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Werewolves to Invade Fox

22 December 2008 12:46 AM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Fox is developing a new dramedy about a quartet of female friends in New York who happen to be werewolves. The project, titled Bitches, is described as a quirky urban fairy tale. The project has received a script plus penalty commitment from the network and comes from feature writer/director Michael Dougherty and Warner Bros. TV. TV writing duo Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts (Pushing Daisies) have come on board to supervise Dougherty. The two also will serve as executive producers alongside Dougherty if the project goes to series. Dougherty’s writing credits include X2, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Superman Returns and Trick 'r Treat, which he also directed. Trick 'r Treat is an anthology horror flick starring Anna Paquin and Dougherty’s feature directing debut. Although receiving great reviews on the festival circuit it has faced many delays and still hasn’t seen a wide release.

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Rick Baker Wins Tesla Award

20 December 2008 1:08 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Rick Baker was honored by the International Press Academy this past weekend in Los Angeles.

Director John Landis presented Baker the Tesla Award for recognition of Visionary Achievement in Filmmaking Technology. It was the young director who first hired Baker in 1971 for Schlock. They have worked together ever since including An American Werewolf in London which earned Baker the first of six Academy Awards.

He later told Sci Fi Wire that his work on next year’s The Wolfman pays homage to the Universal original, not his own werewolf efforts. "I had a lot of trouble with that, because Benicio already looks like a werewolf, especially when he grows his facial hair out," Baker said. "I kept telling them that he wouldn't look too much different.

"This one is different, and harkens back to the classic Wolf Man  I'm not sure what they are going to do about the transformation

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Movie and TV Winners List of 13th Satellite Awards

15 December 2008 1:50 AM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

"Slumdog Millionaire" has been hailed as 2008 Best Motion Picture in Drama at the 13th Satellite Awards. On Sunday, December 14 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, the Danny Boyle-directed movie about a poor Indian boy getting a shot at winning millions in a television game show was revealed to be the winner on the coveted category, besting over "The Reader", "Revolutionary Road", "Frost/Nixon", "Milk" and "Frozen River".

Apart from taking home the top prize, the 2008 Best British Independent Film also nailed two other kudos. The first one was Best Director for Danny Boyle and the second was Best Score for A.R. Rahman. For the director prize, Boyle won over Thomas McCarthy of "The Visitor", Ron Howard of "Frost/Nixon", Gus Van Sant of "Milk", Christopher Nolan of "The Dark Knight" and Stephen Daldry of "The Reader".

Another movie collecting three awards from Satellite was Baz Luhrmann's "Australia". On the special occasion,

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Golden Globes Noms

12 December 2008 1:14 PM, PST | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

Doubt, Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button were the top movies at the announcement of this year's Golden Globe nominations, each receiving five nods apiece.

Surprisingly, though, only two of those films -- Frost/Nixon and Benjamin Button -- were up for the Best Picture - Drama award, as Doubt was shut out of the category in favor of The Reader, Revolutionary Road, and Slumdog Millionaire, each of which nabbed four nominations. Doubt, however, received the most acting nominations of any film, as all four of its primary stars -- Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis -- were recognized; the drama's fifth nomination was for Best Screenplay. Frost/Nixon and Benjamin Button received nominations in the exact same five categories: Best Picture - Drama, Best Actor (Frank Langella and Brad Pitt, respectively), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Score.

On the Comedy/Musical side,

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66th Annual Golden Globe Nominations

11 December 2008 1:31 PM, PST | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

The nominations for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, covering both film and television, are in. There aren’t too many shocking surprises expect maybe The Wrestler and Milk not getting Best Picture noms. Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. and James Franco all got nominated for their work in Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express and I was glad to see In Bruges, one of the most underrated films of the year, get some love too. Best Picture (Drama) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Revolutionary Road The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) Mamma Mia! Vicky Cristina Barcelona Burn After Reading Happy-Go-Lucky In Bruges Best Actor (Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress (Drama) Angelina Jolie, Changeling Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Meryl Streep, Doubt Kristin Scott Thomas,

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Golden Globe Nominations announced; diversity loses again

11 December 2008 1:30 PM, PST | From AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news

This morning’s announcement of nominations for the Golden Globe Awards brought good news and bad news. The good news: Tina Fey and 30 Rock still rule.

