Syfy has announced that Jack Bender, who directed many episodes of Lost (and exec produced) as well as the pilot for Alphas and most recently several episodes of Alcatraz has been hired to direct the pilot for Syfy‘s upcoming pilot Rewind, which was ordered just last month. Rewind is a joint production of BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions, who also produce Alphas.

Because this has been bugging you ever since Lost ended, creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse revealed a, ummm…, “deleted” scene from early on that foreshadows (or is that spoils?) thinks to come…and that apparently the Man in Black isn’t fond of his name…

Mike Fleming over at Deadline is reporting that Disney has given screenwriter and Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof a seven-figure paycheck to work on a script, about which the only things we know are that it is a large-scale SF picture, and that it has a working title of 1952, but the latter could mean anything. Lindelof is in high demand: Cowboys and Aliens is getting tons of great press and doesn’t even open for more than a month, he rescued the Ridley Scott Alien prequel plot and made it a standalone film, and he’s expected to run full bore for the Star Trek sequel before working full time on this project.

But this isn’t just a movie…they’ve used the buzzword “multiplatform”. So expect games and web tie-ins at least.

The list of nominees for the 37th Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Awards (better known by the much shorter Saturn Awards) has been released. Leading the film categories is Inception, with 9 nominations, followed by Let Me In and Tron: Legacy, each with 7. On the TV side, The Walking Dead takes 6 nominations, with Fringe and Lost each taking 5.

See the whole list below – the awards will be handed out in June.
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Wondering where all that food came from that got air-dropped on the island in Lost? Here is a short clip from the epilogue included in the upcoming Blu-ray and DVD release of the final season:

Michael Emerson (Ben) had some time back on an episode of Attack Of The Show mentioned that there was an 11 minute “epilogue” of sorts that covers what happened to Ben and Hurley after they were left on the island “in charge”. Now it appears that that epilogue will be released on the Lost: The Complete Collection Blu-ray and DVD releases (it is not know if it will be in the Season 6 Blu-ray and DVD release). The epilogue is entitled, “The New Man In Charge”.

So the shock should be over now. No surprise that the finale of Lost had the highest ratings for the night and was the highest rated episode in two years – but it may not have been as high as some expected. Perhaps some of the thunder was lost by the finale of Celebrity Apprentice given that Brett Michaels’ medical problems have been big news. But anyways, there is much to talk about, and I’ll start off some discussion points below. Feel free to chime in. But BEWARE – there are spoilers below, so if you haven’t watched yet, what are you waiting for?!? Come back later…
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Hopefully our calendar feature reminded you, but the finale of Lost is on at 9pm ET tonight – and I understand Europe is getting it around 5:00am BST, so you better get up real early…

The finale for Lost on May 23rd was already clocking in at two hours, but ABC has now added another 30 minutes after the episode completed post-production. The show will now run from 9:00-11:30pm ET, and push back local news and the “Aloha to Lost” Jimmy Kimmel special.

We may get all our current questions answered on Lost with the finale, but apparently we’re going to be left with at least one more question – “What did they mean by this?” Sounds like we may get one of these philosophical discussion endings…