Star Trek: Beyond: Behind the Scenes Movie Broll - Chris Pine, Simon Pegg By: IANS | Mumbai | Published:July 15, 2016 9:52 pm Smirnoff brand has launched cocktails inspired by the movie series Star Trek.
Imagine sipping a chilled glass of Spocktail or a cheering glasses to Beam Me Up. Star Trek fans can now look forward to exciting cocktails launched by vodka brand Smirnoff.
We have crafted an exclusive range of Smirnoff cocktails that add an exquisite twist to the traditional favourites, making it a unique and out of this world experience, Hemant Mundkur, brand ambassador, Diageo India and mixologist, who has created the Star Trek Beyond Smirnoff cocktails, said in a statement.
The cocktails will be available across top pubs and restaurants.
Traversing through space, the third instalment of the Star Trek Reboot Series: Star Trek Beyond, which is directed by acclaimed director Justin Lin, will release in 3D and 2D on July 22 in both English and Hindi. It is distributed by Viacom18 Motion Pictures.
Star Trek is one of the most widely followed franchise across the world, and were delighted to bring third instalment of the rebooted Star Trek series with Star Trek Beyond to the Indian audience The collaboration with Smirnoff helps us engage with the young urbane audiences in fun cool way and add a delightful twist to their Star Trek experience, Rudrarup Datta, Senior Vice President (Marketing), Viacom18 Motion Picture, said.
The choice of cocktails include
* The Spocktail: This is an electric mix of vodka, fresh red grapes, apple juice with a splash of lime and soda.
* Vulcan Salute: No more protocols! vodka, crushed ice and orange and lime wedges come together in this tangy mix, an excuse to give up reason and logic to have some fun.
* Beam Me Up: Transport yourself into a night of fun with this heady mix of expresso, butterscotch and coffee.
* Warp Driver: Break the barriers with our version of the classic screw driver! Try the tropical fusion of smirnoff vodka, pineapple Juice with coconut syrup and some blue curacao.
* LIIT (and prosper): Vulcan salute merges with the classic cocktail in this snazzy combo of smirnoff orange, captain morgan and gin combined peach, cranberry and lemonade.
Ghostbusters surpassed my expectations in every way. It was funny throughout, well paced, with no huge downswing. If I have one criticism about the movies structure, its that the ending falls slightly flatter than the rest; but as a huge fan of the 1984 Ghostbusters (it holds special childhood movie status with me), I have to say the 2016 movie is just as good as the 1984 movie. Sony has a hit on its hands.
The movies villain, Rowan (Neil Casey) is a disgruntled asshat who thinks hes had it hard all his life. To get revenge against his bullies, Rowan stirs up trouble in Manhattan. He aims to command a ghost army by placing devices around the city that break ghosts into the human world. Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) and nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) are working on ways to defend against and capture ghosts. Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) later joins them, followed by MTA subway worker Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones). Together the Ghostbusters fight back against ever-increasing odds to save the city.
Stand out characters include Chris Hemsworths Kevin, who has awesome comedic timing. Kevin is a brilliantly simple and a fun role, essentially the eye candy/ puppy dog that the women love and look after. I think some of the men in the audience may cringe, but guys women have had this done to us in thousands of movies. This one character doesnt even begin to rebalance those scales.
The movies absolute standout is Kate McKinnons Holtzmann. Shes the inventor of the Ghostbusters gadgets, and shes so delightfully over the top. Shes d**n hot and youre going to see her cosplayed everywhere.
One justified criticism from the first trailer was the portrayal of Leslie Jones character, Patty. The trailer was put together in a way that emphasized that she was the only non-scientist and it made the movie look flat-out racist. Jones took to Twitter to provide some perspective to her character that we couldnt have had before the movie came out. Patty may not be a scientist in Ghostbusters, but shes smart in a number of ways and provides the team direction and information at critical points. In the end she makes the decisive call that leads to the resolution and shes exactly what the team needed. Its a shame shes the only non-scientist but its not as bad as the trailer made out when you have the context of the rest of the movie.
I know Ghostbusters 1984 is problematic but its still something of a fave of mine. As a long time fan, with my own uniform and props, I feel well placed to say that Ghostbusters 2016 is as good as Ghostbusters 1984. The original has an amazing first half but the second half falls away slightly. Ghostbusters 2 is a pretty terrible movie, it hits the odd high note but generally its like watching your dad try to rap; it really isnt how you want to spend your time. Ghostbusters 2016 doesnt quite reach the highs of the first half of the original but it never sinks to the lows of that movie either.
