Monday, October 10, 2011

IDW Announces Launch of Second True Blood Comic Book Collection

DW Publishing, in conjunction with HBO, is pleased to announce the launch of the second hardcover True Blood comic collection, TRUE BLOOD: TAINTED LOVE, available in comic and book stores throughout North America on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. This compilation of all six issues from the second series of the mega-hit comics offers an all-new story co-written by True Blood star Michael McMillian and comics fan-favorite Marc Andreyko. The collection features bonus content, including a cover gallery.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with the continued success of the comics and are excited that the release of the comic collection will make the series even more accessible to fans,” stated show creator Alan Ball. “Truebies now have two great stories to enjoy, both of which offer new adventures for the Bon Temps crew.”

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Make-Up Artist magazine’s ongoing Web feature “Tales from the Set” features True Blood.

Make-Up Artist magazine’s Web feature “Tales from the Set” features True Blood. Watch here

True Blood Pumpkin Stencils for your perfect Halloweeen Jack-o-Latern

Thanks Andy !

Andy says ...
Here are a few stencils I’ve created for personal crafting use. They’re great for pumpkin carving, making T-shirts or pretty much anything you can use a stencil for.
Click on the character art of your choice below to download the PDF artwork: Enjoy!

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Get Sucked In To New Vampire Diaries Facebook Game

The CW television series “The Vampire Diaries has already sunk its teeth into Facebook, with a page that has sucked in more than 8.9 million likes. The next target: Gamers’ blood.
Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment flipped the switch on The Vampire Diaries: Get Sucked In, which transports players to the town of Mystic Falls, where they meet characters from the show and have to complete missions.
In addition to game-playing logic, knowledge of “The Vampire Diaries show is also a key asset, as trivia questions are sprinkled throughout The Vampire Diaries: Get Sucked In.
Players can use Facebook Credits to purchase items within the game, complete collections, open special prize chests, or unlock new areas.

Bite Me Vampire Fangs Bottle Opener $9.99

Halloween is just around the corner. Are you looking for a spooktacular way to open your favorite beverage? You need the Bite Me Vampire Fangs Bottle Opener from the NeatoShop. This fangstatic metal bottle opener is shaped like a vampire’s fangs. Your friends will be dying to know where you got such a cool bottle opener.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more frighteningly fabulous Cocktail & Barware items!

The Most Beautiful Vampire Art We’ve Seen in Untold Ages

You've seen vampire imagery a million times — but a new book of vampire art might just make you see the bloodthirsty creatures of the night all over again.
Vampire Art Now, edited by Jasmine Becket-Griffith and Matthew David Becket, contains some of the loveliest vampire art we've seen in a vampire's lifetime.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Twitterverse : Werewolf worlds collide


 

 

@SethGreen Werewolf worlds collide as @JoeManganiello & I enjoy the Black Keys. #TrueBlood #Buffy



Sunday, October 2, 2011

Q&A: Alan Ball - Sydney Herald

AFTER winning an Oscar for American Beauty, Alan Ball created the darkly beautiful TV series Six Feet Under. Then came True Blood, now into its fourth series.

You cast Rachel Griffiths in Six Feet Under, Toni Collette in your film Towelhead and Ryan Kwanten in True Blood. What is it about Australian actors?

You guys create some really fantastic actors. It's just the talent.
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Is it true you sought out Kwanten to play Jason Stackhouse?

It is. I went to see this movie called Flicka, a family movie about a brother and sister and a horse, and he was the handsome, charming, not-so-intellectually developed brother. He was Jason. I called my casting director that day.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/qa-alan-ball-20110930-1kzvv.html#ixzz1ZfTNlEl6

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Charlaine Harris Interview Bouchercon 2011

Charlaine Harris was interviewed by McKenna Jordan of Murder By The Book at Bouchercon 2011 in St. Louis This is 1 of 6 videos of this interview.



see the next 5 videos here

Friday, September 30, 2011

True Blood's Sam Trammell : Authors Attempt to Demystify Hollywood Hiring Process

If the proof is in the pudding, then the co-authors of Hire Me, Hollywood! Your Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Most Exciting–and Unexpected–Jobs in Show Business certainly seem to have sufficient subject matter expertise. Mark Scherzer, now based in New York, works for Reelz Channel as a writer-producer, while Keith Fenimore tools around daily for some guy named Howard Stern.
Among those interviewed for the book are Stan Lee, True Blood actor Sam Trammell, Entertainment Tonight co-host Mark Steines and Live with Regis and Kelly producer Michael Gelman. Scherzer came to LA from Montreal way back in 1991 and ahead of a book signing in his hometown this weekend, he confirmed to the Montreal Gazette that two golden rules still hold true:

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True Blood’s Pam takes over Once Upon a Time

Our favorite vampire vixen, True Blood's Kristen Bauer van Straten, will get a chance to play the role she was born for. In a very special Once Upon a Time episode Pam will become the one, the only, Maleficent!
In the second episode of the fractured fairy tales series on ABC (set to premiere on October 23rd) Pam will become the evil queen Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. ABC is so excited about nabbing the long-toothed bitch from True Blood that they actually booted the first actresses they had down for the role in favor of getting a little Pam power.

