Abrams, Pine & Quinto Depart For Australia + Prelim Global Premiere Schedule

Today in Trek (future) history is First Contact Day. On April 5th 2063 Zefram Cochrane will make the first Human warp flight and greet the first Vulcan visitors to Earth. And how fitting that today Star Trek director JJ Abrams and his Kirk and Spock (Chris Pine and Zach Quinto), all boarded their first flight to greet fans (new and old) across the world, in their global Star Trek tour. See below for details including a preliminary schedule of the events.

 

And so it begins
Today in the wee hours, JJ and the boys boarded a flight for Syndey Australia, where they will kick off the Star Trek gala premiere tour on Tuesday April 7th. Celebrity site Just Jared was at Los Angeles International Airport to catch photos of the team as they departed.


Abrams, Pine (being asked to sign ship toy) and Quinto at LAX this morning
(click to see more photos at JustJared)

STAR TREK WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE
JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto, and Chris Pine are headed on a multi-city tour of gala premieres that starts in Sydney, Australia this Tuesday. Along the way they will be joined by more stars. Each premiere will be invite-only, but some cities also have made tickets available or have contests. Below is the best information we have so far on the tour, but it is not complete.

April 7 – Sydney, Australia
Opera House – Concert Hall – 7:00 PM (red carpet sarts 5:30)
Celebs: JJ Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban. Eric Bana
More: Website (sold out)

April 9 – Auckland, New Zealand
Sky City Cinema 7.45pm
Celebs: JJ Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto & Karl Urban.
More: Theater promo contest to win tickets + Charity contest to win tickets

April 15 – Brussels, Belgium
Tour & Taxis Theater – 6pm (part of Belgium Film Fest)
Celebs: John Cho and Karl Urban (maybe more)
More: BIFF site

April 16 – Berlin, Germany
Sony Center – 7:30 PM
Celebs: JJ Abrams, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Karl Urban and John Cho
More: StarTrek.de

April 20 – London, UK
Empire Theater – Leicester Square
Celebs: unknown
More: Paramount UK (tickets available for £70), Virgin Contest, Mirror Contest

It should be noted that these dates above are solely for the gala premieres and not for the public premieres. For a full list of those, go to the official Star Trek site.

Other international stops may include Kuwait City, Madrid and Paris, but these appear to be just press events and not gala premieres. After the stops in Europe, the team will head to the US. There will be a press event in NY and a final pre-release gala premiere in Los Angeles at the end of April. Later in May Abrams will head to Tokyo for a gala premiere (Star Trek opens to the public in Japan on May 29th).

TrekMovie will provide an update on the above schedule as more info becomes available. We will have coverage from some of the above events, and when we don’t have someone there we will provide links to other coverage.

Live Blogging Sydney Premiere
Paramount is working with Picture Production Company to bring live video and pictures from the Sydney premiere, including getting stars to answer questions. Questions can be submitted via Twitter by using #asktrek hashtag. More info on this liveblogging can be found at theppc.com.

Video responses to a selection of these questions will be published to a dedicated Star Trek channel on the social multimedia network Phreadz startrek.phreadz.com, alongside a live Twitter feed and photos served via Flickr.

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Oh… Sony Center… Little Tokyo… have fun! Maybe I’ll be there.

See you in London guys !!!!

Wow, it’s great to see Trek being marketed globally this way. I hope this movie kicks butt at the box office.

Even Pine seems to be in awe of TOS E… oh well…

im assuming there will be MAJOR spoilers from the 7th onward..hopefully TM.com will continue with the big SPOILER warnings before clicking on the main stories…don’t wanna risk getting spoiled by someone whos seen it or someone whos read all about it so will be avoiding all those big review threads where all is revealed and talkbacks in general (ive noticed some like to delight in revealing little nuggets and stuff in spoiler free threads..almost like people will be impressed with their knowledge) …it would suck being spoiled so close to seeing it after managing to stay (relatively) spoiler free up till now

that photo of the dude getting him to sign an TOS Ent has me LOL….its just the way the hand is in there at the side with the Ent and Pines expression…just when you thought trekkies couldnt get any more nuts…

pretty ingenious idea though – get your ships signed instead of a dvd or book

That “Uh oh, busted” look on Pine’s face as he’s being asked to sign the toy is priceless.

The picture of Pine is iconic… the shock is setting in….

They’re going to be rather jet-lagged by the time they get down here. Still looking forward to being fanboy-y on the red carpet and then going in and seeing the film.
2 days to go!!

OT but apparently Fast + Furious has had a $72.5 million opening!!

I bet studio estimates were probably around $30m at most!

if the 4th part in a seemingly redundant franchise can do that what kind of openings will this summers films have? – maybe Trek will have a $100m opening….

Quinto signing Enterprise model-

“Those nacelles are so tiny!”

What I’d give to be in Sydney with this crew and for this event!

11- I mean Pine instead of Quinto.

Hi, anyone knows if there is a way to get your hands on some tickets for the german gala premiere?

#14 Could be that they will start selling tickets soon, but the Sidney event cost $100 bucks.

Botany Bay… Botany Bay? Oh no!

I’m hoping for the best, and I can’t wait to check here for the latest on what’s going on in Sydney. There are going to be a heck of a lot of spoilers flying around here in the coming weeks. Don’t know if I want to read them or not. Probably won’t be able to resist. :)

IMPORTANT!!!!!

Just a heads up. 7.00 p.m. in Australia is 5.00 p.m. EST.

