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‘Lost’ crews
prepare studio

The technical crew of "Lost" is busy building at the Hawaii Film studio soundstage what the island's survivors will find at the bottom of the mysterious hatch. Season two's opening episode is tentatively titled "Post Explosion." Filming is slated to begin July 28. The series picks up where the season finale "Exodus" ended, with the survivors attempting to blow open the hatch.

An event promoting the release of the DVD box set of season one is scheduled for Aug. 16 at the Turtle Bay Resort and will include cast and crew ...

The DVD of the two-part pilot episode of "Lost" goes on sale Sept. 6, with bonus material including an extensive making-of featurette, original casting tapes, and a documentary on actor Matthew Fox. An ABC/Touchstone-sanctioned book is also well under way.

Some of the cast and execs will attend Comic-Con 2005 in San Diego this weekend: Josh Holloway, Maggie Grace, Harold Perrineau, Damon Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Carlton Cuse and Javier Grillo-Marxuach.

Grace has wrapped in Canada filming "The Fog," a horror film with Selma Blair and "Smallville" 's Tom Welling ...

New Line's "Pacific Air 121" (aka "Snakes on a Plane"), the action-horror thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, may shoot a couple of days in Honolulu next month. The movie's premise is that a FBI agent (Jackson) wants to bring a ruthless mob boss to justice. He has to take a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles accompanying a key witness. The mob boss, however, has planted hundreds of deadly snakes inside the plane ...

Local costumer-designer Cathie Valdovino, Morgan Freeman's costumer on "Batman Returns," met Freeman when "The Big Bounce" filmed here. She's also served as Freeman's costumer in the to-be-released films "Lucky Number Slevin," "An Unfinished Life" and "Edison" ...

Filming begins next month on Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," about the 1945 campaign to secure the island of Iwo Jima. Eastwood considered filming in Hawaii because he needed black sand beaches for battle scenes. Big Island and Molokai locations were considered, but Eastwood instead selected the volcanic Iceland ...