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Box Office: China Might Save Star Trek Beyond on the Balance Sheet, But That...
Star Trek Beyond just not so boldly went where many, many Hollywood blockbusters have before – to China to beg for financial salvation. Whether or not that salvation will truly come remains to be seen,...
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Star Trek: Discovery – Learning to Accept the Delay
Here’s how things are going for the Star Trek franchise right now: We’re a week removed from the 50th anniversary of the airing of the first episode. The internet has already crapped out the mandatory...
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The Star Trek Franchise Just Can’t Catch a Break These Days
Last weekend at Wizard World in Tulsa, Oklahoma there was a special panel called “The State of Star Trek 2016: Star Trek Turns 50.” Sadly, I was unable to attend, but the description for the panel on...
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Fox Somehow Managed to Get a Star Trek Spoof Show Ready Before CBS Could...
Fox might have its own Star Trek show on the air before CBS does. Feels like we should stop to talk about that. To be clear, Fox isn’t technically making its own Star Trek show. They can’t do that...
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My Hot Take on the Star Trek: Discovery Trailer
You’ll have to give me a minute. I just watched the new Star Trek: Discovery trailer, and I’m struggling to adjust. See, I had been led to believe this new show was to be a return to The Original...
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TV Pilot Review: The Orville Is Basically Just Straightforward, Old School...
Turns out, we’ve been focusing on the wrong thing this entire time. See, ever since The Orville trailer debuted at Comic-Con the discussion about this not-quite-Star Trek, not-quite Galaxy Quest series...
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Was “About a Girl” Orville’s Best Episode? No, Worst Episode! No, I, Um,...
I had to roll my eyes when I read this quote from Seth MacFarlane about The Orville in EW’s Fall TV Preview issue: “Good science fiction doesn’t ignore current events and sociopolitics. The Orville...
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Review: Stark Trek: Discovery Makes Me Wish I Was Re-Watching The Orville...
It’s 9:38 PM. I finished Star Trek: Discovery’s pilot 15 minutes ago. In the time since then, I’ve read several reviews, checked out Twitter reactions (sooooo many people hate the idea of paying for...
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Reminder: Titans & Young Justice Will Also Be Used to Launch a Streaming Service
This is how TV is in 2017: The networks hate airing shows they don’t actually own. They’re all terrified of Netflix. And they all want to have their own subscription streaming service (eventually)....
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The Orville’s “Cupid’s Dagger” Plays a Rape Allegory for Laughs
A week after going all stand-alone with an adventure focused on the show’s least utilized characters, Isaac and the Doctor, The Orville returns in “Cupid’s Dagger” to its default setting of focusing on...
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Quentin Tarantino. Star Trek. Quentin Tarantino. Star Trek. Tarantino. Trek....
Quentin Tarantino…well, just read Deadline’s blockquote: Here was my insta-reaction on Twitter last night: Tarantino is partnering with Abrams on a new Star Trek movie? In any other year, I'd call...
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How Can Paramount Survive in a Disney-Fox World? By Becoming More Like...
Disney bought Fox or at least announced it is going to once the terms are finalized and regulators give them the green light, and Hollywood went apeshit. Disney buying another studio? Sure. That’s just...
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6 Story Pitches for Star Trek’s New Jean-Luc Picard Show
Patrick Stewart’s career has been blessed. Just last year, he said goodbye to the beloved sci-fi character, Charles Xavier, he played off and on for nearly two decades. Now, he’s returning to that...
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Is Paramount Right? Has Star Trek Hit Its Financial Ceiling as a Film Franchise?
Star Trek, in the Shatner years, was a hit franchise in the States. The Motion Picture, The Voyage Home, Wrath of Khan, and Search for Spock easily solid tickets on par with, in some cases superior to...
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The 10 Best Paramount Pictures Movies of the Last Decade
You know times are tough when losing $39 million in a single year is somehow considered a win, yet that’s where Paramount Pictures currently finds itself. Once the industry standard for excellence,...
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How Desi Arnaz (And Bert Granet) Helped Rod Serling Make The Twilight Zone
Google celebrated what would have been Desi Arnaz’s 102nd birthday yesterday. A month from now, CBS All Access will premiere Jordan Peele’s new Twilight Zone. I make this connection for the following...
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Unapologetic Barely Begins to Describe Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich asks the eternal question: what if literal Nazi puppets magically came to life and started hunting down Jewish people and anyone else who got in their way? Poor taste...
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Watchmen, Star Wars & The State of Hollywood Fan Fiction
The Rise of Skywalker – highly advertised by Disney as the end of the line for the saga of Anakin, Luke and Rey – is not a true ending to the story; it’s J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy’s version of...
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I’m All In On Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek fans – as they have been ever since J.J. Abrams and collaborators introduced something called the “Kelvin” timeline – seem torn. The “Wagon Train in Space” Roddenberry era is gone. The Harve...
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Hollywood Headlines: #CancelNetflix and #BoycottMulan Explained
As I write this, my 13-year-old nephew and 8-year-old niece are virtual schooling one room over from me. The nephew is learning that virtual PE means doing online workout videos and has decided he’s...
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