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Feb 08 | While his "Lost" co-stars prepare to pack up and leave Hawaii, Daniel Dae Kim can plan to remain there for at least a few more months. Mr. Kim, who plays the time-traveling tough guy Jin on "Lost," has been the first actor cast in a coming remake of the crime drama "Hawaii Five-O," The Hollywood Reporter said. He has been cast as Chin Ho Kelly, a detective played by Kam Fong in the original series, which began in 1968. The "Hawaii Five-O" revival is being developed by the screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Star Trek," "Fringe") and Peter Lenkov, an executive producer of "CSI: NY."
Feb 03 | William Shatner has paid tribute to his former Boston Legal co-star Justin Mentell, who died in a freak car accident on Monday. The 27 year old was thrown from his Jeep after swerving off the road near Madison, Wisconsin and died at the scene of the tragic crash. The Star Trek legend was saddened to hear of Mentell's passing - as he's convinced the actor was destined for a glittering career. In a post on his Twitter.com page, Shatner writes, "I'm deeply saddened to hear about Justin Mentell. There's no telling how far up the ladder he may have climbed. My sympathies to his family."
Feb 01 | Journalist Edward Gross posted an article at SciFiTVZone.com called "The Making of the Star Trek Pilots, Part 3: "Assignment Earth"" which takes a retrospective look at the making of the Gene Roddenberry unsold TV pilot "Assignment Earth" filmed at Desilu Studios as a second season Star Trek episode. The article feature rare interviews - including authors involved with the character of Gary Seven in comics and in novels.
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By Steve Krutzler / 13:24, 11 September 2006 / General Star Trek
CBS Paramount has released a promotional trailer for the new remastered Star Trek episodes, beginning in weekend syndication September 16th.
Michael Okuda assures fans, "We're going to preserve the original, but bring it a little more into the 21st century."
"Simply want the visual effects to enhance what's already there," adds David Rossi. "We took measurements that were taken off the model from the Smithsonian. We're not adding fins, we're not going to make it do barrel rolls, we're just going to make people's mouth water a little more when they see it. A lot more."
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Here are the links to wmv and qt source files on startrek.com.
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Does anyone else think that this would be vastly improved with the Orchestra behind the scenes piece taken out (or at least a lot shorter). It seems to break the rest of the tempo, given the upbeat soundtrack to the rest of the clip.
Also- "The Ship Hits The Fans" -- Puh-leeze! Can we get like a group of 10 non-basemented fans to review these for Paramount to avoid a craptastic lines like that one?
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There are several screen-capture comparisons posted at VRRRM.com.
The remastered images are from the downloaded CBS trailer (and thus less than ideal for an example), and the original images are from the TOS DVD. Frames were chosen to show approximately the same scene.
Remastered...
Original (from "Miri")...
More examples at VRRRM.
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I notice that, in this trailer, Kirk says "Its mission" rather than "Its 5-year mission."
CBS Studios say they've fixed old technical problems in the opening montage.
"We didn't change anything, although we did update everything," David Rossi says. "All the star patterns that were in the original opening are exactly duplicated in the new opening. We smoothed out the motion of the Enterprise. It flies more dynamically now. It occupies real space. It doesn't look like a model anymore. So that's kind of the angle we took on it."
"The process that Dave just described is one particular shot where the Enterprise's flight path takes a couple of strange bumps to the left and to the right," adds Michael Okuda. "And there were artifacts of the visual-effects processes back then. And now CBS Digital is able to go in and essentially have an infinitely long track, so the perspective of the ship now is proper. It, as Dave says, occupies real space. It's a subtle change, but it just gives the ship more presence as it flies by you.
"Back in '64, when they shot the original opening elements, [or] '66, there was a physical limit to how far ... back you can get the camera [from the model]. So the perspective changes were limited by the physical length of the dolly track in the studio. What CBS Digital can do is, ... with the digital rendering, you can have your virtual camera infinitely far away and have the ship travel to inches from your nose. And by doing that, the perspective is ... proper. It's just as if the ship is really flying by you."
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