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Reel News Tim Ryan |
‘29 Down’ gets
rolling Dec. 6
Discovery Kids' low-budget survivor series "29 Down" begins filming 13 half-hour episodes on Oahu around Dec. 6, wrapping in mid-February. The series will air Saturday mornings on a date TBA. Each $300,000 episode will be shot in about four days, mostly in one location, probably Mokuleia, though the West side remains an option. Filming will be done using handheld, reportedly high-definition, video cameras. The seven characters, four boys and three girls between 16 and 18 years old, are being cast in Los Angeles.The premise sounds familiar: The group has survived an airplane crash on an uncharted island. Producers are still deciding where to set up production offices. At least five of the 13 scripts are written. ...
Speaking of "Lost," co-stars Evangeline Lilly, Maggie Grace, Emilie de Ravin and Yunjin Kim will be featured in an upcoming US Weekly fashion spread, titled "Ladies of Lost," that's being shot today at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The photographer is L.A.-based Alison Dyer.
Several locals are also involved in the photo shoot, including hair stylists Debra Rego and Tania Kahale and makeup artists Bryan Furer and Laura Aguon. ...
Writer/director John Stockwell, visiting the North Shore to polish his script "Chasing the Whale," reports there's still no word from the WB on his "Rocky Point" pilot being picked up as a series, "though network executives really liked what they saw." A decision is expected by January. Filming would begin in March, with pre-production in February. ...
"Baywatch" co-creator Greg Bonann will produce the series "Deep Blue" for the USA network. Bonann calls it "an underwater 'X-Files.'" Hawaii is competing with Australia as a location. ...
Look for Francis Conway, a producer on NBC's canceled "Hawaii," to be the unit production manager for the "Baywatch" movie when shooting begins next year. ...
New Line's corporate comedy "The Retreat," about a thirtysomething hot dog vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field who lands a corporate job, could be partly filmed here. The main character discovers at a company retreat in Hawaii that he's the target of sabotage by a disgruntled employee. ...
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