Italian Season 6 Teaser Promo Posted by DarkUFO at 7/31/2009 02:41:00 PM View Comments Labels: Season 6, Video

Thanks to Paul for the heads up and to gelsominofunghi for the video.

Elizabeth Mitchell Interview at Comic-Con Posted by DarkUFO at 7/31/2009 06:46:00 AM View Comments Labels: Comic Con, Elizabeth Mitchell, Video

Thanks to Golden for the heads up.

Giacchino speaks at ASCAP workshop Posted by DarkUFO at 7/30/2009 11:12:00 PM View Comments Labels: Michael Giacchino, Online Article

For an aspiring composer, the temptation to take any job may be great. However, Oscar-nominated composer Michael Giacchino winner told the 12 participants in the 21st annual ASCAP Television and Film Scoring Workshop that there are practical reasons to keep their standards high even if their morale is low.

"I'm telling you to say 'no' to things when you have no work," said Giacchino at ASCAP's West Hollywood offices July 28.

"The truth is you're going to work your entire life and the only thing you're going to have at the end of that is a list of what you did," he said. "You have a chance to shape that list the way you want to shape it."

The composer of films such as "Up," "Ratatouille" and "Star Trek" admitted that advice coming from someone at the top of his game may seem a bit disingenuous. However, Giacchino stressed that he followed his own credo even when he didn't have enough money to pay his car insurance.

"The minute the insurance ran out, the car was stolen," he said. "[My wife] and I figured it out...I continued with the [belief] I have to make the list work. You have to trust the work and your choices."

While other speakers in the three-week workshop have discussed the value of young composers apprenticing for established composers or aligning themselves with burgeoning filmmakers, Giacchino told them them to widen the net. Giacchino worked in the publicity and marketing departments for Universal and Disney.

"If you want to score video games, find a video game company that you respect and get a job answering phones there," he said. "If you do that for several months, people there will get to know you, an opportunity will come around and it will be much easier to give you a shot" than someone else.

And that's exactly what happened to Giacchino. While working at DreamWorks, a video producer who had an impending meeting with Steven Spielberg asked Giacchino to write music overnight for "The Lost World" video game. When Spielberg heard the music, he asked Giacchino to score the game.

"That only happened because I was there working as an assistant producer," he says. "When that chance came up, it was being prepared and being at the right place at the right time."

After getting his start in video games, Giacchino moved into television via his relationship with director JJ Abrams. The pair worked on the TV series "Alias," "Lost" and "Fringe," as well as a number of features. However, it was TV that proved to be a trial-by-fire training ground.

"You would have three days on 'Alias' to write and orchestrate 35 minutes of music," he said. "'Lost' is frequently two days. You learn to trust your instincts... Or you hear it and go, 'I fucked that up' and you won't do it again."

Giacchino said the unifying thread that runs through most of his projects is that he and his collaborators "have respect for the audience. [The directors] tell the story in the best way [they] can, not the most obvious way."

Giacchino also stressed the joy that comes from finding a team of likeminded creators. While many composers are brought in at the tail end of a movie, Giacchino often comes in at the beginning and is on the set during shooting.

"Filmmaking is hard enough as it is," he said. "If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier."

That includes gathering the best musicians around you as well. "The morning of the [recording] sessions is always my favorite thing," he said. "Just saying 'hi' to the musicians. It's the equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein bringing the monster to life. Without them, you're left with just black dots on the page."

Source: Variety

Dominic Monaghan - GMTV Video Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 7/30/2009 07:49:00 PM View Comments Labels: Dominic Monaghan, Interviews, Video

Thanks to Gary, Susan and others for the heads up on this.

Source: GMTV

Josh Holloway as Surprise Guest at Santa Monica Event Posted by The ODI at 7/30/2009 07:06:00 PM View Comments Labels: Josh Holloway

Hey All,
Our good friend and LOST podcaster Heath from The LOST Revisited podcast was one of the lucky few who had a chance to meet Josh Holloway up close and personal during an even in Santa Monica this week.

As always it seems like Josh was a true gentleman and I hope to meet him one day as well because he seems super cool.

Here are a couple of pics of Josh and you can check out the full details on Heath's blog here: Heath's World

I was lucky enough to be a guest at Josh Holloway’s appearance with acting coach Tom Ardavany in Santa Monica, Ca on Tuesday night (July 28th, 2009)

NOTE: These are personal pictures sent from Heath to us to use on the site, please do not repost them without linking back to his site.

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Source: The ODI

Jimmy Fallon at Comic-Con Posted by DarkUFO at 7/29/2009 11:18:00 AM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Comic Con, Damon Lindelof, Jimmy Fallon, Josh Holloway, Michael Emerson, Nestor Carbonell, Video

Thanks to Donna for the following.

I know there are is a glut of videos and articles out there at the moment, but this is a funny piece that Jimmy Fallon did where, about half way through, he spoke briefly to Michael, Nestor, Josh, Damon and Carlton after the Comic Con panel. It is pretty funny even though there is not much Lost.

Won on One Interview: Michael Emerson Posted by DarkUFO at 7/28/2009 09:17:00 PM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Michael Emerson, Video

Thanks to Pawel for the heads up

Won on One Interview: Evangeline Lilly Posted by DarkUFO at 7/28/2009 09:16:00 PM View Comments Labels: Evangeline Lilly, Interviews, Video

Thanks to Pawel for the heads up

Maggie Grace in new Indie Drama Posted by b3rt4 at 7/28/2009 04:22:00 PM View Comments Labels: Maggie Grace, Movies

Indie drama "Flying Lessons" is preparing for takeoff.

Christine Lahti, Maggie Grace, Hal Holbrook, Cary Elwes, Jonathan Tucker and Joanna Cassidy have been cast in the story of a young woman coming to terms with her father's suicide when she returns to her small town. First-timer Derek Magyar will direct from a screenplay by Thomas Kuehl.

Benjamin Statler is producing, Mark Johnson ("My Sister's Keeper") is executive producing. Filming is scheduled to begin Aug. 24 in Santa Ynez, Calif.

Magyar, an actor whose credits include "Boy Culture" and "Star Trek: Enterprise," is the son of Dezso Magyar, who ran the American Film Institute for 14 years and is now a film professor at Chapman University. The younger Magyar is repped by Fortitude.

Kuehl, a development exec at Ryan Murphy Prods., reached the semifinals of the Nicholl Fellowship with his script.

Lahti is repped by ICM and Management 360, Grace by ICM and 1 Management, Holbrook by Abrams Artists Agency, Elwes by APA and Kritzer Levine Wilkins, Tucker by WME and Booh Schut and Cassidy by Stone Manners Agency and Evolution Entertainment.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Lost... in translation Posted by DarkUFO at 7/28/2009 04:13:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Interviews, Online Article, Video

C21TV catches up with Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to discuss the art of storytelling, the state of US drama and what the duo will be up to after the sci-fi blockbuster finishes its six-season run on ABC next summer.

The video special, published under C21's Content Lab brand, follows C21TV's interview with Heroes creator Tim Kring, as well as LA Screenings specials with NCIS LA showrunner Shane Brennan and the execs behind shows such as The Beautiful Life, Melrose Place and The Vampire Diaries.

In the interview, co-creator Lindelof and executive producer Cuse discuss the impact Lost has had on American drama, as well as the challenges the industry faces in the current climate and the growth of sci-fi on US TV.

The duo also discuss how they plan to manage fans' expectations as the show heads into its final season, and talk about forthcoming projects including Stephen King's The Dark Tower and Star Trek 2.

Video Here

Source: SpoilerTV

G4 Comic Con Cast Interviews Posted by The ODI at 7/28/2009 05:35:00 AM View Comments Labels: Comic Con, Interviews, Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, Nestor Carbonell

Here are two more videos with cast interviews after the LOST Panel at Comic Con.

Nothing new, but enjoy!

Thanks to Linton for the heads up!!

Months of Script Sessions and Rehearsals Later, ‘Lost’ Goes to Comic-Con Posted by DarkUFO at 7/27/2009 09:03:00 AM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Comic Con, Damon Lindelof, Online Article

SAN DIEGO — Hollywood used to be able to come to Comic-Con on the quick. Show a snippet of footage, throw some stars up on a dais and take questions from the crowd. Presto: frenzied fans.

