Isle film fest
invites jurors
Lucy Liu,
Julie Delpy and "Hitch" producer
Teddy Zee have been invited to be jurors for the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival's 25th anniversary, Oct. 20 to 30. Director
Zhang Yimou and iconic Japanese action star
Sonny Chiba will receive the festival's first lifetime achievement awards. Screenings booked so far: "The Matador" with
Pierce Brosnan; "The Buried Forest, The Hidden Blade," "Karaoke Terror" from Japan, "Shanghai Story" from China; and, from South Korea, "A Bittersweet Life."
University of Hawaii Academy for Creative Media student Renato Fontaine's "Promise of Paradise" is the first ACM film accepted for this year's fest, which again features an entire program of Academy student films ...
New Line's "Snakes on a Plane" (retitled from "Flight 121"), starring Samuel L. Jackson, filmed Friday and Saturday off West Oahu with water scenes coordinated by Brian Keaulana. The production office was at the Royal Hawaiian ...
"Lost" filmed Saturday at Chaminade University ...
A UK production is in Honolulu filming part of a documentary on Mark David Chapman, the former Hawaii resident who murdered John Lennon in New York City 25 years ago. The production is working out of Scott Rogers' Academy of Film & Television studio. Connie Flores' Picture Players production company is also involved ...
The cast of the new "Prison Break" series on Fox includes Punahou graduate Sarah Wayne Callies, daughter of David Callies of the UH School of Law and English professor Val Wayne ...
More from the recent "Lost" DVD release party: New cast member Michelle Rodriguez, who reprises her role as Ana-Lucia, turns the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle into "a romantic trapezoid," says executive producer Damon Lindelof. Rodriguez returns to the cast in episode three, and gets a backstory in the following episode.
In other season two news, survivors of the raft explosion are separated from the main group for the first third of the season and -- gasp! -- two series regulars will be gone by season's end ...
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