ST09 Tidbits (T-3): New Pics & Interviews + BK Klingon site + EW Covers + Richter FedCon Animation May 4, 2009
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It has been a couple days since our last Tidbits and they are piling up. We’ve got a new pictures (including behind the scenes), a new BK Klingons website, JJ Abrams talking box office, an EW cover story, update on IMAX, more reviews, more interviews and much more. We also have the FedCon intro animation from Tobias Richter featuring the USS Enterprise meeting the USS Kelvin.
Reminder: Tickets available online (including IMAX)
As we will begin every tidbits, we remind you that you can now buy advanced tickets (including early shows) for Star Trek at Fandango. You can also get tickets for IMAX at Fandango. And by buying your tickets from Fandango, you are supporting TrekMovie.com. For locations that don’t have tickets available through Fandango, try movietickets.com.
New Photos
Late last week a few new photos showed up online, including some new behind the scenes. Some were from the final Paramount Press Kit, but some were new. These haven’t being released by Paramount in the US so it is likely coming from Paramount International. They are all up at Celebutopia (higher res versions avaiable by clicking images below).
New Burger King ‘Kingon’ site
As we previewed over the weekend, Burger King has a big campaign in support of the new Star Trek movie featuring toys and glasses, which cost $1.99 with a meal. They just started running TV commercials for this last night and today they launched a new website, whenkingonsattack.com. It seems the Burger King Klingons (aka ‘Kingons’) are after those glasses and the website has a number of instructional videos on how you can defend yourself, it is pretty funny stuff.
Can you defend yourself from the Burger Klingons?
JJ Talks Box Office – lowballs opening weekend
As noted in Rosarios’s Sci-Fi column, the new Wolverine movie opened big over the weekend with $87M in domestic sales. This morning JJ Abrams was on the Howard Stern Show and he said he doesn’t expect to match the mutant and thinks his movie will bring in between $50M and $60M. Howard, who is up on the new Trek says JJ is downplaying and Abrams did note he felt Star Trek would have ‘longer legs’ than Wolverine.
EW cover story
The current Entertainment Weekly sports Star Trek on the cover and an extensive cover story with quotes from JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto and more, including Ron Moore. It is an excellent read, and the full article is online. The issue also features additional articles look at the Star Trek franchise’s 43 year history. The issue comes with two collectible covers and EW has provied TrekMovie with high resolution versions of both.
EW Covers (click to enlarge)
More IMAX theaters + JJ pushes IMAX
As we noted last week, Star Trek has a limited two week run on IMAX, so make sure you go see it first on IMAX if you can. Last week IMAX supplied us a list of theaters carrying Star Trek and now they have sent us a few additions, they are:
- Regal Transit Center IMAX- Wlliamsville NY
- Brendan Theatres and IMAX at the Palms- Las Vegas, NV
- Coliseum Mississauga IMAX- Mississauga, ON, Canada
Also a number of theaters are running ’round the clock’ Star Trek in IMAX:
- Seattle, WA – Pacific Science Center
- Dublin, CA – Regal Hacienda Crossings
- Seattle, WA – Pacific Science Center
- Dublin, CA – Regal Hacienda Crossings
- Fresno, CA – Regal Edwards Fresno Stadium
- Irvine, CA – Regal Edwards Irvine Spectrum
- Long Beach, CA – Regal Edwards Long Beach
- San Diego, CA – Regal Mira Mesa
Finally IMAX sends us this brief video of JJ Abrams reminding fans to watch the film in IMAX.
Review Watch – still at 100% at Rotten Tomatoes + Review Cliche site
Although it is expected to go down, more reviews have been added to the Rotten Tomatoes summary and Trek is still at 100% Fresh, two of the new reviews are from Ben Lyons and Ben Makiewicz from At The Movies, you can watch their review below [contains spoilers].
Speaking of reviews, one of TrekMovie’s followers on Twitter sent us a site he put together that is collecting all the Star Trek clichés coming from reviewers of the movie, and there are quite a few, check them out at ‘Boldly Hack‘…he even called out Mark Altman’s review here on TrekMovie, but apparently my review was cliché-free. To rectify that, here is a quote for Paramount from me to put in their next ad.
JJ Abrams has boldly taken Star Trek to the final frontier of filmmaking with a warp speed attack which beams up a new crew that sets this film to stunning. Paramount will drive a nerve pinch into the competition this summer as they will once again live long and prosper with a new Star Trek.
