Category Archives: Behind the scenes / elsewhere

Carlton Cuse doing pilot for Amazon

Posted on November 12, 2014 | Leave a comment

Damon Lindelof Carlton Cuse and a Polar Bear painting on velvet

Carlton Cuse, with Damon Lindelof and a polar bear in 2009

Amazon, which hopes to increase its audience for original series, will be debuting seven new pilots early in 2015. One will be co-written by LOST’s own Carlton Cuse.

Called “Point of Honor,” the pilot is set in Virginia at the start of the Civil War and focuses on a family that makes the unusual decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves.

Carlton will be a co-writer along with Randall Wallace, and a co-producer along with Barry Jossen. Wallace will direct.

Viewers votes will help determine which shows will live on after their pilots and which will die an early death. The shows will be free to subscribers of Amazon Prime.

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New J.J. Abrams show “Believe” premiering Monday, March 10, 2014

Posted on March 4, 2014 | 1 comment

Believe screenshot from promo

There are some heavyweights behind the scenes of Believe. J.J. Abrams is one of the show’s executive producers. Alfonso Cuaron, who just won the Oscar for Best Director for the movie Gravity, is a co-creator (along with Mark Friedman, who has since left the show).

The premiere is on Monday, March 10, at 10 p.m. The second episode will be on Sunday, March 16, at 9 p.m., which will be the Believe‘s regular timeslot.

Here’s a promo with some behind-the-scenes footage, including comments from Abrams and Cuaron:

And here’s a promo that lays out the show’s premise:

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LOST 10th Anniversay Reunion

Posted on March 4, 2014 | Leave a comment

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PaleyFest in Los Angeles will be hosting a cast reunion for the 10th Anniversary of LOST on Sunday, March 16, 2014. (That’s the 10th anniversary from the year the show started — it hasn’t been that long since it finished — though it has been almost four years, which is hard to believe — time flies.)

Scheduled to appear: Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Yunjin Kim (Sun), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Ian Somerhalder (Boone), Nestor Carbonell (Alpert), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Malcolm David Kelley (Waaaaaaaaaalt), executive producer Carlton Cuse, and more.

Carlton talked about the show in an interview posted yesterday on Vulture. He’s still defensive about fan criticism of the ending. “We did the version that we wanted to,” he said. “Damon and I still stand by it. There was no answering-a-million-questions version of the end that wouldn’t have been didactic and awful.”

Whatever your opinion of the ending, the reunion should be an exciting event. For those of us unable to make it to L.A., there were hopefully be video posted on YouTube after the event is over.

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Henry Ian Cusick will be answering questions on Reddit on Thursday

Posted on August 5, 2013 | Leave a comment

Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond in Episode 3x03 "Further Instructions"

Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond in Episode 3×03 “Further Instructions”

Cusick, who played Desmond on LOST, will be holding court in Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section on Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 4 pm ET: Hi brothas and sistahs this is Henry Ian Cusick

Update: The discussion took place here –> I am Henry Ian Cusick, I used to be Desmond on LOST AMA!

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Fans STILL arguing about LOST’s ending

Posted on February 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

A couple of days ago, Damon Lindelof tweeted “It all happened. Dogs are great.” in response to someone who asked “yo can i get an explanation to the end of lost?”

Although this is just a flip answer that doesn’t say anything (we’ve known since the night the finale aired that all the Island stuff really did happen), the tweet gave fans another chance to express some of their still pent-up angst or delight about LOST’s final episode, which will probably go down in history as the most controversial ending to a television series ever. A discussion of Damon’s tweet on the Huffington Post has 588 comments so far, with probably many more to come.

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Matthew Fox gets lucky, for the most part

Posted on June 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

Jack, drunk and disheveled, in LOST 3x22 "Through the Looking Glass"

A lot has happened in Matthew Fox’s life in the last month.

Fox got very, very lucky. First, the assault case — filed against him by a female bus driver who said Fox repeatedly punched her when she wouldn’t let him on her private party bus — was dropped. According to EW.com, the bus driver’s lawyer said his client “‘intentionally failed and refused to provide full and timely cooperation and information,’ and … failed to honor an agreement to pay his out-of-pocket expenses.”

Fox got lucky again when he found out he won’t have to serve any jail time for his DUI arrest, though he will probably have to go to alcohol rehab.

Fox’s luck ran out a bit when fellow LOST cast mate Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) tweeted that Fox “beats women.not isolated incidents.often.” Fox said he hadn’t spoken to Monaghan in years and found the comments “baffling.”

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Matthew Fox is in trouble again

Posted on May 8, 2012 | 2 comments

Jack in a bar in "Exodus," episode 1x23

According to various news sources, including TMZ, Matthew Fox was arrested in Oregon in the wee hours of the morning on Friday (May 4, 2012) for DUI. He was released later that day. He has go to court in June.