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The last one I posted was just a teaser.  This one goes into more deets about the upcoming season.  Personally, they had me at “Jason, focus.” 

Is it June 13th yet?

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There’s a new hunk on the block and he’s neither human (Jason Stackhouse, Lafayette) or vampire (Bill, Eric). 

The trailer was shown towards the end of the season finale of The Vampire Diaries (which totally delivered the goods, in case you were wondering).

The new season of True Blood starts June 13th on HBO.

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Well, actually the woman who plays her is.  Unlike recent self serving outings (Ricky Martin, Sean Hayes), this announcement did catch people off guard.

Anna Paquin of True Blood and the X-Men has come out as bi-sexual in a PSA for Cyndi Lauper’s  True Colors Fund which promotes Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender equality.  In the spot, the 27 year old actress announces “I’m Anna Paquin. I’m bisexual, and I give a damn“.

Apparently, no one knew she was going to do this prior to filming the spot.  Wonder if her fiance and co-star Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton) knew about her orientation before-hand?

An even better question, when is Alexsander Skarsgaard (Eric) going to make a lot of gays happy and follow suit?  (Sadly, probably never).

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Clever, huh? 

Will HBO release a WILF (werewolf) ad once season three gets underway?

Currently watching season two on HBO Canada as I missed it the first time it aired last summer, and am completely hooked.

Since HBO went there with the ad, I went there with the picture on the right.

Your welcome.

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The publisher that brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters are now turning their attention to actual historical figures.

If Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sells like Seth Grahame-Smith’s other novels (and the trailer for the book is just purposely bad enough to guarantee interest in it), chances are other historical figures will get similar treatment. 

Not sure if it’s too soon or not, but can’t you just picture Ronald Regan as a space alien?

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At the rate the cast of HBO’s True Blood is growing for the upcoming season, I wonder just how much of Eric, Sookie, Bill or Jason we’re going to get to see?  Not that I’m complaining with the latest addition mind you.

The Hollywood Reporter says Kevin Alejandro (Ugly Betty, Southland) has joined the series as Lafayatte’s boyfriend.  The storyline has the actor portraying a care giver named Jesus initially hired to take care of Lafayatte’s mother, Ruby Jean Reynolds (Alfre Woodard) and becomes involved with him.  Nakedness probably ensues.

Guess Alan Ball and his writers wondered why Madonna should have all the fun in getting various “play on words” with dating someone with that name?  Cue the outrage!  from the usual suspects in 5, 4, 3…

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Very shrewd casting there, Alan Ball.  Yum.

Joe Manganiello, probably best known for parts in Spider-Man,  One Tree Hill, and How I Met Your Mother, has won the coveted role of Alcide (al-cee) Herveaux.

In the novels that the HBO series is based on, the character plays a major part in the third book, when Eric calls in a favor Alcide’s family owes the vampires to help Sookie search for a MIA Bill.

Alcide also just happens to be a werewolf. 

A plucky heroine attracted to a werewolf but in love with a vampire….hmm sounds familiar.  Before any of you get on a soapbox, Club Dead, the novel that introduced Alcide to the “Sookieverse”, predates those “other” human/werewolf/vampire novels by about three years. 

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until next summer (boo) to find out how much season three of True Blood follows or strays from the original source material. 

Cue the countdown for the inevitable “Who’s hotter, Alcide or Eric?” debate.

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A reboot ? Already??

Don’t ask Alyson Hannigan her thoughts on a planned reboot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the big screen, with no ties to the TV series or Buffycreator Joss Wheldon.

When speaking to Cinema Blend, the actress dismissed the notion, saying that without Wheldon’s involvement, “it’s only the title“.  Making it clear she wouldn’t be interested in having any involvement with the project without Wheldon.

Why a reboot so soon, when the series only folded in 2003?  All roads lead back to Twilight mania.  It makes sense to try to cash in when the vampire genre is on fire from a business point of view,  if not from one born out of artistic integrity. 

Ironically, without Buffy, there probably wouldn’t be Twilight or even True Blood for that matter.  It could be argued that they’re essentially the watered down and sexed up versions of  the same show, with variations in character development and plot.

As for the planned reboot,  it’s currently in development, meaning were still a ways away from actually seeing Buffy back on the big screen, assuming we ever do.

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For the die-hard True Blood fans that are out there that want to give the overly obsessive Twilighters a run for their money (at $69.99 US a pop), comes the True Blood Busts from DC Direct.

The busts, which will be made to order and there-fore a limited edition that will still end up in basements, attics, and garage sales gain in value over time, will go on sale next summer, just in time to coincide with season 3 of the HBO series.

You can buy Sookie, Eric, or Bill, plus a Merlotte’s sign (the bar where Sookie works in the books and the show) for an additional $89.99. 

No word if the actors that portray the characters on the show are getting a cut, since their likenesses are being used for these busts.  Why do I get the feeling that the “Eric” is going to be the biggest seller of the three?

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That sound you thought you just heard was Twilighters all over just screaming in unison from the excitment of it all, while People’s accountants try to figure out just how many copies of this issue will be sold.  My guess?  All of them.  $Ka-Ching! 

Should be curious how Pattinson, who reminds me more and more of a young Hugh Grant (but better looking) takes all this.  Haters to the left.

UPDATE – People via Twitter is claiming this is not the real cover, but they didn’t say the SMA is not Pattinson either.

UPDATED 11/18 – Pattinson not SMA.  See newer post to see who got it. I admit it, I’ve been had.  Oh well, it happens.

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