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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