How quaint.

To appreciate how important the annual pop-entertainment convention here has become to movie studios and television networks — and how much effort it takes to get noticed at it — consider the “Lost” presentation on Saturday in front of more than 6,500 people. That hourlong show, complete with scripted comedy routines and 13 glossy original videos, took a dozen people four months to produce. The budget for song rights, props and actor travel alone was $25,000.

Planning for the “Lost” presentation at Comic-Con, which concluded on Sunday, started in early April with meetings about what kind of Easter eggs, or hidden clues, to include about the program’s sixth and final season. Then came the writing and taping of videos, some of them starring cast members, that would deliver those hints. Producers worked to obtain song rights. Travel logistics needed to be arranged for five actors and their entourages. “We really want the fans to leave feeling satisfied,” Damon Lindelof, a “Lost” executive producer, said last Tuesday during a final planning session on the ABC Studios lot in Burbank, Calif. His fellow executive producer, Carlton Cuse, nodded in agreement.

“Is it too late for when Carlton and I come out onstage for there to be giant towers of flames?” Mr. Lindelof said (mostly) facetiously.

“Lost,” the ABC drama about people marooned on a mysterious island after their Oceanic Airlines flight crashes, has always taken a bells-and-whistles approach to Comic-Con. The fantasy and science fiction genres are major facets of the convention, so “Lost” — with its time traveling, ageless inhabitants and smoke monsters — fits in perfectly. Last year, for example, producers introduced a new online game, coordinating their presentation with a “Lost” booth set up on the trade-show floor where fans could participate in a recruitment test for the show’s utopian Dharma Initiative.

This year, there was no booth, and ABC’s presence as a whole was minimal, which is no mystery: the presentations in Hall H (the biggest room, where James Cameron, Peter Jackson and the gang for the “Twilight” sequel also appeared) have eclipsed the trade show in importance for many studios and networks. The money goes into the presentation, which is pumped via blogs around the globe. (People started lining up for the “Lost” presentation 16 hours before it started.)

Mr. Cuse and Mr. Lindelof are perhaps more responsible than anyone for raising the presentation bar. (Something not every studio is thrilled about, by the way.) The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, noted the pop a megapresentation can deliver and pulled out all the stops this year. Its movie studio hosted Comic-Con’s first 3-D presentation in Hall H, primarily for its scheduled “Christmas Carol” with Jim Carrey. In total Disney staged events for 10 television series and nine movies.

The “Lost” producers picked fan appreciation as their theme. “This is not about getting people who have never seen the show before to watch it,” Mr. Cuse said. “This is about thanking the die-hard fans.”

Fair enough. But the real purpose of the presentation was to prime the pump for the final season. The show does not return until January so Mr. Cuse and Mr. Lindelof wanted fans to have plenty to chew over for the next few months.

Producers wanted to stir one fan conversation in particular: Will last season’s cliffhanger — the detonation of a nuclear bomb that the castaways hoped would scramble time — erase the post-crash existence depicted on the first five seasons of the show? Most of the teases turned on the idea that the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 never happened. In one video the big-bellied Hurley (Jorge Garcia) is shown in a commercial for a Mr. Cluck’s fried chicken restaurant once landing safely. In another an Oceanic flight attendant boasts of the carrier’s “perfect safety record.”

The biggest tease was Dominic Monaghan, whom producers brought onstage as a finale. Mr. Monaghan, who played the recovering drug addict Charlie Pace, drowned in the show’s third season but not before writing a message on his palm. As he waved to the crowd, eagle-eyed fans could see there was a new message inked on his hand: “Am I Alive?” (It was a busy convention for Mr. Monaghan. ABC announced there on Friday that he would be joining the cast of its new fall science fiction drama “Flash Forward.”)

Yet even as the “Lost” producers toyed with the audience they injected some doubt, something they often do on the show itself. Mr. Garcia, in a scripted bit from the audience, complained that if the bomb gambit worked and the castaways never crashed on the island, that “would be a real big cheat.” Mr. Lindelof agreed, assuring him that the producers knew that approach would be a cop-out. “Just trust us,” he said.

In the days leading up to the presentation, seven “Lost” producers and a squad of assistants worked to iron out the kinks.

Source: NY Times

Elizabeth Mitchell Interview at Comic-Con regarding V Posted by DarkUFO at 7/26/2009 09:28:00 PM View Comments Labels: Comic Con, Elizabeth Mitchell, Interviews, Video

Photo of the Comic-Con Painting Posted by b3rt4 at 7/26/2009 06:57:00 PM View Comments Labels: Comic Con

Thanks to /Film for the photo. Remember: It's on Velvet!

Dominic Monaghan Talks About Joining Flash Forward Posted by DarkUFO at 7/26/2009 10:14:00 AM View Comments Labels: Dominic Monaghan, TV appearance

After weeks of rumors, Lost's Dominic Monaghan has come out of the closet as a new cast member on ABC's fall series, FlashForward. He breaks his silence to TVGuideMagazine.com.

Your character is named Simon. Does he have a last name?
Can't tell you. But I can say he's the joker in the pack. A little hard to predict. He's a snappy dresser, capable and cocky. And he's a man, not a boy.

At Comic-Con, they showed a quick clip of you in a scene in a police station. Can you describe what we saw?
Simon's in cahoots with Jack Davenport's character [Lloyd Simcoe]. Joseph Fiennes' character [Mark Benford] is beating up Jack's character and saying,'Who do you work with? Who's your partner?' and Jack's saying 'I'm not going to tell you that.' And then I walk in and say, 'You know what? I'm not scared of you guys. It's me.' So he's a cocky son-of-a-bitch.

When will that scene air?
I'm not sure. But I think I start on the series around episode six or seven.

What appealed to you about FlashForward?
I read the pilot and didn't think there was anything in particular that I could do in the script. I liked it. But my agent said, [the producers] really want to meet you. They asked what I wanted to do and I said, 'I want to play someone who's the opposite of Charlie,' because that's what I did after I finished "Lord of the Rings." Charlie was the opposite of Merry. It's important for me to continue to show the audience I can't be put in a box.

How many episodes will you be in?
I'm a season regular so I'm in the show for however many episodes they make this season.

You recently had breakfast with Lost producer Damon Lindelof. Were you discussing your return to the show?
Damon and I are friends, and he has some projects he's going to be doing in the future. Lost has got only one year left. That was just a time when we hung out.

Well, would you want to go back if you were invited?
Sure. You can't close doors in this business. It's just not how you do it. I would never say I wouldn't do it.

Do you know the secret behind how Lost ends?
I know some stuff, sure. Coming to the end of the season, Damon's been a little bit freer with some information. But I don't know everything.

Talk more about the possibility of returning to Lost.
I think they closed the door well on my character, and I would only go back based on the door opening in a way that complements my character. There's a few things that they would need to do. Damon and I talk a lot about the romance and legacy that Charlie's left behind. If he were to come back, this would be the final chapter. We would need to jump through a few more hoops before we get there.

Source: TV Guide Magazine

Dominic Monaghan at Flash Forward panel at Comic-Con - Video Posted by DarkUFO at 7/24/2009 08:13:00 PM View Comments Labels: Comic Con, Dominic Monaghan, Video

Dominic Monaghan at Flash Forward panel at Comic-Con Posted by DarkUFO at 7/24/2009 08:07:00 PM View Comments Labels: Dominic Monaghan

Lost Bosses Aim to Keep Secrets at Comic-Con "Farewell Tour" Posted by DarkUFO at 7/24/2009 07:30:00 AM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Comic Con, Damon Lindelof, TV Guide

Thanks to NoOne for the heads up.

While Lost fans still have 18 hours of supernatural storytelling to look forward to come 2010, one harsh reality stands true: The ABC serial's appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con this Saturday will be its very last visit to that very big show.

"As Carlton [Cuse] says, it's 'the Cher farewell tour,'" fellow executive producer Damon Lindelof tells TVGuide.com. "So he will be performing 'Believe' in a unitard." Without missing a beat, Cuse confirms his plan to get "hair extensions" in time for his big number.

