Star Trek into Darkness did well this weekend, dethroning Iron Man 3 from the top spot.

However, the movie fell short of Paramount Pictures’ expectations for the domestic opening.

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For Star Trek fans who also like the Honest Trailers series, a new one has just been released featuring 2009′s Star Trek.

The Honest Trailers show clips of a chosen film and in a voiceover, explains what the film is *really* like, with an emphasis on stupidities and plot holes.

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Esurance, a direct to consumer personal car insurance company, has a new promotion running for Star Trek into Darkness fans including a sweepstakes for U.S. fans.

The Esurance Star Trek into Darkness Facebook page features several items; the sweepstakes entry form, an inside look into the movie, a “Vulcanizer,” and some fun downloads.

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Star Trek‘s Chris Hemsworth (George Kirk) will be starring in the crime thriller Candy Store.

Directed and written by Stephen Gaghan, Candy Store is the story of a “deep-cover operative who loses everything, ultimately disappearing into Brooklyn where he must start again.  He ends up as a “beat up cop [who] … discover[s] the global organization he was dedicated to fighting is operating in his new backyard.”

Hemsworth will be seen next week in the remake of Red Dawn, where he plays Jed Eckert, the leader of an armed resistance against occupation forces.

Star Trek‘s Eric Bana (Nero) will be appearing in a new “international thriller” next summer.

The film is called Closed Circuit, and will star Bana and Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona).

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Zachary Quinto will be on a set shooting a new movie this summer.

The movie is Invitation, starring Luke Wilson and directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight).

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Zoë Saldana recently attended the Cosmopolitan for Latinas party in New York City, in honor of the
launch of the new magazine, which arrived on newsstands earlier this month.

Saldana spoke about her life since her split with former fiancé Keith Britton last year. “The reality is, I have gotten this far because I don’t pay attention to anything but my heart and what I want to do,” she said. “And if it’s a hit today, or if it’s a miss tomorrow, seriously — no regrets because if I follow my heart I can never be wrong.”

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J.J. Abrams is batting one-for-two this week with the news that although his new show Revolution was picked up by NBC earlier this week, another show of his was axed by FOX.

Alcatraz was the story about inmates of the infamous prison who vanished in 1963 only to reappear in modern day San Francisco. The show was one of four canceled by FOX this week.

Low ratings did in Alcatraz, which launched with over ten million viewers in the age 18-49 demographics, but finished was less than half of that number.

Revolution, a thriller by J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, has been ordered by NBC for the 2012 Fall Season.

In Revolution, a family “struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology — computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights — has mysteriously blacked out … forever.”

Written by Kripke and produced by Abrams, Revolution will be directed by Jon Favreau, and filmed in Atlanta.

Even though she is currently single, Star Trek XI‘s Zoë Saldana hasn’t given up on wanting to have children of her own.

The actress revealed that she spoke about the topic with her ex-fiancé while they were still together, but the timing was never right for the couple.

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Star Trek 2 Co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will be turning their talents to the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Amazing Spider-Man will open this summer, and the sequel to it, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, will appear on movie screens in May of 2014.

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Star Trek XI‘s John Cho and Clark Duke (Hot Tub Time Machine) has joined The Identity Thief, a Universal comedy.

The Identity Thief is the story of a family man (Jason Bateman) who “gets a life-lesson in stepping up when his identity is stolen by a mess of a woman (Melissa McCarthy).”

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Recently, Anton Yelchin was asked by Bullett Magazine to submit a photo essay inspired by youth and the results of that essay reveal what interests the actor about people and their growth from youth to adulthood.

There are some self-portraits in the collection, but Yelchin’s photos do not show the glamorous life that an actor might lead in Hollywood.

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The first trailer for Simon Pegg‘s latest project, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, has been released.

In A Fantastic Fear of Everything, Pegg plays Jack, “a children’s author-turned-crime-novelist whose deep research into gruesome Victorian era murders has made him an insomniac, fearful mess who finds himself on the run from an actual serial killer.”

A Fantastic Fear of Everything opens in the UK on June 8th. There is no word yet on the US release date.

A new trailer for People Like Us, in which Chris Pine stars as a “twenty-something fast-talking salesman,” is now online.

People Like Us (formerly Welcome to People) is the story “of a struggling twenty-something man (Pine) who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister (Elizabeth Banks) he never knew existed, and her troubled twelve-year-old son. Determined to keep the money to solve his own problems, he’s nonetheless fascinated by his unknown kin and makes contact with the two without revealing who he really is.”

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