Several British entertainment-related websites were abuzz today (Monday) over a dubious report that three Hollywood studios are attempting to secure the rights to make a theatrical movie based on the ABC-TV hit Lost. The reports said that the movie project was being launched primarily to avert a crisis over pay involving the TV cast, who, the reports said, objected to earning only a fifth of what their counterparts on Desperate Housewives do. Undermining the stories is the fact that Lost is owned by Disney's Touchstone TV, and that its movie studio would likely make any film version of the series; that Lost's cast is at least three times the size of Housewives'; that the producers must incur the added cost of housing them in Hawaii, and that Lost has not drawn audiences that are as large as Housewives'.