In all seriousness, the Lost bosses are taking this year's Con-fab very seriously, seeing as "it's our chance to commune with our most committed fans," says Cuse. "We go to Comic-Con to put on a really good panel, and this year will be the same."

What can the lucky throngs pouring into the San Diego Convention Center's Hall H on Saturday morning expect from one of the convention's hottest tickets, the "Lost: The Final Season Begins" panel?

"We're going to be showing some things, some new material," Lindelof teases. "And then we open the floor to fan questions, and answer them as honestly as we can."

But will that fan Q&A be spoilery? Lindelof says he and Cuse plan to "leak out some of the things we want to share," yet he also affirms the producers' resolve to keep details about Lost's swan song under the biggest lock and key in the drama's already-covert history.

"We're going to be very protective of the story in this final season," says Lindelof, "because we want people to watch."

But lest Comic-Conventioneers worry about walking away empty-handed, Cuse promises this: "There will be some cool stuff revealed, no question."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Lost-Comic-Con-1008395.aspx

Source: TV Guide

TV Guide Scans Posted by DarkUFO at 7/22/2009 10:07:00 PM View Comments Labels: TV Guide

Thanks to Jeffry for the scans.

New Movie Role for Michelle Rodriguez? Posted by b3rt4 at 7/21/2009 05:23:00 PM View Comments Labels: Michelle Rodriguez, Movies, Online Article

Robert De Niro and Michelle Rodriguez are to star in the movie Machete, it has been claimed.

The film, which is to be co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, was featured as a mock trailer in the 2007 flick Grindhouse.

The plotline centres on a Mexican ex-federate that works as a day labourer while he hides out from a crooked politician that double-crossed him.

It is understood that the Oscar-winning actor will take on the role of Senator McLaughlin, while Rodriguez is to star as Luz, a source told BloodyDisgusting.com.

Danny Trejo, who portrayed the weapon-wielding individual in the faux coming attractions segment of Grindhouse, was also reported to be reprising his role. 21 Jump Street director-actor Jonah Hill has been suggested as being on board as Julio.

Filming for the movie is set to begin on July 29.

Source: Digital Spy

Michael Giacchino directing The Lost Suite Posted by DarkUFO at 7/21/2009 02:00:00 PM View Comments Labels: Michael Giacchino, Video

Thanks to our friends at Lostzilla for the heads up.

Michael Giacchino directing The Lost Suite with a chorus in Ubeda, Spain

TV Explained - LOST - iPhone APP Posted by DarkUFO at 7/21/2009 01:40:00 PM View Comments

Thanks to Henry for the heads up.

DISCLAIMER: I'm simply reporting the press rekease and in no way endorse or have any financial ties with this product.

TV Explained: Lost is a brand new, innovative App for understanding what is going on in your favorite TV show. The App explains scene by scene what is going on, what is a flashback, what point of time the scene is set in, as well as revealing some of the hidden messages.

You can link to iTunes to buy here:

Also, the link below is a demonstration video of how the App works.

Tania Raymonde's film GoodSam and Max debuts at Comic-Con Posted by DarkUFO at 7/20/2009 02:02:00 PM View Comments Labels: Comic Con, Movies, Tania Raymonde, Video

Thanks to Octavio from taniaraymonde.net for the following.

'GoodSam and Max', a short film starring Tania Raymonde (http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2009/02/tania-raymonde-good-sam-and-max-trailer.html), premieres this sunday at the Comic-Con.

The film's director, Gil Nevo, also key technical director of South Park, contacted me today (http://www.taniaraymonde.net/news.php?readmore=136) and sent me an animated intro: some cartoons featuring Tania's voice. They are awesome!

Source: taniaraymonde.net

What does being a 'Lost' fan mean? Posted by b3rt4 at 7/19/2009 07:09:00 PM View Comments Labels: Online Article

Let’s face it, "Lost" fans: you’re nervous about Season 6. And not just in an “oh crap, I have to get a life come June 2010” kinda way. You’re worried that it’s gonna suck. There’s no reason to think it will, but in the back of your mind you realize that parts of Season 5 gave you cause for concern.

Not only has the show written itself into a potentially major corner, but the history of episodic storytelling is marred by subpar finishing legs to the narrative. Essentially, you’re worried about an impending series of “Lost”-esque Ewoks running around on your television next spring. Like Hurley said, “Ewoks suck, dude.” And Hurley speaks truth, people.

What I think you’re going to see as Season 6 approaches are a lot, and I mean a LOT, of frayed “Lost” nerves online. You’re gonna see it in blogs, you’re gonna see it on the comments, and you’re going to get sprayed with it on message boards. Why? Because the quality of “Lost” will directly affect those watching it. A sensational Season 6 validates that that spent the last half-decade talking about the show endlessly to the converted and/or unconverted masses. A subpar season reflects just as badly on those that spent so much time invested in something that crashed and burned during the final lap.

I’m not saying that’s how it SHOULD be, but that’s how it WILL be. To be a fan of “Lost” says as much about the person as it does the show: one announces their fandom of the show as a shorthand way of identifying himself or herself as a particular type of individual. It reminds me of the way Chuck Klosterman talks about the band Nirvana in “Killing Yourself to Live”: “I never thought Kurt Cobain represented me; I chose to represent him as a way to explain what kind of person I thought I was.”

In other words, saying you’re a fan of “Lost” is not usually a validation of the show. That’s not to say such an opinion denied the show’s quality. It inherently assumes it. But by saying, “I’m a ‘Lost’ fan,” what many people are trying to say is, “I get this show. I understand it. And because I do, I’m different from the typical pop culture fan. You say less people watch now than in Season 1? Good. Just reinforces my current status. They just never got it.”

I’m not above thinking this type of thing. I don’t exclude myself from this categorization. But I’d like to think that my self-awareness in this matter gives me a level of sympathy towards the writers of the show. The flip side of creating a show that people obsess over is that you run the insane risk of breaking their hearts when it doesn’t meet expectations. It’s not producing a bad episode that Darlton and company have to worry about. That’s unfortunate but not a crime. Where the crime lies in the viewer’s eyes is producing something that invalidates their love of the show. In essence, a bad episode is a personal affront on an individual layer, playing out in million of homes.

And that type of reaction is only going to increase as the episodes tick away, as character motivations seem sketchy, new mysteries are introduced, and we start getting that feeling in the pit of our stomach we do after a late-night run to Denny’s. For me, that moment happened during “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” the first time I actively thought, “Oh crap, they actually might not stick the landing on this show when all is said and done.” I had simply not thought that since mid-way through Season 3. Never even occurred to me that they wouldn’t. And there I was, writing a “Lost” blog and getting people excited about a show that just made me vaguely ill. I was an enabler! Oh noes!

I’d say two things to all of this: one, while it’s normal to be nervous, I am still excited about Season 6. We’re going to see at least a dozen things you’ve wanted to see since Season 1, and half of them we didn’t even know we wanted to see. And second, Darlton owe us nothing except telling us the story they want to tell. That's it. I assume they know where they want to go with the story after Juliet blew up Jughead. The fact that I can’t think of one satisfying way in which they can is MY problem, not THEIRS. There’s a pretty darn good reason why they sit in the writers’ room and I sit in my Boston apartment. And no, it has nothing to do with any restraining orders betwixt myself and Elizabeth Sarnoff, no matter what you might have read over at TMZ.

I’ll be reiterating this as the season approaches, but as you think about what’s to come, take the approach so few characters on the show actually do: see things as they are, not for how you’d rather they be. I’ve been confused, perplexed, annoyed, and generally mad that the show zigged where I thought it should have zagged, and nearly every time their zig trumped my zag. Did you have “a Scottish man trapped pushing a button thanks to the machinations of a man who once ruled the Island but was banished after visiting his partner who killed their adult time-travelling son before he was actually born” in your Season 1 “What’s in the hatch?” office pool? Yea, didn’t think so. I like their answer better than mine. (I think it was “whole lotta Chex Mix.”)

