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True Blood season 3 return date announced
>> Monday, March 15, 2010
Read about it here.
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True Blood Casting Notice - Calling Claudine!
>> Sunday, March 14, 2010
Sookie book fans will be pleased to see the below casting call for Claudine. It's interesting to note that Claudine's role is listed as "possible recurring" when she was such a major character in the books. (You can find a complete character description of Claudine on the The Southern Vampire Mysteries' Wikipedia page.)
Who would make a great Claudine? Maybe Liv Tyler, Amanda Seyfried or Michelle Pfeiffer? One of my favorite True Blood fan sites, Loving True Blood in Dallas, wrote last year about the possibility of Pfeiffer joining the cast as Queen Sophie-Anne. That obviously didn't pan out, but wouldn't it great if they found another great role for Pfeiffer in the show? Who do you think should play Claudine? Submit your comments below!
Click here to view the casting call
'Twilight' Saga's Final Book 'Breaking Dawn' Will Be Made Into 2 Back-To-Back Movies
>> Thursday, February 11, 2010
EXCLUSIVE: 'Twilight' Saga's Final Book 'Breaking Dawn' Will Be Made Into 2 Back-To-Back Movies
By Nikki Finke | Category: Uncategorized | Thursday February 11, 2010 @ 2:22pm
I have this from several sources, and it's definitive. Filming on the back-to-back movies would begin in mid-October, and Summit Entertainment is looking at "high-end" directors. Breaking Dawn is the longest in Stephenie Meyer's 4-book series lengthwise and it's the most graphic -- presenting birth, attempted murder, death, and of course vampire bites. Published on August 2, 2008, it has a happy ending for most of the characters. Divided into 3 parts, the 1st and 3rd sections are told from the point of view of Bella (Kristen Stewart), and the second section from the perspective of Jacob (Taylor Lautner). It prominently features all 3 favorite characters including Edward (Robert Pattinson). Summit Entertainment no doubt will save money by making these Twilight Saga movies #4 and #5 back to back. Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (who's written all the Twilight Saga films) is currently adapting Breaking Dawn. Eclipse, the 3rd movie, will be released on June 30th. Meanwhile, Yen Press, the graphic novel imprint of Hachette Book Group, announced last month that it will publish the first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight on March 16th. Due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into 2 volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming. Containing selected text from Meyer's original novel with illustrations by Korean artist Young Kim, it's a fusion of Asian and Western comic techniques in mostly black-and-white with color interspersed throughout. Novelist Meyer consulted throughout the artistic process and had input on every panel.
'True Blood' adds 'Southland's' Kevin Alejandro, plus more casting news
Kevin Alejandro, a member of TNT's "Southland" ensemble, is joining the cast of "True Blood" for its third season.
Alejandro will play a love interest for Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), according to The Hollywood Reporter. His character, Jesus, is an orderly who's helping care for Lafayette's mom (Alfre Woodard). He's scheduled to appear "in almost every episode" of season 3, which will debut in the summer.
He's also still attached to "Southland." The former NBC series debuts on TNT on Jan. 12, but the cable channel is planning to see how it performs before deciding whether to go back into production. That leaves some room on Alejandro's schedule for "True Blood."
What would happen if vampires revealed themselves to exist?
>> Tuesday, February 2, 2010
One of the things that I love about True Blood is how it explores what would happen in our modern world if vampires suddenly revealed themselves to exist. The show explores what implications such a revelation would have on so many levels of society - a fascinating topic rarely explored in other works of modern vampire fiction.
Recently, thanks to Twitter, I found a blog post titled "Return of the Vampires". This blog post explores what couple potentially happen if vampires revealed themselves and demanded civil rights. Giving the vampires specific characteristics, the blog author is able to make predictions on how certain government entities would react to such a revelation, since there is a framework within to assess the potential threat the vampires pose, given their skills and abilities.
The authors predicts how the following US government entities would react to vampires revealing themselves:
- Department of Justice
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Department of Defense
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Department of Health and Human Services
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"Daybreakers" Lacked Bite
>> Monday, February 1, 2010
I don't know about you, but the first time I saw the trailer for the movie "Daybreakers", I was intrigued and my senses aroused. To say I was excited to see this movie is a slight understatement, due largely in part to the trailer. Someone certainly did their job, unfortunately it was not those who wrote, produced and directed this movie. The acting was superb, how can it not be with such talents as Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neil, however even these Hollywood veterans could not save the weak script and erratic direction of the movie. What's worse is that this movie had promise, it could have been so much more than what it turned out to be, which was a hurried up tale of a chain-smoking vampire turned human sympathizer. Yes that is right, vampires smoke in this movie.
