Club Jade

It’s Friday, so please take this video of Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy. It really is kind of cute.

Meanwhile, if you want the actual thing instead of just jokes about it, Star Trek: The Exhibition will be making the rounds to San Diego, Los Angeles, and Arizona this year.

Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine and Leonard Nimoy showed up on Saturday Night Live last night.

Meanwhile, the film seems well on the way to a $76.5M opening weekend.

Entertainment Weekly’s Star Trek cover story is up! Are you hyped?

Things seem to be getting interesting in Trek fandom; at least in the media.

USA Today speaks to Zachary Quinto (Young Spock) about bonding with Leonard Nimoy (Old Spock) and living the “homebody” existence.

Klingons get the 501st treatment in the papers.

And a paper in the UK says the casting of James McAvoy as Scotty is a done deal.

Stardust may not be out yet, but it’s certainly getting its share of hype. It’s currently getting a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (from only five reviews, granted) but Neil Gaiman is everywhere.

Really, there ought to be a band

• Speaking of the giants of modern geekdom, Entertainment Weekly snagged the Spocks, Chris Carter and Joss Whedon.

• Sam Raimi to helm Clash of the Titans remake? I’m not sure how I feel about that. Aside from the whole ‘how dare they remaked the crap classics of my childhood’ thing. CLAYMATION FOREVER!
• More viral marketing for The Dark Knight: Rent-A-Clown.
• IGN talks to Wall-E director Andrew Stanton.
• Kevin Costner is still defending Water World. Dude, let it go.
• Pirates 3 DVD details.
• Totally random rumour from Hong Kong: Natalie Portman and Jet Li making Snow White action flick?
• In Portman news that might actually have a chance of being real, the supposed poster for The Other Boleyn Girl. Let’s hope Scarlett Johansson’s English accent has improved since The Prestige.

Videos du jour

• Kevin Smith responds to SDCC jackass.

• On a more positive note, the teaser trailer for Back to the Future is surprisingly palatable for its era.

Zachary Quinto is young Spock. Meanwhile, Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role as original flavor Spock in scenes that will act as a framing device for the film.

Also…

• Friday is sold out

• J.J. Abrams’ other project revealed: It’s a monster movie. Or something.
• DC will publish Heroes comic. The irony is delicious.
• Watchman cast revealed. It’s a veritable lineup of Hey, It’s That Guys. Chances are you might know two of them by name.
• Beowulf trailer. As expected, looks uncanny valleytastic, plus Angelina Jolie’s Natasha Fatale accent from Alexander makes a encore appearance. Poor Neil Gaiman – he deserves better.

Friday is Star Wars day, so keep your eye on the TOSblog and Flickr.

Is Sylar-Spock reality after all? E!’s Kristin thinks so… We’ll find out for sure at Comic-Con, where reports are that J.J. Abrams plans to announce his Trek casting

Also…

• Is the relationship between Paramount and Dreamworks on the rocks?

• First look at Beowulf. Do I smell an uncanny valley?
• Cinematical digs up details on the upcoming Futurama movies. WANT.
• Naomi Watts confirmed to play Narcissa Malfoy?
• Stanley Tucci in negotiations to play villian in Jackson’s The Lovely Bones adaption.

Age of the comic book movies

• Finally, schlubby fanboys get a comic hero they can truly understand: Seth Rogen is in negotiations to write and star in The Green Hornet.

• They’re making a Y: The Last Man movie? I gotta dig out those TPBs…
• Hillary Swank makes Iron Man cameo. Also confirmed: the Samuel L. Jackson/Nick Fury cameo.
• Is Rome’s Ray Stevenson the new Punisher? Much better choice than the last guy.
• Maggie Gyllenhaal aims to take The Dark Knight’s Rachel Dawes up a notch.
• Todd McFarlane wants to reboot Spawn on film. Dude, the 90′s are over. Accept it.

Trailer park

• The Darjeeling Limited. Wes Anderson film starring his regulars, as well as Adrien Brody and Natalie Portman. (She’s not in the trailer, though.)

• The Last Legion. Colin Firth, Romans, Excalibur, melodrama, etc. Highlight looks to be Aishwarya Rai with a sword.

Lots of little tidbits about Heroes, this week, and we haven’t even gotten to ComicCon, yet.

• The whole “GayGate” controversy.

• George Takei’s role gets a little juicier.
• E! thinks that they’ve confirmed Zachary Quinto‘s casting as the young Spock.
• And the show wins a nice award.

Forget the Potterdammrung: Footloose and Bill and Ted remakes? This can’t end well.

GENERAL

• Zachary Quinto as Spock? Leonard Nimoy, watch your back!

• Check out The Golden Compass posters! Daniel Craig looks bizarrely Hobbit-like.
• Tron is 25? Hehe, Tron.

SUPERHEROES

• Spider-Man movies look to keep on truckin’.

• Kevin Spacey to return as Lex Luthor. I still haven’t seen the first one. Will it ever come to HBO?
• Wolverine? Maybe.

TRAILERS

• The Dark is Rising

• The Spiderwick Chronicles
• Get Smart