Considering how few times the show’s actually disappointed me, I consider myself pretty damn lucky to experience a show this smart, weird, and overall brilliant in my lifetime. And while my next entry will be about six potential pitfalls for the show come its final season, we should remember how often the show has not only skirted those pitfalls before, but often overcome them with great creativity and ingenuity. But most of all, I hope we all try and keep our heads on straight as the curtain starts to close. I’ll do my best to keep this little part of the interwebs a place not for people to celebrate their shared status as fans, but to use the connective tissue of the show as a way to hang out with some pretty fun people.

After all, how “Lost” wraps up its run says nothing about us as fans. How we treat each other in this space and beyond during that time? That says everything.

Source: Zap2IT

Abrams’ Star Trek DVD Hides Secret Webcam Hologram Posted by b3rt4 at 7/19/2009 08:20:00 AM View Comments Labels: JJ Abrams, Online Article, Star Trek

J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek will arrive on DVD in time for Thanksgiving, and it’ll come with a hologram that unlocks hidden online content.

The Trek DVD’s cover includes the hologram. Users will have to log in to a website to access the features it unlocks. Using the webcam, they will hold up the DVD cover design with the hologram to control various online features.

The interactive cover art unveils tours of the Enterprise’s decks and a game originating on the ship’s bridge. Apparently, the DVD acts as a sort of optical mouse, steering the user’s perspective through the content.

The two-disc set arrives on Nov. 17 and will include all of the expected special features, including commentaries and several scenes cut from the theatrical print.

Source: Wired

Lost Producers Shocked By Latest Emmy Nod Posted by b3rt4 at 7/17/2009 05:01:00 AM View Comments Labels: Awards, Benjamin Linus, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Emmy Awards, Michael Emerson, Online Article, The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham, TV Guide

Lost's executive producers say the ABC drama collected its latest Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in spite of — as well as because of — this past season's hyper-serialized, time-skipping narrative.

"We are very happy, and we are kind of shocked," Carlton Cuse told TVGuide.com. "Doing the time travel-heavy genre, we did not have any expectations that we would get nominated."

But Cuse and fellow exec producer Damon Lindelof say they are not surprised to see cast member Michael Emerson earn another nomination for his portrayal of the enigmatic Benjamin Linus.

"Michael has been such an amazing part of the show," says Cuse. "His performance, particularly in the episode 'The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,' is spectacular."

This year the drama series category was expanded to six nominees, but a tie resulted in seven total contenders — five of them on cable. The crowded, formidable, and by-and-large edgier field only adds to the honor of being nominated, say the producers.

"The idea that we made it into the mix with the limitations of broadcast is pretty exciting to us," Lindelof says. Adds Cuse, "Dexter, Big Love, Breaking Bad... Those are shows we think are really well done."

Source: TV Guide

Emilie De Ravin on the Set of Remember Me Posted by The ODI at 7/16/2009 09:56:00 AM View Comments Labels: Emilie de Ravin

Emilie De Ravin on the Set of Remember Me with Co-Star Robert Pattinson



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Dom and Evie visting Cirque du Solei Posted by b3rt4 at 7/15/2009 07:14:00 PM View Comments Labels: Dominic Monaghan, Evangeline Lilly

"Lost" stars and lovebirds, Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan treating Monaghan's parents, Maureen and Austin, to a night out at Cirque du Soleil's "The Beatles Love" followed by cocktails at The Beatles Revolution Lounge at the Mirage on Friday night. While at The Beatles Revolution Lounge, Lilly and Monaghan requested to be seated at one of the ultra-lounge's one-of-a-kind interactive tables where they created tabletop artwork which was then projected onto the columns scattered around the venue.

Source: Fox News

Below are two photos.

Jack Bender in Israel Posted by DarkUFO at 7/15/2009 02:47:00 PM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Jack Bender, Video

Update: 18:50 Thanks to Pawel here are some more videos of Jack Bender in Israel.

Thanks to our very own Carmel for sending us this.

Lost director answering fan questions, talking about series ending and more. highlights:

* his wife Laura is a rabbi also does looping of the whispers on the show. He confirms some of the whispers contain hidden messages.

* I kinda push him with the production errors till he suspects I'm a script supervisor... we get confirmation that the "woman" behind Sun when meeting Christian is from the crew and not Claire, that Little Ben's bullet location is a mistake BUT the dialog from the Marina (s5ep4) that later is shown from different character perspectives and is written differently - it was done so for a reason!!! read Vozek69's theory on that:

* spoilers: Damon saw the marketplace in Iraq set on the web because of someone who shot it from across the street. they fear of finale being spoiled so they consider shooting it outside Hawaii, maybe in Israel (joke?).

* describes the series ending as thrilling and satisfying.

* season 6 will be focusing on the core world of the series like season 1.

* at the end there's was a weird mic sound like a horn, very smoke-monster like. was funny.

Part 2

Part 2

LOST's Two SciFi Hotties of 09 According to EW Posted by The ODI at 7/14/2009 06:09:00 PM View Comments Labels: Entertainment Weekly, Evangeline Lilly, Yunjin Kim

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Man Suing ABC Claiming LOST Was His Idea First!? (*Updated*) Posted by The ODI at 7/14/2009 06:00:00 PM View Comments

Update: 16th July Here is a link to the original claim back in 2005
Update: 18:20 Here is a little update since The ODI posted this last night.

1) Anthony Spinner produced and/or wrote for The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Cannon, Search,The FBI, Return of the Saint, and Baretta
2) He claims he was paid $30,000 for the show outline back in 1977
3) He sued both ABC and Touchstone Television back in 2005 but was thrown out due to a technicality



TMZ is reporting that Anthony Spinner first pitched the idea of LOST way back in 1977 and then again in the early 90s??

I have no idea how true this is but there is apparently a document comparing what he wrote with the show today over at TMZ.

When I was sent this story I laughed at it. Well here is the screencap of the site and link to the document:

Thanks to David for the heads up.

http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/0713_lost.pdf

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Source: TMZ

Wonho Chung (Won on One Interview: Matthew Fox) on Showtime Posted by DarkUFO at 7/14/2009 03:57:00 PM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Matthew Fox, Video

Thanks to Luthien for the video.

Spanish Season 5 Trailer Posted by DarkUFO at 7/14/2009 09:43:00 AM View Comments Labels: Matthew Fox, Video

Thanks to Blackbox for the video from Sl-Lost

Spanish Lost Trailer featuring Matthew Fox for there forthcoming broadcast of season 5.

Titus Welliver (Man in Black) Discusses his Role on LOST Posted by The ODI at 7/14/2009 05:49:00 AM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Man in Black, Season 5, Season 6, Titus Welliver, TV Guide

Welliver, who now has a recurring role on CBS' The Good Wife (premiering Sept. 22), shared a look inside the far-from-black-and-white nature of his Lost visit.

TVGuide.com: How does it feel to be dropped into the zeitgeist that is Lost?

Titus Welliver: It's pretty insane. It's pretty insane. This is a completely different thing for me. At the street level, it has been crazy. People — from all walks of life — come up and say, "Now, you possessed Locke...?" "Are you in fact Locke?" "Has the character of Locke been created from you, and this was a whole setup to crash the plane?"

TVGuide.com: The funny thing is they can only refer to you as "you," because they didn't give your character a name. By what name did you know him?
Welliver: He has no name. He's just "the man," because they don't want to give anything away. I know that this character has a name and I know the importance of it; that's all that I know.

TVGuide.com: So you don't know his actual name?
Welliver: No — and I think they deliberately withheld that.

TVGuide.com: Were you only given the script pages for your scene?
Welliver: No, I got a whole script. But the thing is, unless you're watching the show weekly, you've no bloody idea what's going on. It's not a show that you can just drop into the middle of. I had watched Lost during the first season, but then life and children sort of prevent one from being able to consistently stay with something.

TVGuide.com: Did the producers give you any notes on what the dynamic should be between you and Mark Pellegrino's Jacob?
Welliver: Liz Sarnoff, one of the writers on the show, is actually an old colleague from a show that we did with David Milch, Big Apple, and from Deadwood. Her explanation was that Jacob sees man as being a flawed creature, but that there is always hope, whereas my character has a much more cynical but in some ways realistic view of man. She said, "Now extrapolate from that what you will. Are they waxing philosophical? Are they gods?" What occurs to me as I watch Locke mention the loophole and pitch Jacob into the fire is, "Clearly this other man on the beach has inhabited Locke on some level" — and it never suspends your belief simply because of how intricate the mysterious nature of the show is. You never say, "Aw, c'mon." I find it interesting that the audience completely buys into what [the writers] put in front of them.

