Live Coverage Of Star Trek Hollywood Premiere April 30, 2009
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This evening the big USA gala premiere is happening at the Chinese theater in Hollywood, California. After a month of international premieres, this is is going to the the biggest with Star Trek director JJ Abrams joined by almost the entire cast and crew. Also on hand will be past Trek luminaries and many of LA’s top celebrities. TrekMovie is there and will be liveblogging (with photos), plus there are live webcams and a local TV station is broadcasting live from the red carpet. Details below.
Celebrity-o-rama
Expected to appear at tonight’s premiere are Star Trek cast members and filmmakers including: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Ben Cross, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Tyler Perry, Winona Ryder, Rachel Nichols, Jimmy Bennett, J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci, Bryan Burk, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Chernov.
Other celebrities expected to appear include: Common, Hyper Crush, Linkin Park, Pittsburg Slim, David Arquette, Sean Astin, Hank Azaria, Michael Bay, Kristen Bell, James L. Brooks, Sophia Bush, Amanda Bynes, Aaron Carter, Kristin Cavallari, Jack Coleman, Kevin Dillon, Peter Facinelli & Jennie Garth, Jonathan Frakes, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Seth Green, Neil Patrick Harris, Cheryl Hines, Samuel L. Jackson, Shawn Johnson, Zachary Levi, Ray Liotta, Leighton Meester, Carlos Mencia, Alyssa Milano, Michelle Monaghan, Frankie Muniz, John Noble, Masi Oka, Hayden Panettiere, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Pfeiffer & David E. Kelley, Matt Reeves, Perrey Reeves, Trent Reznor, Emma Roberts, Robert Rodriguez, Cristine Rose, Nicollette Sheridan, Elisabeth Shue & Davis Guggenheim, Christian Slater, Leelee Sobieski, Scott Speedman, Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott, Ben Stiller, Mira Sorvino, George Takei, Anna Torv, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mike Vogel, Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Will Wheaton, Kendra Wilkinson and Rainn Wilson.
Live Video from LA Premiere
Starting at 6PM Pacific (9 PM Eastern), local station KABC will be live streaming the blue carpet arrivals for Star Trek. CLICK HERE to see in new window. Mann Theaters has also set up three webcams (again opens new window).
CLICK TO SEE MANN THEATER WEBCAMS
TrekMovie LiveBlogging
TrekMovie is at the premiere and will be live blogging with photos via twitter. You can follow along at the TrekMovie Twitter Page or via the feed below. Images will show up as links to twitpic.com.
Full report later
On Thursday or Friday TrekMovie will provide a full report on the US premiere with pictures, quotes and hopefully video.
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Sweet….first! :-P
Damn, thats a lot of other celebrities. Should be fun.
This morning I won free tickets from a radio show for a private screening on Monday!! I almost wet myself.
Ray Liotta? Why Ray Liotta? And what about THE SHAT?!?!!?
I will be watching this tonight!
Trent Reznor? Didn’t expect to see that name on the list.
Following the updates on Wil Wheaton’s twitter, apparently he’s in Detroit. Is he going to make it to the premiere?
Im really surprised by all the celebs that are showing up for the premiere. Samuel L. Jackson, is showing up for the premiere. I guess he didn’t mean what he said in “The Spirit,” has the Octopus. “You were stone cold dead. Dead has Star Trek.”
Live coverage. Exciting. Technology is cool.
#3 You’re so lucky!
That Wil Weaton…not Will…chuck him out bouncers
#8 That irked the hell out of me while I was watching The Spirit.
Mmmmm Alyssa Milano.
And Ben Stiller. Why does he get to hang out with all my (our) childhood heroes? When I get famous…..
No Seth McFarland or Jason Alexander?
Takei and (obviously) Nimoy will be there but what about Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and most importantly THE SHAT! Hopefully they invited all the surviving original cast to attend and I would have hoped they would have asked Shat to attend when they were at his charity event.
Maybe only Takei was invited because of his Heroes connection.
Then again, Ms. Nichols was also on Heroes. They might have known Takei was coming so didn’t want the drama of he and Shatner there on what should be an amazing night.
Good to see Frakes and Wheaton going, too bad Patrick Stewart isn’t.
I see lifelong TOS fans like Arquette, Sam Jackson, Ben Stiller, Christian Slater (ST VI cameo) were invited and probably were begging JJ to attend.
The only glaring ommission is not having Mr. Shatner there.
I still think Liotta should have been Pike.
