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get ‘Oahu’ roleActor and Kauai resident Michael Ontkean, who was most memorable as Sheriff Harry Truman in the cult TV series "Twin Peaks," has been cast in a possible reoccurring role in Fox's drama pilot "Oahu." He plays the father of the lead character, Danny. Shooting started Feb. 23, and is scheduled to go for 12 days.
Hawaii casting director Anna Fishburn auditioned Ontkean at the request of Fox execs in Los Angeles. (Eight of the 11 local actors cast by Fishburn got speaking parts.) Rob Estes ("Melrose Place") has been cast to play Vincent Boyd, managing partner of an island hotel. Actress Navi Rawat portrays the concierge at the hotel set at the Turtle Bay Resort. The 20th Century Fox TV drama revolves around the employees and guests at a luxury inn.
Fox is also considering an animated family comedy set in Hawaii tentatively title "Blue Aloha," produced by Carsey-Werner-Mandabach ...
ABC begins shooting on Oahu their castaway television pilot "Lost" on Mar. 22 for 15 days. The drama follows a group of people stuck on a Pacific island and are forced to build a new society after surviving a plane crash. The network also is "considering" a week of filming its "Extreme Makeover" reality show on the Big Island, beginning Apr. 3 ...
NBC's "Hawaii" cop pilot starts filming next Wednesday for 14 days. Some locations will include Kualoa Ranch, a South Shore spot for a car chase, Bishop Museum, downtown Honolulu (where the show's police station has been built), Chinatown, and maybe the North Shore. Margaret Doversola is the local casting director ...
Filming of the John Stockwell-Lizzie Weiss Warner Bros.' TV drama "Rocky Point" has been postponed to June ...
Blaise Noto, who "retired" as head of publicity of a major Hollywood studio more than a year ago, then moved to Maui, was in charge of most of the national and regional publicity for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." Noto returns home Mar. 15 after two-and-a-half months in L.A. that also included visiting several studios to drum up Hawaii business, including publicity tie-ins with films currently in production or getting future projects to film here.
Noto said there is "interest from a number of studios." He also told studio execs the importance of Hawaii's filmgoers, encouraging them to increase motion picture publicity here that would include media review screenings and interviews with their films' actors ...
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