TVGuide.com: Fans have all sorts of theories on the Jacob-Man No. 2 relationship. Some see the obvious parallels with the Bible's Jacob and Esau, but there are also a wealth of Egyptian comparisons...
Welliver: Yeah, the Esau thing seems to dominate the extrapolating conversations. People on the subway say, "Are you Esau?" The interactions are that random.

TVGuide.com: Do you think it's as simple as one of these guys is good and the other evil?
Welliver: The way that I interpreted it, on a biblical level, is that it's a sort of Cain-and-Abel scenario. So by destroying Jacob, what does that prove — that [the man in black] can ultimately have power over the island? Do the castaways become solely his playthings? And why was it so important that he find the loophole to be able to kill Jacob? That moved me in the direction of thinking that if he needs this loophole, there's a greater power than the two of them that they're answering to.

TVGuide.com: Right, someone had to establish that loophole. Some giant, cosmic lawyer.
Welliver: [Laughs] Exactly. What [the producers] said to me was, "No hand-wringing" — and I said, "Certainly not," I didn't want to do the Snidely Whiplash thing — "and understand that this is kind of a chess game," hence the fact that one's in black and one's in white. But are they part of the chess game... or are they the players?

TVGuide.com: It seems like Jacob could have one last ace up his sleeve, as evidenced by him saying before dying, "They're coming." He may have put one final countermeasure in place.
Welliver: Oh, yeah. Somebody asked me about that — "Is your character going to just take over?" — and of course I don't have the answer. But as a viewer I think, "It can't be that easy to get rid of Jacob."

Source: TV Guide

Posted By: The ODI

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Posted by The ODI at 7/13/2009 09:11:00 AM View Comments Labels: Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Eko

Here are a couple of new promo pics of former LOST actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko) in his new movie G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.

Well here are the pics. Enjoy!!

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Matthew Fox Lies Low in Scots Town Posted by DarkUFO at 7/12/2009 11:34:00 AM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Matthew Fox, Online Article

Thanks to Donna for the heads up.

HOLLYWOOD actor Matthew Fox thought he could get away from the pressures of fame on a trip to the north of Scotland.

So the star of mould-breaking TV series Lost was shocked when he was spotted by fans in the harbour town of Lossiemouth.

Matthew, 42, was sight-seeing in the north-east with his 12-year- old daughter Kyle on their first visit to Scotland.

He said: "I was very surprised by how excited everybody was that I was there.

"It is always very strange to me because I try to convince myself that nobody in the world knows who I am and I am just going to do what I want.

"But the Scottish people were very nice and polite and the countryside is absolutely spectacular. It was a very good stay. I enjoyed it very much.

"We flew to Aberdeen then drove to Lossiemouth and it was stunning - a beautiful town.

Sunshine

Matthew brought Kyle to Morayshire to go to a world-renowned summer school after hearing about its programme of academic, art, drama, sport and adventure courses.

Speaking at the Rome Fiction TV Festival, he said: "We had a nice couple of days there. My daughter Kyle is having a great time in Scotland.

"It stays light. The sun did not set until 10.30 at night then it just got dusk for a few hours till the sun came back up again, which was pretty awesome - I loved that."

The actor may have loved all things Scottish but admits he was not brave enough to try our national dish.

He said: "I didn't try haggis but I had lamb. I didn't go for any of the more radical things. I might try haggis next time."

Matthew is now off to film the sixth and final series of Lost in Hawaii with co-stars Evangeline Lilly, Ian Somerhalder and Dominic Monaghan.

He revealed the end of the awardwinning show about the bizarre adventures of the survivors of a plane crash will be a landmark in his life and career.

After the final scenes are shot, he plans to move his family - wife, former model Margherita, Kyle, and eight-year-old son Byron - to a ranch in Oregon and take as much as six months off.

Matthew, who grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, said: "I am not a tropical island, sunshine every day person.

"I am 42 and a father of two children and I don't want to miss them growing up. I don't want to find myself 10 years from now feeling like I was an absentee father because I was so focused on my career."

When he is ready to work again, Matthew wants to have a less all- consuming schedule by making just one or two movies a year.

He said: "I am not going to do television again. That's not because I think film is better than television. Not at all, in some of the respects some of the best storytelling is happening on television.

"But I have done two TV shows - Lost and Party Of Five - that have each run for six years. When you add it all up it is in the vicinity of 300 hours of television."

"I want to find a way to have more control over when I am working and when I'm not. I'm looking for more flexibility.

"And when the movie is finished I really need to spend time with the people who are the most important in the world to me."

The global success of Lost has turned Matthew into a hot property and he has appeared in films such as the thriller Vantage Point, kids adventure Speed Racer and true life sports drama We Are Marshall.

Not surprisingly, since he first got on horseback when he was only six years old, Matthew's dream is to make a Western.

Westerns That wish might come true since the Wild West is back in fashion in the film world. There is even talk of the Coen Brothers - Oscar-winning makers of No Country For Old Men - doing a remake of True Grit.

Matthew said: "If there are more Westerns made then I would be happy. I love them and someday I would love to be in one."

Despite being one of the world's most famous faces, the actor is an unlikely star.

At university he got a degree in economics with the aim of getting a job on Wall Street. But after one interview he figured a life in high finance was not for him. Nor did he seem ideally suited to an acting career, as he was born into a home where therewas no TV set.

Matthew said: "It was not so much that my dad didn't like television, he just really loved books and I'm trying to carry on the old man's tradition.

"We allow our kids to watch a little bit of television. An hour a day is the rule but they are very manipulative and wily about finding ways to extend that.

"I don't want to be as a hard core as my dad was, though I respect him a great deal."

Matthew reckons that it is not a bad thing if kids complain they are bored because they do not have TV to watch.

He added: "When you are bored, you are going to use your imagination to develop some version of the world that is exciting to you. That was something my father encouraged."

Perhaps restricting his own children's viewing in the same way will lead them to become international TV stars? Matthew said: "I don't think my dad has ever fully explored the irony of that."

Source: California Chronicle

Jack Bender at Roma Fiction Fest Posted by DarkUFO at 7/11/2009 09:52:00 AM View Comments Labels: Jack Bender, Video

Thanks to Roberto79it from Lost-Italia for sharing this video with us

Damon and Carlton Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 7/09/2009 04:21:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Interviews, Video

Thanks to DerAndre for the heads up.

C21TV catches up with Lost showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse to discuss the art of storytelling, the state of US drama and what the duo will be up to after the sci-fi blockbuster finishes its six-season run on ABC next summer.

The video special, published under C21's Content Lab brand, follows C21TV's interview with Heroes creator Tim Kring, as well as LA Screenings specials with NCIS LA showrunner Shane Brennan and the execs behind shows such as The Beautiful Life, Melrose Place and The Vampire Diaries.

In the interview, co-creator Lindelof and executive producer Cuse discuss the impact Lost has had on American drama, as well as the challenges the industry faces in the current climate and the growth of sci-fi on US TV.

The duo also discuss how they plan to manage fans' expectations as the show heads into its final season, and talk about forthcoming projects including Stephen King's The Dark Tower and Star Trek 2.

Source: C21 Media

The Closer Gets Lost Posted by DarkUFO at 7/09/2009 02:58:00 PM View Comments Labels: Madeline Carrell, Sterling Beaumon, TV appearance

Thanks to Marisa for the heads up.

Sterling Beaumon, who played little Ben on Lost last season, has managed to find an even creepier role. The 14-year-old will play a meth-addicted drug dealer (that's right!) in a mid-August episode of TNT's The Closer, which will also feature Christine Lahti. Coincidentally, 13-year-old actress Madeline Carroll, who played little Ben's Dharmaville playmate two seasons ago, pops up on another Closer episode at the end of July. So far, no polar bears are scheduled to scare Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Leigh Johnson anytime soon.

