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'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin is killed in a freak car accident at his Los Angeles home. (June 19)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new "Star Trek" films, was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway..
The car pinned the 27 Yelchin against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Los Angeles, He had gotten out of the vehicle momentarily, but police did not say why he was behind it when it started rolling.
Yelchin was on his way to meet friends for a rehearsal, When he didn't show up, the group came to his home and found him dead.
The freak accident tragically cuts short the promising career of an actor whom audiences were still getting to know and who had great artistic ambition. "Star Trek Beyond," the third film in the rebooted series, comes out in July.
May the force of a gigantic robot be with you-
Legendary Pictures has set Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega for the lead role for the second installment of its Pacific Rim franchise. Steven S. DeKnight is directing the film, which will begin production in the fourth quarter of this year, based on the world created by Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham. Boyega will play the son of the character played by Idris Elba in the del Toro-directed original film.
del Toro said: “I am very proud and happy to welcome John into a fantastic sandbox. The Pacific Rim universe will be reinforced with him as a leading man as it continues to be a multicultural, multi-layered world. ‘The World saving the world’ was our goal and I couldn’t think of a better man for the job.”
Star Trek, to bloodily go where no one has gore before -
Showrunner Bryan Fuller points out that the upcoming Star Trek TV series will be unlike any previous small-screen incarnation of the franchise in at least one key respect, It won’t be bound by broadcast content standards.
Fuller said that the eagerly awaited new show, which will debut on CBS in January but then switch to the streaming service CBS All Access, will have a rather different prime directive than the previous 762 hours of TV-sized Trek, which either ran entirely on broadcast networks or in syndication. “Because we’re CBS All Access, we’re not subject to network broadcast standards and practices.” “It will likely affect us more in terms of what we can do graphically. Star Trek’s not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity.”
Hodor, Hodor, Ho da door please-
Being a Game of Thrones fan means you always have to be prepared to say goodbye to one of your beloved characters. Unless we're talking about Jon Snow—lucky guy, getting resurrected and everything. With that being said, with most characters, when they're gone, they're really gone.
While Hodor lovers might still be recovering from the loyal servant's demise, there will always be memes to memorialize his impact. And it looks like people are remembering him in quite the clever fashion. People have been putting up little pictures of Hodor next to the Hold Door buttons on elevators prompting people to be as nice and gallant as Hodor and hold the door for your fellow human beings.
This way, Hodor will be with us forever.
Goin’ to the Pokey man-
“The new augmented reality game Pokemon Go has gotten people off the couch and into the real world. But police in O’Fallon, Missouri say that four men have used the game to find players at a specific location, and robbed them using a handgun.
About eight or nine people have been robbed by four men over the past couple of days, a spokesperson from the O’Fallon Police Department told Gizmodo over the phone. The latest robbery occurred Sunday morning at around 2am by the men in a black BMW before they were finally apprehended by police.
The suspects used the Pokemon Go game to find their victims by anticipating where people might go through popular PokeStops—virtual sites in the game that can be designated at any real world location, from businesses to parking lots to churches.
The four men who were apprehended all range in age from 16 to 18. Their names and what they stole from their victims have not been released.”