After getting some unenthusiastic reviews (including one in Daily Variety on Aug. 21), director Mathieu Kassovitz is seeking to distance himself from the film, which opens Friday — even though the version reviewed was international version, and Fox is not releasing the film overseas.

There has often been much debate about whether JJ Abrams new ‘Star Trek movie’ is a reboot or a remake. Simon Pegg (the new Scotty for Star Trek), a self-described geek who knows the difference, addressed this issue in the latest issue of Starlog Magazine.

For those who may not have picked up on this yet, William Shatner is not in the new Star Trek movie, yet rumors and conjecture persist that maybe he is. But a new pair of interviews with both Shatner and Star Trek director JJ Abrams denying Shat is in the movie should be the final word on this saga.

The original Highlander film, first released in 1986, starred Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert as members of a secret race of immortals fighting for the right to be the last one standing. It inspired a devoted fan following and lived on in a wide range of media, including DVD, television, video games, comics and novels.

Bond titles have traditionally opened the weekend before Thanksgiving, but Sony didn’t want to open too close to Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” so it originally settled on Nov. 7. But the landscape changed last week when Warners announced it was pushing back “Half-Blood Prince” from Nov. 21 to July.