In "Daybreakers" vampires rule the world while harvesting human beings for their blood. Supplies eventually run thin and wide-spread panic ensues, the vampires begin feeding on themselves which causes monstrous results. Edward Dalton, played by Ethan Hawke is a vampire scientist who is working on a formula for synthetic blood, he is running on borrowed time with the human blood supply dwindling rapidly. He himself does not drink human blood, he survives on animal blood and sympathizes with the humans that are being harvested, which haunts him.
Not all the humans are in captivity though, some are living on the run just trying to stay alive. After Dalton gets into a car accident with some of the humans, he helps them escape and learns about one human who was once a vampire. This is when the story begins to "suck" (pun intended). The story of the once a vampire now a human man or Lionel "Elvis" Cormac, played by Willem Defoe sounds intriguing at first. Apparently to become a human being again, a vampire must step into the sunlight and burn almost to a crisp before being put out by water, seconds later you are once again human. Um... okay.
Ethan Hawke's character Edward Dalton thinks that this is great news, he then after a few false starts becomes a human being again. Much to the dismay of his brother who is working with Dalton's boss to bring him back to the lab. Things back at vampire central are getting pretty dire and when a blood substitute becomes available it's almost too late. That is when Dalton proposes that everyone turn back into a human being, (insert awkward silence here). Obviously not many vampires are chomping at the bit to give up the whole living forever deal that comes along with vampirism, just saying. So needless to say, he is met with much resistance. Soon enough Dalton and his human comrades are in a battle against the undead and in a surprising twist to becoming human after being a vampire, you are also infected with "being human"? So any vampire that bites a vampire turned human immediately becomes human. It is actually kind of comical at this point in the movie and I don't think it's supposed to be. So, here you have a battle of vampires versus humans and then half of the vampires become human during the battle and now the half starved army of vampires is looking at their old army buddies like they are all you can eat shrimp at "Sizzler". A grueling bloodbath to say the least.
I believe that this story would have been better served if it were a cable series. As a movie, it seemed rushed and simplified, perhaps too simplified. I think if it had more room to breath if could have been something smart and interesting, even "Emmy" worthy, now it might be lucky to pick up a "Razzie". It was obvious at times that the directors (Michael and Peter Spierig, who also wrote the script) were trying to be artistic in their approach. Some of the cinematography looked like art on a canvas, a dark blue sky as the characters drive by night out in the countryside, but the actions in the movie did not reflect the same style. I was looking for a more dark and brooding script and at times it was, but then it would change it's tone and become a comedy, then finally a drama. Very inconsistent and not cool enough to become a favorite of vampire movie lovers, I suppose "The Lost Boys" can still hold it's own against "Daybreakers".
On a scale from "bite" to "suck", this movie gets a "nibble".
12 Days of XMas - vampire style
>> Monday, December 21, 2009
This is so cute! Check it out: "On the 8th Day of Christmas Dracula Gave to me..."
Loves It.
The BloodLust Vampire Festival
>> Monday, December 7, 2009
December 7, 3:57 PM
Portland Vampire Examiner
Devon Downeysmith
The perfect vampire-themed holiday gifts from HBO.com
December 7, 11:14 AM
Portland Vampire ExaminerDevon Downeysmith
"True Blood fans - are you stumped as to what gifts you should buy for Christmas/Hanukkah this year? Then check out the HBO store for many fangtastic gift ideas, including True Blood character t-shirts, packs of the delicious raspberry flavored Tru Blood beverage inspired by the show, pint glasses, the Merlotte's apron and even True Blood inspired jewelry! Hopefully you can resist spending all your Christmas money on yourself!
If you make your purchase TODAY you will also receive 20% off True Blood merchandise and DVDs - just enter the promotional code TRUEBLOOD20 at checkout to redeem the discount. This offer applies to online orders only and expires 12/7/09 at 11:59pm EST!
The best gift item, however, would undoubtedly have to be..." (read more)
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