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Yesterday, 26 January was Australia Day, the day Australians commemorate the anniversary of England’s First Fleet arriving at Sydney Cove in 1788 and starting the colony. It’s a bitter sweet day, because for many Aussies this is also the day that the Aboriginal population, that had been on the land for centuries, were side stepped and their land taken away. That sad note aside, this is also a day for Aussies living in the U.S. to celebrate the contribution that Australia has made to the celebrity world. As one patriotic Aussie girl, I am proud of our exports… who do you think is the biggest Australian talent to have taken over Hollywood?

Last night actors Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana were joined by fellow celebs at the premiere of their new film Hanna at the Regal Union Square in NYC, NY. I am really excited for a host of new films this year and ever since I saw the trailer for Hanna a couple of months ago, the film went straight to the top of my must see list. Check out some photos from the red carpet arrivals last night.

A few more geek-minded celebs made their way out to Day 2 of New York Comic-Con going on this weekend in the Big Apple making the dreams and wishes of loyal fans come true. Day 2 included in-person appearances by hot ladies Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff from Battlestar Galactica as well as hotties Eric Bana and James Franco:

And for some strange reason, Corey Feldman — in his infamous Michael Jackson attire — was in attendance as well. I’m not sure I quite get the connection between Comic Book/Sci Fi awesomeness and Feldman‘s presence but I’m guessing there was an appearance fee included and, well, I’m certain Corey Feldman would never turn down such an offer. To be honest, I always found Feldman‘s MJ impersonation extremely weird … now that MJ has passed, I find it extremely weird AND creepy. But, despite the creep-factor that invariably shows up at these sorts of events, I’m certain the sheer awesomeness makes NYCC a total blast. Sigh. I’m there in spirit …

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Members of bridge crew of the new Starship Enterprise were on hand at Shinjuku Milano One in Tokyo for the Japanese premiere of the new JJ Abrams film Star Trek which opens in the Land of the Rising Sun on May 29. Here are a few pics from the red carpet arrivals at last night’s premiere (which, due to the time difference, actually took place “today” in Japan):

Yes, that is a replica of the USS Starship Enterprise NCC-1701 on the red carpet with the actors. These pics were too fun not to post … you can tell that everyone was very happy to be promoting the film in Japan … and with good reason. It’s doing very well here in the US. Folks in Japan have a great movie to look forward to. I’ve already seen the film twice and I’m itching to see it one more time … in IMAX. I’m anxious to see that Chris Pine underwear scene on the jumbo screen ;)

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The principle cast, along with a few folks from previous incarnations of the franchise as well as a few celeb fans, made their way out to Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA last night for the Hollywood premiere of JJ Abrams‘s new Star Trek film (tho you may recall that the film already premiered in Sydney, Australia and London, England). Hollywood Blvd. teemed with Trekkies and celebs alike clamoring to be a part of the big party … and David and I were lucky enough to be among them. Here are a few pics of the new cast of Star Trek making their entrances on the red carpet (which was actually black and silver) and

The principal stars of the new JJ Abrams prequel film Star Trek made their way to Empire Leicester Square in London, England last night for the UK premiere of their film and were not only met by throngs of adoring fans but were also met with the first reviews of the film … and for the most part, the reviews are raves. Here are a few photos of Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho and Karl Urban on the red carpet of the premiere event last night and a portion of one of those published rave reviews:

The entertainment business thrives on surprises, as has been proven once again by the sudden elevation to stardom of Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. And there has been no bigger surprise for me this year than this movie. Like many people, I yawned at the thought of yet another attempt to breathe life into a series that seemed finished, after the pompous, pointless and all too aptly named Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002. The original cast had long gone, and the ideas had dried up. Why try to reanimate a corpse? The short answer is that J.J. Abrams had come up with a tremendous idea, inspired no doubt by the success of Batman Begins and Casino Royale, both of which had reinvigorated tired franchises by recasting and going back to basics. The result is not only by far the best of the 11 Star Trek movies, it must rank as the outstanding prequel of all time … We see space battles, planets sucked into black holes, chases, space aliens. Stupendous special effects and a magnificent score by Michael Giacchino make it a treat for the eyes and ears. The picture moves at a terrific pace, and is a satisfying tale of good versus evil, with Eric Bana a highly hissable villain. He’s the Romulan Nero, bent on avenging the destruction of his planet by blowing up first Vulcan, and then Earth. The Australian actor is virtually unrecognisable in the role, and confirms my suspicion that, though he struggles to carry a movie as a leading man (proved most notably in Hulk), he is a first-rate character actor. Like all the best villains, Nero is driven by a belief that he is in the right, and makes a fearsome adversary. The script feels remarkably fresh, no small achievement in itself, and takes an ingenious turn with the introduction of a time travel theme, and a highly effective reappearance of 78-year-old Leonard Nimoy, who was of course the original Spock and brings considerable dignity and grace to his scenes, which are far more than cameos. This is space opera on a mythic scale, and it’s stirring stuff. The immense grandeur of the imagery bodes well for anyone who chooses, in the wake of this movie’s inevitable success, to go back into the history of the franchise, and marry some of its better script ideas to 21st century technology. After the artistic disappointment of George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels, with its terrible dialogue and worse acting, this movie really does promise a creative re-birth of science fiction adventure. The revelation for many will be the way the screenplay honours the original characters created by Gene Roddenberry in the sixties, and gives them a moving and satisfying back-story.

