The release date of Season 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation has been released to retailers, which means the word got ’round quickly to the Internet. The release date is now known to be December 4th in the U.S.A.

Awesome.

Also awesome is this:

The highlight of the extras are “hybrid extended” and full HD extended versions of the episode The Measure of a Man recreated from original elements.

Audio commentary on the extended The Measure of a Man with writer Melinda Snodgrass, director Robert Scheerer, and Mike Okuda.

The first two seasons were real hit and miss in finding the…

I must confess that I have not seen any Game of Thrones but I keep hearing good things so I want to see it.

HBO has been pretty stupid about how it makes Game of Thrones available. The first season is on iTunes now so that’s probably my door in. I hope to dig into it soon.

But, even though I know nothing about Game of Thrones, I just had to post this video because it was too cool to pass up. I mean, Lindsey Stirling. Need I say more? If one of you all watches or is familiar with Game of Thrones, feel free to add some intelligent commentary in the comments.

“I don’t suddenly turn into a warrior,” says Stewart in this exclusive look at one of the behind-the-scenes features on the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman Blu-ray (out this Tuesday, Sept. 11). “She hasn’t learned how to fight, and she doesn’t want to.”

Click through to see the clip.

Blu-ray comes out tomorrow. This was a great film and I’m looking forward to seeing it again.

We open this week’s column with a bit of visual splendor: a first look at Season 5, which premieres Sept. 28. In this exclusive image from the final season’s first episode, titled “Transilience Thought Unifier Model 11,” you’ve got circa-2036 Peter, Astrid and Etta checking out a block of amber from which, it appears, at least a few people have been sawed out. Could it be that Olivia, too, was ambered for twentysome years? “You’ll have to wait and see,” showrunner Joel Wyman hedged during our fall preview Q&A. “If she got ambered, if she’s the same age, if she’s not…. You’ll have to wait…

Fascinated and confused by that six-minute trailer for Cloud Atlas that hit the internet in late July? Well, there’s a new theatrical trailer for the Wachowski/Wachowski/Tykwer head-trip odyssey that strives to package the movie’s narrative flourishes — multiple timelines, lofty themes, Tom Hanks completely breaking the bank on his wig budget — into a relatively more manageable two and a half minutes. Plenty of new footage awaits you, so watch the trailer below!

The trailer on Entertainment Weekly was pulled from YouTube due to copyright infringement claim (what else is new?).…

Every day in Hollywood, filmmakers meet in rooms at production companies and movie studios, giving their take on potential upcoming projects. This process hasn’t changed much over the years, except for the advent of carefully crated trailers for nonexistent movies, meant to help executives visualize the final product. Fans often post their own mash-up trailers, but we rarely get to see these pitches from noted filmmakers. It’s even more rare to find them for major Hollywood blockbusters.

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When I first saw Kevin’s Hunger Games pitch trailer, I was blown away by how much different…

“I gotta bad feeling about this - a we’re gonna need a new planet bad feeling”... Join Joseph and TJ as they discuss ‘Battleship’ which was just released to iTunes, Blu-ray, and DVD. Joseph laments the state of film-making in a post-Transformers world, TJ enjoyed the film a bit more, but just a bit. They also discuss ‘Monsters Inc.’ coming out in 3D and the merits of 3D movies, the possibility of a directors cut of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and why TJ doesn’t like directors cuts for the most part, having a glass of beer or wine with Christopher Nolan and what we would like to pick his brain about, what we would like to see in Batman special edition releases, what films we are looking forward to this year, which leads to a discussion about ‘Branded’ and much more.

TJ and Joseph before and after (mostly before) Episode 8 of The MovieByte Podcast. They discuss Joseph being loaded with coffee, Jeremy Renner original cast as Hopper in Battleship, TJ paying even more attention to movies now, the crazy week, removing a pistachio from Joseph’s son’s nose, the film ‘Independence Day’, general show prep, trackpads and mice, retina displays and display resolution, ‘Branded’ not getting a wide release, what movie they should review next, ‘Oogieloves’ bombs, clicky keyboards, when they should review ‘The Avengers’, the location of IMAX theaters, Indiana Jones, the Ewok movies, and more.

Last night I saw a couple people around the internet talking about the death of Morgan Freeman. Then I saw one of my Facebook friends liked a paged called R.I.P Morgan Freeman.

My first thought was, “my goodness how did I not know about this and why is it not on MovieByte?” So I started looking for the story. Turns out this is a complete hoax. Mr. Freeman has been the victim of a fake death scandal as he is actually alive and well.

The Examiner reports:

Morgan Freeman is a staple in pop culture so it only makes sense that word of his death would spread quickly. That is exactly what…