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griff the invisible poster 276x400 Ryan Kwanten to attend 2010 TIFF World Premiere of Griff the InvisibleThe 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF) which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, has revealed the full list of actors, stars, celebrities, and filmmakers expected at this year’s event, and this year, True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten will attend.

Toronto –The Toronto International Film Festival continues to shine a light on the works of up-and-coming filmmakers with this year’s Discovery programme. A group of 27 titles make up the diverse Discovery selection, showcasing provocative feature films by new and emerging directors.

TIFF will launch Ryan’s new film for it’s World Premiere, Griff the Invisible.

Also included in the festival offerings is a free screening of Alan Ball’s award winning American Beauty.

Griff the Invisible, Leon Ford, Australia World Premiere – Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible. Stars Ryan Kwanten.

The TIFF 2010 runs from September 9 to September 19.

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Quotes from True Blood article in Rolling Stone Magazine

Posted by Lynnpd On August - 17 - 2010

1112 cover blog true blood 219x300 Quotes from True Blood article in Rolling Stone MagazineIn the latest Rolling Stone magazine as we just reported, Stephen Moyer and Anna Paqquin, appear with Alexander Skarsgard nude on the cover. However, inside the article, they have some pretty funny quotes that I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Here are some of the quotes that we’ve found so far:

Stephen on the allure of vampires:If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization – breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive. (laughs) Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”

Anna on the doctor that suggested that she she close the gap between her teeth: “Somewhere between the doctor putting his finger in my mouth and saying that he could fix it for me, I was like, ‘Yeah, and I could bite your finger right now.’ ”

Anna on announcing her bisexuality: ““I’m not sure what the reaction was, but I’m glad I did it. There’s such an impulse to turn it into a sensational thing, when what I was really hoping to say is that it’s normal and not interesting. (smiles) I feel so lucky right now. Life is pretty great.”

Anna on not minding the vampire bites she endures: “I’ve had 10 piercings in my ear, and a bellybutton pierce, and a tongue ring. My tongue, as it turns out, is not really appropriate for piercing, because the webbing is too close to the front, and the bottom barbell kept hitting against my teeth – clank, clank, clank. And it gave me a lisp, which isn’t great as an actress.”

Stephen on getting the callback for True Blood the same day his apartment was burglarized: “When you have things stolen, you become much more aware of what’s important – f—ing take the camera if you want, but don’t take the tape that’s in it. I lost all those sex tapes, the ones of me giving head when I was young. That was supposed to be my meal ticket.”

“True Blood” creator Alan Ball said he wouldn’t have it any other way, regardless of how many fictional awkward teen girls spring forth to pine for their sex-refusing vampire boyfriends. If it’s about vampires, Ball told Rolling Stone, it’s got to have some sex.

“To me, vampires are sex,” Ball told the magazine. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.”

Anna Paquin, for one, admits to wearing a “patch” – a piece of attire that resembles a thong with the sides cut off – when she’s got to film a nude scene as her alter-ego Sookie Stackhouse. For men, there’s the “sock” option to cover the goods.

But while Stephen Moyer, who plays Sookie’s vampire lover Bill Compton, wears a sock on set (not that he has “anything to hide,” he assured Rolling Stone)

Alexander Skarsgard, who portrays the vampire Eric Northman, wants nothing to do with the tube of modesty. “I don’t want a sock around it, it feels ridiculous,” Skarsgard said to Rolling Stone. “If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked. I’ve always been that way.”

Alan Ball says: “Working on ‘Six Feet Under’ could sometimes be depressing, but ‘True Blood’ is very different,” Ball said of his two series, (the former of which came to an end in 2005). “It’s about archetypes, the subconscious, mythology and wish-fulfillment. I’m like a kid going to the playground everyday.”

Moyer puts in his perspective on his real-life relationship with Paquin: “We pretty much consider ourselves married now, even though we aren’t yet.”

Source: JustJared
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alanballmtv 200x200 Alan Ball will stay with True Blood even if his pilot gets picked upAt a recent HBO executive session, the question was asked about Alan Ball’s new pilot for HBO and whether he will remain on True Blood if it gets picked up.

The answer according to hitfix.com is: “The new Alan Ball pilot will shoot at the end of the month. If they pick that pilot up, he would still remain on “True Blood” on a day-to-day basis. That would still be his primary responsibility.”