The review goes on HERE and offers a bit more information that you might want to read before seeing the film. I didn’t even read the rest of it for fear of ruining the surprise. I am so pleased to know that reviewers are, thus far, happy with the reboot film … which makes me worry less. I was never a fan of the original Star Trek series, nor of the original characters (Capt. Kirk, Spock, et al.) as I was more of a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan (as well as Star Trek: Voyager). This prequel, I’m hoping, will breathe new life into the old characters and hopefully make me a fan. I’ve been impressed with everything I’ve seen thus far … so I’m really anxious to see the final product. David and I procured tickets to see the film early on May 7th the evening before the film opens on the 8th … so I’m gonna do my best to keep away from any new footage from the film so as not to spoil the movie. It won’t be long now.

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Eric Bana, the Aussie hottie who will play villain in JJ Abrams‘s new Star Trek prequel movie, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Details magazine. Here is Bana‘s coverphoto along with a portion of his coverstory interview:

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO BANA when Hollywood called. He was a successful Australian comedian who’d spent five years doing stand-up before landing his own TV show, Eric. Then, in 2000, his searing performance as the blaring psycho Mark Read in Chopper demonstrated a raw talent at full tilt—and offered him a ticket to the movie major leagues. But no sooner had he burst through Hollywood’s gilded doors than he steadied himself and began a run of characters who were defined by their inability to emote: the hawkeyed hard case Hoot in Black Hawk Down; Avner the conscience-stricken assassin in Munich; the conflicted scientist in Ang Lee’s Hulk; Hector in Troy, the warrior trying to avoid war. In these roles Bana glowered, his eyes dark, wrestling with some inner dilemma. The old Bana does reveal himself occasionally: At Aussie Rules football games, for example, Bana screams himself hoarse. In his comedy-club days, he had to stop going to contests on the night before a gig, because he wouldn’t have a voice the next day. But now, for the most part, he’s thoughtful, earnest, and a little serious. And he’s sincere about wanting to show me around Melbourne. On finding out how far I’ve come, how limited my time is, and that this is my first visit to Australia, he chews pensively, calculating an itinerary … We stop at a park and watch some ducks being fed. It seems a little sedate for Hector of Troy. But the ducks aren’t the draw for Bana. “It’s a Formula One track. There’s a race in three weeks’ time.” He never planned on being Eric Bana the actor, or the comedian, for that matter. What he really wants is to be Mario Andretti. Between shooting movies, Bana can be found “fart-arsing around with my car, getting ready for a race.” Although he has more than one, his favorite car is a fire-engine-red ’74 XB Falcon coupe that he calls the Beast. He’s had it since he was 15. “Three of my closest friends—our relationship has been maintained because we’ve always worked on this car,” he says. “The car has transcended itself. It has become a campfire.” But one day, during the Targa Tasmania rally in April 2007, he crashed into a tree. “I totaled it. After a two-year restoration, everything handmade. Oh, it hurt—yeah. Absolutely.” He falls silent for a moment, still mourning the Beast … [H]e drives to a small, nondescript brick building and we park outside the house he lived in when he first attempted to make people laugh for a living. He made the decision to give comedy a try after driving around the United States in a 1979 Mustang on his own for six months. He was all of 22. “It sounded like a great idea at the time, but after 10 days straight without talking to anybody, you start to think, What the fuck am I doing here?” he says. Still, he plowed on, from city to city, sleeping in his car because money was tight. And then he got lost in the wrong part of Washington, D.C. “I’d be pulling up to street corners, and there were gangs right there, and I’m in this little Mustang by myself. I thought, I am fucking dead. I was running red lights, hoping the cops would pull me over.” The experience prepared him for stand-up—the loneliness and fear had hardened him. So when he was working as a bartender in a comedy club back home a few months later, he says he thought, “These acts are all a bit shithouse—I can do that. I’ll be a bit uncomfortable up there, but after the trip I had, how bad can it be?” It was the right choice. He has a talent for impersonating people. On YouTube you’ll find Bana doing Arnold, Bana doing Tom Cruise. He went about as far as you can in Australia—from $60-a-night gigs to his own TV show. And then, after 10 years, he quit. “I got sick of listening to myself,” he says. “I had all the tools, but my act had stagnated and I felt dirty.” Comedy is not something Bana wishes to revisit. The closest he’s come to that is a part in the upcoming Judd Apatow movie Funny People, starring Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler. “All I miss about comedy is being producer, director, and writer. I miss the control,” he says. Like many comics, Bana is prone to dark moods … In a few weeks he’ll be racing again. Then there’s a heap of press to do for all the movies he’s got in the can—Star Trek, Funny People, the chick-flicky Time Traveler’s Wife. Beyond that, he’s just reading and deciding what comes next. The in-between is his favorite time, living his Melbourne life, sticking the bikes on the roof of the car and taking the kids to the beach. Today he’s happy just to be a tour guide. “If you’ve got time tomorrow, you should check out the Melbourne Cricket Ground—it’s one of the great sporting stadiums. I think they do tours,” he says before we part. He shakes my hand and heads into the balmy night in the city where he can fool himself into thinking that he’s still plain old Aussie Eric, the family man and race-car nut who remembers who he is just enough to forget what he does.