The big question is will Shatner show up? How about Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols? I’d be shocked if they weren’t invited.
Any word on Patrick Stewart and any on the other “big names” from TNG and the lesser known “Star Trek” programs?
What happened to the clip of “Star Trek” that appeared at the beginning of “Lost?”
If Shatner shows up I hope he and George Takei get into a brawl.
haha Trent Reznor wrote “I’m doing something cool tonight!” on his Twitter. I didn’t know he was a Trek fan.
Patrick Stewart is in a play running 4-30-09 to like july in London
According to Twitter, it looks like Reznor might not actually be there.
17.
I was wondering the same thing =(
But mmmmm Kristen Bell is there =)=)
Go Trekmovie!!!
Here’s the “Lost” clip of Delta Vega: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salvorhardin00/3487978603/
Now that sounds like fun! I would have loved to been there! It woud have been cool if both the original (remaining) and new casts had
gone…at least most is represented. Its lookin good.
The KABC reporter SO wants to be somewhere else…
Masi and Hayden from Heroes. That’s nice. Supporting Zach. Both are great. Hopefully Greg Grunberg too, at least. He’s friend with JJ.
It’s kind of funny that Mike Vogel is going seeing that he was the runner up for the role of Kirk. I bet he will feel weird watching Chris Pine as Kirk knowing he was almost cast as Kirk.
Wow the ABC reporter guy is a douche and the supposed Trekker Denise didn’t get the episode number even close to right for Trouble With Tribbles.
Also there is indeed a Tribble in the movie, hence it being handed out.
Is the Shat back in Star Trek XII? In an Alternate Universe, the Alternate Kirk could have saved the day with Picard and survived. He could be happily living in the 24th Century.
Pine’s Kirk could have a vision of his future self played by Shatner. It could parody this Simpson’s episode about Scotty!
(Star Trek Christmas Carol)
Capt. Kirk: Report, Mr. Sulu.
Sulu: Captain, there appears to be some sort of spirit, from an Earth holiday past.
Kirk: Mr. Scott, fire photon torpedoes.
Scotty: It’s no use, Captain. He’s showin visions of me future. God, I’m so fat.
Thank you 24!!
Ugh… the streaming commentary is dreeeeadfully painful to watch.
The reporter Denise just called it “The Mengaeray” snicker…
The commentary is just terrible, naturally…
At least the reporters don’t call it “Star Track” like so many do.
Can’t wait to see the celeb interviews for the cast and crew! I wanna see Nimoy so bad!
Wow. A lot of celebs out there. jackson must be trying to apologise for his comment and thats ok. This is indeed a big event and oh so kool. Wish i was there.
I love how they had Nimoy listed as Prime Spock. That was kool
**SPOILER** The creature designer just explained the evolution of the Romulan’s brow line. Hmm… good reasoning.
I agree it was a pretty decent explaination of a makeup change
Ahhhhhh!!!!!!! 7 more days till I can see Trek. AHHhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
It’s Frakes and Sirtis!
Haha Kendra is there, lol.
Nimoy and Cho are visible now, also!
This is a Huge night for Trek. Finaly trek has gone A List.
Man Mr. Nimoy is a cool cat, I’d love to talk with him :)
This is amazing… Nimoy is the man!
Is anybody else having trouble seeing the video?
WHOA! The guy on the carpet just slipped and called this Star Wars! Where is the noose?!
Oh the reporter finally did it and slipped up and did the “Star Wars… er Star Trek” mistake. It was bound to happen.
Ah,…to be there…..or have that channel.
YELCHIN IS ACTUALLY GETTING TALKED TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uoh black screen all of a sudden while talking to Pegg!
wierd, refreshed and it’s fine…
This reporter is a dick
And it’s over!
Damn! Waited all this time and they frikkin’ turned Urban away. The hell, handler? I had to put up with those newscasters all this time for practically nothing, wth. Not cool. :(
WHoaaaa!!! Super FUN!
Youch…. What a dickish thing to say about Urban at the end… You noticed the fan was cringing… but hey he doesnt know
54: Yeah, he made some pretty ass comments.
That was not cool, dissing on Karl Urban like that. We get it. You’re tired. It’s not an easy job, but don’t take it out on Bones.
Seriously! What a bitchy little newscaster
The redcarpert.com coverage was awful, or at least that chick “fan” from KABC was. She talked out her ass most of the time, fueling the rumor mill and twisting so many facts around. Idiot.