The bad news: Julia Louise-Dreyfus does not.

So, who took Dreyfus’ place in the Best Actress category for TV musical or comedy? Debra Messing, for The Starter Wife. That leads me to believe that none of the Golden Globe voters has ever watched The Starter Wife. L-a-m-e.

Voters did, however, keep their wits about them when they nominated America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Mary Louise-Parker (Weeds) and Christina Applegate (Samantha Who?). Although I could never be untrue to Tina, I have to say that I’m secretly rooting for Applegate this year. What an amazing woman.

In the TV drama category, Best Actress nominees are Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters), January Jones (Mad Men), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Anna Paquin (True Blood) and Mariska Hargitay

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Golden Globe Nominees Announced!

11 December 2008 12:03 PM, PST | From tvblog.ugo.com | See recent TVblogo.ugo.com news

This year’s Golden Globe nominees have been announced!  Jon Hamm, Tina Fey and David Duchovny once again receive some well-deserved nods in their respective categories while I’m not quite sure how I feel about those True Blood nominations, but yay for Mad Men’s January Jones, up for Best Actress in a Television Drama!  Lost is no where to be found on the list, but who cares, just give the damn thing to Dexter and Michael C. Hall and be done with it.  Below are the categories we care about, if you really wanna know who’s up for Best Actress in a Mini-Series you’re gonna have to make the jump… Best Television Drama ‘Dexter’ ‘House’ ‘In Treatment’ ‘Mad Men’ ‘True Blood’ Best Actor - Television Drama Gabriel Byrne, ‘In Treatment’ Michael C. Hall, ‘Dexter’ Jon Hamm, ‘Mad Men’ Hugh Laurie, ‘House’ Jonathan Rhys Meyers, ‘The Tudors

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Golden Globe Nominations Announced, Heath Ledger Scores a Nod

11 December 2008 8:40 AM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

As it was announced by Terrence Howard at the 66th Golden Globes Nominations ceremony on Thursday, December 11, late Australian actor Heath Ledger has earned a nomination for Best Performance By an Actor In a Supporting Role In a Motion Picture. He will compete against Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. for their roles in war comedy "Tropic Thunder", Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" and Ralph Fiennes in "The Duchess".

Commenting on Ledger's nod, Terrence Howard said, "Heath was a friend of mine, he gave his all in that film ('The Dark Knight'). I think he will win in that category. He'll also get an Oscar."

In addition to Howard's comment, Heath Ledger's father, Kim, was also grateful for the count, telling People.com, "This nomination is deeply appreciated and is not lost on those of us who continue to love and miss him. We are so proud

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In Treatment + Recount Lead Golden Globe TV Nominations

11 December 2008 8:09 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Acclaimed psychotherapy drama In Treatment and election thriller Recount lead the TV nominations for the 2009 Golden Globe Awards.

Both shows garnered five nods apiece, including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.

Historical drama John Adams picked up four nods, while comedy 30 Rock, Cranford, Bernard + Doris, Entourage, and Mad Men claimed three apiece at the nomination ceremony, held in Los Angeles on Thursday morning.

Meanwhile, Dexter, House, In Treatment, Mad Men, and True Blood will compete for the Best Television Series - Drama at the awards ceremony on 11 January, and 30 Rock, Californication, Entourage, The Office, and Weeds are the nominees for Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical.

Sally Field (Brothers + Sisters), Mariska Hargitay (Law + Order: Svu), Anna Paquin (True Blood), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Judi Dench (Cranford), Susan Sarandon (Bernard + Doris) and Laura Linney (John Adams) are among the stars up for gold in the three Best Actress Awards categories.

