Arnold Schwarzenegger was too busy running California to save the world in the new “Terminator” movie.
The action hero turned California governor starred in the first three films in the blockbuster sci-fi trilogy, but top billing in “Terminator Salvation,” which opens in U.S. theaters
“Angels & Demons,” the film sequel to conspiracy thriller “The Da Vinci Code,” will likely fall short of box office totals for its more religiously controversial predecessor when it opens on Friday.
Director Ron Howard’s “Angels & Demons,” starring Tom Hanks as symbology expert Robert Langdon, should make over $40 million this weekend while 2006′s Da Vinci Code made $77 million at U.S. and Canada box offices, industry watchers say.
Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com Box Office said Angels lacks the buzz of its predecessor.
The new Star Trek film has rocketed to the top of the North American box office chart, early figures show.
Director JJ Abrams’ prequel to the sci-fi franchise took an estimated $76.5m (£50.3m) in its opening weekend, easily beating its nearest rival.
The figure far surpasses the opening totals of the previous 10 Trek films.
Star Trek’s impressive opening pushed previous chart-topper X-Men Origins: Wolverine down to second place, with takings of $27m (£17.7m).
Frank A. Langella, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee’s Seascape (1975), and Ivan Turgenev’s Fortune’s Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon (2007). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber’s Match.
Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Frank A. Langella, Sr., a business executive. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne. He graduated from Columbia High School, in the South Orange and Maplewood School District, in 1955, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Read more
Star Trek is a science fiction film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and produced by Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk. It is the eleventh Star Trek film and features the main characters of the original Star Trek series, who are portrayed by a new cast. It follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) enrolling at Starfleet Academy, his first meeting with Spock (Zachary Quinto), and their battles with Romulans from the future, who are interfering with history. The film is scheduled for release in conventional theaters and IMAX on May 8, 2009 in North America and the United Kingdom. Read more