It was great to see the stars, tho. Leonard just looked so darn happy! And I am becoming a huge Chris Pine fan. He seems to be so refined and sincere. His mama sure raised a fine gentleman!
The reporter is somewhat of a mess, but his sidekick was cute. Nice to hear from Simon Pegg about Ice Age 3, which, incidentally, is NOT premiering tonight.
“Oh, and there goes so-and-so with Roberto Rodriguez, who apparently plays young Kirk in the film.” The kid is the lead-in to the first huge trailer for this blockbuster. Maybe a quick talk would have been better than simply watching him walk by with a famous director.
Oh, -those- kinds of celebrities. :)
Missed the red carpet!
Not a bad broadcast. Its gotta be difficult doing that sort of thing, and trying to interview as many people as possible without missing anyone. I hope everyone likes the movie. I have never seen a Star Trek premiere that was treated as the biggest movie event of the year. Pretty awesome. T-7 days. Can’t wait!!!
Interesting to watch. At times I wished I could fast forward though …
It’s odd that none of the orignal TOS (non participating in the movie) actors were not worked in somehow.
On Friday, May 8, 2009, a group of us (fans and newbies) is going to see the it at the Edwards Marq*e IMAX, 7620 Katy Freeway, HOUSTON, TX (the 9:55 p.m. show on IMAX). You’re welcome to joins us.
I’ll have “Trekmovie: Houston Chapter” sign or something to help you find our group. You can contact me through my website.
68 — That’s cool, wish something like that was going on in my neck of the woods :)
#67 “It’s odd that none of the orignal TOS (non participating in the movie) actors were not worked in somehow.”
Is there any real and good reason that each and every one of the surviving original cast wasn’t at this premiere to see Leonard and the relaunch of the Trek they made iconic?
Who knows, maybe they were all there, not just Walter, maybe it just wasn’t reported. I sincerely hope they were at least invited, I mean their names are imortalized in cement at that very spot for crying out loud.
It’s not about distracting the audience from giving the new cast their “moment”…the new cast has sealed that with their performance in in this fantastic movie. It’s about respect.
#70 … I honestly believe this may the best Star Trek movie since Galaxy Quest … but I believe the fact Walter Koenig showed up is because he’s bored and hopes to meet a Casting Agent tonight, and the rest of them have probably moved on with real lives. I could honestly care less about actors, but to say that I hope they all have high hopes to follow Shatner’s lead and to move on to something bigger and better … such as Boston Legal or the various great roles Star Trek Enterprise’s Linda Park and others have auditioned for, gained, and worked since Star Trek.
FYI, “Rotten Tomatoes” is now processing mainstream reviews of “Wolverine,” and it’s dropped from 44% to 37%.
Roger Ebert reminds that neither Canada nor its NW territories existed in 1840, when the main characters are accompanied by a caption that reads “1840-The Northwest Territories of Canada.”
That’s enough to get the Canadian market into the aisles, laughing. The rest is cliched action, blah blah, and he remembers nothing at the end anyway. Some are calling to shelve “X-Men” as a film franchise.
Let’s hope that this is a good segue into May 8th for Star Trek. I like “X-Men,” but I like “Star Trek” a lot more, and a weak opening for W could open up the door for ST09 to be the first mega-blockbuster of the summer. Fingers crossed.
Wow, Wolverine is stinkin’ that bad? Too bad, as I really liked the X-Men, but……great news for Trek!
The area the Chinese Theater is in is trash.
#71
I’m with you. Also, I’m guessing that all of them were invited and chose not to go.
71. John Sullivan
Yeah, right, I’m sure Walter just decided to go because he was bored. Yeah, ummm… WTF? Sorry, but I find myself shaking my head at these kinds of posts. I really find it hard to grasp that you can think like that. Whatever floats your boat. I just find it somewhat stupid. You have no constructive criticism. Just a bunch of hoop la and rambling about why its going to suck, which is a pretty bold statement at this point, since it is the “critics choice” movie and has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes thus far.
Nice to see we’re still infected with people who like posting “First!” any time they can. I can only assume that constant feelings of inadequacy can lead to some strange behaviour at times. ;)
This is so awesome! Bought our tickets tonight for 7 p.m. Thursday.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=85727074
Images from the premiere.
#77. It should be standing police to permaban those douchbags, it was AICN that started it, and we dont need it here. GET A LIFE..
Yeah, Wolverine is getting solidaly trounced as a piece of crud in these evening’s daily newspaper for tomorrow morning. Not sure if will make a difference with so many tix sold in advance, but it appears that Wolverine will have this one good weekend and will be written off after that. Probably no way it will even meet the projections for this weekend. Fox blew it.
