Happy 75th birthday to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Patrick Stewart, who was born on July 13, 1940 in West Riding of Yorkshire, England and has become a favorite of all Trekkie generations. His theater, television and film work, as well as his dedication to charity make him...
Happy 73rd birthday to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Patrick Stewart, who was born on July 13th 1940 in West Riding of Yorkshire, England and has become a favorite of all Trekkie generations. His theater, television and film work, as well as his dedication to charity make him...
Following the strong international opening of Star Trek Into Darkness, the film opened domestically with $22 million on Friday for a two-day total of $35.5 million, as of Saturday morning. These numbers, provided by Box Office Mojo, may raise some eyebrows because Star Trek (2009) pulled in a...
Star Trek Into Darkness opened with stellar numbers in the international market where weekend grosses of $5.5 million in Australia, $7.6 million in Germany, and $13.3 million in the United Kingdom add up to a 56% higher number than that of Star Trek (2009). Meanwhile, the film also...
Katie and Kellie Cockrell, who appear in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS in supporting roles recently sat down with TrekNews.net for an exclusive interview. During the interview, the twin sisters discussed their experience working on the film, their interactions with the cast and crew along with director J.J. Abrams....
Star Trek fans from all around the world gathered at the Las Vegas Rio for Creation Entertainment’s Official Star Trek Convention, which kicked off last Thursday. Many of the fans’ favorite actors, including Bob Picardo, Brent Spiner, Celeste Yarnall, Lois Jewell, Bobby Clark, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Michael...
One may think that no film experience could possibly beat playing Captain Kirk’s helmsman in the original Star Trek series, but actor George Takei, known to the fans as Mr. Sulu, proves us wrong by becoming the subject of a documentary about his own life. Takei, who spent...
With the Star Trek sequel due in theaters next May, one of the many hot topics with fans has been the discussion of the film’s title and possibly dropping the words “Star Trek” from the title — Similarly to how “Batman” was eliminated from the title of The...
Reading Rainbow, which ran on PBS from 1983 until 2006, embraced the mission to inspire a love of reading among young children. For 26 years, the show was co-produced and hosted by Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s LeVar Burton. Recently, Burton, former film, television producer Mark Wolfe and...
Malcolm McDowell, who played Doctor Tolian Soran in Star Trek: Generations, had plenty to say about Star Trek and The Avengers at the LA Times Hero Complex Festival, last week. In Generations, McDowell’s Soran character tries to destroy two stars and one inhabited planet in order to gain...
Sir Patrick Stewart travels to another destination where no one has gone before in the action film Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage based on the Middle Eastern fairy tale of Sinbad the sailor from the celebrated “Arabian Nights” book. In the movie, the sailor crosses a perilous desert of...
Leonard Nimoy delivered an inspirational convocation address at the Boston University (BU) College of Fine Arts on Sunday. He said when he was asked to speak at this memorable event, by BU President Dr. Brown, the “yes” came back so fast the President may have thought he was...
La-La Land Records, Sony Music and Paramount Pictures have prepared quite a treat for Star Trek fans as they reissue a deluxe 3-CD set of 1979‘s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. To restore and remix the score, Goldsmith’s original scoring engineer Bruce...
In a recent interview, legendary actor Leonard Nimoy admits that titling his 1975 autobiography “I Am Not Spock” was “a big mistake.” The idea for this title was born when he described how a woman at an airport introduced him to her child as “Mr. Spock” but the...
On Sunday, Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Kathryn Janeway in the Star Trek: Voyager series, celebrated her 57th birthday. While Mulgrew may be best known for her role as Star Trek‘s first female captain, her career spans outside of just the science-fiction genre. She is also known for...
Benedict Cumberbatch won the role of the villain in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel by submitting his audition on an iPhone, reported The New York Times. It all started when Cumberbatch received a call last Christmas that the director was “very interested” in having him play a “not-so-good...
Two of Star Trek‘s celebrated writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who have also collaborated on The Legend of Zorro, Cowboys and Aliens, Mission Impossible III, as well as two Transformers films, are now working on rewriting the script for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, the 3D...
Writer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daises, Heroes) keeps Trekkies hopeful at the exciting prospect of bringing Star Trek back to the TV screen. Fuller recently told Entertainment Weekly that he has spoken with X-Men director Bryan Singer about pitching a new Star Trek TV show, but the project may...
Maria Menounos, host of ABC’s Extra and contestant on the 14th season of Dancing With The Stars is the most recent “celebrity trekkie.” In an article entitled “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me: Maria Menounos” in the April 2012 issue of Us Weekly, the 33-year old Menounos...
Once a year, St. Louis Shakespeare’s The Magic Smoking Monkey Theater picks a cult film to adapt into a stage parody. The talented Smoking Monkeys have already presented Reefer Madness, Glen or Glenda and Star Wars. A logical addition to this impressive list of movie spoofs, Captain Kirk...
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