PaleyFest has unveiled two more television shows that will take part in next year’s 30th annual celebration and announced the first recipient for the new Icon Award. FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum and NBC’s The New Normal have been added to the festival slate, which already includes Once Upon a Time, Revolution and The Newsroom.

Additionally, Horror Story and New Normal executive producer Ryan Murphy will receive PaleyFest’s first Icon Award. He will be feted at an event slated for Feb. 27, 2013, which will kick off the festival. PaleyFest takes place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills from March 1-15. The full PaleyFest lineup will be revealed Jan. 9.

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Paramount Pictures will present the first 9 minutes from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness exclusively in IMAX 3D beginning today. The special first look will play in 288 digital IMAX locations. Here’s a complete list of those theaters.

I added earlier today the screen captures of latest “American Horror Story” episode, The Coat Hanger. Check it in our gallery:

Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine recently sat down with Scott “Movie” Mantz from “Access Hollywood” to talk about Star Trek Into Darkness. A brief report can be read here; however, there are also three videos featuring the men elaborating on the scale of the sequel, the modernity of it (explaining that Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain is a “terrorist”), and how the story is rooted by its strong characters. Check out the other two videos below:

The next Enterprise adventure will go where the cast and director have never gone before.

Access Hollywood’s Scott “Movie” Mantz (“Star Trek” super fan) sat down with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and director J.J. Abrams at the preview junket for the highly anticipated sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness

“It’s so much bigger than the first one, and you can tell that in the first nine minutes,” Zachary, who plays Spock, said. “It doesn’t get any more subdued after that… It’s so absorbing.”

Co-star Chris Pine, who plays James T. Kirk, agreed.

“It is this nonstop speeding train of destruction,” he said of the sequel.

The film’s new villain, John Harrison – played by Benedict Cumberbatch – will be a formidable foe for Kirk and his crew.

“Benedict is a much colder, cleaner bad guy. His primary weapon is the ability to manipulate and his ability to use psychological warfare on the crew,” Chris said of the character, whom he dubbed a “terrorist.” “[Kirk is] brought to his knees and has to face his own vulnerability and his own feelings of self-doubt about whether or not he is capable of leading his crew in the battle.”

Director J.J. Abrams – who doesn’t exactly make small movies – said the Star Trek sequel is his biggest project yet.

“This movie is infinitely bigger than anything I’ve done before,” he explained. “The challenge was making it feel real and believable and this is a huge action adventure, but nobody cares about a spaceship flying through space unless you love the characters on the ship. We had to make sure you had grounded, believable characters.”

Star Trek Into Darkness blasts into theaters on May 17, 2013.

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Here’s the first still of “Star Trek Into Darnkess“, released by Paramount earlier this week. On Friday, the first nine minutes of “Star Trek Into Darkness” will unspool before IMAX showings of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”

“Star Trek Into Darkness” arrives in theaters on May 17, 2013.

The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2012, which “documents the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television.” Both the film and television lists include 10 selections, with the film list often proving somewhat similar to what the Oscars end up going for in their best picture category.

“American Horror Story” is under their 10 best TV Programs of the year. Check the full list below:

AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
AMERICAN HORROR STORY
BREAKING BAD
GAME CHANGE
GAME OF THRONES
GIRLS
HOMELAND
LOUIE
MAD MEN
MODERN FAMILY
THE WALKING DEAD

AFI will honor the creative ensembles for each of the selections at an invitation-only luncheon on Friday, January 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

As you can see, we have here a beautiful new layout, done by the always amazing Sweet Revelation‘s Flor. It features the gorgeous photoshoot Zach did earlier this year to OUT magazine and is being used on both main page and gallery. The layout is the new step on our revamp, you may remember not long ago I did it with our gallery and the main site is a little bit abandoned. All pages will start being updated today, so if you see any error, please come back later to see it updated.

I hope you love this design as much as I did.