Meanwhile, Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment), Hugh Laurie (House), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Steve Carell (The Office), David Duchovny (Californication), Ralph Fiennes (Bernard + Doris), Paul Giamatti (John Adams), Kiefer Sutherland (24: Redemption), Kevin Spacey (Recount) and Tom Wilkinson (Recount) will all compete for the Best Actor prizes.

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Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Score Golden Globe Nods

11 December 2008 6:20 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

There may be another set of twins coming to the Jolie-Pitt household – twin Golden Globe Awards, that is. Both Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were among those nominated Thursday morning for Golden Globes, part of Hollywood's pre-Oscar awards' season frenzy now underway. Pitt was nominated for his leading dramatic role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which, along with director Ron Howard's adaptation of the stage drama Frost/Nixon and another stage-to-screen transfer, Doubt, led the Globes' list, with five nominations each. The Reader, Revolutionary Road and Slumdog Millionaire are also nominees for best dramatic picture. Best musical

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List of the 2009 Golden Globe Award Nominees

11 December 2008 6:16 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: Hollywood Foreign Press Association The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 2009 Golden Globes this morning and the complete list of Motion Picture nominees out of 184 live-action feature films (113 drama and 71 comedies or musicals) and 8 animated feature films is listed below. Looking over the surprises I would have to say The Reader getting in as a Best Picture (Drama) nominee while films such as The Dark Knight and Milk get snubbed is a major surprise. Michael Shannon not being nominated for Revolutionary Road while Tom Cruise gets a nod for his performance in Tropic Thunder caught me off guard and I am sure James Franco wasn't expecting a nomination for Pineapple Express as much as he was hoping for one from Milk, but I am sure he will take it either way. I am also assuming there will be a 50/50 discussion on whether or not Angelina Jolie

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'True Blood' Updates

6 December 2008 1:27 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

HBO has announced a May 12 DVD release for the first season of True Blood, the acclaimed series based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels. The five-disc set will retail for $59.99 with no extras announced.

True Blood chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps...where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte's. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others.

Sookie's situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron - 173-year old Bill Compton (Steven Moye) -- and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other.

Adapted from Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries by creator and executive producer Alan Ball the series proved to be a growing phenomenon, just the sort of thing HBO has needed.

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HBO's True Blood: Season One Coming To DVD May 12th, 2009!

3 December 2008 11:06 AM, PST | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

HBO will release the DVD boxed set of the first season of their hit series True Blood on May 12th, 2009 according to their official website. True Blood chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps... where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin, Academy Award-winner for "The Piano") works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte's. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others.

The cast also includes Ryan Kwanten as Sookie's brother Jason, Rutina Wesley as her best friend Tara Thornton, Sam Trammell as Sookie's good-hearted boss Sam Merlotte and Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette Reynolds, a cook at Merlotte's

Season one credits: True Blood is created by and executive produced by Alan Ball; based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris; co-executive producer,

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HBO Announces True Blood Season 1 DVD

2 December 2008 | From shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news

HBO has unveiled its DVD plans for the surprisingly good series True Blood . The entire first season, which recently wrapped until season two kicks off next summer, will street on May 12th. Expect a widescreen (16:9) transfer with Dolby Surround Stereo sound. All twelve episodes will be collected on five discs. Currently, HBO's shop has it listed with a price tag of $59.99. Starring Anna Paquin, the series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down when the vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) walks into her place of employment two years after vampires "came out of the coffin" on national television.

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Promo of 'True Blood' Season One On Demand

1 December 2008 1:43 AM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

While the second season is still literally months away, the first chapter of "True Blood" can be watched again through HBO's "On Demand". A new promo of the popular Vampire series has been put up by the network, aimed to introduce those subscribers who haven't watched the show over the Fall season.

