• New! Ester’s Weekly Wrap

    Catch up on all the top schmooze in Hollywood. Beginning this week, Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week on TheWrap. This week: "Star Trek" and Paramount (and that poor Brad Grey!), fancy schmancy premieres (not!) and lots more. Sit your tookus down and watch it every Friday.    

  • ‘Star Trek’ Porn and Other Things I’ve Learned

    What I learned this week: 1. There’s a “Star Trek” porn send-up about to beam down to shelves, thanks to Hustler. It stars Sasha Grey, the 21-year-old sensation who has already crossed over to the mainstream by starring in Steven Soderbergh’s “The Girlfriend Experience," also available this week via download. See the trailer, which is…

  • “Star Trek” at Warp Speed with $72.5 Million

    ‘Trek’ finished its four-day debut with $76.5 million. Sets new IMAX record.

    “Star Trek” at Warp Speed with $72.5 Million
  • Paramount Faces Its Summer of Change

    Brad Grey and his studio have a lot to prove with the launch of “Star Trek’ and ‘Transformers.”

    Paramount Faces Its Summer of Change
  • A Non-Vulcan Beams Up to ‘Star Trek’

    I’ve never donned a pair of Vulcan ears in my life, and when I hear the word “Klingon,” my first thought is something horrible stuck to the bottom of my shoe. To me, “Star Trek” pretty much began and ended with Sunday afternoons as a kid spent watching William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy take on…

  • What Paramount Has in Store for Us

    From “Trek” to “Lovely Bones,” what the studio will deliver this year.

  • Gala World Premieres Not So Gala Anymore

    Except for tentpole events Like “Star Trek,” opening nights hit harder times.

    Gala World Premieres Not So Gala Anymore
  • From Trekkies to Bill Clinton

    At the "Star Trek" premiere on Thursday night, Hollywood beauties — including Hayden Panettiere, Heidi Klum, Nicolette Sheridan, Sophia Bush and Leighton Meester — proudly unleashed their inner nerd with “Live Long and Prosper” hand salutes. Fellow Trekkies flocked to the ginormous metal Starfleet logo outside Grauman’s Chinese to watch stars appear on the black…

  • International Box Office: ‘Wolverine’ Sets Pace for Summer

    Big opening for ‘Wolverine” bodes well for summer tentpoles.

    International Box Office: ‘Wolverine’ Sets Pace for Summer
  • ‘Star Trek: The Lost Generation’

    In the new video parody, Kirk and Spock land on the island.

  • Mexico Plays the Dating Game

    What movies are being moved … and to when.

  • Will Swine Flu Topple Summer Tentpoles?

    As flu wreaks havoc in Mexico, U.S. plans stay firm.

    Will Swine Flu Topple Summer Tentpoles?
  • ‘Star Trek’ Beams Down Under

    Viewed from the south steps, the Sydney Opera House looks very much like the Star Fleet-style logo used by Paramount to promote J.J. Abrams’ retooling of  “Star Trek” for a new generation. The symbolism wasn’t lost on organizers to last night’s Down Under world premiere, as guests snaked up a wide red carpet and into…

  • Ellison to ‘Star Trek’: Pay Up!

    Just in time for the no doubt extraordinarily lucrative “Star Trek” franchise reboot, the irascible Harlan Ellison is going after Paramount for money he says is owed to him on a 42-year-old episode of original TV series. Pointy-eared peeps know that “City on the Edge of Forever”, penned by Ellison, starring Joan Collins and first…