Last week, many of the cast and crew of the Emmy award-winning sci-fi drama “LOST” gathered at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles for ABC’s “Lost Live: The Final Celebration.”
Some of the stars on hand included Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Daniel Dai Kim (Jin), a very sexy Sonya Walgner (Penny), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond Hume), Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert), Jeremy Davies (Faraday), Michael Emerson (Ben Linus) and his wife and “True Blood” star Carrie Preston, Rebecca Mader (Charlotte) and many others (see gallery).
Penny for your thoughts.
During the celebration, ABC executive Barry Jossen read a fan letter written by Star Wars creator George Lucas to show-runners—and die-hard SW aficionados—Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
Lucas wrote:
Congratulations on pulling off an amazing show. Don’t tell anyone … but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance. Throw in some father issues and references to other stories — let’s call them homages — and you’ve got a series.
In six seasons, you’ve managed to span both time and space, and I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I never saw what was around the corner. Now that it’s all coming to an end, it’s impressive to see how much was planned out in advance and how neatly you’ve wrapped up everything.
You’ve created something really special. I’m sad that the series is ending, but I look forward to seeing what you two are going to do next.
“LOST” is currently on its final season. The enhanced two-and-a-half-hour series finale will air on May 23.
Heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio lost his battle with stomach cancer yesterday morning at 7:45 a.m. He was 67-years-old.
His wife, Wendy Dio, posted on his website:
My heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7:45 a.m. 16th May. Many, many friends and family were able to say their private goodbyes before he peacefully passed away. Ronnie knew how much he was loved by all.
Please know he loved you all and his music will live on forever.
Dio fronted the bands Elf and Rainbow during the ’70s and replaced Ozzy Osbourne as vocalist for Black Sabbath in 1979. Together they released the monumental albums “Heaven and Hell” in 1980 and “Mob Rules” in 1981.
He formed the band Dio in 1982 and continued to make heads bleed with the albums “Holy Diver,” “The Last in Line,” “Dream Evil,” “Sacred Heart” and “Lock Up the Wolves.” In 2007, Dio reunited once again with Black Sabbath to tour under the moniker Heaven and Hell.
Dio is credited for making the “devil’s horns” hand gesture the official symbol of unity among those who choose to rock and not suck.
Some of his most recent projects included a hilarious cameo in the 2006 Jack Black film Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny and the 2009 Heaven & Hell CD release “The Devil You Know.”
Tonight, we all shall dream evil.
(Thanks to headbanger Adi V. for waking me up from my drunken stupor with the sad news.)
There was a time when an actor’s only responsibility after wrapping a film was to do a couple of late night talk show appearances and finding a new casting agent to blow. These days, movie stars are saddled with all kinds of promotional obligations—some even bordering on the insanely dangerous.
Take for instance gorgeous Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat’s recent photo-call to promote the Jennifer Lynch creature-feature Hisss at the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival. The 33-year-old stunner posed with a variety of snakes, including a massively large constrictor, during the shoot, which took place at the Salon Martha Barrierre at the Majestic Hotel.
Hisss stars Sherawat as a half-woman/half-snake creature known in Eastern folklore as the Nagin. After her lover is murdered, she sets out to take bloody vengeance on the people responsible. The film was shot in India and costars renowned Indian actor Irrfan Khan.
To see pictures of Sherawat as the Snakewoman and a trailer of Hisss, go here.
Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in some dude named Adam Bahala Lough’s Splatter Sisters, an ode to old-school slashers.
The film is described as a “sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989.”
Producer David Gordon Green says:
This is a role Marilyn Manson was born to play, and with Evan Rachel Wood bringing dramatic gravity to the ensemble, I have no doubt this will take the horror genre to a new level.
If by new level Green means lots more naked chicks and frivolous violence, I’m all in. But, really, I’m just hoping Manson getsPhantasmagoria:The Visions of Lewis Carroll off the ground.
Twilight star Nikki Reed is headlining director Deon Taylor’s upcoming indie-slasher Chain Letter. The soon-to-be 22-year-old Los Angeles native plays a high school senior stalked by a killer known as the Chain Man.
Check out the trailer:
Chain Letter stars Reed is Jesse Campbell, a popular student whose friends systematically get murdered when they fail to pass along a chain email.
The film costars Betsy Russell (Saw 6), the very cute Cherilyn Wilson (The Roomate), Keith David (Coraline), and Brad Dourif (Halloween 2).
Chain Letter arrives in theaters on Aug. 6. If you read this post, you must tweet it to 20 of your friends now or a great evil will befall you … like losing your cable connection. That’s right. Don’t fuck with my voodoo.
Remember when Rachael Leigh Cook was all that? Well, after a decade of unmemorable indies and TV work, the now 30-year-old stunner is taking a bite out of the horror genre in Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s American film debut Vampire.
Vampire revolves around a bloodsucking schoolteacher who falls in love with suicidal coeds before feeding on them.
The film costars Kristin Kreuk (“Smallville”), Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Amanda Plummer (Mimic: Sentinel), Kevin Zegers (Frozen), Keisha Castle-Hughes (Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith), Trevor Morgan (Mean Creek), and cute Japanese starlet Yu Aoi.
Pretty newcomer Jordan Trovillion will soon be seen opposite Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and John Leguizamo in director Brad Anderson’s (Sessions 9) upcoming last-people-on-earth frightener The Vanishing on Seventh Street.
While it’s unclear what part the 24-year-old actress will play in the thriller, the fact that the film’s website doesn’t list her in its cast credits regretfully suggests that she may only have a short amount of screen time.
That would be a shame considering her ModelMayhem page cites Trovillion as having five years stage combat experience, including broadsword, dual wakizashi, pistols, and hand-to-hand. In other words, kitten got claws.
But, let’s hope for the best. And, if she is in the flick for a nano-second, may it be as the naked girl that wakes up next to the dude who goes on to save the world.
Warner Bros. is finally pulling the trigger on promotional material for its upcoming Jonah Hex film adaptation, starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, and Michael Fassbender.
Just a day ago, we saw a stroke-worthy photo of star Megan Fox in a corset, thigh-high boots, and wielding a hatchet. Now, we have sexy and glossy poster featuring Fox as Hex’s hooker-girlfriend Leila.
The studio also released posters showcasing the film’s vagina-less stars.
IFC has picked up the North American distribution rights to director Josh Reed’s Primal, a brutal and gory survival-frightener set in Australia.
An ecstatic Reed tells Fearnet:
IFC’s a great company with a great eclectic vision that includes a taste for the weird and blood-soaked wonderful. Primal couldn’t be in better hands.
Primal centers on a group of friends that turn savage after skinny-dipping in a remote waterhole during an expedition to find an aboriginal painting. Aussie babes Zoe Tuckwell-Smith and Krew Boylan headline.
Rachael Taylor will face-off against alien invaders with indie-star Olivia Thirlby in Summit Entertainment’s soon-to-shoot sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour.
Directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door), The Darkest Hour follows a group of American students vacationing in Moscow during an alien invasion. Shooting will take place in Moscow over the summer.
Taylor’s casting adds serious stroke-value to Gorak’s film, picking up the slack on Thirlby’s semi-cute-Sonic-Youth-fan-next-door looks.
Taylor’s horror/sci-fi creds include Michael Bay’s Transformers, the J-horror remake Shutter, and former-pornographer-turned-mainstream-director Gregory Dark’s See No Evil.
