Star Trek Into Darkness Nominated For 5 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films announced nominations for the 40th Annual Saturn Awards on Thursday, and Star Trek Into Darkness has been nominated for five awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Director (J.J. Abrams). Among the other nominations, Benedict Cumberbatch is up for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Khan, while Michael Kaplan is nominated for Best Costume and Roger...
Benedict Cumberbatch may become ‘too famous’ for Sherlock
Perhaps “Sherlock” fans should start hoping that Benedict Cumberbatch experiences a career slide. Cumberbatch was on hand to discuss the series at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday. Among the topics discussed was how long the series — which premiered its third season on PBS on Sunday night — might last. A straight answer wasn’t forthcoming from the panel, but executive...
Star Trek at the Royal Albert Hall
Following on from the amazing orchestral event The Artist: Live In Concert (check out our review), the Royal Albert Hall will host the UK premières of J.J Abrams’ Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness – Live in Concert on May 29 and 30 2014. With Star Trek fever at an all-time high and due to popular demand, the Royal Albert Hall has also announced an extra date for fans old and new to celebrate the extraordinary...
‘Star Trek’ at the Oscars for VFX team
When “Star Trek Into Darkness” director J.J. Abrams and the visual effects experts at Industrial Light & Magic were deciding how to introduce the Enterprise to the audience for the first time, they knew technology could help them make a very big splash. If you’ve seen the film — which was nominated Thursday for an Oscar for best visual effects — you probably remember the famous spaceship materializing...
The Year’s Biggest Trek-centric Stories
2013 was certainly an eventful year for the Star Trek franchise. Star Trek Into Darkness opened and, yes, Khan was the baddie. Patrick Stewart cemented his status as a Twitter god and cultural icon. Fans bid farewell a number of Star Trek figures, from A.C. Crispin to Michael Ansara, who passed away. Today, we’re going to revisit some of the biggest stories. Four years after Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness at long last...
J.J. Abrams Rethinks ‘Star Trek Into Darkness” secret Villain
Six months after the release of Star Trek Into Darkness, director J.J. Abrams is ready to admit it: Maybe that whole “keeping the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character a secret” thing was a bit of a mistake after all. Talking to MTV, Abrams said that the reason for the secrecy surrounding Khan’s appearance in this summer’s Star Trek installment came from the studio. “It was so important to...
Will we ever create our own sun?
In this year’s film Star Trek: Into Darkness, Captain Kirk risks his life to save the Enterprise by entering the ship’s warp core. It may be Hollywood science fiction, but the scene was filmed inside the very real fusion target chamber of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California. Rather than inventing light speed travel, though, the team of NIF researchers are hard at work trying to make something equally...
Enterprise Ring Ship Artisan Replica
New from QMx is the first starship Enterprise – U.S.S. Enterprise XCV-330. The USS Enterprise (XCV-330), previously the UESP Enterprise (7) and also the SS Enterprise, was the first spacecraft named Enterprise to be designated a starship. The UESP Enterprise was originally built as a Starliner, a manned interstellar probe, by the United Earth Space Probe Agency in the mid-to-late 21st century, as one of Earth’s earliest attempts...
Out Now: Star Trek Khan, Issue #1
IDW Publishing have just released the first issue of a five-part miniseries telling the backstory of Khan Noonien Singh before the events of Star Trek Into Darkness, called Star Trek Khan. It’s been written by Mike Johnson, is overseen by Star Trek Into Darkness co-writer/co-producer Roberto Orci, and features art by Claudia Balboni and a cover by Paul Shipper. Summary “Shall we begin?” Don’t miss this all-new mini...
J.J. Abrams Apologizes for His Use Of Lens Flares In Star Trek
In a interview with Crave Online, J.J. Abrams apologized for his use of Lens flares in Star Trek. “I know I get a lot of grief for that,” says Abrams. “But I’ll tell you, there are times when I’m working on a shot, I think, ‘Oh this would be really cool… with a lens flare.’ But I know it’s too much, and I apologize. I’m so aware of it now. I was showing my wife an early cut of Star...