April 26, 2006
J.J. Abrams on Star Trek XI
After it was announced that Mission: Impossible 3 director J.J. Abrams would breathe new life into the Star Trek franchise by taking over the 11th film, rumors flew that the picture would tell the story of Kirk and Spock's early years. Speaking with Empire, however, Abrams now says the rumors are unfounded:
The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a Star Trek film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumours of what the thing was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate.
So if you heard a crash this morning, don't worry. It was just a nerd's dreams shattering.
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Some Dead or Alive Stills
I can't promise you'll ever get laid again, but I can assure you the Dead or Alive movie will be the next best thing. There are some new shots up that show that legitimate storylines and Dead or Alive won't mix, though wet t-shirts and Dead or Alive are like peanut butter and jelly. And about the never getting laid thing-- maybe you should stop collecting action figures.
More under the cut.
The Descent Trailer
What do you get when you shove six beautiful women together in a small, tight space? An erection! Or the terrifying, claustrophobic, British horror-thriller The Descent. Whichever applies more to you. The trailer to the latter is now online here.
The Omen Domestic Trailer
For those of you filled with too much patriotism to download the international trailer for The Omen, the domestic trailer is now available. It's chock full of new footage, including the above shot, which shows that if you give birth to the Devil, you're less phased by other supernatural occurrences, such as Sarah Jessica Parker sneaking up behind you in the bathroom.
The Lake House Trailer
In what can only be described as a major coup for providers of low quality embedded media, AOL and Moviefone have scored the exclusive trailer for Warner's new romantic thing, The Lake House. If you thought the cast of Speed writing letters to each other would make great cinema, you're in luck. In this remake of a Korean film from 2000, Sandra Bullock lives in a lakefront shanty and gets letters from Keanu Reeves. They fall in love during the ensuing correspondence, only to discover that he's writing to her from the same ramshackle house two years in the past. Recommended viewing if you thought Frequency would have been better if Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel wanted to fuck.
Bandidas Trailer
If you like it when bandits is written in the Spanish feminine form, you need to see the trailer for Bandidas. The film, starring Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz, tells the story of a pair of women who become bank robbers to combat a tyrannical local enforcer, proving that despite the antiquated reputation women have of being the weaker sex, they're capable of anything a man is and more. Cleverly, the filmmakers show this through comic ineptitude and cheesecake action. It essentially looks as if the movie is an hour-and-a-half of saying that women like fashion and whining too much to be competent at anything, which is kind of sad, since my Grandpa can do the same thing over a Thanksgiving dinner.