What a strange interview … especially for a coverstory. There is no talk of his new film nor does he even really talk about his acting career … that said, I had no idea that Eric Bana used to be a comedian. Honestly, I can’t see it so I may have to look up some videos on You Tube to get a sense of his humor. While the interview feels a bit lacking to me, the accompanying photoshoot does not. After the jump, check out some photos from Eric‘s Details magazine photospread which was shot by Steven Klein …

Sydney, Australia was the lucky city to host the official world premiere of the new JJ Abrams prequel film Star Trek last night but the folks in OZ were not the first ones to be able to watch the film in full. An even luckier group of folks in Austin, TX who were told they’d be seeing a preview of clips from the film were treated to a full showing of the film … AND Leonard Nimoy (the original Spock) was in the hiz to introduce the screening. But, we’ll get to that in a sec. Co-stars and jogging buddies Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto were joined by Eric Bana, John Cho and Abrams on the red carpet in Sydney last night … here are a few photos:

The 11th Star Trek movie in 30 years had its world premiere on Tuesday, its markedly younger cast boldly going along the red carpet to a makeshift cinema in the Sydney Opera House. Chris Pine, 28, who plays a cadet-aged James T. Kirk, admitted he’d never met William Shatner, who starred as the original Captain Kirk in the television series dating back to 1966 as well as the first Star Trek movies. But he said he watched the TV show “quite a bit.” “All it was doing was making me think about what the best way I could do a William Shatner impersonation,” Pine said. “It wasn’t helping bringing this story to life.” Hundreds of fans, including one wearing “Spock” ears, waited for hours to meet the leading men who spent nearly an hour walking the red carpet, signing autographs and talking with journalists. “It’s hard to believe Eric Bana plays a meanie when he comes across as such a nice guy,” said Alicia Wetherley, who drove from central Australia to the Opera House for the premiere. Bana plays Nero, the film’s heavily-tattooed Romulan villain bent on avenging the destruction of his planet. He said all the film’s cast “did everything they could” to come up with something fresh this time around. The plot follows the young lives of the original cast from Gene Roddenberry’s TV show as they find their places on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise as junior officers. It was directed by J.J. Abrams, director of “Mission Impossible III” and “Lost.” “I was never a huge Star Trek fan growing up and so what I hope people will experience when they see the movie is one that stands on its own,” Abrams said. “It’s a huge action spectacle but at the core it is got a big heart,” said Abrams. Zachary Quinto plays Spock, the role made famous by Leonard Nimoy, 77, who has a cameo in the film. Nimoy had joined a campaign for the movie to hold its premiere in the small farming town of Vulcan in Alberta, Canada, that was unsuccessful, partly because the town has no cinema.

