Secrets of Lost #8

Damon en Carlton naar Rome

ROME -- "Lost" stewards Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will be feted by the Eternal City's expanding Rome Fiction Fest dedicated to international TV skeins.

The co-creators and executive producers of ABC's hit series will receive the shindig's top nod in recognition of "Lost" as "a milestone in global TV" and "a fundamental reference point for serial production in the upcoming decades," the event's organizers said.

Now in its third edition, the July 6-11 fest for TV fare from Hollywood and Europe aims to become a driver for the burgeoning Italian TV industry. Local content currently runs on pubcaster RAI, Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset group of channels, and Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia paybox, but Italo producers aspire to international sales. That is the purpose of the event's embryonic mart, which makes its debut this year.

Artistic director Steve Della Casa said he is planning to sharpen the fest's focus by slimming down the lineup and "giving more prominence to premieres," many of which will hail from the majors.

A retro titled Giallo in Black and White will pay tribute to the golden age of Italian TV thrillers, including several rarely seen Dario Argento telepics produced by RAI.

As previously announced, "CSI:NY" star Hill Harper has been enlisted by the Rome Fiction Fest for jury duty.

Della Casa also said that the fest, a sister event of the Rome Film Festival, has secured its budget despite the recession by becoming the cornerstone of the recently unveiled Fondazione Lazio, the region's new foundation set up to drive the Italo film and TV industries, two-thirds of which are based in the area.

Bron: Variety

Lost wint Peabody Award

Lost (ABC)
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Breezily mixing metaphysics, quantum physics, romance and cliffhanger action, the genre-bending series about a group of air-crash survivors on a mysterious island has rewritten the rules of television fiction.

Bron: Peabody

Daniel Dae Kim viert opening eigen restaurant

Daniel Dae Kim vierde de opening van zijn eigen restaurant met verschillende Lost cast members.

Bruce Springsteen heeft meegeholpen aan Lost

Many great partnerships are forged in unusual places: Would we have airplanes today if not for Orville and Wilbur Wright’s bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio? Would Microsoft exist if Bill Gates and Paul Allen hadn’t met in a prep-school computer club? And would we be watching “Lost,” and looking ahead to the summer reboot of “Star Trek,” if its creators hadn’t first encountered each other at a fateful Bruce Springsteen concert?

In this audio excerpt from a longer conversation with the brain trust behind “Star Trek” (which we’ll have finished wading through and written up by next month), Damon Lindelof, a creator and executive producer of “Lost” and a producer of “Star Trek,” recalls how he first encountered J.J. Abrams, his “Lost” co-creator and “Star Trek” director, with a little help from the Boss.

Bron: NY Times