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Star Trek
Like a lot of people, I got my first glimpse of this one when it played with Quantam of Solace last weekend. While this will obviously play hell with Star Trek continuity, I am one Trek geek who is looking forward to the J.J. Abrams take on the franchise. It opens on May 8.

Astro Boy
Here's a teaser for the CGI animated adaptation of the classic anime about a robot boy built by a scientist to replace the son he lost. The trailer doesn't give us much to go on, but the impressive voice cast includes Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Eugene Levy, and Nathan Lane. Things get cosmic on October 23.

Coraline
I find it odd that Neil Gaiman's name isn't mentioned in the trailer, since the film is based on his novella. Gaiman isn't a household name but I would have figured he was well enough known to catch a few people's attention. Nevertheless, this stop-motion animated feature from Henry Selick, the director of A Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, deals with a young girl who finds a pathway to a parallel world in which duplicates of her parents sport buttons for eyes. This deliciously creepy looking film will be in theaters on February 6.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
All of our favorite characters return for this third installment of the series, and this time it's in 3-D. The only one we see in this new trailer is Scrat, on the trail of not just another acorn but apparently romance as well. The one hits on July 1.

Zombies continue to be the place to be. They're hotter than vamps and werewolves combined. Heck, they're almost more popular than tales of LiLo and drugs. In just the past year, we've had talk of zombies that span both the globe and cinematic themes. There's Grecian zombies. Grindhouse zombies. Funny servant zombies. An American Zombie. Corbin Bernson-directed zombies. And, of course, someone would have to revolutionize the theme at some point. Then there's zombies hunted by Tyrese. Remake zombies. Flying zombies. Afghani zombies. And, we can't forget the sequel zombies. Now we're getting Irish zombies.

The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Dark Sky Films, a distribution company for genre films, has started production on their first original feature -- Plague Town. The flick is about a "dysfunctional family that goes on vacation and discovers an even more dysfunctional Irish town full of zombies." Principal photography got underway this week in Connecticut, with a cast that includes Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard, Lindsay Goranson, Elizabeth Bov Or is it Bove?), and James Warke (who might want to change his screen name considering what a Google search brings up).

The undead fest is being directed by writer/director David Gregory, who has a whopping 90 projects to his name -- mainly behind-the-scenes doc work from high-profile films like Evil Dead and The Deer Hunter to shorts about those saucy Emmanuelle movies.

Additional link: Check out Bloody Disgusting for some press release info.