DVD Review: Star Trek
Posted on Nov 21, 2009 @ 10:12AM - 1 comment
More than 40 years after the USS Enterprise first launched, J.J. Abrams sexed up Star Trek for the modern age with his big-screen edition, banking more than $75 million from the opening weekend alone. Mixing sleek production value, high-voltage action and a nubile cast of fresh faces, Abrams managed to make the film his own, while paying tongue-in-cheek homage to the original, minus derision.
EXCLUSIVE: Balloon Boy’s Dad Lied About William Shatner Connection
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 @ 04:40PM - 6 comments
Star Trek’s William Shatner has shot-down UFO balloon hoaxer Richard Heene’s claims he was to go into business with him.
Heene - who is facing felony charges along with his wife Mayumi Heene in connection with the prank which falsely claimed his 6-year-old boy Falcon had taken-off in a home-made balloon – claimed to have once spoken with the star about hosting a show.
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But Shatner told RadarOnline.com: “His story is overblown. He’s inflated the amount of contact we’ve had.”
Heene and his wife both appeared in the reality show Wife Swap after the pair originally met at an amateur theatre in Los Angeles.
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The science fiction buff’s former video editor Vincent LeGrow confirmed that Heene had spoken with screen legend Shatner about a business venture.
Back in 2001 Heene produced an instructional video about turning cardboard boxes into forts for children.
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“He was very ambitious and wanted to get some sort of show going,” said Vincent LeGrow, who edited actors’ reels for a small company Heene founded.
Heene was the co-host of a show called The Science Detectives, and sometimes said he was affiliated with the Science Detective Research Group, though few records exist for the company.
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Some of the Science Detectives segments now appear on YouTube, alongside Heene's theories about UFOs and civilization on Mars.
He told a Tennessee newspaper in 2006 that he had produced a tornado-chasing documentary and was seeking a TV distributor, and two years later, according to an entry in an academic journal, he was producing a different documentary about electromagnetic fields in storms.
Heene's projects never attracted measurable attention, but his propensity for chasing tornadoes and building flying saucers attracted the producers of Wife Swap who cast the family for two episodes, including one last March.
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The production company behind Wife Swap, RDF, developed a standalone show about the Heenes at one point but it never went into production.
It’s understood that Heene was apparently pursuing a reality TV job as late as last month, when he signed up for an account on RealityWanted.com - a Web site that connects reality television casting agents and aspiring contestants.
Star Trek’s Chris Pine To Step Into Harrison Ford’s Shoes
Posted on Oct 14, 2009 @ 01:55PM - 1 comment
It’s official. Star Trek hunk Chris Pine will be stepping into the role of CIA analyst Jack Ryan- a character Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck have all helped bring to the big screen.
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“With Chris in this role, we've taken our first step in creating a re-boot that lives up to the successful lineage of the franchise," Paramount Film Group president Adam Goodman said on Tuesday.
The role, which is based on the Tom Clancy novels, was first filled by Baldwin in 1990’s Hunt for Red October before Ford took over the role in 1992 and 1994 in the memorable blockbusters Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. Affleck did his turn as Ryan in 2002’s The Sum of All Fears.
The script is still in production and no word on whether or not Pine will shoot the Star Trek sequel before becoming the CIA agent.
Babes In Space! The Hottest Women of Science Fiction
Posted on Oct 08, 2009 @ 02:00PM - 2 comments
While a superhero or alien avenger may be all the rage for summer blockbusters, let us not forget about the smoking hot females of science fiction!
RadarOnline.com has chosen the top ten hottest ladies throughout the galaxy, across movies and television.
PHOTOS: The Hottest Babes In Space!
Enjoy shots from Megan Fox's rocking Transformers bod to the other-worldly proportions of Stark Trek's Jolene Blalock, the mesmerizing black body suit of Charlize Theron's Aeon Flux and the sultry second skin of Rebecca Romijn's X-Men character.
Chris Pine's Slam Dunk Body
Posted on Aug 23, 2009 @ 03:44PM - Add a comment
Looks like Chris Pine's upper body is lean, long and prospering.
The Star Trek star was snapped in Los Feliz, his neighborhood in Los Angeles, dribbling a basketball and sporting some series arm and shoulder definition.
Check out more shots of Pine working on his fitness.
Give the success of the sci-fi franchise update, a sequel is already in the works, one that will feature Pine as well as Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and John Cho.
William Shatner Gives Conan O'Brien "The Finger"; NBC Censors Blur Image
Posted on Jun 18, 2009 @ 10:48AM - Add a comment
Conan O'Brien had his hands full Wednesday night with William Shatner.
The former Captain Kirk -- slouching, sweating and watery-eyed -- mumbled throughout his interview, before O'Brien teased Shatner for not flashing a Star Trek Vulcan hand signal correctly. Shatner struggled, eventually opting to flash Conan the middle finger, which NBC blurred out with pixels.
A frazzled O'Brien then stole back the spotlight, jumping on his table and asking Shatner, "What is wrong with you?!?"
Zachary Quinto Goes Back in Time in Mexico
Posted on Jun 06, 2009 @ 09:35AM - Add a comment
“Star Trek” star Zachary Quinto took a walking tour around the historical district of Mexico City with Roberto Orci, the Mexican-born writer of the scifi screenplay.
Quinto, who also stars in TV’s “Heroes,” started his tour at the Bosque de Chapultepec and went all the way to the Angel de la Independecia.
These are sites where men have definitely gone before!
(Photo: Ramey)
The Greatest Sci-Fi Lines
Posted on May 22, 2009 @ 10:09AM - Add a comment
Count down the top Sci-Fi movie quotes with RadarOnline.com
Star Trek - The Original Players
Posted on May 12, 2009 @ 09:11AM - Add a comment
Star Trek
The Characters of Star Trek
Posted on May 12, 2009 @ 09:01AM - Add a comment
The Characters of the new Star Trek film.
EXCLUSIVE: Most Illogical! 11 Mistakes In The New Star Trek Movie
Posted on May 12, 2009 @ 08:15AM - Add a comment
The re-boot of Star Trek has many terrific qualities: characters we know and love, rousing action, and heart-stopping special effects. And it made enough money (more than $76 million) its opening weekend to satisfy a Ferengi.
However, as sci-fi film historian Richard S. Meyers points out exclusively to RadarOnline.com, not everything about the movie is -- well, logical. "In fact," he says, "some of it looks like it got mangled in a transporter beam." Meyers is a former reporter for Starlog, and the author of several books including SF-2: A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films From Rollerball to The Return of the Jedi.