- Anthony Pascale, TrekMovie.com
Richter’s Enterprise and Kelvin meet in new animation
TrekMovie has previously highlighted the excellent CGI and animation work of German designer Tobias Richter (of The Light Works) as he has (entirely on his own) created beautiful renders of the USS Kelvin the new USS Enterprise. Over the weekend at the FedCon event in Germany, he showed off a 5 minute long animation of a ‘what if?’ scenario that brings both ships together, check it out:
TV interviews
The Trek stars are fanning across the talk shows and TV stations, here are the latest videos
Chris Pine on his shot as Kirk and Abrams on his style, casting Pine and Spock as a ladies man [spoilers]
Crhis Pine on the Today show this morning
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Tune in for these upcoming appearances: [list UPDATED]
- Monday 5/4: “Live with Regis & Kelly” (Syndicated) – Zachary Quinto
- Monday 5/4: "The Late Show" (CBS) – Chris Pine
- Monday 5/4: "Charlie Rose" (PBS) – JJ Abrams
- Monday 5/4: "Colbert Report" (Comedy Central) – JJ Abrams
- Tuesday 5/5: "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC) – Zachary Quinto
- Tuesday 5/5 “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (Syndicated) – Zachary Quinto
- Tuesday 5/5 “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (NBC) – J.J. Abrams
- Wednesday 5/6: “Bonnie Hunt Show” (Syndicated) – Zachary Quinto
- Wednesday 5/6: “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (Syndicated) – Chris Pine
- Wednesday 5/6: "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC) – Zoe Saldana
- Wednesday 5/6: “The Tonight Show” (NBC) John Cho
- Thursday 5/7: "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC) – John Cho
- Friday 5/8: "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC) – Chris Pine
- Friday 5/8: "Tavis Smiley" (PBS) – JJ Abrams
- Friday 5/8: "The View" (ABC) – Leonard Nimoy
Finally: Trekkie plays Star Trek on Theremin
And lastly, there is this…
Tidbits bits
Even more Star Trek stuff for you:
- Anton Yelchin is in PEOPLE’S 100 Most Beautiful issue (Yelchin isn’t in the shorter list online)
- Post Magazine has detailed article on Star Trek Effects
- In honor of Star Trek, Gizmodo has a Get Me Off This Rock theme week on space
- MSNBC has put up a gallery of Trek fans in costume Gallery of Trek fans in Uniform, you can still submit yours.
get yourself onto the MSNBC gallery
Thanks to all the tipsters
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Just got tickets for thursday night !!!! Take us out Mr. Sulu, ahead warp factor 1!
I said it once,, and I’ll say it again…
I cant wait to see this !!!
:o)
sooooo,,, any updates yet on ST: ???
Oh my God, that first pic in the article with the Enterprise… I’m in love.
The Guy with the Theramin in the Transporter Room is awesome. lol
I’m so excited about this movie! Unfortunately the closest IMAX is almost 4 hours away, and I don’t think that I’ll have the time to go see it. :(
Great tips Anthony, Thanks
Nice video…
Anything will do until Thursday, but TR did very, very good.
That FEDCON material is absofrakkenlutely amazing!! BRAVO!!!
Question when is the DVD release likely, around xmas or thanksgiving?
The last days are passing pass very, very slow.
Man i cant wait to see this. the last time when i was so exaited to a date was christmas 1996 when i was seven
Why doesn’t the Fedcon vid have it’s OWN HEADLINE .. it deservers it .. come on Trekimovie .. bump this up to it’s own column. Couldn’t even tell this was here until I just happened to look.
HA. The BK video isn’t for Klingons, it’s for KINGons.
Like the Fedcon video. Looks like the Kelvin is being attacked by shrunken Son’a ships, or are they Orion Pirates?
I have added the second EW cover the just sent over.
RE: why doesn’t x have a headline. Just trying to catch up here. each item above could get a headline but then the whole front page would fill up and push other recent stories off…we are trying our best here folks it is hard to keep up.
TR’s Fedcon video is stunning brilliance, absolutely amazing…
Those renders are amazing! Can’t wait to see The Enterprise on the big screen.
Wow…allways liked the light works images and that intro was awesome! Seeing the movie on the 7th and then meeting a friend to see it in IMAX on the weekend… can’t wait!
