18 Stories on J.J. Abrams
Ron Howard's "Angels & Demons" soared to a $48 million opening this weekend, narrowly edging out a stellar $43 million second-week performance by "Star Trek," according to estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
For the last four decades, the original Enterprise crew has lived long and prospered
J.J. Abrams' franchise reboot boldly went where no Star Trek movie has gone before, grossing a stellar $72.5 million from Friday through Sunday, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
PEOPLE has a very logical discussion with the Vulcan stars about meeting each other, rabid fans and bad haircuts
For "Star Trek" fans, it may feel like deja vu all over again.
Acclaimed filmmaker J.J. Abrams was presented with a specific challenge when he agreed to direct this summer's highly anticipated prequel to the phenomenally successful sci-fi franchise, "Star Trek."
Did somebody just reach through the space-time continuum and pull out a white rabbit?
Geek buzz flying around the Internet suggests that "Star Trek" could be one of the summer's biggest movies.
The geek crowd is in for another bumper year at the movies as filmmakers continue to make a beeline for the bits of pop culture that make fanboys high five.
The highs and lows of the annual pop-culture fiesta, from Hugh Jackman's surprise appearance to Star Trek's no-show
Ron Howard's "Angels & Demons" soared to a $48 million opening this weekend, narrowly edging out a stellar $43 million second-week performance by "Star Trek," according to estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
For the last four decades, the original Enterprise crew has lived long and prospered
J.J. Abrams' franchise reboot boldly went where no Star Trek movie has gone before, grossing a stellar $72.5 million from Friday through Sunday, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office.
PEOPLE has a very logical discussion with the Vulcan stars about meeting each other, rabid fans and bad haircuts
For "Star Trek" fans, it may feel like deja vu all over again.
Acclaimed filmmaker J.J. Abrams was presented with a specific challenge when he agreed to direct this summer's highly anticipated prequel to the phenomenally successful sci-fi franchise, "Star Trek."
Did somebody just reach through the space-time continuum and pull out a white rabbit?
Geek buzz flying around the Internet suggests that "Star Trek" could be one of the summer's biggest movies.
The geek crowd is in for another bumper year at the movies as filmmakers continue to make a beeline for the bits of pop culture that make fanboys high five.
The highs and lows of the annual pop-culture fiesta, from Hugh Jackman's surprise appearance to Star Trek's no-show
The Carnegie Mellon professor, who battled pancreatic cancer, became an Internet sensation
Not many trailers have had the impact of the teaser for "Cloverfield," which debuted last summer attached to Michael Bay's "Transformers" bearing not so much as a title and the solitary credit "Produced by J.J. Abrams." (For some of us, it was the high point of the evening.)
Q&A: J. J. Abrams talks with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about doing a horror film for the YouTube age
Winona Ryder is about to get the Star Trek treatment – and guaranteed future work at sci-fi conventions.
Last year this time, "Heroes" was just another new show hoping to find some viewers. As everyone who owns a TV knows, it succeeded. Last season's top-rated freshman series, about a group of ordinary people with extraordinary abilities, now has fans scratching for second-season details.
LOS ANGELES, May 7 (Reuters) - "Mission: Impossible III," the first big action film of the summer, opened disappointingly at the weekend box office in North American, despite a whirlwind publicity tour by its pricey star, Tom Cruise.
Don't you hate Canadians?
She sits in a German bank, staring at the secret documents she just ripped from a safety deposit box -- documents that unravel a critical chapter of her past, part of the story of who she is.
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