Escape from Planet Earth

By Christine N. Ziemba at 2:27 PM on February 22, 2013

You know there’s usually a juicy backstory when advance screenings for a film aren’t offered to press, there’s a lawsuit from the former production team and the final writing credits alone are nearly as long as a true indie film’s entire crew. Such is the case with The Weinstein Company’s animated sci-fi adventure Escape from Planet Earth, which quietly slipped into theaters this past weekend....  read more

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Comic-Con 2012 Day 3

By Josh Jackson at 9:10 AM on July 16, 2012

Comic-Con attendees are some of the most patient people I've ever seen.  read more

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George Takei Urges Sci-Fi Nerds to Unite Against Twilight

By John Barrett at 5:52 PM on December 13, 2011

Recently, William Shatner and Carrie Fisher rekindled the classic Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate by taking swipes at one another and their respective camps via the Internet, presumably to try and stir up public interest for both franchises, as lately they seem to have taken a pop-culture backseat to vampires and wizards.  read more

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William Shatner is in the Studio With...Zakk Wylde?

By Bo Moore at 3:00 PM on January 28, 2011

William Shatner: Enterprise Captain, expletive riddled father, Priceline negotiator, Zakk Wylde collaborator? Apparently!...  read more

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Jonathan Sadowski to Replace Ryan Devlin in Shit My Dad Says

By Jennifer Ross at 8:30 AM on July 26, 2010

Update: Due to some unfortunate confusion, this story previously contained inaccurate information. It has since been updated and Paste regrets the error. Thanks to reader Sarah M. for the tip. — As CBS prepares to bring its “Shit My Dad Says” Twitter adaptation to television this fall, there have been some last-minute casting changes. According to Vulture, William Shatner is still set to play the 74-year-old snarky, know-it-all father, but he will now be joined by Jonathan Sadowski, who will replace Ryan Devlin as the struggling writer who is forced to move in with his father....  read more

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William Shatner Signs on to Star in "Shit My Dad Says" TV Series

By Kristen Callihan at 5:10 PM on February 19, 2010

Yeah, we can hardly believe it either...  read more

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Comedy Central to Roast Rock Legend William Shatner

By Steve LaBate at 12:00 AM on August 8, 2006

(Above [L-R]: the young and strapping Shatner as James T. Irk on Star Tours, a show about the ups and downs of dating women from other solar systems; the old and less-strapping Shatner as Denny Crane on Boston Fecal, a primetime drama about a crack team of sanitation workers who’ve been known to save the day; Shatner live at Budokan.) Rock legend William Shatner—whose epic version of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” from his 1968 debut The Transformed Man was so good it led to the eventual breakup of The Beatles (who felt his far-superior version not only made...  read more

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