Disney is already running Variety "For Your Consideration" ads supporting Up for Best Picture, reports Christopher Rosen. But, he contends, another hit is being unfairly neglected: Star Trek.
"Under no metric should Up be considered any more viable than Star Trek as a Best Picture nominee," Rosen writes. There's the critical approval it received, Read More
Normally you have to be some kind of big shot—or perhaps familiar in the art of bit torrent downloading, which we are not—to get an Academy Awards screener. But today, everyone has the opportunity to go to their local Best Buy or Blockbuster (these places still exist!) and pick up a copy of not one, Read More
Unless the idea of watching people get murdered at an alarming rate appeals to you—no, we will not be seeing Halloween 2 or Final Destination: 3-D—the summer movie season is officially kaput. Where has the time gone? At least with the book closed we can now look back fondly on the joys Hollywood had Read More
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack Galifianakis just got a whole lot more famous. The troika of funnymen scored big over the weekend as their Vegas romp, The Hangover, cashed in $43.2 million at the box office, finishing just about $1 million behind Pixar’s Up for second place. The news wasn’t as good for Read More
Insert aviation-related pun here. Pixar’s Up flew to the top of the box office this weekend, as the animated film brought in an estimated $68.2 million to pace the competition. Not only is that more than last summer’s sensation, Wall*E, grossed during its initial frame, it also marks the third biggest opening in the Read More
Maybe having the geeks inherit the earth wasn’t such a good idea after all. Never before have we seen such a fringe demographic wield so much influence on filmmakers, despite not really possessing that much tangible power at all. This year, from Zack Snyder’s Watchmen to J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek, director after director Read More
Perhaps all that talk of a new Terminator trilogy should be put on the backburner for now. While Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was the big winner this Memorial Day weekend, grossing $70 million over the four-day holiday to pace the field, the real box office story is the Read More
Tom Hanks soared at the box office this weekend as Angels & Demons held off a furious push from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek to land in first place with an estimated $48 million in grosses. While that represents a significant step down from The Da Vinci Code—that film opened almost three years ago to Read More
Star Wars versus Star Trek is a geek debate that has raged through enough stardates to fill up an entire captain's log. But after years of fan conflict, it appears that J.J. Abrams finally figured out how to broker a peace between the warring sects: he combined the two franchises. Star Trek pulls off quite Read More
Live long and prosperous! While members of the USS Enterprise might have had their phasers set for stun, Star Trek absolutely killed at the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $72.5 million over the frame, and $76.5 million total since opening on Thursday night. That number makes it the biggest opening weekend Read More
There’s something a little fishy going on with Terminator Salvation. The Warner Brothers release doesn’t open until Memorial Day weekend, but the relentless ad campaign has basically spoiled the entire movie already. The latest spot, a four-minute “extended preview,” is like a short film: Almost every major plot point is shared, along with some Read More
Before we discuss Star Trek, can we take a moment to talk about the IMAX experience? Because every time we go to that monster theater on 68th street, we're awfully excited ... and yet every single time we end up missing the prime seats (the last three rows, center) and end up with a crick in Read More
Daily News: It's hard to write a column about a headline that uses symbols. The top of today's Daily News properly reads only: "TREK." But there are five stars above it. So, it's sort of like "[Five Stars] TREK." Get it? Generally in the mornings we look closely at both front pages before coffee, then Read More
Break out the SPF 50! The summer movie season starts in earnest this weekend with the openings of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and, frankly, we could not be more excited. Bank on the next four months being filled up by superheroes, stunted man-children, teenage wizards and an unusual amount of killer Read More
While normal Americans spend each waking moment trying to figure out ways to tighten their belt strings in this economy from hell, Hollywood is throwing money around with a devil-may-care attitude that seems left over from 2006. In an alarming recent trend, studios are moving ahead with plans for sequels… before the original films even Read More
