More than a month ago, director J.J. Abrams officially started principal photography on the much-anticipated follow-up to 2009's stealth-reboot Star Trek, and given all the hubbub that's surrounded the project for so long, it's surprising that we've heard nary a peep about Star Trek 2 since.  Well, good news, everyone, as the first unofficial photos from the Los Angeles set of Star Trek 2 have arrived online.  Turn away if you're even vaguely spoiler-phobic, but if not, then proceed for your first look at the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is just a few days away from its release on IMAX screens, after which it will hit normal-sized theaters on December 21st.  As such, Paramount is saturating the market with Ghost Protocol promotion, including a brand new three-minute clip that consists exclusively of action, as Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt pursues some random dude into a sandstorm sweeping through Dubai.  The whole thing is set to a score by Michael Giacchino that doesn't hold back on the bongo fury.

As the sequel's IMAX release is less than two weeks away, Paramount Pictures has released yet another new official clip from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.  Unlike past clips, this one doesn't feature Jeremy Renner jumping into a turbine, or two gorgeous women in an all-out fisticuffs, or even Tom Cruise swinging around on the Burj Khalifa.  Instead, it has Cruise and Simon Pegg engaging in a little humorous interplay without actually exchanging a word.  Pegg is doing all the talking as Benji Dunn, the talkative tech expert introduced in the last film, Mission: Impossible III, while Cruise's Ethan Hunt just threateningly pantomimes at him via a hacked security camera.  When Hunt finally holds up a fist, it's rendered all the more effective by the tight white tank top (or "wifebeater," as it's colloquially known) he's wearing.

Having hurled a rapturous trailer at us, Paramount Pictures, Amblin, and Bad Robot are now treating us to the first poster for Super 8, the top secret summer blockbuster directed by Star Trek rebooter J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg.  The film takes place in a small Ohio town in 1979, and the old fashioned American setting gets an ominous set of clouds in this handsome image.  Go ahead and tilt your head to one side and peep this poster.

J.J. Abrams and one of his most trusted t.v. directors, Jack Bender, are teaming up for a big-screen scarefest called 7 Minutes in Heaven. Yes, they've gone from making board games into movies to adapting make-out sessions... At least it's a persuasive title.

As his production company is called Bad Robot, I suppose it was only a matter of time before J.J. Abrams made a movie involving an automaton. Abrams is set to produce a rather bizarre-sounding project called Boilerplate, which is like Forrest Gump but with a robot. A Good Robot.

Via Heat Vision Blog, "Boilerplate" purports to tell the story of the world’s first robot, who, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fought alongside Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia, journeyed to the South Pole and was involved in the silent movie business before disappearing on the battlefields of World War I.