I saw Jack Coleman (Heroes, HRG) in the crowd too. That’s great.
Samuel Jackson was there? “Hand me my phaser, it’s the one with BMF on it”
Tori Spelling was there. She is reportedly the one who called The Shat a has been a few years back, prompting him to write the song of the same name. Get a life, Tori!
Shatner not being at the premiere is a travesty!!!
DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY!!!
#24
Cheers for the clip mate. Superb. Its just making the wait for the Midnighter at The Rialto, Dunedin an even longer wait!
Wish I could use the jellyfish to get to wednesday the 6th RIGHT NOW!
Wednesday Midnight in NZ is taking a long time to get here!!!
Its going to be bloody awesome!
Khaaaaaaaaan!
I’m STOKED! Just bought my tix for the 9:50 show next Thursday here in Frederick, MD. Woohoo!
if I see the movie wednesday 6th at midnight (which takes the movie into the wee hours of the 7th), does that mean we in New Zealand will be some of the first to see the movie in the world (in its world-wide release) as we are many hours ahead of the rest of the world?
this obviously excludes Austin Texas and the special premieres of course.
basically, should i be proud and gloat over my Trekkie family and friends around the rest of the planet?
I probably will anyway.
see you at the Rialto, Dunedin.
YooooooooHoooooooo
YaHOOOO! I stopped by on my way home from work! What a Pleasure!!
Now excited about this film.
I wish all the filmmakers the Best!!
Did Quinto get a new haircut for this or did he just spray the strands into place? Very handsome. Chris Pine looks like he had his doo refreshed.
And Neil Patrick Harris is a Trek fan? Who knew?
Wow. I just got back from the premiere and Im still coming down from the rush. Like Mark Altman I still have issues with some of the sets that seem out of place and Im not a fan of the props BUT…..
This movie freakin ROCKED!
I was in the bleachers and I saw Anthony down there by the rail doing his thing. Eric Bana came over to hang at the bleachers as did chris Pine and Zackary Quinto exited his limo with someone who looked a LOT like him. Im assuming it was his brother as the resemblance was so strong. Zoe Saldana is even prettier in person. Frankie Muniz was there and Kendra from Girls Next Door also came over.
What was REALLY funny as there was a couple of rather catty gentlemen sitting behind me and one remarked, “The only person we HAVENT seen is Tori Spelling.” Within five minutes Tori Spelling showed up and I turned and said, “See what happens? If you speak the devil’s name she appears”.
A lot of folks from both Heroes and Lost were also there and consequently the movie started late. So, they finally ushered us in and I, foam Spock hands in tow, went in, grabbed my complimentary popcorn and soda, and took my seat. Almost immediately JJ came out and thanked us, apologized for the wait, and kicked off the movie.
This movie is most definitely Trek at it’s core…it is a Trek what if. whereas it didnt LOOK my Trek it FELT like my Trek. Chris Pine does a bang up job as does Quinto but Urban was my favorite. Somewhere De Kelley is smiling.
The special effects are amazing but several people who DONT frequent this page complained about the shaky cam and lens flares being overdone. The guy next to me left with a bad headache. Its hard to praise this movie without spoilers and particulars but I still have my OLD Trek and now I have my NEW Trek and the way events unfolded and affected the characters I look forward to seeing how they move forward. If they just get rid of the brewery and the handscanners Ill be a happy camper :)
In closing I went to this movie daring JJ to impress me and he took my dare.
Trek is back…and in a big way.
Carlos Mencia?? You Mean “Ned Holness” the pathetic Hack.
92
Ergh I’m jealous… It’s awesome that you liked it! Does this mean you’re going to become “The Happy Klingon”?
Seen Wolverine, it is almost abominably bad. As a Canadian I’m extra enraged by Northwest Territories, Canada, 1845 – considering my country didn’t even EXIST until 1867, let alone the NWT, and suddenly Weapon X is an American project, Wolverine becomes a regular soldier in the US Army during WW2, etc, but the story, acting, and especially direction are just terrible. It feels almost like a fan film with a huge budget.
It’ll be no challenge to Trek.
PS…a lot of the folks on the above list I did NOT see but Eugene Roddenberry showed up to a warm reception as did Johnathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, George Takei and Brad, Walter Koenig and Robert Rodriguez. Trying to keep track of everyone there was difficult.