Source: TV Guide Magazine

Matthew Fox at Rome Fiction Festival Posted by DarkUFO at 7/08/2009 07:20:00 PM View Comments Labels: Matthew Fox

VIDEO special award of the Fiction Festival Posted by DarkUFO at 7/08/2009 06:48:00 PM View Comments Labels: Matthew Fox, Video

Thanks to DarkUFO reader Han from (solo-lost.net)who managed to record this from Fiction Festival

and here are some videos of Matthew Fox out and about signing autographs.

Vote for Des and Penny Posted by DarkUFO at 7/08/2009 06:43:00 PM View Comments Labels: Desmond, Penny Widmore, Polls

Thanks to Pandavamp for the heads up.

Zap2it have a series of polls and in the 'Best Couple' one, they nominated Des and Penny.
Here's the link: http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-poll-best-tv-couple-2009,0,733483.htmlstory

Island Fever: Exploring LOST Posted by b3rt4 at 7/08/2009 01:45:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Online Article

Ben Falk gets the lowdown on Sky One’s smash hit Lost from executive producer/writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.

“It goes directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” laughs Damon Lindelof, thankful to his assistant for protecting him from the worst of the post he regularly receives. “There is some threatening mail, like ‘if you dare have Sawyer and Juliet consummate their relationship, I’ll never watch the show again’.”

Unfortunately for Angry from Cleveland – and Lindelof, 36, co-creator and exec producer of Lost – that ship has sailed. Luckily, there are millions more around the world who continue to be glued to one of the most intricate, daring, grand and successful shows in television history.

Despite the extreme reactions (“It’s never our intention to raise ire,” he insists), Lindelof and his co-pilot Carlton Cuse, 50, often listen to the fans and their opinions. “The kind of feedback we get in those forums is actually fairly constructive for us,” says Cuse. “After the season ends, it’s always good to get a sense of how the viewer responded, and that filters into our thinking.”

Fans will get a chance to air their views when the pair come to BAFTA for a Q&A in July, and the anticipation is already mounting, since the programme has recently finished its fifth and penultimate series on Sky One and audiences are now preparing for next year’s final 18 episodes. The audience then will finally get to see the loose ends of the many, many strands of mythology tied up, mainly thanks to a unique deal the creators struck with host network ABC.

“The American television model is like the Pony Express – you ride it until it drops underneath you,” says Cuse. “We didn’t want that to happen and we were able to negotiate an end-date three years out, which was unprecedented. We owe a debt of gratitude to JK Rowling.When she announced there would be seven Harry Potter books, that completely defined the journey. People knew exactly what they were getting into.”

Of course, even for regular viewers of the show, precisely what they’re watching is frequently open to discussion.

Ostensibly, Lost is about a group of plane crash survivors (played by Matthew Fox, Terry O’Quinn and Evangeline Lilly amongst many others) struggling to exist on a desert island somewhere in the South Pacific (actually Oahu,Hawaii).

If only it were that simple. Throw timetravel, electro-magnetism, sentient smoke monsters and polar bears into the mix and you’ve got one of the most dissected serials ever produced.

“The Prisoner was a big influence for us,” admits Cuse. “It was 17 episodes and the enigmatic nature of that series had a lot of influence in constructing Lost as a story where the audience had to participate and interpret events.We thought maybe we would be like Twin Peaks or The Prisoner and we’d end up having a cult DVD following. But then the ratings came in and it was huge.”

“I guess it was my dream to create a television show that created a culture around it like the shows I grew up loving, like X-Files and Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” adds Lindelof. “I think it came along at exactly the right time, when the internet became the water-cooler for people to aggregate the show – and that culture’s really blossomed.”

Despite today’s climate of spoilers and web reveals, the surprises, which often include major character deaths, have managed to stay fairly intact,much of which is to do with the dedicated and enormous team who put the show together.

Over 425 people work on Lost, whilst its crew include or have included DOP Larry Fong (Watchmen, 300) and JJ Abrams (Star Trek, Cloverfield) who co-created the show and directed the pilot. Meanwhile, seasoned TV director Jack Bender, says Lindelof, came in and showed “what we could do with eight days of photography and how we could still retain this filmic look.”

Though not involved in the initial episodes, Cuse (who created Don Johnson vehicle Nash Bridges) was soon brought on by Lindelof (previously a supervising producer on crime show Crossing Jordan) who took over the day-to-day running of the show when Abrams left to make Mission: Impossible 3.

“I’d given Damon his first job and he was calling me and asking me for advice,” remembers Cuse. “I fell in love with the material and believed something special could happen, so I came over.” Now the duo are the creative hub, presiding over a small group of writers. And before you ask – yes, they do know how the show’s going to end.

“The mythology is all planned out,” says Cuse. “We’ve known the ending for quite some time.”

That’s not to say they’re happy about it. “I’ll probably work on other shows or movies, but I will never outdo the accomplishment that is Lost,” says Lindelof. “Nor will I set the bar that high for myself. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

May we suggest a journey to the island, Mr. Lindelof. After all that’s where miracles happen...

Source: BAFTA

The Last Season of 'Lost': 'Anything goes.' Posted by b3rt4 at 7/08/2009 01:39:00 PM View Comments Labels: Online Article

As Lost fans are keenly aware, exec producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof usually remain in "radio silence" (their term) after the conclusion of every season until their annual summit meeting with thousands of geeked-up loyalists at Comic-Con each July in San Diego. However, in advance of this year's much anticipated appearance (slated for the morning of July 25, according to insiders), Cuse and Lindelof have been giving interviews to press over in England while they attend a salute to Lost at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Not that they are saying much: in an interview with Digital Spy, the producers declined to answer questions about the season 5 finale (specifically: is Juliet really dead?) and wouldn't comment on their last season vision. But when asked what seems to be the burning question of the moment--will we be seeing departed characters like Boone, Shannon and Charlie make return appearances next year?--Lindelof teased that they do hope to give many fan favorites some sort of "curtain call." How might Lost accomplish that creative feat, given most of these departed folks are, like, dead? TBD, though Lindelof does remind us that Lost was figuratively time traveling (see: flashbacks and flash-forwards) long before it was literally time traveling (see: season 5). Then again, when it comes to Season Six, Lindelof tells Digital Spy, "anything goes." (You can also view the entire video interview at darkufo.blogspot.com,. though be warned: the clip is housed in the site's spoiler section, despite not being overly spoilery.)

There's been other Lost news recently, too. Last week, word got out that there will be 18 hours next season instead of the planned 17. The extra 60 minutes will be used to mount a two-hour season premiere. Also, ABC and the producers are asking fans to write and record their own "mock theme song" for Lost. Now this is a challenge that just may inspire me to pick up the guitar that my wife and kids gave me for Father's Day, despite my total lack of six-string experience. But it's never too late to learn. And as it happens, I work with a pretty aces guitar player: none other than "Totally Lost" co-host Dan Snierson. Maybe he can give me some pointers. Maybe we can write our own Lost mock theme song! And maybe we could even perform it... at our own "Totally Lost" panel at Comic-Con! Yes, you read that right: we're doing the panel thing. And if you're going to Comic-Con, we hope you'll come! I'll have some more details for you the week of July 20. Until then, send me your questions, theories, and funny pictures to DocJensenEW@gmail.com--I am answering email this summer!

Source: EW

Rome Fiction Festival The Master Class Videos Posted by DarkUFO at 7/08/2009 06:28:00 AM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Video

Thanks to Sam for the heads up. The answers are in English but is there anyone who can translate the Italian?

YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part I
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part II
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part III
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part III
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part IV
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part V
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part VI
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part VII
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part VIII
YouTube - Lost - Master Class @ Roma Fiction Fest 07/07/09 - Part IX

Thanks to Jabba the Hutt for the translation/Transcript.

Video 1

Interviewer 1)... recently, talking about a plane disaster (the French Airbus gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean), many on the web started saying "they went on the Lost Island"; a latin american television came out with an exclusive video which turned out to be a clip from your show. How did you manage to break into the popula culture?
How did you do it?

Damon: Good morning....