FedCon video is beautiful, but I would have liked to seen the Enterprise shoot something other than torpedos.
Kingons are so amazing. Burger King has the best ad department.
Hi everyone,
There is a new Star Trek clip – warning spoilers (although it has been referenced before on this site)
http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=15057
Enjoy
My God, that is one incredible picture of Zoe and Chris. And a nice unintentional reminder of the Kirk/Uhura interracial kiss thing (or am I the only one picking up on that vibe?)
First?
Seeing it 5:35pm this Thursday afternoon! Cannot wait!!!
22? I was on this page a while, huh? LOL!!!!!!
“Not just for geeks anymore!”
No, now we cater to ADHD teens too!
That Fedcon video is unbelievable!!!
Looks like Paramount has already taken those photos down; the links don’t work. Anyone know if they can be found elsewhere?
Holy crap! JJ was so energetic and on fire in that IMAX promo video … I’m sold. I’m definitely going to see it in IMAX now!
Dang…I wanted that first pic for a new desktop….wont load though :(
To answer Shatpines question Star Wars 3 was realesed May 19 and the Dvd came out on November 1. I think with Star trek it will be the same time span.
Looks like celebutopia can’t handle the traffic. I can’t get any of those pics.
Won’t be missing Abrams on Charlie Rose tonight.
Looks like Spock ins’t the only one getting some Uhura action!
Oh, and that Tobias fellow ought to be working on the next Trek or something!
And I loved the theremin guy! That takes real talent, on a truly science-fictiony instrument.
29 — Yep, the DVD and Blu-ray release is expected in November, along with the TNG movies on Blu-ray.
Ok!!!! Trek Minus 3 days and 4 hours. So! So! So! close i can smell it. Regal westgate in Austin. Ill be there. Yes I bought my ticket at fandango as i love this site. I here it is sold out. Love the pic of a phaser being pointed at vader. Thank goodness it was not a red shirt pointing that phaser. So much going on. Ok. Anthony come friday morning be ready for a possible overload of Trek Movie as we will all be giving our personel reviews. May the Future Begin and Live Long and Prosper!!.
#21. You are correct. it does remind me and others of that first ever interracial kiss on Tv.
Yay! They put my picture on that site! :)
Holy Crap… I’m gonna see Trek on Wednesday!!!! EEEEEEEE!!!!!
I have not been THIS excited about a movie in a long time!!! :)
That “Kingon” site is hilarious! I think the narrator sounds like he’s doing a George Takei impersonation, or is it George Takei?
# 37. No fair. Just not right. You belong in the Agoniser Booth. Oh well. Your one lucky person. Or are you Alien. Lol.
Burger King site is hilarious! Buying my glasses tonight!
I am having a hard time guessing how Trek will make out. It could open north of 80 million, but more likely we will see it top out around 70-75 million. And once the good word gets out there should be a strong possibility of topping the box office for two solid weeks until the release of Terminator Salvation.
@38 Isn’t it the Actor that played “Johnny Rico” in Starship Troopers? Never saw it in Original only the dubbed version :D
The IMAX theater at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia is saying they will have showings up through JUNE 23RD at least. See http://www.nasm.si.edu/visit/theaters/. I don’t know if any other theaters are doing likewise.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m hoping Terminator Salvation is great, but… unless Arnold himself (not CGI) comes out and does the Hokey Pokey with Yvonne Strahovsky wearing nothing but whipped cream and then reveals the secret formula for KFC chicken… it can’t possibly deliver as much bang as Star Trek does.
I’ve seen the future…it’s not what it used to be, but it’s still ASTOUNDING.
FRAK!
I bought regular tickets at Regal Transit because I was told the nearest IMAX showing was in Albany…and NOW they have it.
Grrr……
Ah well. I guess it’ll help for seeing it a second time.
whoaaa, this animation from Tobias Richter is totally freakin amazing!
Trek has done so well on the RT reviews, why is it expected to go down? I’ve read a ton of reviews (many not on RT) and I have not read one single negative review. I suppose the real test will be in the next day or so while the rest of the reviews come in, but I’m not expecting it to go down that much – if at all.
As far as box-office numbers are concerned, I’m still expecting Trek to bring in 100M+ over the weekend. Combine the overwhelmingly positive buzz, reviews and fan talk all around the net, I really can’t see Trek doing any less than 100M+.
