Ten days ago, it was announced that Roberto Orci would not be making his directorial debut on the tentatively-titled Star Trek 3, thus endangering any hope that the movie would be ready for release in time for the franchise’s 50th anniversary in 2016. Sources close to the production indicated that Paramount Pictures was hoping to snag Edgar Wright, who famously departed Marvel Studios’ long-in-development Ant-Man back in May and was later replaced by Peyton Reed, to replace the inexperienced Orci in the director’s chair on what looks to be an important motion picture on several levels.

It looks as if any hope of retaining the services of the Shaun of the Dead/The World’s End filmmaker has proven to be a pipe dream because a promising shortlist of potential directors for Star Trek 3 has been leaked and Wright’s name is not among them. According to Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline, Paramount has narrowed their selection of possible directorial pinch hitters to Rupert Wyatt, Duncan Jones, Daniel Espinosa, Justin Lin, and Morten Tyldum.

Legendary and Universal Pictures have released a new trailer for Blackhat, their upcoming action film starring Chris Hemsworth.

Watch the new trailer here below.

The Michael Mann-directed film, which also stars Viola Davis, Tang Wei, and Wang Leehom, hits in theaters on January 16, 2015.

It’s obvious that just about everyone loved Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, which had great box office success this summer and was just released on Blu-ray last week. But even our most beloved films have their flaws, and the folks over at Screen Junkies had a little fun with Guardians in their most recent installment of Honest Trailers.

Check out the 5-minute “Honest Trailer” for Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy here below.

What would it look like if an Imperial TIE Fighter got into an accident on the highway and got stuck on the side of the road? One fan made such a video, which is shown from the perspective of someone driving past. We see one wing of the TIE Fighter in flames, while the bulk of the Star Wars spaceship is further up the snow-covered highway, with two Stormtroopers sitting alongside awaiting roadside assistance.

Check out the video here below.

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon is for their 16 GB Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Tablets.

— Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ w/ Wi-FI tablet: $224.00 (down from $349.00).
— Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ w/ Wi-Fi & 4G LTE tablet: $324.00 (down from $449.00).
— Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ w/ Wi-Fi and 4G LTE (previous generation) tablet: $339.00 (down from $464.00).

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Monday, December 15, 2014, til 11:59pm PST while supplies last.