Interviewer 2) .... (sorry I couldn't hear the first part of the question because of the background voices talking about the lousy translators) now that you are a worldwide phoenomenon which is the funniest criticism thet you ever received?
For example The Beatles didn't were rejected by the Decca and were told that their music didn't work, something like that?

Video 2

Interviewer 3) What do you think about the importance of writing? How do you work with you writers? Can you tell us about your typical work-day while creating a Lost episode? Then we'll watch another clip.

Interviewer 4) Jack, how do you interact with them (Darlton)?

Interviewer 5) How do you track everything that happaned in the show? Do you remember everything? Is there anybody helping you or do you have any instruments?


Interviewer 6) Now's the time for another clip


(....)

(the question is cut from the video but of course it's about the final scene from Exodus part I which was shown in the clip)

Video 3

Interviewer 7) How do you all work with the actors?


Interviewer 8)I think that a festival duty is to encourage the meetings so, ladies and gentlemen, Matthew Fox (background voices "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, I'VE GOT AN HEART ATTACK)

Interviewer 9) Matthew, talking about actors, how is working in this show and what did you think when you first read the script?

Interviewer 10) I'd say we watch another clip and then you can ask questions; the ladies will bring you the microphones and we'll try to let everyone talk.(....) So this was Chalie's Death in the flooded swan (public :"IT'S THE LOOKING GLASS, YOU IDIOT")
I was joking

Video 4

Interviewer 11) Why did you personally choose this clip?


Interviewer 12) Ok, let's start the questions.


Public 1) Hi, I'm Giuseppe Cozzolino, I teach "Multimedial Work Analisys" at the Eastern Naples Univeristy (Even I don't know what he means, in Italy we have a lot of lame courses in the Univeristy, kept by lame teachers) and I have dedicated a lot of lessons to your show which, as Marco (the interviewer) said it's more than just entertainment. This is a two part question, one serious, the other semi-serious. Let's start with the serious one, quiste easy: how do you imagine your professional future after Lost? are you thinking of any other projects?
The second one; let's talk about the big absent from this meeting: J.J. Abrams. We've recently seen him playing keyboards at the MTV movie awards with Neil Diamond. Tell us the scoop: after Lost you'll be joining him in a rock band with Matthew as lead singer.


Public 2) It's in english so my services are unnecessary

Video 5

Public 3) I am 60, my daughter is 24 and we both are enthusiast of Lost (applause and the rest is in "English")

Public 4) First of all I want to pay many compliments to everyone here. My question is for Matthew: there are many literature references in the show, what is your relashionship with literature?
And, being here among friends, I've read that you are the only actor in the cast who knows the series finale so if you want to tell us...

Public 5) I'm a screenwriter and I have to say that this work situation is quite unusual in Italy becase we screenwriters usually think that the directors are incapable, they think that we are illiterate and we all think that the actors are dogs so the question is don't you never argue? Did ever Damon and Carlton think that Jack (Bender) totally mistook the scene and misunderstood what they meant? Or did ever Jack think "What a lame scene they wrote, it doesn't really make sense"?
And by the way what happened to the executve that came out with the idea of Lost and then was fired (I think it was Jeffrey Lieber)? Do you pay anything to him or not?


Video 6

Public 6) English again, less work for me

Interviewer 13) Let's see the clip now

Interviewer 14) I'd see another clip so we can talk about both of them

Video 7

Video 8

Interviewer 15) Please ask only one question each so that everyone will have his chance

Public 7) One quick question for Damon and Carlton: two years ago Damon said that, if necessary, he could be able to close the story of Lost in four episiodes. When did you come to have a complete vision of the whole narrative arc of Lost?
And I wanted to ask Jack Bender....

Inteviewer 16) Please don't, hand the microphone to the others

Public 8) Hi, I wanted to ask a question to Damon and Calrton. On some blogs talking about the show is often referenced the struggle between destiny vs. free will. Is gonna be a winner in this battle or not?

Interviewer 17) We have time for three questions left

Public 9) English (sort of)... Interviewer 14) Please come to the point.

Public 10) I'm Marco, I'm here with all my family. Question for Matthew: how much of your personal personality is present in Jack Shepard? And how much do you love him or hate him?


Video 9

Interviewer 18) Time is running out but you'll be able to meet them againg this evening at the auditorium. A question for the lady in uniform.

Public 11) My name is Annabella and I've got a question for Matt. I have really appreciated the photograph album in the first DVD box set, I wonder if you have continued taking pictures during the following seasons and if there will be any more in the next box sets. I also wanted to thank him for having posted a comment on my friend Elisabatta's blog, you've been very kind.

Interviewer 19) I'm sorry I couldn't understand what he said

Interviewer 20) Last question

Public 12) English

Interviewer 21) Before launching the clip I wanted to thank Disney and (two other people) who made this meeting possible, and I recommend the friends in the room 6 not to move because we are personally going to greet them. Let's watch the clip.

Lost - Roma Fiction Fest 2009 Video inc Season 6 Teaser Video Posted by DarkUFO at 7/07/2009 03:29:00 PM View Comments Labels: Video

Thanks to Sam for the heads up. More videos coming....

Video 1 - Season 6 Teaser Video

Here is another version of the above video. Slightly better format.

Video 2

Video 3

Stars Predict the End of Lost Posted by DarkUFO at 7/07/2009 11:01:00 AM View Comments Labels: Daniel Dae Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Henry Ian Cusick, Josh Holloway

The Lost cast is growing anxious to receive the first script of their final season, which goes into production late August. Before they get definitive answers, I asked them to come up with their own theories about how the mystery will get resolved.

Josh Holloway (Sawyer)
“There’s got to be a big blow-out war among everybody, and they’re all going to kill each other. There’ll be a few stragglers who have to make a choice, like the way ‘On the Beach’ ended, where the threat blows itself up and people will have to decide whether to stay or go.”

Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet)
“Like the end of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, I think something will happen where we all go back to where we were. Juliet was never brought to the island. The plane never crashes. These people have never met. But because of the odd nature of time, we keep on getting drawn back into the same situation again. So basically, the ending is just another beginning.”

Dominic Monaghan (Charlie)
“The remaining cast decides whether to walk the path of good or bad, and an epic battle reigns. Evangeline Lilly puts in the performance of the year and wins a Golden Globe.”

Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond)
“The resurrection of the dead—with someone singing [Hawaiian farewell song] ‘Aloha ’Oe.’”

Daniel Dae Kim (Jin)
“We all settle into Dharmaville, build our own homes and develop the island into a tourist destination and make millions of dollars.”

Source: TV Guide Magazine

New Evangeline Lilly Interview Posted by b3rt4 at 7/06/2009 08:00:00 PM View Comments Labels: Evangeline Lilly, Interviews, Online Article

When the pilot episode of Lost was first broadcast across North American airwaves on September 22, 2004, fans and journalists alike were ravenous in trying to unearth every truth, rumor and personal tidbit they could about Evangeline Lilly, the then-obscure, barely known Canadian actress who portrayed Kate, the gorgeous and mysterious handcuffed plane crash survivor. However, almost from day one, the former Royal Airlines flight attendant (for one whole month), waitress, model and part-time actress (her biggest role at the time had been a brief appearance on Smallville) was determined to keep the prying eyes of the media out of her life.

“Keeping a low profile was definitely intentional, it was by choice,” recalls the 29-year-old Alberta-native. “To put it simply—a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing. I think it’s more cumbersome and more of a hindrance to your life than it is the other. But the fortune is fantastic. I’ll take it, and I have no complaints.”

As Lilly remembers it, she had no intentions on becoming an overnight Hollywood sensation. “ I didn’t become an actress because I wanted to be famous,” remembers the girl from Fort Saskatchewan. “I didn’t become an actress because this is the ultimate career goal of my life. I became an actress by accident. I was doing a psychological exercise with myself, challenging myself, by going to auditions. I had no idea that it would connect to a job. I had no intention for it to connect to a job. I was doing it as an exercise. So when I got a job, I, in that moment, had to sit down and go, ‘Do I want to be an actor?’”

With the recent release of Lost: Seasons 1 + 2 in two Blu-ray collections (the Island looks like a slice of lush, green jungle heaven in 1080p high definition picture, and thanks to 5.1 uncompressed sound, the thunderous roars of the smoke monster have never sounded scarier) Evangeline Lilly has been doing a lot of thinking about her early days as a nearly first-time actress/star on Lost.