Wolverine should have made over 100M+ but didn’t due to bad hype, the workprint, and just poorly received marketing & trailers. I know when I saw the trailers I didn’t get an “epic” feel from it at all and just seemed like an average ho-hum origin story. Now that Wolverine is out of the way, we can really start off the summer movie blockbuster season with the release of a film everyone deserves to watch on the big-screen – and the name is TREK.
That picture of the Enterprise leaving the space station is the shot Paramount should have released first, not that ugly side view.
Also, the Kingon’s are great, I have to get to Burger King and get at least one glass.
#39
If you have a picture, you can still go send it in. :)
The high res versions of those pics are gone Anthony…what gives?
Tobias – Long time no see! How big is the Enterprise? Nobody here seems to know. :)
Awesome stuff.
Tobias once again you prove how talent you are, great stuff !
Hi Rick! indeed, it´s been quite some time. I hope you´re all well!
I guess the new E is as long as the A, but that just a guess :)
And thanks to all you guys who like the animation – took 3 and a half months to put together, but it was a lot of fun doing trek stuff again!
Fedcon video was pretty cool. Good stuff TrekMovie.
Its almost here!!!! only 3 days left!!! :D
Jeez, could those guys on At The Movies possibly give blander and more generic reviews??
Agree with them or not, at least Roeper and his fill-in guests usually had something interesting to say.
Living in the state of Maine can sometimes mean we’re a bit behind the times when it comes to modern entertainment technology. But, man, am I thrilled. A local cinema recently added an IMAX theater and it’s very first movie will be shown at 12:01am on May 7th…STAR TREK! I am sooooo psyched! They aren’t selling tickets online so you can bet this 40-something Trekkie will be there EARLY to make sure I get my tickets. I’ve never seen an IMAX movie…I’ve seen 9 of 10 Trek movies on opening night, so this is just going to be awesome! Cannot wait!
Anthony, thank you, thank you, thank you for giving us such great coverage of this movie since its inception. The reporting on this site is matched by none! Kudos to you and your great staff.
MUST. STOP. WATCHING. CLIPS. ARGH.
That Fedcon animation footage got me hyped up. I bought my IMAX tickets today for Thursday 7PM!! Live Long & Prosper bitches!!
#54 – Tobias – The animation is terrific as always! Doing okay here, hope all is well with you. It’ll be interesting to see if we ever get official specs on the ships.
Warp-Five Kingon Attack defense maneuver… hilarious!
OMG THATS ME IN THAT PICTURE LOL, I sent that in to MSN BC for fun COOL
Great animation! That was beautiful to watch!
Great music on the Fedcon animation vid.
The Chris /Zoe EW cover doesn’t work, FYI. The article is great though!
That simulator bridge looks like the Enterprise bridge SHOULD HAVE looked.
I’ve only seen the Spock EW cover in Barnes&Noble and it’s what came in my mailbox today.. is the Chris/Zoe cover exclusive to a specific store or something?
Karl Urban will be on “Attack of the Show” today (G4)
@ Rick Sternbach
This is just an educated guess, but I’d say it’s probably closer to the Excelsior in length and in saucer width than the Constitution-refit. There’s a clip somewhere that shows a shuttle leaving the shuttlebay and that, combined with the size of the nacelles, the bridge module, and windows, gives me the impression that it’s quite a bit larger than the original.
Also, that video is amazing Tobias. :)
The verizon/nokia site is pretty interesting too:
http://www.joinstarfleetacademy.com/#/home
But, not half as funny as the commercial for it. 4 cadets are being lectured about beaming down and one of them says he definitely doesn’t want the other guy’s face. Silly.
Hopefully Anthony will find a link to it somewhere.
the hires images are still there but you have to register at that site to see them
it seems to be free and they are nice images in full resolution
#58 I bought my IMAX tix online @ movietickets.com, they didn’t list any for the 7th (sold out?/ not avail for opener?) so I bought them for 650 on the 8th. I am 40 and cant think of any other movie I have ever been as hyped up to see as this one. Have fun in Saco! =/\=
Tobias -
Is there a higher-res version of your video available somewhere? HD or something similar? Thanks!
http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=enterprise.jpg
not so different after all ?
I got all my glasses from Burger King tonight. Wow, they’re really nice!! Sucks for people out of the US who can’t get them.
Tobias, astounding!
Watching this unofficial showing got me hyped and loving the new E. She’s much better in motion.