The movie is very safe for kids as young as 8 or so as it does have a couple spooky ghosts and a few jump scares. If those dont bother your kid then its fine for the younger ones, too. Girls are going to love having an action movie where they can see themselves on screen. This really is a first and its worth celebrating. Make sure you stay to the end of the credits as there is an extra scene that hints to where the sequel might go. This is easy to do as the credits themselves are fun with Chris Hemsworth dancing through them.
Paul Feigs Ghostbusters is straight up fun that you cant miss. Go bust some ghosts.
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Still not impressed. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney denies that she got lip injections. The Olympic gold medalist, whose unimpressed face went viral four years ago at the London Olympics, told Seventeen.comthat despite showcasing a plumper pout on Instagram, she hasnt enhanced her lips.
Plastic Surgery Nightmares
I literally have not done anything to my face, Maroney, 20, told the mag when asked about the allegations. Growing up in the social media world, it"s tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. Makeup and a camera can really make you look like a different person. (The athlete-turned-singer/actress told Seventeen that lipliner and highlighter are to credit for her lush lips.)
The gymnast, whose Instagram account is filled with sexy selfies nowadays, also addressed the rumors via Instagram on Monday, July 11.
Olympic Athletes: Where Are They Now?
Me thinking about how to get my face to look like Ive never done anything to my face when Ive never done anything to my face, she captioned a photo of herself in deep concentration.
Aside from defending her au natural pout, Maroney has been busy working on her fledgling singing career.
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Ive loved writing songs since I was really young, she told the mag. "I thought I was going to be like Sia and sell my songs to people but I want to sing them. My biggest inspiration is Drake. I love the way that he tells stories. It has a little bit of a Calypso jam vibe. He"s political and real and always lyrically-driven in all the melodies. If there"s one person I want to sound like, it"s him.
Maroney plans on releasing a single soon and will be cheering on her former teammates Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Celebrity Selfies
The Rio Olympics begin August 5 and will be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports app. The Rio Paralympics begin September 7 and will be streamed live on TeamUSA.org.
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McKayla Maroney USA Team Final Vault 2012 London Olympic Games McKayla Maroney Credit: Courtesy of McKayla Maroney/Instagram
Still not impressed. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney denies that she got lip injections. The Olympic gold medalist, whose unimpressed face went viral four years ago at the London Olympics, told Seventeen.comthat despite showcasing a plumper pout on Instagram, she hasnt enhanced her lips.
Plastic Surgery Nightmares
I literally have not done anything to my face, Maroney, 20, told the mag when asked about the allegations. Growing up in the social media world, it"s tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. Makeup and a camera can really make you look like a different person. (The athlete-turned-singer/actress told Seventeen that lipliner and highlighter are to credit for her lush lips.)
The gymnast, whose Instagram account is filled with sexy selfies nowadays, also addressed the rumors via Instagram on Monday, July 11.
Olympic Athletes: Where Are They Now?
Me thinking about how to get my face to look like Ive never done anything to my face when Ive never done anything to my face, she captioned a photo of herself in deep concentration.
Aside from defending her au natural pout, Maroney has been busy working on her fledgling singing career.
Golfer Stacy Lewis Calls Sports Return to Olympics an Honor Body Parts Wash Ashore at Rio Olympics Volleyball Site Why Did Stephen Curry Withdraw From the Olympics 2016 Roster?
Ive loved writing songs since I was really young, she told the mag. "I thought I was going to be like Sia and sell my songs to people but I want to sing them. My biggest inspiration is Drake. I love the way that he tells stories. It has a little bit of a Calypso jam vibe. He"s political and real and always lyrically-driven in all the melodies. If there"s one person I want to sound like, it"s him.
Maroney plans on releasing a single soon and will be cheering on her former teammates Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Celebrity Selfies
The Rio Olympics begin August 5 and will be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports app. The Rio Paralympics begin September 7 and will be streamed live on TeamUSA.org.
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Matt and Ross Duffer (Wayward Pines) are taking EW behind the scenes of every single episode in their thrilling new Netflix drama, Stranger Things, an 80s-set supernatural show starring Winona Ryder and a slew of fantastic young stars. Heres their insight on Chapter 2: The Weirdo on Maple Street
This chapter is really focused on our weirdo Eleven (or El, as Mike dubs her). We dont know much about her at this point, but we get the sense that shes spent the majority of her life in a laboratory, like a mouse in a cage. So when she escapes that lab at the beginning of our story, she becomes the quintessential stranger in a strange land, unfamiliar with our customs and lifestyle. Everything mystifies her especially boys. The Hawkins suburbs might as well be another planet.