“My first year on Lost was a baptism by fire, I just was thrown in,” Lilly explains, during a promo stop in Los Angeles. “I felt like I was in boot camp. And I had no idea what I was doing, not just on set, and not just as an actor, but as a public figure. I had no idea how to cope with it, and what the best ways were to manage it. I’m constantly learning that and therefore, in learning it, I knew I didn’t want to–one of the first things I knew was, I don’t want to have this beast become so big and uncontrollable that I am swallowed up by it.”

But how does a leading lady on an iconic television series avoid it? “One of the ways is, you don’t do big blockbuster Hollywood hits. Another way is, you avoid press unless it’s really necessary,” she answers with a devilish grin.

With the story of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 slated to come to a conclusion in 2010, at the end of the show’s final season, Lilly, who has a home in Hawaii (where Lost has been filmed over the past five years) may be returning to her Canadian roots. “My home on the islands is nothing fancy, it’s just a sweet little Hawaiian bungalow. But, last year, I bought a house with my parents up in Canada, because my heart is still here. I love that country. That is where I was born and raised, and one day, I think I’ll probably go back here. (pauses) See, that’s what the fortune can do for you. The fame doesn’t help them. At all. It actually gets in their way,” she says, laughing.

Source: sharp

Michael Emerson - Saturn Awards Interview Posted by DarkUFO at 7/06/2009 06:57:00 PM View Comments Labels: Interviews, Michael Emerson, Video

Thanks to DerAndre for the video.

Source: Collider

Carlton Cuse - AXN interview Transcript Posted by DarkUFO at 7/06/2009 12:39:00 PM View Comments Labels: Carlton Cuse, Interviews, Video

Thanks to back_gammon for the following.

I just did a transcript of the new AXN video in which Carlton Cuse discusses the inception of LOST. Over the years I've heard various pieces of the LOST origination myth before, but this is, to my knowledge, the most complete accounting given thus far of LOST's origins. I don't know whether this will reassure those viewers who argue that the writers don't know where they're going or if it will reignite the arguments. Nevertheless, I think it's a great bit of commentary from Cuse.

Carlton Cuse: The thing that made LOST popular was the fact that no one thought LOST was going to succeed at all. When the show first started, the idea for LOST came from an executive at abc network, Los Angeles, and he wanted to do a sort of scripted version of Survivor, and hired some writers to do that and --- he was basically --- he knew he was going to lose his job and he put a lot of money into making the pilot of the show.

And then, he did lose his job and so abc had this very expensive pilot --- which they --- they thought the pilot was good but they didn't think it would work as a series.

So my partner, Damon Lindeloff, and I, who run the show, we basically thought that we were going to make 12 episodes of the show and that was it. And so we decided we were going to make the 12 best episodes that we could ever make for ourselves --- the ones we would enjoy the most, and that is what we set out to do.

And in doing so we broke a lot of the conventional rules of television, particularly for American television shows. We had a large cast. Normally a cast in an American television show might be 6,7, or 8 actors. We had 15 series regulars. We had very complex storylines. We had purposely ambiguous stories where the audience had to determine what they thought a given scene meant. And we also made the show heavily serialized; it required you to watch it deeply. And we embedded clues in the show. And we also had main characters who were bad people, like murderers, had murdered people, and none of these things were really things you were supposed to be able to do on a show.

We sort of saw as our model a show called "The Prisoner," a British show made in like the 1960's, and it was 18 episodes and then it was over, but people still remember it, so we said "We're going to make the 12 best episodes that anyone will ever --- it's going to be the best 12 episode show ever."

And then they aired the pilot and the ratings came back, and normally that's like winning the lottery. And I remember when Damon, my partner, came into my office and he had the ratings sheet and he was like "OMG, we're going to have to keep doing this!" (Cuse chuckles)

And that's when we sat down and started trying to figure out all the mythology for the show, and it was only then that we realized it wasn't going to be 12 episodes, it was going to be 100 episodes, at least, and that we had to really plan and plot out what the story was going to be. And so that's when we really figured out all of the mythology of LOST.

Video is here:
http://www.axn.hu/videos/carlton-cuse-interju-1

Source: AXN

'Lost' character comebacks Posted by DarkUFO at 7/06/2009 11:49:00 AM View Comments Labels: Online Article

Thanks to DerAndre for the heads up.

Let’s face it: while Season 5 of "Lost" might have been the most ambitious season of television ever aired, it sacrificed character for story. That’s not to say that character development was absent (see: James Ford). But in exerting more energy explaining a time-bending plot rather than those caught up in it, the show ended up wasting its most valuable asset. We’ve now spent five years with many of these characters, and several were shortchanged in Season 5.

Luckily, the show has one more season to right these wrongs. Unlike LL Cool J, I’m calling this a comeback for these following six characters next season after being underserved over the past year. In no particular order…

Jack Shephard

No one’s been a bigger whipping boy for the machinations of unseen forces over the past five years than the good doctor. We as audience members have largely been frustrated by his character, not due to his inherent sense of morality but his incredible ability to always choose Door A when he should be choosing Door B. And yet, all those years of good intentions/bad results means he’s in the unique position of being the biggest hero in the show’s final season. Standing in his way? Cabin Christian. That showdown has EPIC written all over it.

Kate Austen

“Whatever Happened, Happened” almost completely redeemed her character in and of itself. Returning to the Island for the selfless reason of reuniting mother with child? Emotionally resonant and utterly heroic. And yet, the show seemed to forget this reason for the rest of the season, instead using her as a mechanism to ruin the happiness of seemingly every character in the “Lost” universe. If the show takes her stated purpose and uses it as a baseline for everything she does next year, she’ll easily vault into one of the show’s all-time iconic characters.

Ben Linus

Season 5 did the impossible: make Ben almost...boring. I say “almost,” because Michael Emerson could read the phone book and I’d find the performance riveting. But between his inexplicable actions off-Island (What did he know? When did he know it?), his utter cluelessness on-Island, and general absence from chunks of the season, the sheen was removed from this titan of a character. I understand that a large bulk of Season 5 was spent conning this master manipulator, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Ben from Seasons 2-4 was infinitely more interesting to watch. Look for Ben to be the key to the balance of power as the show approaches its end game.

Sun-Hwa Kwon

Remember early Season 5 Sun? Remember how bad-ass she was? Remember how she was somehow more terrifying than Ben and Widmore combined? You’d be forgiven if you did, since once seeing Jin’s ring, she turned into a robot unable to say anything other than variations on, “And if we do this, I’ll find Jin?” Devotion towards finding your husband is one thing. Being a one-note character is another. Maybe I read too much into these scenes, but I found the Ben/Sun dynamic to be subtly fascinating this season, almost as if Ben recognized a kindred psychosis in her eyes. If the show explores that dynamic going forth, maybe Sun will have more to do than simply pine for Jin.

Walt Lloyd

When it comes to “Lost,” there’s plenty about which I can be rational. Sure, I write four times a week about the show even in the off-season, but I’d like to think I can analyze the show from an emotional distance at which vantage point I can be both critic and fan. But so help me God, if “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” is truly the last time we see Walt on the show, I will throw my Vincent figurine against the wall in anger. A boy so terrifying Ben had him shipped off-Island, a boy with powers unique in the show’s universe, and a boy at the heart of so many of the show’s mysteries not around for the show’s final season? Please. How would be return to the Island, you ask? Good question. Might have something to do with…

Desmond Hume

Did any character get the Season 5 shaft more than poor Des? Methinks not. An iconic character in the show’s universe, he was largely an afterthought this year. It was almost as if the show had no idea how to use him once reunited with Penny at the end of Season 4. If Eloise is right and the Island’s not done with Desmond just yet, look for him to return next year with a few key players: Widmore, Walt, Penny, and maybe the second-generation of Lostaways such as Ji Yeon, Aaron, and little Charlie. With so much of the show about intergenerational conflict, why not bring in the next generation to solve things once and for all?

So that’s my list of character comebacks I’d like to see next year. What does yours look like?

Source: Zap2IT