94. I am now the Happy Klingon lol.
95. agreed. Wolverine won’t even come CLOSE to Trek. Theyre not even in the same league. Its the difference between Pro Football and High School Football.
Nichelle is at FedCon in Germany, so she couldn’t male it to the premiere.
Well, Mr. Angry gone Happy Klingon, I’m jealous!!!
But I’m very pleased you liked it. I know you’ve been skeptical in the past. Just more assurance this is going to be awesome for the rest of us. :)
I know James Doohan was going there tonight.
Ok, I was sitting in the grandstand maybe 20 feet from where the limos were unloading and I didn’t see HALF of the people listed above. Thank goodness, because the whole thing ran late, naturally. And in case anyone wants to know, the movie was INTENSE! I’ve been home a couple of hours now and I’m still in shock. I’m going to go see it again on the 9th.
Thanks for the report. I live in Italy, where no one seems to care much :-( so thanks for brightening my day!
I’ll see the movie as soon as it’s out, on Friday….
102…agreed but well worth the wait. I sat on my foam hands cuz those bleachers were hard on the butt!
Still coming down from the movie….whatta rush….Wil Wheaton didnt show because he was afraid of catching the flu…Im not joking…he tweeted at the last moment he decided not to risk it.
100. Yeah it was weird how something could be so different and still ‘feel’ like Trek.
Strangely enough this also had a sort of Starship Troopers feel to it to me…the young guy that doesnt know what he wants to do with his life rising to the challenge. Now I find myself REALLY looking forward to the next one….
Anthony,
any idea why Star Trek is not being released in IMAX theatres in Germany. I wrote an email to them and asked but they only told me that it’s the case but not why. For Germany having the second largest Star Trek fanbase after the US that seems to be a stupid decision, right?
I was there! It was amazing! dont’ want to say anything about the movie and spoil it for you, but being there in the bleacher seats was an awesome once in a lifetime experience!
Got Karl Urban and Eric Bana autographs! woot!
Well, that was fabulous. I followed the ABC7 live streaming at RedCarpet.com and I thoroughly enjoyed that even though here in the UK it was 3.30am before I actually crawled into bed. Thanks also to the TrekMovie.com tweets and for pointing me in the direction of the live feed. I felt like I was there…almost. Well done, Anthony and co.
Kabel1 (German TV Network) shows additional sequences of the German Premiere, right now inlcusive some Interviews etc. :D
“I have bought tickets for my third watching of STAR TREK next week, and if I were you – I’d save up to see it twice, rather than have a bad experience this weekend (Wolverine).”
-Harry Knowles
110:
Wow, Harry sure is P.O.’d, but it sounds like part of it is related to AICN getting dissed from a preview screening. He could also be genuinely angry that a turd has been released as an X-Men movie.
I also think it’s obvious that Rotten Tomatoes is nudging some of the ‘meh’ reviews into “fresh” territory. Those he quotes as ‘positive’ don’t sound so great to me.
One thing is certain, FOX just mucked the whole thing up, with negative rumors from the set, re-shoots, the Internet leak (maybe someone inside really wants this to fail).
Star Trek should succeed on its own merits, and not due to the failure of the competition.
#111 “Star Trek should succeed on its own merits, and not due to the failure of the competition.”
Perhaps so, but I’ll take what I can get! I need this film to be as big of a hit as possible. :-) Terminator doesn’t come out until 2 weeks after Trek, right? I wonder if it might be possible for Trek to top the box office for 2 weeks?
It was a long afternoon/evening there, but it was worth it to see the Movie.
Whil Wheaton will be there? I like Whil Wheaton. Do you Like Whil Wheaton?
Frakes being there is no surprize. To me, he has to be the coolest of all of the actors in Trek. He always seemed genuinely into it, enjoying the whole thing while giving back in the form of directing and doing it very well. He should be in charge of the next TV version of Trek.
Got my ticket for the 1st 11.00am showing on the 7th May in the UK. The cinema said that there will be no commercials or trailers – just the film !! No complaints from me there and sod waiting for the 8th to come round !!
Thanks for review The Angry Klingon now The Happy Klingon :-)
Wil Wheaton backed out at the last minute. On Twitter he said he couldnt afford to risk catching the flu. True story.
The line up of stars if great but it does lack something if Cpt Kirk (Shatner) is not there. Nice to see some of the original crew as well as other ST actors. Although some leave some thing to be desired and I wonder why them? Kendra Wilkinson…even Playboy gets involved too.