By Gregg Goldstein
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Just in time for the next depression, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez will star in a horror thriller offering one potential solution to our economic problems.
Set in 2100, “Fortuna” envisions an Earth where a collapsed economy and climate crises have eliminated the middle class, leaving a few very wealthy and the teeming masses in severe poverty. To give hope and avoid revolt, the elite create Fortuna, a mysterious game where one in a thousand wins a big payday and joins the upper classes. But their hidden goal to “reduce poverty” by 30% over 50 years comes with a deadly price tag.
Monaghan, Rodriguez and “Fortuna” writer-director Barthelemy Grossmann will play desperate men who play the game in a nearby tower, despite apprehensions that none of its contestants are ever seen again. The privately financed film begins a six-week shoot in Bulgaria next month.
Monaghan is best known for his roles in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and ABC’s “Lost.” Former “Six Feet Under” star Rodriguez will next be seen in the December 12 release “Nothing Like the Holidays.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE49726K20081008
I’m reading T.D. Jakes’ “Repositioning Yourself” and surprise, LOST is mentioned in the beginning of Chapter 3. Since I’m not sure about copyright infringement here, I’m not going to copy the paragraphs from the book. Funny how our show pops up in the most unexpected places! 
Evangeline Lilly has come to hate being seen as a bikini babe so much that she won’t set foot on a beach. The 29-year-old Canadian actress says her experience as a sexy castaway on hit show Lost and being constantly targeted by photographers near her Hawaii home means she’s now had to give up her love of the sun, sea and surf. “I’ve had to change my whole life,” says Lilly of the unwanted attention she gets. “For the last two years in Hawaii I won’t be caught dead on the beach. I can’t go because I’m tired of seeing myself in a bikini on the cover of a tabloid magazine and being that woman. I’m not that woman. If I was that woman then great I’d go down to the beach every day and would wear the cutest bikini anyone has ever seen. But in order to kind of represent myself in the public eye, I’ve stopped going to the beach.”
http://www.absolutenow.com/news/20080929.html
‘Lost’ Executive Producer, Carlton Cuse
Mr. Cuse’s career traverses a span of over twenty years as writer on Crime Story; creator, writer and producer of The Adventures of Brisco County and Nash Bridges, and most recently, writer and executive producer on the phenomenon that is known as Lost.
Mr. Cuse’s abilities are certainly not ‘lost’ on us, as he is indeed intrepid enough to don his life jacket and join us on this very special journey, via the TV Time Machine!
http://www.tvtimemachine.com/radio_show_lost.htm