Starring Anna Paquin as a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer as a vampire named Bill Compton who falls for Sookie, "True Blood" started off slow when it first hit the screen in September. It gained mere 1.44 million viewers on the first week, but steadily absorbs fans and caught up to 60 per cent increase in its viewing with 2.4million as the number for its season finale. The Associated Press marks the show as being watched by averagely 6.8 million people per week.

The second season will not arrive until the end of midseason 2009, reportedly in June since the

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Full TV Nominees List of 13th Annual Satellite Awards

30 November 2008 11:36 PM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Two HBO productions are dominating the nominees list of 13th Annual Satellite Awards which prize-giving ceremony will be held on Sunday, December 14 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City. "John Adams", a mini-series starring Paul Giamatti, has four chances to take home an award, and so does made-for-tv movie "Recount".

Apart from Giamatti who earns a nomination for Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television, his co-star Laura Linney is also taking the similar nod, only for the Actress part. The movie itself is put under Miniseries category while its other actress Sarah Polley is contending for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television.

In the mean time, "Recount" that is produced and starred by Kevin Spacey, is competing for Motion Picture Made for Television; Actor in a Motion Picture Made for Television for both Spacey and Tom Wilkinson

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Rant: First Look At Gambit In ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’

29 November 2008 11:32 AM, PST | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Some of you may have seen a brief glimpse of the infamous “ragin’ cajun” from leaked footage of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine teaser trailer that debuted at the Fox panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.

For those who did not (and even those who did), we have the first official photo of Gambit thanks to Empire Magazine. This comes just days after a new picture of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine was released.

 

If you didn’t see the low-quality leaked videos but you’re excited to see the trailer for this movie like me, then you’re in luck as the official trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine debuts alongside The Day The Earth Stood Still on December 12th. That’s just two weeks away!

As for the image, this particular picture does not impress me. In those clothes with that face, I don’t see Gambit anywhere. It

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'True Blood' Concludes First Season Tonight

23 November 2008 5:38 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

HBO’s adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, True Blood, reaches its first season finale tonight.  A second season has already been green-lit and in production for fall 2009.

With vampires all the rage, as witnessed by this weekend’s explosive box office for Twilight and other vamp tales getting optioned, the timing seemed serendipitous for the premium channel, which needed a hit.

The series, starring Anna Paquin, has seen its viewership rise by 66 percent since its debut in September, now averaging 6.8 million viewers.

"After Six Feet Under, where as an artist and a person I got to explore my whole relationship with grief for about five years, I just felt, Ok, I don't really need to spend any more time staring into the abyss," series creator Alan Ball told the Associated Press.

His pitch was readily accepted by HBO and the series quietly went into production. A viral marketing campaign,

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Preview of 'True Blood' 1.11: To Love Is to Bury

10 November 2008 12:48 AM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

With only two episodes left in season one of "True Blood", HBO have teased the next Sunday, November 16 episode of the vampire drama series. The video posted below contains two promos, the first one is the actual sneak peek to the episode 1.11, while the one following is said to be a fan's version.

Through the video, it can be seen that in the next episode entitled "To Love Is to Bury", Sookie and Sam are getting closer to one another with the absence of Bill in Sookie's life. The two also try to squeeze out information behind Sookie's recent mystic visions from philandering police officer. In the meantime, Bill fulfills the conditions of the tribunal's sentence although he and Eric are left astonished over Jessica.

The episode which will be aired on the network at 9/8c also sees Jason and Amy worrying over their future, while Tara's anger over Lettie

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TV Review: True Blood 1.9 - Plaisir d’Amour

4 November 2008 8:16 AM, PST | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

True Blood, HBO, Airs Sunday 9pm Episode: "Plaisir d’Amour" (Season 1, Episode 9) Synopsis: Bill (Stephen Moyer) breaks a vampire taboo in protecting Sookie (Anna Paquin) - and must pay a steep price as a result. Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and Amy (Lizzy Kaplan) break their own taboo by kidnapping a vampire named ...

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