It’s also fitting that the US release date is Federation Day.

So, World Premiere, April 7th in Sydney… Does that mean there’s still time for them to edit Shatner in?

Anthony,

With folks in various parts of the world getting to see ST before we in the colonies are allowed, do you think you might be able to post some coverage that is CLOSED to comments, so that you can give us a bit of spoiler-proof news?

Hindsight being 20/20, it seems that moving the release date from December to May was a very good idea. Could Paramount have generated this much of a buzz in time for a December opening? I’m not so sure.

That look on Pine’s face is priceless. It just screams, “Oh god, *this* is what they were talking about”.

Woopwoo!! I’m flying to Syddo tomorrow from Wellington New Zealand to go to the premier!! I am very much looking forward to this and know how lucky I am to be going, I have followed ST from a very young age (I was 7 when TNG came out) and I have a very understanding girlfriend who is just as much a geek as I am (although she is going for Karl Urban more than ST!!).

Looks like these two are swapping glasses: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/ALO-059373.jpg

Heheheh…

So no premiere in Netherlands after all?

#21
I’m going into the cone of silence starting April 7. After two years of waiting for this movie I don’t want to learn about the plot and “how it ends” before May 8!

I like this world premiere thing and I think it indicates the studios interest in the movie and reviving the franchise but I want to walk into the theater with no real idea of the ending.

Trying to avoid being spoiled after April 7th, might require fewer visits to this site. Or at minimum keeping one eye closed when visiting. Sorry Anthony, you guys here are doing too good of a job posting news. Can’t take the chance of any hard spoilers between now and May 8th.

Going into stasis!

I’m with you there Pizza & Harris… I’m planning to see the film with an old Trekkie friend from way back, which could be a whole week after the release… it’s going to be hard to keep my paws off this site till then but I want the film to have a few surprises.

hmm, will TrekMovie ever reveal full spoilers for this film? If a detailed write up of the plot became available, would it appear here? How would that affect the positive relationship this site enjoys with the production staff?

In another sense of the word, the biggest spoiler was the initial announcement of the recast/prequel idea.

I’ve got tickets to the Sydney showing. Can’t wait!

Pine is like…..”Whoa!! What the HELL is That Thing!!? is that from Starwars???”

The net is going to be on fire with reviews of this film on Tuesday night.

They must be pretty confident that the movie is a winner. If they didn’t they wouldn’t be showing it to the world this early.

…”That’s one of those X-tie fighter things right??”

34.

My thoughts exactly. Look what bad advanced WOM has done to Wolverine’s chances. OUCH.

Funny how all three of them wear chunky retro govt. issue 50’s glasses.

Pine probably doesn’t know what he got himself into. Quinto even less. Abrams, if he does what I think he has done to this film, realizes (along with the suits) that he has a Star Wars ’77 level hit on his hands. I don’t see Paramount doing this for ANY of the other films.

Every cast member in this film will become part of history. They don’t understand yet what they have become. Pine isn’t just Chris Pine anymore. He’s about to become James T. Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise.

Only the Star Wars people from Episode IV have this level of cinematic mythology.

16. urbandk-

I LOL’d. Well played!

I don’t know what I’m going to do for the next several weeks. I want to come to this site, I really do, but I don’t want to get spoiled. At the same time, I want to know everything there is to know about the movie. I don’t think I will be able to resist. I can picture it now:

“Just one click and all will be revealed. No, No!!! Save it for the theater!!! But its so easy, just one click with the mouse and all will be revealed!!! WAIT! NO! STOP! NOOOOOO!!!!!! . uh-oh.

I think that, like some others, my visits to the Trek sites might drop off now that the Austrailan premier is upon us. I’ve been happy to get a few spoilers, but want to avoid someone posting the entire plot. That would not be cool. As Monty Python said “I wouldn’t want to know everything. It would take the mystery out of life.”

@ 38 . Exactly… their going to be type-casted for the rest of their lives.

#38- The only one who knows what he REALLY got himself into is Pegg, I’m willing to bet.
No new “Trek Stars” get it at first. Only after a few cons does it set in.

I love this site, but I just deleted trekmovie.com from my bookmarks toolbar. I’m not sure what I’m going to do for the next few weeks, maybe focus on school? I’ll add it back May 9th.

AH WTF! there’s no premiere for Italy!!!

#25 – Yep, funny. Was Pine trying to go in disguise as Quinto? Kinda looks like it… Quinto’s shot seems in amusement at that as well, although it’s likely just Quinto being amused at Trek fans in general, and whoever came out to greet them there at the airport… Either way, great stuff, and the first of many such shots, I presume…

Anthony, I might have to stay away from this place and any other website reviews after Tuesday as well, no offense!! ;-) I feel like I already know too much…

Hey, listen everybody, I’m right there with you. I don’t want to get spoiled. But don’t stop coming to the site!!!! There’s going to be plenty of other news about the movie that is not spoiler related.

Any word on an “Iowa premiere” only fitting seeing how
they went out of there way , to give a one horse town in canada
one???

I actually wouldn’t put it past Pine to disguise himself as Quinto, perhaps to gently jibe his co-star. Not a bad imitation job, actually…

re:38
“Every cast member in this film will become part of history. They don’t understand yet what they have become. Pine isn’t just Chris Pine anymore. He’s about to become James T. Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise.
Only the Star Wars people from Episode IV have this level of cinematic mythology.”

Flash in the pan