SYDNEY ladies, get ready to swoon soon. Viggo Mortensen – the Hollywood hottie who had all the female Lord of the Rings fans wishing they could take over from Liv Tyler as his love interest – is in town next month. The guy with the unusual name arrives February 26, forcing a re-shuffle on the opening of his latest flick, A History of Violence. The film – in which a bloody self-defence incident involving a mild-mannered man comes back to haunt him – was to have opened nationally on February 23, but Mortensen’s confirmed visit has pushed it back to a March release. [More]
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Dominic Monaghan‘s Golden Globe winning show ‘Lost’ is on tonight at 9PM EST on ABC. TORN’s chatroom now has a special ‘Lost’ screening room, login to #lost at 9PM and watch with fans from around the country! [ABC.com] [TORN Chat]
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 25) — Dominic Monaghan plays heroin-addicted rock star Charlie on ABC’s hit series Lost. And, cozied up on the back patio of a Melrose coffee house, the actor reveals his own rock-star side. While on leave from the Oahu set, Monaghan, 29, is here to talk about tonight’s hallucination-filled episode (9 ET/PT), which flashes back to Charlie’s past and hurls him into an uncertain future. But he also talks about love (with co-star Evangeline Lilly), drugs (Charlie’s habits and his own) and rock ‘n’ roll (well, mostly John Lennon). [More]
There’s nothing like a tropical island filled with sun, sand, a doomsday hatch and some homicidal Others to bring two people closer together. The London Mirror claims “Lost” lovebirds Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly, who have been quietly dating for about a year, are engaged. According to the paper, the proposal took place last week in Hawaii, where the ABC smash is filmed, with the erstwhile Hobbit going the traditional route by getting down on one knee to slip a cornea-searing bauble on the up-and-coming starlet’s finger (feel free to insert the inevitable “Lord of the Diamond Ring” joke here). [More]
Like a lot of stylishly persuasive thrillers, Flightplan is more fun to watch than it is to think about. There’s much to admire in this hermetically sealed mystery, in which a propulsion engineer and grieving widow (Jodie Foster) takes her 6-year-old daughter (and a coffin containing her husband’s body) on a transatlantic flight aboard a brand-new jumbo jet she helped design, and faces a mother’s worst nightmare when her daughter (Marlene Lawston) goes missing. But how can that be? Is she delusional? Are the flight crew, the captain (Sean Bean) and a seemingly sympathetic sky marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) playing out some kind of conspiratorial abduction? [More]
Sean Astin was a guest on ‘The View’ today (Jen 23rd). The short interview mentioned his role on 24, and the very “Hollywood” type meeting that lead to his being cast. Take a look! (25.6MB MOV) [More]