Speaking of other planets, there are many not-so-subtle nods to E.T. in this chapter. Just as E.T. is about the connection between E.T. and Elliot, this chapter is about the connection between Eleven and Mike. Over the course of the day, they begin to bond and empathize with one another in surprising ways. Is there first love blooming? Of course there is! All of this is fun, but we also wanted to keep a sense of danger alive. Eleven isnt a normal girl, and shes no gentle plant-collecting alien either. She has unpredictable supernatural powers that will most definitely put our boys in jeopardy. So while E.T. may have been our biggest inspiration, there is plenty of Elfen Lied and Akira in the shows DNA as well (albeit with quite a bit less bloodshed).
Eleven was the most difficult role to cast because she has to convey many emotions with very little dialogue. Child actors, even the great ones, almost always have difficulty listening. Theyre able to deliver their lines well, but to stay fully in character in a scene when theyre not talking thats another skill set entirely. Theyre kids after all; focus is not their strong suit. To find a girl who didnt just have this skill but excelled at it made us concerned. Then we met Millie Bobby Brown, and we werent so concerned anymore. Millie broke out in a 2014 British show called Intruders, which we hadnt seen at the time, but one of our idols had. Back in the fall of 2014, Stephen King tweeted: Millie Brown, the girl in Intruders, is terrific. Is it my imagination, or are child actors a lot better than they used to be? We agree with the King: Millies something special, alright, with a downright spooky preternatural talent. She inhabits every moment so intensely, with some alchemy of intelligence, preparation, and instinct. By the end of production, we found ourselves listening to Millie as if she were one of our most seasoned adult actors.
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Millie is still an 11-year-old girl about, well, other things. Bring up boys, crushes, or kissing, and she freaks out. Boys are really gross and stupid, and kissing one of them is just downright unfathomable. Another example of her youth: During the filming of this episode, Millie showed up to set covered head to toe in glitter, halting production for 30 minutes. To this day, the origin of this glitter remains a mystery, but it seems like something that could only happen to an 11-year-old girl.
Of course, we cant talk about our weirdo without also talking about that buzzcut. When Millie auditioned, she had long brown hair down past her shoulders. But Eleven was written as having hair buzzed almost to the scalp. Millie and her parents were understandably hesitant to chop it all off. Would it look ugly? Would it cost her other roles? Fortunately, Mad Max: Fury Road was about to come out, so we pulled out a magazine photograph of Charlize Theron as Furiosa and showed it to Millie. Charlize looks totally badass, right? Millie agreed; Charlize looked badass. And that was it: She agreed to buzz it all off.
When the day of the haircut finally arrived, Millies mom brought out a camcorder, while her dad ran away with tears in his eyes, unable to watch. It was a pretty dramatic scene. But also very quick. Within 10 minutes we had shaved it all off and slapped a fake 11 tattoo on Millies wrist. Millie looked at herself in the mirror, gave her best Furiosa scream and Eleven was born.
Random trivia: The shooting style, music, and cutting pattern of the scene when Eleven sees the picture of Will is modeled closely after one of our favorite scenes from Peter Weirs classic film Witness, when Lucas Haas points out the evil Danny Glover to Harrison Ford. In extreme close-up, we think Millie even looks like the young Lukas Haas. Its downright freaky!
Be sure to visit EW.com Sunday for more from the Duffer Brothers on Chapter Three.
Star Trek: Beyond: Behind the Scenes Movie Broll - Chris Pine, Simon Pegg
By Scott Huver
07/15/2016 AT 05:00 PM EDT
As Star Trek Beyond readies to beam into theaters on July 22, the cast and filmmakers are hoping the memories of two late costars, Anton Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy, live long and prosper on screen.
During a press conference Thursday in Beverly Hills to promote the latest entry in the rebooted sci-fi franchise, co-stars remembered their colleague Yelchin the actor who played Ensign Pavel Chekov in three films died at age 27 in a freak car accident on June 19 both fondly and poignantly, but expressed hope that fans would revel in the late actor"s performances in the new film and throughout his impressive body of work.
"It"s devastating to lose a family member," said Karl Urban, the film"s Dr. McCoy, reflecting on Yelchin"s loss. "We"re at a point where we should be celebrating, not only this film, but this beautiful man, this talented man. For all of us, it"s almost incomprehensible to be at a point where we have to talk about him in the past. The pain of his loss is still very raw."
"He was just a good guy," offered Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk and shared many scenes paired with Yelchin in the latest outing. "He was very sweet. He"s very beautifully, authentically Anton. There was not much of a sensor on the boy."
