Emilie de Ravin, Lost
Tonight on ABC's Lost (9 pm/ET), a crisis involving baby Aaron leads Claire to delve into the unsolved mystery of exactly what happened during her Season 1 kidnapping at the hands of ghoulish Ethan Rom (aka the Other man). TVGuide.com spoke to Aussie beauty Emilie de Ravin about Claire's new adventure, her "hard-to-handle" Lost leading man and her frighteningly fun new role.
TVGuide.com: I have to wonder, having often flitted between Australia and Los Angeles yourself, was it eerie to do a show about a doomed Oz-L.A. flight?Emilie de Ravin: Yeah, kinda! I never really thought about it too much, though. I think it was more odd that Claire was the only Australian survivor. [Laughs]
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Question: Is someone making a new remake of The Blob, or am I going insane? If so, do you have any plot details? I hope they cast Shawnee Smith in the lead again — she was awesome in the '88 version.Answer: Superproducer Scott Rudin is indeed developing another remake of the 1950s sci-fi/teen picture The Blob for Paramount Pictures. The screenwriters include House of Wax remake scripters Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes, and Joe Ballarini, who's sold several high-profile but unproduced scripts. The Blob deal was struck immediately after Revolution Studios secured the rights to remake
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Maggie Grace on Lost
Nearly three weeks after her tragic death, many fans of ABC's Lost (Wednesdays at 9 pm/ET) still mourn Shannon Rutherford. Sure, Shannon (played by Maggie Grace) was spoiled, emotionally stunted and preoccupied with parading around in bikinis and giving herself pedicures. And yes, she showed questionable judgment when she indulged in an icky precrash hookup with ill-fated stepbrother Boone (Ian Somerhalder). But boy, the girl sure knew how to make an exit.
In Lost's Nov. 9 episode, just as viewers started to get a little insight into what made the rich bitch tick — her daddy died, leaving her with an evil stepmom and (the horror!) no trust fund — she was killed by tri
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Video-game-turned-movie Doom topped a quiet weekend at the box office. (And I mean quiet. Receipts were down 27 percent compared to 2004.) The sci-fi flick, starring The Rock, grossed a so-so $15.4 million. Horse-racing family film Dreamer opened in second with $9.3 million, followed by Wallace & Gromit (No. 3 with $8.7 million), The Fog (No. 4 with $7.3 million) and Charlize Theron's Norma Rae update, North Country (No. 5 with $6.5 million).
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Hazed and confuzed: Maggie Grace
Question: Is the new movie The Fog a remake of an old black-and-white film?
Answer: The Fog (2005) is a remake, but the original is John Carpenter's 1980 The Fog, which is most definitely in color: The neon pea-green fog is vividly etched in the memories of all of us who traipsed out to theaters to see it, hoping for another Halloween (1978). Carpenter himself was involved with the remake, which defied all expectations of taking the No. 1 box-office slot on its opening weekend, but it's still a pretty soggy excuse for a horror film.
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A remake of The Fog smoked the box-office competition over the weekend, but only barely: Minus Adrienne Barbeau, the thriller earned just $12.2 million, narrowly defeating last week's top pic, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which scared up an additional $11.7 million. Rounding out the Top 5 are Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown in third place with $11 million; Flightplan in fourth with $6.5 million and In Her Shoes in fifth with $6.1 million.
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Smallville
OK, last week's tease was a dead giveaway as to what was going to happen this week: Clark would turn back into SuperClark, mainly because we saw him "die." As if. So I decided to watch anyway because: 1) I write the Smallville Watercooler. And 2) I'm on an unending quest to spot James Marsters. But for the second week in a row, he's a no-show. (So cold, Smallville. So cold.) What we did get was some Lana and Clark lookin' all googly-eyed-in-love with each other. Later, a cybergeek friend of Chloe's tries to blow up Smallville because he's sick and tired of all the freak-of-the-weeks running around town. Apparently he tries to use one of the 15 or so nuclear missiles located in Smallville, Kan. And how did we find out about those little buggers? Because Jonathan told us, in a clumsy bit of exposition with Detective Frau Far
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Question: I've heard there's going to be a remake of The Fog. Do you have any news you can share? I remember it as one of the most frightening movies I ever saw.
Answer: The remake of John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), helmed by Stigmata (1999) director Rupert Wainwright, has already wrapped and is due for release by Sony Pictures in October 2005, just in time for Halloween. The cast includes Selma Blair, Maggie Grace of TV's Lost and Tom Welling, who plays Clark Kent on the series Smallville. The story, which involves a small
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