Dominic Monaghan by Kevin Mazur/ WireImage.com
The blogosphere is buzzing that Dominic Monaghan (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lost) has been added to the increasingly more interesting X-Men Origins: Wolverine cast. He'll play Blackwing, a birdlike mutant who can fly, much like Ben Foster's character in X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Now I'm no comics geek, but the quality of this cast is making it more and more likely that I'll line up to see Wolverine in May 2009, even taking into account my aversion to the blandness that is Hugh Jackman. How about you? Are you going to sink your moviegoing claws (and dollars) into yet another X-Men movie? — Mickey O'Connor
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Dominic Monaghan by Steve Granitz/ WireImage.com
After freaking us out with a "posthumous" appearance on Lost's season premiere, Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Pet, a psychological thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with his high-school crush.... Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down) are girlfriend and boyfriend in Daydream Nation, described by producers as an intellectual teen comedy à la Juno or Election.... Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), and Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) have been cast in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, a remake of a Fritz Lang film noir. Metcalfe plays a journalist trying to expose Douglas' corrupt district attorney. — Mickey O'Connor
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“Are they still alive?”That prophetic question, posed to Hurley by the (presumably) bogus Oceanic representative (Lance Reddick, who seems to come by creepy characters very naturally), sets the tone for the mini-season to come. Eight episodes don’t seem like much, but after tonight’s satisfying, emotionally resonant, fourth-season premiere, I am supremely grateful for them. As expected, we didn’t get many answers. (Heck, who wants them anyway.) But here is what we now know (Or, at least, what we think we know.) The buzzed-about “Oceanic Six” appear to be the survivors who made it off the island. We knew about Jack and Kate going in and now we can add Hurley to the list. Sadly, Hurley’s post-island life has not panned out very well, and our first glimpse of him is as a fugitive taking police on a wild, televised chase – a scene that is witnessed by a vodka and orange juice-swilling Jack. The joy with which Hurley spoke of his imagined, c...
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Julianne Hough by Craig Sjodin/ABC
Is Dancing with the Stars pro Julianne Hough dating Entourage's E, aka Kevin Connolly? "No, no, no," she tells People. They just "talk on the phone a lot." Oh, OK. They're girlfriends.... Tuesday on Today, Everyday Italian host Giada De Laurentiis revealed that she has a bun in the oven. She and hubby Todd Thompson are expecting a girl in April.... Nelson Aspen reports that Lost boy Dominic Monaghan was spied in the arms of a woman who was not girlfriend Evangeline Lilly at an L.A. cantina.... Could they be an odder couple? The New York Post recently caught Mandy Moore and Matthew Perry on a date. — Ben Katner
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Question: This is in response to a letter someone wrote about on-screen chemistry. First you said that Juliet was the best thing to happen to Lost since Season 1. I've got to disagree. While I enjoy Juliet a lot (and I'd put Desmond ahead of her), at the top of the list of great things to happen to Lost is Ben. Michael Emerson is a revelation. As for chemistry, I'd submit another "couple": the Hurley-Charlie-Jin friendship. From some interviews it seems that Dominic Monaghan, Jorge Garcia and Daniel Dae Kim are friends in real life, and this translates to the screen as one of the most authentic friendships on TV. In the midst of all the drama and horror on Lost, it's good to be reminded, as we were in "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead," that real joy is also possible. Seeing Jin, Hurley and Charlie whistling the theme from Bridge on the River Kwai and telling ghost stories around the campfire at the beginning of "Catch-22" was a great gift to the audience. In a media world where most ...
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Question: I am saddened and angered about the way that the Lost producers chose to end Charlie's death story line. They mentioned in interviews that they felt his death would be the best way to end Desmond's premonitions and that the fans would be cheated if Charlie didn't die. What about those of us who feel cheated that they killed Charlie, those of us who hoped that Charlie could overcome his fate? What about the feel of the episodes of "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" and "Par Avion"? Looking back at those episodes makes me feel depressed as opposed to the hope for Charlie that I felt before. What kind of message are they sending? That fate trumps free will? That we are all destined to do something, and we have no say in it? They also mentioned in one of the interviews that they felt that there wasn't more to say or do with Charlie. I disagree wholeheartedly. Charlie is more than just a character who overcame his heroin addiction. They could have shown Charlie being reborn after his ...
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With Lost's enveloping two-hour finale last night came the painful goodbye of Dominic Monaghan's Charlie. For me, this character was a big reason I watched our Oceanic survivors argue, forgive, explore and face danger week after week, so when the rock star pressed his palm against the glass window and cracked a small smile for Desmond as the surrounding water provided a silent farewell, I was a little choked up and realized my Lost experience will definitely change come next season. One of my favorite Charlie moments was the episode in which he drafted a list of his best moments, his "greatest hits," and as a nod to Monaghan's brilliant portrayal of a man who's gained quite a different perspective on life, I've come up with my own greatest hits — not of my life, but of moments from shows that were on the top of my playlist this past season.Brothers & SistersWhen Tommy and Holly threw a party for the opening of their vineyard, Kitty accidentally popped a few painkillers (thi...
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Matthew Fox in Lost by Bob D'Amico/ABC
Now that's what it's like to sit on the edge of your seat for two hours. And no, I'm not talking about the endless end of American Idol, whose final episode Wednesday couldn't have been less concerned with crowning a winner, which came several minutes past the 10 pm point on the East Coast, as something of an afterthought. (Pity anyone who taped it and didn’t record it past the two-hour mark. They’d have missed the coronation.) Guess that’s what happens when there’s no suspense. From the moment Jordin Sparks sang this year’s schmaltzy Idol ballad Tuesday night with a catch in her throat, it was preordained that the 17-year-old with the grown-up pipes would win. (I did my part on the phone Tuesday night to make it happen.) Not bad, though, as variety shows go. And I’ll say this about the Idol finale: Tony Bennett sure knows how to stop a show, pure and simple. Forget idols. He’s a living legend.If you wanted surprise and suspense on Wednesday, the f...
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Dominic Monaghan, Lost
Lost's mind-blowing third-season finale raised a million questions. Among them: Jack and Kate get off the island?! Who's in the casket?! Are flash-forwards the new flashbacks?! Fans will have to wait until next winter — when the fourth season commences — to stop scratching their heads. Until then, let's pause to remember Dominic Monaghan's Charlie Pace, the ex-junkie rock star turned self-sacrificing hero who died at the hands of Eyepatch Dude so that his fellow plane-crash survivors might be rescued. (Though now we're wondering whether that's such a good thing.) Says executive producer Damon Lindelof, "Charlie's death is indicative of a whole new kind of feel surrounding the show. Charlie's death is the beginning of the end, as it were." Here, Monaghan fills us in on
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Per Variety, Pierce Brosnan will play Sam to Meryl Streep's Donna in the big-screen Mamma Mia!.... 20th Century Fox has greenlit M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, a paranoid thriller about a family on the run.... Matthew McConaughey is a Surfer, Dude facing an existential crisis.... Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson will star in a drama based on the Philip Roth novella Dying Animal, about the ramifications of a student's torrid affair with her professor.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Rachel McAdams is one of three injured soliders back home from Iraq in The Return.... Lost's Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman are set to star in I Sell the Dead, about 18th-century corpse traders. That's right — another 18th-century corpse-trading film.
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