“Star Trek” Trailer

I’ve never been a Star Trek fan. My father liked it, but I could never get into it. Eddie Murphy and Halle Berry once extolled the virtues of the series. Even when the movies came out, I enjoyed a few of them — I mean, Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home are awesome, and I like First Contact a lot, too — but it was never a franchise that moved me.

Welp, color me intrigued, because the trailer for Paramount’s Star Trek reboot, helmed by JJ Abrams and starring the lovely and beautiful Zoe Saldana and screenwriter-hating Tyler Perry, among others, looks fucking exciting. A lot of people opined about how Dawson’s Creek-ish the cast looked when they appeared in a recent issue of EW. But I think that maybe Abrams has pulled it off. Too bad we have to wait until next year to see. Anyway, hit the jump for the fantastic trailer.

Will Smith is Still Richer Than You

Big Willie Style, indeed.

Critics absolutely hated Will Smith’s latest star vehicle Hancock, but moviegoers — myself included — loved it, as evidenced by the $195 million worth of ticket sales it’s grossed so far domestically. Hancock is Smith’s eighth consecutive $100 million grossing film, and he’s the first Hollywood actor to accomplish this feat. So it comes as no surprise when Forbes named him Hollywood’s best-paid actor: