‘Lost’: Damon Lindelof Says He Has “Profound Regrets” In Light Of Allegations Of Racism & Sexism During Production

A tight-knit community is devastated after a 14-year-old boy died at school.

Naman Ramachandran India’s Rajshri Deshpande, star of Rotterdam winner “Sexy Durga” and hit Netflix series “Trial by Fire,” headlines “Privacy,” the first teaser for which has been unveiled. The film will have its world premiere at Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). “Privacy” is a voyeuristic social thriller set in and around the slums of Mumbai. It follows Roopali (Deshpande), who works at the Mumbai surveillance command and control center as an operator. While being ambitious, she constantly fights her own guilt and resists her dark past. Things start to get complicated when Roopali ignores protocol and begins to investigate a robbery and murder that takes place on her watch. The film takes the neo-noir approach to explore themes of mental health, voyeurism and access to information.

A thug who punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and hit his own baby has walked free from court with an order to work on his drinking problem. Mark Bond drunkenly attacked his expectant partner before assaulting her again shortly after she gave birth.

Page-turning pupils at a Lanarkshire school designed their own colourful characters for a book that was launched in a Glasgow store.

Youth, a K-drama series set in the BTS Universe, has been released.South Korean production company Chorokbaem Media has released the first trailer for its upcoming K-drama series Youth, which was produced in collaboration with BTS’ label HYBE Corporation.The series is set in the BTS Universe, which was first introduced in the boyband’s music videos for their 2015 ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ albums, and further developed in several later music videos and the 2016 Naver webtoon series Save Me.Youth revolves around a group of seven friends tied together by fate, each with their own secrets and struggles. The characters’ personalities are loosely based upon the members of BTS and their friendship, though their backgrounds and the plot of the series are fictional.The new trailer showcases the friendship between the seven, who live in a cramped apartment, but are content together.

It’s Wednesday, and your daily forecast can help you embrace the day with a spring in your step - so, what lies in store for you? There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more. These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years. From Aries through to Pisces, here's what today could bring for your horoscope - and what you can do to be prepared.

A Lanarkshire joiner has been jailed for 16 months for sexual and physical assaults on a woman.

SEVENTEEN are set to re-release several of their older out-of-print albums later this month.SEVENTEEN’s agency Pledis Entertainment, a subsidiary of entertainment giant HYBE, has announced that eight of the boyband’s older albums, originally released from 2015 to 2018 are set to be re-released later this month.The albums are: 2015’s ’17 Carat’ and ‘Boys Be’, 2016’s ‘First ‘Love & Letter”, ‘Love & Letter Repackaged Album’ and ‘Going Seventeen’, 2017’s ‘Al1’ and ‘Teen, Age’, and 2018’s ‘Director’s Cut’. The re-releases also includes the various versions of each album, and also look to include the original photobooks, photocards and more.Pre-orders for the upcoming re-releases will begin today (June 7) at 5pm KST via the Weverse app.

The King arrived in Romania last week for a private visit and a break from official engagements almost a month after his Coronation took place.The monarch is regular visitor to the country and is incredibly popular with the locals. As well as enjoying a strong relationship, he has a number of unique properties in the country’s Transylvanian region. His Majesty on holiday alone as Queen Camilla is thought to be enjoying some downtime at her home in Wiltshire.

Ben Affleck is getting ready for a meeting.

Rumer Willis is opening up about her own unique experience with giving birth to her baby girl, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis.The 34-year-old actress recently sat down for a lengthy interview with the podcast, and recalled her journey giving birth at home with help from her doula back on April 18.Surrounded by her boyfriend, Derek Thomas, her mom, Demi Moore, and her sisters — Tallulah and Scout Willis — Rumer explained that everything was going according to the birthing plan, but labor came on hard and fast, and she «dilated from two to eight inches in about an hour.»This meant she quickly had to move into a bathtub to begin pushing, but her doula realized that her water was still intact.«She was checking me and felt my water bag bulging, but still not popping, which was wild,» Rumer recalled. «So, I was like, 'Well, should we break it?' She goes, 'Well, can.' I'm like, 'What?!' I was like, 'Are you serious?'»Serious indeed, Rumer decided to take matters into her own hands. «I reached my finger up there, and I'm feeling and it was crazy,» she shared.

Morgan Wallen is sharing an update with his fans.

Kaley Cuoco is addressing the possibility of having more kids.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The Kardashians have never been afraid to throw shade (or throw punches) at each other, but Kim Kardashian is taking her shirt-talking to a whole new level with a fashionable dig at sister Kendall Jenner. Kardashian has been seen sporting a “Kendall’s Starting Five” T-shirt, which pokes fun at Jenner and her NBA exes. Kardashian was pictured in the fan-made shirt in a trailer for season three of The Kardashians’ reality show, and recently wore it in a TikTok video with daughter North West. Now, fans can get their hands on the viral T-shirt themselves. The “Kendall Starting Five” shirt is currently available on a number of sites online, including Teepublic. The T-shirt features an image of Jenner surrounded by her five basketball player ex-boyfriends: Blake Griffin, Ben Simmons, Jordan Clarkson, Kyle Kuzma and most recently, Devin Booker.

After his quotes about writing for Lost appeared in a Vanity Fair book excerpt Tuesday, veteran scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach doubled down via social media by sharing more of his experience on the ABC drama.

Damon Lindelof is owning up to his past failures as the showrunner and co-creator the mega popular ABC series, Lost.

Damon Lindelof is admitting his failings. In the upcoming book, author Maureen Ryan speaks to many people who worked on  and described the show as having «dark and complicated» behind-the-scenes drama, which was, at times, «grueling and scarring» and «nakedly hostile.»In response to the accusations leveled against the series, Lindelof, who co-created the show, admitted that he «failed» during its run from 2004 to 2010.«My level of fundamental inexperience as a manager and a boss, my role as someone who was supposed to model a climate of creative danger and risk-taking but provide safety and comfort inside of the creative process — I failed in that endeavor,» Lindelof told Ryan in 2021, according to an excerpt of the book, which was published by .In a follow-up conversation the next year, Lindelof told Ryan, «The way that I conduct myself and the way that I treat other humans who I am responsible for and a manager of is a by-product of all the mistakes that were made.… I have significantly evolved and grown, and it shouldn't have had to come at the cost and the trauma of people that I hurt on .»Lindelof later claimed that he was «largely oblivious to the adverse impacts that I was having on others in that writers' room during the entire time that the show was happening.»«It's not for me to say what kind of person I am,» he said later.

star Harold Perrineau is speaking out.In a new excerpt from the upcoming book, , which chronicles the alleged toxic and hostile work environment behind the scenes of ABC's hit TV show, author Maureen Ryan spoke to writers and cast members across all six seasons, including Perrineau, who detailed their experiences. A writer also alleged that co-creator/co-showrunner Damon Lindelof and co-showrunner Carlton Cuse were often not receptive to concerns that storylines were focusing primarily on the «hero characters,» who were white.Perrineau joined the supernatural series in 2004 as Michael after starring in  the movies and.

Vanity Fair has published an excerpt from a new book examining Hollywood’s corrosive culture rips the lid off “Lost”, revealing a shocking pattern of toxic behaviour behind the scenes of the hit series.

A new book by Maureen Ryan that seeks to expose “patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood” takes aim at the writers room of Lost, where executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are accused of maintaining a culture of toxicity on the hit ABC drama.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Lost” showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse confront several accusations of racism, toxicity and more that allegedly occurred during the making of the ABC hit series in Maureen Ryan’s new book, “Burn It Down,” an excerpt of which has been published on Vanity Fair’s website. In the excerpt, Lindelof admits that he “failed” in regards to providing “safety and comfort” in the show’s writers’ room. Several writers and actors spoke to Ryan about the toxic work environment on “Lost,” which ran for six seasons on ABC from 2004 to 2010. Harold Perrineau, who starred as Michael Dawson in the first two seasons of “Lost,” spoke bluntly about his white co-stars getting the show’s major storylines. As he put it, “It became pretty clear that I was the Black guy. Daniel [Dae Kim] was the Asian guy. And then you had Jack and Kate and Sawyer.”