Tag: Star Trek
Star Trek Sequel Adds Noel Clarke
Soon after Star Trek’s new Scotty (Simon Pegg) has arrived in Los Angeles to prepare for the role, another British actor has a flight booked from London over the next few days.
RoboCop Star Peter Weller Joins the STAR TREK Sequel
J.J. Abrams has added vet thesp Peter Weller, who played RoboCop in the first two movies, to his new Star Trek sequel. Weller is the latest star to join the cast of fellow Trek newbies Alice Eve and Benicio Del Toro.
Leonard Nimoy as the Voice of Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Leonard Nemoy, the half-Vulcan, half-human Mr. Spock of the original Star Trek series, has joined the film as the voice of Sentinel Prime, the predecessor of Optimus Prime.
Director Michael Bay (not because his cousin, actress Susan Bay, was Nemoy’s wife) could hardly make a better choice to give the voice for the aged Autobot seen at the end of the film’s teaser trailer. Optimus Prime’s wrecked body is the one who’s seen found crash-landed on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts back in 1969. Soon, after being brought to earth, he takes the form of a fire engine in the movie’s massive, climactic battle through Chicago.
Best Sci-fi Time Travel Movies
A non-technical approach to the time travel phenomenon had appeared in a number of earlier stories such as in ancient Hindu mythology, in “Mahabharatha” story of the King Revaita, then in “Urashima Tarō”, an early Japanese tale and, for example, in “Memoirs of the Twentieth Century” (1733) by Samuel Madden. The time travel motive was developed with the same passion throughout the seventh art production and still remains popular.
Even the upcoming comedy Get Back, directed by Mark Waters is also the latest in a long track of time travel movies, extending back from at least the 1940s into presumably the distant future.
‘Bad Science In Movies’ Checklist Chart Along With Apocalyptic Blockbuster Absurd
Hi! I’d like the chart from io9 completewith the article in the London Sunday Times on January 2, 2011. Both surveys turned up interesting details about breaking rules. These facts led us to the conclusion that science and film do not always share equal values.
The io9 report card consists of 11 categories of mistakes or different rules that were broken, such as “sound in space” and “moving in slow-motion in zero gravity”, that Space Cowboys (2000) broke, for example. The Right Stuff (1983) shares first place in the list with Apollo 13 (1995) – you really can get three men back from the moon on the power it takes to run a coffee machine!
Avatar Sees 45% Increase in Ticket Sales on Fandango Following Oscar Nominations
Avatar‘s nine Academy Award® nominations may have created an increased demand for tickets on Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination. “Avatar”, already the site’s top ticket-seller in company history, saw daily sales increase by 45% shortly after the Oscar ® nominations were announced this morning.
Moviegoers appear to be pleased with the concept of the Academy®’s new and expanded Best Picture category, which recognized such popular hits as “Avatar”, “The Blind Side”, “Up” and “District 9″, among others. In an online poll on Fandango, 83% of moviegoers say they like the fact that the category now includes 10 nominees.
In a separate survey posted on Fandango today, fans picked the movies they would have liked to have seen nominated in this year’s expanded category.
Biggest Movie Mistakes of 2009
It’s been a bumper year for Hollywood, with box office takings totalling over $10 billion, but there is one big total they might not be so proud of – fans have spotted over 900 mistakes in this year’s releases, submitting them to website moviemistakes.com. A few of the mistakes:
New Moon mistakes: After Bella awakes from the first nightmare, we see her Romeo and Juliet book on the pillow beside her. When Charlie brings in her presents the book is gone, but then reappears on the pillow between shots.
In the very last scene, right before the ultimatum, if you look into the tail lights on Edward’s car you can see various members of the crew reflected. [read more]
Terminator Salvation mistakes: The four-door Jeep Wrangler used in the movie wasn’t made until 2007, three years after the date of Judgment Day as established in Terminator 3 (Saturday 24th July 2004).
When Barnes and Marcus Wright are helping John Connor back to the chopper and when Barnes gets in the helicopter, he’s revealed to be a stand in. It’s in plain sight, at the right side of the screen.
Matt Damon Turned Down Star Trek’s George Kirk Role
J.J. Abrams confirmed to MTV that Matt Damon turned down the role of George Kirk (James T. Kirk father) in his Star Trek movie.
Abrams said:
“I did [approach Damon], but not for the role of James Kirk. I went to Damon for the role of Kirk’s father, and he declined in the most gracious and understandable and logical of reasons. We lucked out with Chris Hemsworth, and he did a great job.”
This Is Not Your Father’s Star Trek TV Spot
Another new TV spot for J.J. Abrams‘ “Star Trek” is online. We’ve seen already four TV spots for the movie, but this one is special with awesome tagline in it: “This is not your father’s Star Trek.”