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

True Blood’s CAMPY VAMP, Pam, Kristin Bauer van Straten

I RELATE TO MY CHARACTER, PAM…… BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Frighteningly, more and more I relate to Pam (laughs). I start going, ‘Wow, she’s actually making sense to me.’ It’s fascinating. I feel like, ‘Oh my God, this makes total sense if I were a vampire,’ so if I were taken out of having to worry about aging, money (they always seem to have money), and also they are out of the constraints of society so they can be any sexuality, which is very fun. Plus, you don’t have to worry about death, so without all those issues, who would we be? So much of my life, well, pretty much my entire life, those are the things I think about. That’s 95 percent of where my attention goes with those topics. So then who would I be? It’s an interesting question

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'Kolchak the Night Stalker' meets a vampire

I remember watching Kolchak and this opening made me feel 105 years old...



Johnny Depp resurrects classic horror

Johnny Depp resurrects classic horror
Johnny Depp was recently dubbed the biggest movie star in Hollywood with two blockbusters which grossed a billion each back to back: Pirates 4 and Alice in Wonderland.
This is why you can probably feel some relief that he’s headlining the big screen version of Dark Shadows, the ‘60’s vampire soap opera that aired on ABC. Depp will also be bringing bringing back Kolchak, the short lived, but much beloved horror series of the ‘70’s.

Dark Shadows is now being made for Warner Brothers with Tim Burton directing, and Depp starting as Barnabas Collins, a two hundred year old vampire. The first shots that hit the ‘Net of Depp in his vampire make-up initially weren’t promising, but the current photo posted on Empire looks much more like the Barnabas Collins of yore, combined with Burton’s trademark gothic sensibilities.
The film will also feature Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earle Haley, gothic horror legend Christopher Lee, and Alice Cooper. The film’s screenplay was written by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

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Stephen King Writing ‘Shining’ Sequel About Psychics & Vampires

Cool new covers, huh ? You know you need to read 'Salem's Lot 'again ??

At first glance you might think that we’re now running mock stories. Sorry, no such luck.

Instead, long-standing speculation has now given way to fact: Stephen King is writing a sequel novel to The Shining - more to the point, he has some of said sequel already written, he recently read some it, and we have video of his reading.


The sequel will be called Dr. Sleep, and it will follow The Shining‘s young protagonist, Danny, 30 years after the incident at the Overlook Hotel. Danny now uses his psychic powers to literally ease the minds of terminally-ill patients in hospice care. Things get twisted when vampires show up - most likely viewing the the place as the perfect buffet, if we had to guess - and Psychic vs. Vampire battle ensues?

By now, most people are familiar with the aggravation that comes with learning about another unnecessary movie sequel - it’s kind of new to feel that aggravation about a novel, but that sentiment is already out there and swelling. It will be hard to convince a lot of people that The Shining needs a continuation -let alone that words ’The Shining’ and ‘vampires’ even belong in the same sentence. Here at Screen Rant, we’re already nervous about a possible (semi-)sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 film adaptation of The Shining, as we’re sure a lot of other movie fans are as well.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What is Alexander Skasgard reading ?

You long time readers know that the only time I EVER post Hollywood TMZ photos is when someone is caught reading a book ! Alex is a big reader and on the set of " Disconnected " he was reading " The Good Soldier " by David Finkel.


"American Horror Story': Watch the terrifying opening credits sequence -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

FX’s new series American Horror Story is without a doubt one of the scariest things ever produced for television. Usually you have to hit up a multiplex for the kind of jolts delivered by this thriller, but creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk (Glee) have crafted a small-screen roller coaster ride. The series follows the Harmon Family — husband Ben (Dylan McDermott), wife Vivian (Connie Britton), daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) — as they move into an old Los Angeles home with a dark history. For example, the home’s basement not only is in need of dusting but also might be the resting place of a serious evil creature, seen in the Oct. 5 premiere. And then there’s the man in the rubber fetish suit…

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