JJ Abrams

Overture and Hammer Films create fan page for horror Let The Right One In remake

Overture and Hammer Films have released the first official synopsis for Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’ Let Me In, which is based on the cult hit Let the Right One In. Let the Right One In was part of Magnet Films’ original Six Shooter Film Series, and was snapped up for a remake treatment by writer ….

Photos of the exclusive Star Trek Limited Edition Replica Gift Set and special edition Blu-ray

Amazon.com has an exclusive Star Trek Limited Edition Replica Gift Set attached to the purchase of the Star Trek Three-Disc plus Digital Copy Blu-ray version of the Star Trek film, which hits DVD and Blu-ray Disc on November 17, 2009. The U.S.S. Enterprise Commemorative Replica is modeled directly from the digital effects files used in ….

Star Trek’s “Bones” McCoy to become a vampire and piss off a Priest

Karl Urban, who most recently played “Bones” McCoy in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, is attached to play the villain in Screen Gems’ post-apocalyptic horror thriller Priest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Cory Goodman and based on a TokyoPop comic, Priest, which is being directed by Scott Stewart, is set in a world ….

Mission Impossible 4 now has writers to go along with producers

Paramount and producers Tom Cruise and J.J. Abrams have chosen Josh Applebaum and Andre Nemec to write the script for the newly revived Mission Impossible 4 project, according to Variety. Applebaum and Nemec spent four seasons with Abrams as co-exec producers of the spy show Alias, and will pen M:I 4 based on a story ….

Big Bang Theory and Fringe sneak peek screenings to be held at Comic-Con ’09

The cast and producers of The Big Bang Theory will be present for a special screening and Q&A on Friday, during Comic-Con. Then on Saturday, you’ll have a chance to meet the cast and producers of J.J. Abrams’ Fringe, and watch a sneak peak of season two of the show. Both events are happening in ….

J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek coming to DVD and Blu-ray on November 17th

This year audiences thrilled at the triumphant voyage of the Starship Enterprise and her young and vibrant crew in movie theaters across the planet—and on November 17, 2009, the world will go where no one has gone before when STAR TREK debuts as a three-disc Blu-ray with digital copy, two-disc DVD with digital copy and ….

Leonard Nimoy and Jeffrey Combs to be guests at East Coast Star Trek Con in July

The Official Star Trek Convention East Coast lans in July, as the first major area Star Trek Convention to follow the blockbuster Star Trek feature film from JJ Abrams. The legendary actor, director, producer and photographer Leonard Nimoy is scheduled to be one of the featured guests at this year’s event, along with Star Trek: ….

Star Trek shatters virtually every IMAX box office record

IMAX and Paramount Pictures announced yesterday that Star Trek: The IMAX Experience, directed by J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost, Alias), shattered virtually every opening weekend IMAX box office record, posting $8.5 million from 138 IMAX theatres domestically. The limited IMAX run registered a per screen average of approximately $62,000 for the weekend, marking the ….

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams to tell story of world’s biggest diamond heist

Paramount recently nabbed film rights to a Wired Magazine article titled The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist, written by Joshua Davis, and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams will take on the project as a producer and, possibly, as a director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The as-yet-unpublished article, describes the true story ….