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The series - due Stateside in early 2014 - is from JJ Abrams and director Alfonso Cuarn .

Set phasers to fun. Director J.J. Abrams and company are back in "Star Trek Into Darkness," a nonstop, action-packed entry in the venerable sci-fi series.

Rumor has it that J.J. Abrams is known to approach strangers, hold his finger beneath their nose while stifling a laugh and then ask them if they can tell which box it smells like.

The director who rebooted "Star Trek" for a new generation, sending the USS Enterprise out again to explore strange new worlds, has also been put at the " Star Wars " helm.

"Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek : Into Darkness .

Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt has worked on all the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" movies, not to mention "Lincoln," "Wall-E," "E.T.," "Willow" and many more.

The voice on the phone from London, a few days after the world premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness , speaks in a stream of staccato phrases, a brisk torrent of ideas that have no time for commas.

We just got our first official look from the set of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes , the sequel to the 2011 hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes .

In a Saturday, May 6, 2013 file photo, JJ Abrams poses for a portrait session at the Corinthia Hotel in London.

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To boldly go ... that's the maxim of the Star Trek universe. But even the late Gene Roddenberry , the creator of this iconic sci-fi series, might've been surprised by J.J. Abrams' 2009 cinematic reboot - and not just for its pulsating action and successful recasting of the crew of the USS Enterprise.

MARK Kermode meets one of the most powerful men in Hollywood as his latest movie, Star Trek Into Darkness leaves cash tills ringing around the world.

He embraced the experience by collaborating with control-freak Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III.

Like the previous film, Into Darkness has a complex story which is best experienced as it is impossible to synopsis-ize it without giving away spoilers.

Every filmmaker in Hollywood worth his final cut has a signature visual flourish that functions something like a filmic fingerprint.

Picking up from events depicted in season four's flash-forward episode, the seemingly peaceful Observers seized control of our universe in 2015.

AS Star Trek Into Darkness beams into cinemas, director JJ Abrams - also the man helming Star Wars VII - tells Alistair Harkness what it's like to be master of two universes 'WHEN I saw Star Wars for the first time it just blew my mind," announces JJ Abrams.

The 15-year-old actress was returning from a weekend in New York City, where she attended the star-studded gala with older sister Dakota, 19.

The new Star Wars movie is set to begin filming in early 2014, says producer Bryan Burk .

Critics are raving about Ginger & Rosa, the "exhilarating and heartbreaking" film that tells the emotional coming-of-age story of two best friends whose relationship is effected by the events of the 1960s.