#74 Warped, look for the HD button on the upper RH of the screen
Wow, that Enterprise/station pic was the one i asked about on two other threads! nice work. I just wish it was smaller, cause when I try to set it as my desktop, it’s too huge for my screen ( only time I curse high res pix! )
Hey, I was just watching one of the Spanish broadcast channels and happened to come across a commercial for the new movie, which featured a spot by BOB ORCI, speaking Spanish no less! Holy s***t!
Bob, if you can read this – you are my friggin’ hero!
Tobias my old friend. Good to see ou again at FEDCON! Thanks for allowing us to show your video. We love you here.
J.J. Abrams personally gave us 28 mins. of STAR TREK to surprise the fans with here at FedCon. The screams at my surprise was deafening!!!!
HEY Rick Sternbach!! We need to get you to Germany dude. Catch up with me soon. Let’s talk. Rod Roddenberry or the Okudas know how to get a hold of me.
FedCon 18 is now over and was beyond our expectations. Anthony Pascale and this site is unsurpassed by any other when it comes to reporting for ST. I LOVED this movie and will see it again this week. This site should be awarded an EMMY in a new category! Anthony should just get nominated as Secretary of Information.
Thanks Ant for all you do and get your butt over to Germany next year for FedCon 19.
Marc B. Lee
American Business Manager
Master of Ceremonies
Fedcon Gmbh
Well just got my IMAX tix for Pallisades Center thurs / Fri at midnight can not wait
As Trekkers/ies, we have been living as crazy fans of a property that comes on strong, then disappears. Comes on strong. then disappears again.
The last time it disappeared, in 2005, the message from CBS/Paramount was ‘Sorry. You’re right. We suck. Goodnight,”
Trekkers were told that Star Trek sucks by Paramount/CBS itself. It reinforced a lot of the embarrassment Trekkers feel these days in keeping the flame lit.
Because of this, Deep Space Nine and Voyager are off the air, while TOS-R airs at 4am, and ENT and TNG get lucky re-runs on ‘SyFy.”
Now, the new film’s reviews are glowing, and many have said “we are reminded now why we’ve loved the show and these characters for 40 years.” I realize they’re discussing TOS, but it asks the question why CBS/Paramount screwed it up in the first place.
Star Trek never died. It just actively lost the will to live thanks to CBS. And people like the darn thing. Not just all of us here, but regular people, too. Lots of them.
Trekkers seem to hide under rocks when the sun comes out these days. I think we should hoist the flag high this summer, and get this bastard going again. “There will never be a better time.”
Tenutos, great photo in the MSNBC gallery! (But how come I can only find one of you. Come on, John!)
And by the way, everyone: this video is an all-time great. Trek is truly, officially, 100% back in prime time!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film?utm_source=a-section
Found this copy of Tobias’ video on YouTube – HD is available too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOUjfD9ND8U
Found the link in this thread:
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/56513-uss-enterprise-star-trek-2009-a-63.html
#85. ONION made a STAR TREK CLIP……..TOTAL LMAO !!!
My son just bought tickets to the IMAX for Thursday night 7:00!!! Happy birthday to me!!!!
NOT JUST FOR GEEKS ANYMORE??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
If I catch the person who wrote that, I’ll show them that a baseball bat-toting ‘geek’ is nothing to laugh about.
Oh, and I got all the Star Trek glasses from BK. They are really cool.
I hate to sound really stupid, but can anyone give me advice on how to resize those high-res images to something that I can fit on my desktop? I have a paint program on this computer, but I can’t figure out how to crop or resize images. It’s frustrating.
Richter is a genius!!!
Dep1701: save the image on your machine in My Picture file then click on Start, then Control Panel, then Display and go from there. The image will be automatically resized to fit your desktop. Presuming you use Windows?
On the kingonsattack site-HOW DOES THIS KIND OF ADOLESCENT BRUTALITY seem funny? On my first visit yes but on revisiting NO NO.
Can you imagine some kid Crushing the King’s walnuts at some live appearance! BK would deserve it! And the lawsuit to follow!
How about STYLE? Why is it always masculine assertion that is pushed as cool and that everyone has to be on a testerone high?
Trekkies deserve better for their undying loyalty. Paramount and the rest are only out for the bucks and they do not really care about your glasses, if you know what I mean. Illogical, as Spock would say.