LOL! Well, since Nimoy couldn’t get the premiere to take place in Vulcan, he decided to surprise a group of fans in Austin, TX for a screening of Star Trek that took place even before the Oz premiere went down:

While a world of Trekkers believed the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek would premiere in Sydney, Australia Tuesday, Leonard Nimoy made a surprise appearance in Austin, Texas Monday night to screen the film for an unsuspecting audience. A theater full of Trek fans showed up in the Texas capital thinking they were going to see a new print of the classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and 10 minutes of Abrams’ reboot, all organized by Ain’t It Cool News. But, Nimoy shocked the house by announcing they would in fact see the entire new movie just hours before it made its international bow in Sydney. The early fan reviews on Twitter are running almost entirely positive so far.

Click HERE to read some of the Twitter posts that came from last night’s Austin surprise. Kudos to Paramount for really capitalizing on getting the buzz for the film going right. Orchestrating a splashy premiere and a surprise screening on opposite ends of the globe all almost the same time is pretty brills. I know I’m amped to see the film … even without all this hoopla … but the word of mouth can only help the film when it opens in May. I’m sure we’ll be seeing the new Trek crew trek the world for other premieres in the weeks to come … but it’s all foreplay to me. I want the real goods and I want them now!

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Bromance Alert! It would appear that British actor Orlando Bloom and Aussie actor Eric Bana are the newest bro-friends to spark up a new relationship together. The buds were spotted hanging out together at the Deus Ex Machina motorcycle and bicycle shop in Camperdown, Sydney Australia this week presumably lookin’ to pick up a pair of his and his bikes together … here are a few photos:

I have to tell you, it fills my heart with GLEE at the thought of these two guys hanging out together … they make a very handsome couple … er, of friends ;) I suppose it’s too much to hope that they decided on a bicycle built for two so I guess we’ll have to wait and see if any future photos of the pair cycling together come out. Yes, I am really hoping that they do come out … er, the photos, that is. Yeah, I really like these two together … don’t YOU think they make a great pair of BFFs?

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Chris Pine as James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock are featured on the cover and in the pages of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. The magazine takes an inside look at the new JJ Abrams-directed Star Trek prequel and offers some new insight from the set as well as a whole slew of new photos from the film. Here is the coverphoto for this week’s issue of EW mag as well as a portion of the coverstory:

Aboard a monstrous and gloomy interstellar cruiser — part Death Star, part Mordor — the man who would be the next captain of the starship Enterprise finds himself under fire from bald, blue-tatted alien brawlers. At the moment, James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), the hotheaded, horndog hero of Star Trek, is still a fresh-faced space cadet. At his side is his young half-human, half-Vulcan BFF, Spock (Zachary Quinto), looking quintessentially Spocky with his black bowl cut, slanting eyebrows, and blue smock. Here on the set of director J.J. Abrams’ $150 million bid to bring Gene Roddenberry’s beloved sci-fi world back to the big screen, the two geek pop icons have infiltrated a Romulan warcraft only to see their mission explode into a raging phaser fight. No longer are their signature Trek weapons boxy plastic toys, but sleek silver gizmos with spring-triggered barrels that revolve and glow in the transition from ”stun” to ”kill.” Problem is, every time Kirk raises his newfangled ray gun, the barrel revolves too early. Or too late. Or not at all. Giggles and unprintable curses fly. Someone lightens the mood with a quip: ”Most illogical, captain.” For cast and crew, it’s a fleeting and fixable frustration. But a busted phaser is the least of the challenges Abrams faces as he attempts to reenergize a franchise that has clearly lost its zap … After a succession of contrived TV spin-offs (the last, UPN’s Star Trek: Enterprise, mustered only a feeble 2 million viewers in its final season) and mediocre features based on the best of the bunch (Star Trek: The Next Generation), even people who’d built their entire careers around Trek could see the writing on the wall. ”Star Trek,” says Leonard Nimoy, ”had run its course” … Transforming a defunct old property into a cool 21st-century event flick may seem like business as usual for Hollywood (e.g., Superman Returns, Batman Begins), but Trek presented Paramount and Abrams with a much heftier challenge: how to make this hunk of retro sci-fi cheese meaningful as mainstream entertainment, as relevant pop, as big business. ”Every studio in town is searching for these kinds of franchises, so it was important for us to reboot,” says Brad Weston, Paramount’s president of production. ”But we needed a clean, fresh take on this thing.”

The very well-written coverstory (which you can read in its entirety HERE) goes on to talk about Abrams‘s vision for the future of Trek (hinting that he may want to make it more Star Wars-y rather than traditionally Trek-y) and offers a pretty substantial movie plot spoiler that may want to be skipped by fans (like me) who wish to remain unspoiled. So … let’s look at some of the new Trek photos. After the jump, check out some new pics of the “old” crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise as well as our first look at Romulan bad guy Nero played by Eric Bana …