet. So we're offering some suggestions. More »
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Much to everyone's surprise, yesterday's Fringe panel - featuring Star Trek director JJ Abrams and Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman - didn't include a special sneak preview of next summer's reboot of Space and The Final Frontier. It's not that any such preview had been announced (just the opposite, in fact), but that's not stopping some insiders from calling conspiracy anyway. More »
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Movie posters used to be simple and dignified, until marketing departments realized that the more sensational the poster, the more ticket-buyers. It's like the cover of a comic book: You might see an image of Batman riddled with bullets and dead, but that never takes place in the actual story itself. Star Trek has been one of the guiltiest parties in sensationalizing its posters with odd artwork and strange taglines (perhaps second only to the James Bond movie posters), and we've collected them for you all in one spot in the list below. More »
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Paramount has finally allowed Hasbro to release images of the Cloverfield toy, probably thinking that they've milked almost every possible box office dollar out of the thing. But based on the new pics, it's hard to imagine anybody shelling out a hundred bucks for this thing. When you stumble of the the theater after having your eardrums rattled and eyes blasted by shakycam monsterdom, it's easy to imagine wanting your own mini-monster. But the thing looks about as scary as a daddy longlegs that you'd find in the shower. Check out the images after the break. (The image to the left is from SOTA's Lovecraft-inspired Ultra Cthulhu.) More »
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Director Matt Reeves dropped the news that the name Cloverfield came about entirely by accident, almost like playing a game of telephone. More »
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Paramount released another photo from the upcoming Cloverfield yesterday, and it's nothing less than completely pointless. The poster for the movie tells us loads more than the above shot featuring actors Michael Stahl-David and Mike Vogel does. But leaking irrelevant pictures is typical Hollywood behavior. Still, give us a little monster willya? More »
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Twelve new images from the upcoming monster film Cloverfield have been released online. But just like the new trailer, they sadly don't reveal anything new about the J.J. Abrams-produced thriller. If they keep releasing non-information to the masses, people are either going to turn out in droves to find out what it's all about or stay away and wait for the DVD. Paramount has been doing a stellar job of keeping the secret of Cloverfield under wraps, and the strategy is backfiring. Leaked photos from the set that reveal nothing but a bunch of people in hazmat suits aren't getting people excited. More »
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