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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Classical dance training helped lead Zoë Saldana to movie roles, including Star Trek XI.
Saldana, thirty-one-years old, took classical dance for eleven years and her classical dance training led to her first movie role as a ballet dancer in 2000′s Center Stage, a movie about twelve young dancers hoping to be chosen to join the American Ballet Company.
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Star Trek XI’s Zoë Saldana to be the recipient of the Face of the Future Award.
Saldana will be presented the Face of the Future award at the 2010 Women in Film fund-raising dinner and Crystal + Lucy Awards event on June 1.
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
If all goes well, Zoë Saldana will be starring in Colombiana, a drama produced by Luc Besson.
Saldana is in talks for the starring role as a “stone-cold” assassin who is seeking revenge for the murder of her parents.
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Chris Pine and Zoë Saldana were each nominated twice for an MTV Movie Award.
Nominated for his work in Star Trek XI, Pine will be competing in two categories; Biggest Badass Star and Best Breakout Star.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Zoë Saldana has not only made Maxim’s Top 100 Women for 2010 list, but she is listed amongst the top five.
Saldana comes in at #3 on the list, behind #2 Brooklyn Decker, and #1 Katy Perry.
The other women in the top ten include:
- 4 Blake Lively
- 5 Megan Fox
- 6 Rihanna
- 7 Elisabetta Canalis
- 8 Olivia Munn
- 9 Kim Kardashian
- 10 Marisa Miller
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
One of the questions regarding Star Trek XII concerns the Spock-Uhura romance and where, if anywhere, the romance will go.
Trek fans were surprised by the romance between the half-Vulcan Spock and human Uhura in Star Trek XI, and now they wonder what will happen now that Vulcans have become an endangered race.
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Karl Urban is ready to step into Doctor McCoy’s shoes again, and he wouldn’t mind if the Star Trek movies continue past the two sequels for which he has already signed.
Urban doesn’t know if Star Trek will continue past the third movie, but he’s open to more than two more Trek movies if the right people are involved in creating them.
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Being the sole woman on a set doesn’t bother Zoë Saldana, who can hold her own with a group of men.
At times though, Saldana feels like she has to do more so that she isn’t perceived as someone who can’t carry a full load.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The nominations for Canada’s fourth annual Constellation Awards have been announced, and Star Trek XI has been nominated in four different categories.
The Constellation Awards, honoring excellence in science-fiction film and television, announced their nominations last week in a televised announcement on G4 Canada’s EP Daily.
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
According to Zoë Saldana (Uhura), Star Trek XII will begin pre-production this autumn.
When asked whether fans would see the sequel to Star Trek or the sequel to Avatar first, Saldana claimed that Trek would be first. “I think Star Trek,” she said. “Because that one’s already going into pre-production soon…From what I hear. Unless J.J., who’s always full of surprises…
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
On Sunday night, Star Trek XI collected yet another award, this one courtesy of the 2010 Jameson Empire Awards.
Nominated for three Empire awards; Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film, Best Director and Best Film; Star Trek XI won for best Sci-Fi/Fantasy movie.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Zoë Saldana wants more than just an emotional or mental challenge in her acting roles.
Although Saldana enjoyed her work on Star Trek XI, she was a bit jealous that the men got all the good action scenes. “In Star Trek I had so much fun,” she said, “but the boys had all the action.
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Star Trek XI‘s Zoë Saldana has signed on with Avon Products, Inc.
Saldana, best-known to Star Trek fans as the new Uhura, will now be a spokeswoman for Avon’s newest fragrance.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The Thirty-Sixth Annual People’s Choice Awards airs tonight, January 6, at 9:00 PM on CBS and Star Trek XI will be vying for several of the awards.
Fans of Star Trek XI will find out tonight if any of the five People’s Choice nominations for the movie will be chosen as winners.
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
For Zoë Saldana, working in Avatar meant more than just learning her lines.
James Cameron‘s Avatar, a 3-D science fiction movie releases this week, and Saldana plays Neytiri, a blue-skinned alien warrior, a role for which she has been preparing since 2006.
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