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Disney Announces More Star Wars Movies

It's a good time for the galaxy far, far away

With a 16-year span between "Return of the Jedi" and "The Phantom Menace," fans of the Star Wars universe won’t have to wait nearly as long between movies with Disney at the helm. An ambitious film release schedule was announced at CinemaCon this week by Alan Horn, Walt Disney Co. chairman. Ki ...

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Star Trek's Final Frontier: Foreign Box Office

Paramount studying Warner Bros., Marvel moves

Probably the most successful foreign box office results of any Star Trek film came from 1987's "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." Sure, it was -- until 2009 -- the highest-grossing Star Trek film of all time. But what made foreign audiences like that Star Trek film over any other? It might be becau ...

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Is Paramount Preparing For New Star Trek Series?

Movie studio explores getting back into television

It's been nearly eight years since the last new episode of a Star Trek series was produced. And despite a film that made $257.7 million domestically in 2009, it seems that the powers behind the franchise are still shying away from television. That is, possibly, until now. Brad Grey, the presid ...

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'Deep Space Nine' Turns 20: A Look Back

Star Trek series set on a space station around Bajor remembered

Rick Berman and the late Michael Piller didn't have to look far to find inspiration for another Star Trek series. Saddam Hussein had set oil wells in Kuwait on fire as he withdrew as part of Operation Desert Storm, and both the allied American forces along with the Kuwaiti people were left to pic ...

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J.J. Abrams To Star Wars: Not Interested

Lifelong Warsie pledges commitment to Star Trek

Like Star Trek and Star Wars fans needed something else to fight over? The Star Wars franchise, now under the ownership of the Walt Disney Co., is gearing up to make movies once again. And one person they had their eye on? A man who helped resurrect another popular science-fiction franchise, J.J. ...

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Paramount Gives Cumberbatch A Name

Or just another tease to elicit more 'Star Trek' sequel speculation?

This story may contain spoilers. Previously, we provided a first-look at the "Star Trek Into Darkness" trailer in our article. The teaser gave audiences a peek at the Federation cityscape and the much-talked about villian, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. His voice was the only one heard throughou ...

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Teaser Trailer For 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' Released

Benedict Cumberbatch is featured heavily, but still no character reveal

Fans are waking up Thursday morning getting their first look at the latest film featuring Capt. Kirk, the Enterprise, and, of course, Benedict Cumberbatch. Paramount Pictures released a teaser trailer for "Star Trek: Into Darkness," the highly anticipated sequel to 2009's "Star Trek," starring Ch ...

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Paramount Makes 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' Official

Synopsis comes just weeks before upcoming IMAX tease

Star Trek has always been about exploring space. But at least in the J.J. Abrams era, it's hard to explore space without defending Earth first. Paramount Pictures has released some of the first official information about the upcoming "Star Trek: Into Darkness," calling it an "explosive action thr ...

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NBC Gives 'Revolution' Full-Season Pickup

Has been network's highest-rated scripted show ... so far

NBC believes in "Revolution" and has decided to give the J.J. Abrams/Eric Kripke lights-out drama a full season. The network announced "Revolution" as a pickup for full seasons along with two other new shows, the comedies "The New Normal" from "American Horror Story's" Ryan Murphy and "Go On." ...

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Preview: 'Revolution' Interesting, But Familiar

Concept may take us back 200 years, but story form takes us back 20

The Primetime Emmys are just around the corner, so it's no surprise that just as the fall network season is about to begin, discussions and debates abound over the quality of network television to premium cable. I have to admit -- I'm a fan of both distribution models. But there are times where I ...

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