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Verdict on ‘Lost’
due next weekProducers of ABC's "Lost" pilot episode, which filmed here last month, will learn next week whether the series has been green lit to start filming this summer. One good sign, perhaps, is that its production office remains up and running at the Ilikai Hotel. In the meantime, the L-1011 airplane wreckage used as the show's main set at a Mokuleia beach and in Heeia has been removed and stored.
The episode was the most expensive in the network's history, with budget estimates as low as $10 million and as high as $14 million ...
First day filming of Fox Television's hotel drama series "North Shore" last Thursday went smoothly at its four Haleiwa locations. The massive hotel lobby set that's being built 24-7 over the last few weeks at the Hawaii Film Studio is 90 percent complete. It will be used for the first time May 10 with a special pre-filming ceremony. At a cost of $850,000, the set is the largest and most expensive ever built here.
Patrick Norris, director of the show's second episode, is already here prepping ...
Imagine Entertainment president Brian Grazer may be considering the postponement of filming the "Magnum, P.I." movie here this summer until after Hawaii's summer crush of TV productions is pau. Rumors in Hollywood are that Tom Selleck will have a substantial cameo in the new movie. Selleck, however, told the Star-Bulletin that he will not appear in the movie ...
Eric Balfour, co-star of the NBC pilot episode "Hawaii," which also is awaiting the network's decision over whether it becomes a series, will star in the independent drug drama "RX Sin Receta." Shooting started Monday in New Mexico. If "Hawaii" becomes a series, Balfour should be finished with the film in time to start work on the police drama this summer ...
Interested in learning to become a production assistant? You can learn from some of the most experienced production members in Hawaii -- Irish Barber with Lee Kaneakua and Matt Locey -- in a one-day workshop called "Key Roles of the Production Assistant" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 22, at the Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall, on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus. Cost is $75. For information, go online to www.outreach.hawaii. edu/pn. To register, call 956-8400 ...
Ko Olina Resort and Marina will be the home of next year's Hawaii Student Film Festival. The JW Marriott's Ihilani Resort & Spa will be the venue for the three-day festival in April 2005.
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