"I remember one of the first times I met him, like nine years ago or whatever, he was 17," Pine continued. "I invited him back to my trailer to play guitar because I knew he played guitar, and he played guitar really, really, really well. And he said, "I can"t man, I"ve got to go back to my trailer." I was like, "Okay, why?" He was translating, like, an esoteric Russian novel into English, just because that"s what he wanted to do. Eight, nine years later I talked to him and he was still translating it."
"And he was still reading a book on physics that this French philosopher had written," Pine added. "And he was still trying to get all of us together ... We"d be in Vancouver and he"d want to see some German neo-expressionist film that none of us [knew about] ... he would talk about as if everyone has or should have seen it."
"I always looked forward to every day that he was on set and we would huddle up, and he"d have a hundred ideas, even if he was just in the background," said the film"s director Justin Lin.
"It still doesn"t feel real," said costar Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the film and remembers Yelchin as "an incredible soul."
"I spent a lot of time with Anton in Vancouver, this last year," Pegg recalled. "He used to call me up, in the middle of the night sometimes, just to talk. He was an incredibly intelligent man. He would talk about films, so fluently and so maturely that he"d make us all look like dummies. I used to have to engage my university brain, just to sit down and talk to him about movies because he was exhaustively encyclopedic."
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The remembrance "For Anton ... " appears in the end credits of the film, as does a dedication to the memory of Leonard Nimoy, the iconic Mr. Spock of the original television series and films, who died last year at age 83 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
Nimoy"s death came before shooting commenced, but his character the original "Spock Prime" and last survivor of an alternate timeline from the new events established when the Trek films rebooted in 2009 is also importantly referenced in the upcoming film.
"If Leonard was well enough to be a part of this film, I"m sure he would have been," Zachary Quinto, who took on the role of Spock and became close with Nimoy during the filming of Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, told PEOPLE. "And I know that there were early conversations with him about that possibility, which true to his incredible self, he knew himself well enough to know that that wouldn"t be possible at a certain point."
"And then I think it became important to all of us to figure a way to honor his legacy," added Quinto. "I thought [screenwriters] Simon and Doug [Jung] did a beautiful job of incorporating it into the narrative of the film."
"It became an integral part of the story, not just a kind of nod in Leonard"s direction," added Pegg. "That felt more right."
"We all carried him with us through this production for sure," said Quinto. "And it was definitely a different kind of feeling to make this movie without him, for me in particular. But I think he was very much a part of it in spirit, and certainly in the film now, and will be a part of anything we do moving forward, for sure."
Mischa Barton has apologised for an Instagram post paying tribute to the death of Alton Sterling which showed the bikini-clad actress on a yacht with a glass of wine in hand, staring pensively into the distance.
Sterling, 37, was killed on Tuesday when he was shot dead by police in Louisiana. An autopsy found the father of five was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. His death preceded the death of another black man Philando Castile who was fatally shot in Minnesota on Wednesday.
Both shootings were captured on camera, sparking a rallying cry denouncing police brutality against the black community.
In apost which has since been deleted, Barton wrote: Im truly heartbroken to watch videos like the #altonsterling execution. This may have been going on forever in the United States but thank G*d the pigs get caught on camera now. Its unthinkable and an embarrassment to America. The country I was brought up in. Somebody make change. We need gun control and unity. And a real President, so think about that when this election is around the corner. The world is a precarious place right now. #stop #reflect and #act appropriately.
Bartons response was branded out of touch by highlighting her own privilege. The post was deleted before her social media accounts stoked more controversy with a tweet apologising if the post had gone out of context, and a second tweet adding: All lives matter!. This tweet was then deleted from her page within half an hour of posting.
Barton"s now-deleted Instagram post provoked some critical response from users who mocked her picture choice displaying luxury and privilege while speaking out about a social justice issue which disproportionately affects black communities in the US.
After she deleted the post and shared a picture of a building on Friday, Instagram followers continued to debate the original post branding it tasteless, "disconnected" and calling out her privilege.
However, some on Instagram have defended Barton for, at least, speaking out on the issue.
Mischa Barton
Background:Barton was born in London in 1986 but grew up in New York City. She began acting as a child and starred in Notting Hill and The Sixth Sense in 1999.
Career: She landed her role in The OC in 2003 which catapulted her to fame, front pages and red carpets.
Post-OC: She has appeared in a number of horror films and theatre productions and last year finished 11th onDancing With the Stars.
Im sure you meant well. Ill just leave it at that, wrote one user. I appreciate you trying, said another. You take support wherever you can get it. Shes not the problems. Cops who shoot black people are, wrote another.
A representative for Barton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
