Westworld TV Series - by J.J. Abrams of course!

HBO and Bad Robot are teaming up to make a TV series based on the 1973 movie, Westworld, which starred Richard Benjamin, James Brolin and Yul Brynner.  The movie was about theme park with human like robots who run amok.  The movie had a sequel, Futureworld (1976) and very short lived TV series called Beyond Westworld in 1980.

Jonathan Nolan (Person of Interest) will be writing the pilot.

The director and writer of Westworld was Michael Crichton who would later go on to write a book and movie about a theme park where dinosaurs run amok!!

Video For J.J. Abrams New Mystery Project

It is simply titled stranger and so far it is a mystery as to what it will be.  Not sure if it is for a movie or TV show but it does seem strange. I guess we will find out soon enough.

And the "Star Trek 2" villain is Benicio Del Toro playing - Stop Right There, Director J.J. Abrams Says

J.J. Abrams has seen the future.

Space may be the Final Frontier, but the Internet is the Never-Ending Frontier when it comes to movie rumors.

We know "Star Trek 2" will be released in the summer of 2013.

We know it will be in 3-D (groan).

We know Benicio Del Toro will play the villain. Now, thanks to the usually reliable El Mayimbe of Latino Review.com, we know the identity of the villain (spoiler after the jump).

Except, director J.J. Abrams is saying it ain't so.

Confused enough yet?

J.J. Abrams triumphed where Joe Paterno failed

J.J. Abrams on the set of "Star Trek."

Never thought you'd see those two names in the same headline, did you?

After all, what could Hollywood writer and director J.J. Abrams possibly have in common with Joe Paterno, the legendary college football coach who recently was fired amid the furor over the child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State. The case is complicated, in case you've been somehow ignoring it, but Paterno lost his job because some people believe he failed to act properly when he learned a longtime former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, allegedly was caught molesting a young boy.

That's a very simplified and toned-down version of the story. If you want to make yourself sick, you can read the grand jury report by clicking here.

Back to Abrams.

This past week, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times by Dawn Chmielewski and Harriet Ryan, Abrams was instrumental in Los Angeles Police launching an investigation into a convicted child molester who had changed his name and was casting actors, including young children, for movies.

Super 8 Movie Review (Spoilers)

Do you remember the movies that came out in the 80's that were fun to watch.  I'm talking about movies in the vein of the Goonies.   Well if you enjoyed watching the Goonies back in 1985 then you

Super 8 Opens Today

The much hyped Super 8 by J.J. Abrams opens today.  It will be interesting to see if this movie lives up to a 1 year build up.   Remember this trailer from a year ago.  Lets hope it won't be disappointing.