Tag Archives: J.J. Abrams

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol continued to beat the competition as the film rang in 2012 with $31.3 million for the three-day New Year’s weekend for a domestic total of $134.2 million. The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, through January 1, 2012 are as follows: Rank …

Paramount Pictures announced today it is offering the entire Mission: Impossible movie catalogue including Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III available for rent directly through the Mission: Impossible Facebook Page. Fans of the franchise can also play the new social spy game Mission: Impossible the Game (https://apps.facebook.com/mission-impossible), …

Fox unveiled its newest promo for the new season of the cult hit “Fringe,” which gives a more in-depth look.When the season begins, it’s a new beginning for the Fringe Division and the show itself. Not only has Peter gone AWOL, but the recently promoted series regular Seth Gabel will …

SUPER 8 debuts in a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack with Digital Copy November 22, 2011 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Produced by Amblin, Bad Robot and Academy Award winner* Steven Spielberg, the exhilarating story follows a group of friends in a small Ohio town who witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie. When …

J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 opened to $37 million at the domestic box office to take the top spot dueing a weekend that saw a major drop in box office receipts. After huge weekends from ‘Hangover 2’ and ‘X-men: First Class” only a last minute marketing push by Paramount allowed ‘Super 8’ …

Paramount Digital Entertainment confirmed that Star Trek will be coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC in summer 2012.  With an original story and unprecedented co-op experience, the game casts players as Kirk and Spock for the first time ever. The game, which continues the adventure that director …

J.J. Abrams is adapting “Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel,” to the big screen. The graphic novel-picture book hybrid by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, tells the story  of the world’s first robot. Boilerplate’s story is told ala Forrest Gump, mixing the images to tell the story of Boilerplate’s adventures in the late …

After a lengthy search, J.J. Abrams has cast British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw as the female lead opposite Boris Kodjoe on “Undercovers,” Abrams’ pilot for NBC. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is best know for her role as Tish Jones, sister to Martha Jones on the British sci-fi series “Doctor Who.” Mbatha-Raw, a graduate of …