To coincide with the release of the standalone “Best of Both Worlds” episode and the complete third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray, CBS Home Entertainment and Fathom Events is bringing a special feature-length event to theaters this spring.

The “Best of Both Worlds” two-part episode will be shown in select theaters on April 25 at 7 PM.

I’ve got my tickets. I’ll be at the Regal Opry Mills Stadium 20 & IMAX in Nashville if you happen to be a reader of MovieByte in the area and would like to join me. Normally my wife joins me at events like this and we make a date…

Welcome to the world of the new blockbuster. Would Hollywood studios learn to make good movies, or make smarter fiscal decisions first? Given that we’re looking at “A Good Day To Die Hard” ruling over the box office, the latter is true, with the fifth installment in the action series winning a very close horse race on this Presidents’ Day weekend. The fact that this opening is significantly smaller than the one for “Live Free Or Die Hard” and that the picture is assuredly the worst in the series turns out to be irrelevant.

It’s a sad tale, but someone has to tell it. Yes a horrible film…

As J.J. Abrams and company endeavor to keep the lid tightly sealed on whatever they’re cooking up for “Star Wars: Episode VII,” reading between the lines of reports over the past few months, it is starting to emerge that the lineage to the first trilogy of films will be pretty direct. Particularly is this bit of info turns out to be true.

Latino Review is reporting that Harrison Ford is set to return as Han Solo in “Star Wars: Episode VII.” Whether it’s just a cameo or something more something they don’t know just yet, but according to their sources, it’s a done deal. Naturally,…

1. A Good Day to Die Hard – $47 million

Five years after Live Free or Die Hard scored $134.5 million, Bruce Willis is back as John McClane in a fifth installment in the enduring action franchise — this time with random Cold War overtones! After a slew of weak performances from movies like Parker and The Last Stand(it’s been a tough winter for Expendables stars), A Good Day to Die Hard is poised to become the first outright action hit of the year. Fox is releasing the film, which was made on a $92 million budget, into 3,553 theaters, and between Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, and Fox’s…

Scholastic announced that the Harry Potter series would be getting new cover artwork.  The publisher unveiled the first of the seven new paperback covers with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. 

The other books in the series with new covers will be in stores in September 2013 to celebrate the 15^th anniversary of the U.S. publication of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

I don’t know how I feel about my beloved Harry Potter books getting new covers. But… in all honesty, while I love the books a lot I was never a big fan of the art and this kind of looks like a…

In the past 13 years, comic book fans have seen five movies based on Marvel’s huge collection of X-Men characters and stories. Some have been great, some have been bad, but all have been in two dimensions. That will change in 2014, as director Bryan Singer has confirmed that X-Men: Days of Future Past will be shot in 3D.

Nooooooooooooooo…

Despite the seven-decade leap between Captain America: The First Avenger andCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, there are a few stars from the former set to reprise their roles in the latter. That group includes Chris Evans as the title character, obviously, along with Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes and Toby Jones as Arnim Zola. It won’t, however, include Stanley Tucci, who revealed in a recent interview that his character Dr. Abraham Erskine won’t be in the sequel.

But contrary to previous reports, Tucci claims that Cap’s former flame Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) will make an…

Fans of the musical flocked to theaters to watch Hugh Jackman’s heroic Valjean joust with Russell Crowe’s devious Javert, to see Hathaway sing the heartbreaking “I Dreamed a Dream,” and to vicariously stand atop the barricades on the eve of France’s 1832 revolution. On March 22, the experience comes home when Les Misérables arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand.

There you go, March 22^nd. If you click through to Entertainment Weekly, there’s also a trailer for the upcoming Blu-ray release that they have restricted so I can’t embed it here and I can’t find it anywhere else at the…

Stuart Freeborn, the British pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died. He was 98.

LucasFilm confirmed Wednesday that Freeborn had died, “leaving a legacy of unforgettable contributions”.

Star Wars director George Lucas said in a statement that Freeborn was “already a makeup legend” when he started working on the space epic.

“He brought with him not only decades of experience but boundless creative energy,” Lucas said. “His artistry and craftsmanship will live on forever in the characters he created. His Star Wars…