Tag: J.J. Abrams

Movie Review: SUPER 8 Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler

Posted: June 9, 2011 at 11:02 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie Reviews

Over a year ago when I first saw the teaser for SUPER 8, I immediately got a huge grin on my face.  I was so excited.  I wanted to know why the truck crashed into the train.  I wanted to know why the train was traveling across the country.  I wanted to know what was […]

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JJ Abrams Talks About The Status Of STAR TREK Sequel

Posted: June 5, 2011 at 10:31 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie News

I am not a Trekkie by any means.  I have never watched any of the tv shows.  I have seen a couple of the movies, but never got into them.  I just felt like I was missing something the whole time.  That changed drastically in 2009 when I saw JJ Abrams’ reboot STAR TREK.  It […]

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“Super 8” Opens June 10! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: June 1, 2011 at 11:44 am   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to win a pass, good for two! Synopsis: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to […]

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“Super 8” Director JJ Abrams Says Fans Will Get Trailer in March

Posted: January 13, 2011 at 10:36 am   /   Film, Local, Movie News

I feel like the coolest thing about the trailer for Super 8 is the fact that Abrams created that months before they even cast the picture.  Only shows how awesome the man really is.  Little is known about the film.  There were some set photos that came out showing tanks rolling through a neighborhood with […]

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My Most Anticipated Films of 2011 Part 1

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 12:05 am   /   Film, Local

Title:  The Adjustment Bureau Starring:  Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Christoph Waltz Directed by:  George Nolfi Synopsis:  On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas — a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, […]

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Are These Our First Looks at JJ Abrams’ New Film “Super 8″?

Posted: December 11, 2010 at 3:24 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie News

Some of you may have forgotten about the trailer released last April for JJ Abrams’ newest project Super 8.  Like Cloverfield, this first trailer showed close to nothing but perhaps the set up for the story and left audiences asking all kinds of questions.  Well the film was cast and began shooting in September.  There […]

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“Cloverfield 2” Still Coming Says Director Matt Reeves

Posted: August 9, 2010 at 12:18 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Despite the fact that both director Matt Reeves and producer J.J. Abrams are tied to a number of other projects, Matt Reeves assured MTV that a sequel to the successful Cloverfield will be happenings. “It really isn’t the moment for [the sequel] to go any further than it has, but it continues to be a […]

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“Lost” Executive Producer, Damon Lindelof, Re-Writing “Alien” Prequel

Posted: July 30, 2010 at 3:12 pm   /   Local, Movie News

If you were wondering what was happening with the creative minds behind ABC’s Lost after the final season, well don’t worry they are keeping busy. Damon Lindelof is currently rewriting a prequel for Ridley Scott’s upcoming prequels based on his famous film, Alien. The prequel which was originally penned by Jon Spaihts, is set thirty […]

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J.J. Abrams to Produce Boilerplate

Posted: July 29, 2010 at 9:03 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie News

Now this sounds cool. J.J. Abrams is set to produce an adaptation of, Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a graphic novel that follows the worlds first robot during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Heatvision‘s article sums up the premise nicely. “Boilerplate” purports to tell the story of the world’s first robot, who, in the […]

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Joss Whedon Confirmed to be Directing Marvel’s “The Avengers”

Posted: July 23, 2010 at 3:59 pm   /   Local, Movie News

It has technically only been a rumor now for a few months, but today at San Diego Comic Con it was confirmed that Firefly creator Joss Whedon will be taking the reins of the Marvel supergroup film, The Avengers. Whedon talked about the upcoming Avengers film during a panel on which he shared the stage […]

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