Strap on your Spock ears, and run to these theaters!

Paramount Pictures has officially announced the domestic locations previewing the first nine minutes of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness in IMAX 3-D starting Friday.

If all goes well, we’ll be talking about this with a special guest on episode 23 of The MovieByte Podcast. I don’t want to say who just yet because he hasn’t confirmed, but tentatively said yes on Twitter.

Anyway, should be fun. I’m going to see The Hobbit this afternoon with friends at a standard screening, and will see it in IMAX HFR (hopefully, as best I can…

The as-yet-untitled “Tron 3” project gained a screenwriter last week, and now it has officially gained a star.

Garrett Hedlund confirmed to NextMovie exclusively that he would follow up his 2010 performance as Sam Flynn in “TRON: Legacy” by appearing in the long-rumored sequel, which may begin shooting in 2014, according to some sources.

“Yeah,” Hedlund said when we pressed him for details on his “Tron” participation while doing press in New York ahead of the U.S. release of “On the Road.” “Are we gonna break this now?”

“Disney’s very excited,” he said of the project. “That’s about…

10 years ago, Star Trek: Nemesis premiered with great expectations. It was being directed by veteran editor Stuart Baird, responsible for such films as Superman: The Movie, and it was written by arguably one of the most in-demand screenwriters of the day, John Logan, who was just coming off an Oscar win for Gladiator. Logan volunteered to write for Star Trek because he was such a big Next Generation fan. Nemesis featured a promising story by Rick Berman, Brent Spiner, and Logan that would reveal more about the history of the Romulan Star Empire. The entire main TNG crew of actors had…

One or two of these are just nit-picky, and one or two are stupid, but most of them are good.

I don’t think it’s a secret to anyone that I did not enjoy the film, and I’m really nonplussed that a second one is being made. But at least the film give us the opportunity for good laughs like this.

In the first episode of In the Queue, TJ and I give a brief overview of the show’s format and talk about the shows we watch on a regular basis. Also featuring a chat about our current home theater setups.

I was asked by my friend Alex Arena to be a part of his new Podcast network, Que.am, and be co-host on a new show, In the Queue. I was glad to accept. This one is going to be a lot of fun. Check out this pilot episode in which we talk about how we connect to and watch our streaming media, talk about the shows we watch, and pick Revolution as our weekly “book club” like show to watch…

TJ and Joseph welcome special guest this week, Melinda Snodgrass, a successful screenwriter, and particularly as pertains to this episode, wrote one of the best ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ episodes in Season 2, ‘The Measure of a Man’. She tells us a lot about the writing process on ‘Star Trek’ and what that was like, and talks particularly about that episode, her love for the character Data, her thoughts on how to better use the cast and crew of the Enterprise, the great character moments in the episode, ‘The Next Generation in HD’ and the extended cut of ‘The Measure of a Man’. It was great fun to talk to her. Then TJ and Joseph briefly review two films they didn’t care much for, ‘Killing them Softly’, and ‘Playing for Keeps’. And finally, they welcome special guest, Michael Minkoff as they talk about gearing up for relaunching the Movieology brand as a podcast on MovieByte, some discussion on the favorite films of 2012 and more.

This looks like it’s going to be a somewhat mindless action flick, but those can be fun, and this one looks fun.

Synopsis:

“When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the…

This isn’t destined to be best movie ever, or my favorite movie or anything, but I’m thinking this is going to be a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to it.

Be aware though, it feels like there’s a lot of spoilers in this trailer. There was some information being given away where I was thinking, dude, I would have kept that a secret. Oh well, it’s a fun watch anyway.

There’s a lot of interesting things going on this season, from Peter almost losing himself by putting Observer tech in his head, to losing Etta, to Walter having his full brain capacity back.

Very happy with the season so far. We only have a very few more episodes left and I’m eager to see how they wrap it up.