Source: hitfix.com

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alanballmtv 200x200 Alan Ball Teases Russell And Sophie Anne Wedding and Witches In Season 4During a chat with Hollywood Crush TV, Alan Ball revealed he’d like to get as many non-humans into the True Blood as possible. He also shared a few juicy season 3 and 4 teasers. Here’s what he had to say:

I feel the more supernatural creatures we can get in there, the more interesting the world is,” Alan said. “If it’s just about vampires, then, OK, alright. But if you’ve got vampires and shifters and werewolves, you know, whatever Sookie turns out to be.

Alan promised even more non-human action in coming seasons. “In season four there will be witches and some of the characters we’ve known all along will have powers that maybe they didn’t even know about,” he said. “That’s where it gets fun storytelling-wise because you have so many doors to open.

Naturally he knows better than to reveal major end-of-season spoilers (bummer!), but we tried our darndest to get him to reveal his plans for the possible wedding of King Russell (Denis O’Hare) and Queen Sophie-Anne (Evan Rachel Wood).

And this writer, being a huge fan of the books, wanted to know specifically if that relationship works out the way it does in Charlaine Harris’ world. To that, Alan replied: “That I’m not sure about that. That’s in the future.

Deftly dodged! Alan did say that the King continues to pursue the Queen, which we already guessed. “He wants to marry her and we will see if he’s successful at it. We will see that this season—whether or not he is successful.” So take that how you will.

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True Blood cast at the Comic Con Panel

Posted by Shadaliza On July - 24 - 2010

Alan Ball, 
Anna Paquin, 
Stephen Moyer, Nelsan Ellis, 
Sam Trammell
, Rutina Wesley, Deborah Ann Woll
, Kristin Bauer, 
Denis O’Hare, 
Joe Manganiello and Charlaine Harris formed the Comic Con 2010 True Blood panel.

Alexander Skarsgård could not be there because he is filming in Sweden.

Check our Comic Con Photo Gallery for all the latest pics.

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Ausiello interviews Anna, Alan and Stephen at Comic Con

Posted by Shadaliza On July - 24 - 2010

vlcsnap 00075 400x224 Ausiello interviews Anna, Alan and Stephen at Comic ConMichael Ausiello interviewed Alan Ball, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer at the Hard Rock Hotel on July 23.

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In an article in the Los Angeles Times, we learn about how Alan Ball is providing a perfect blend of humor, horror and poignancy in the making of True Blood that appears to be working. Below find part of that article including a great photo of Stephen Moyer in his part as Bill being launched in flight:

Stephen Moyer is baring his fangs like he means it. Over and over and over again. In character as the 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton, the star of HBO’s campy drama “True Blood” is hovering midair, poised for a real throw-down.

Fans won’t see this scene for several more weeks, so revealing the bizarre and complex events that have led to it would only spoil the fun. In this densely plotted series, which recently garnered its first Emmy nomination in the drama series category, each episode is so revelatory that HBO has built its own wiki to help fans keep up. So far, 11.7 million of them are up to the task, tuning in each week for what show creator Alan Ball calls the ” ‘I can’t believe I’m watching this’ moments.”

On this massive West Hollywood soundstage, the mood grows tense as Moyer’s flying rig repeatedly sends him swaying ever so slightly off his mark. The crew eventually pulls it together. And to his credit, Moyer is believably vicious every time. After all, in the “True Blood” universe, the timing of a “fang bare” can make or break a scene.

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Soon, everyone is off to the commissary for lunch, trailing that subtle air of self-satisfaction that comes with working on an Emmy-winning hit HBO show. It’s evident in Ball’s stride as he meanders around in his red lumberjack shirt, like a burly and beloved maestro. It’s there inside Evan Rachel Wood’s trailer where the elegant vampire queen Sophie-Anne perfects her undead pallor with a bit of powder, quipping, “It’s fun being evil.” It also lingers in Moyer’s own wry observations over a plate of sausage and peppers. They all seem to know they’ve pulled off yet another spectacularly weird season.

We do things that you’ve never imagined,” said Moyer, his fingernails still stained red with fake blood. “I love it. The darker, the odder, the weirder, the better for me.

“True Blood” is the cable network’s biggest hit since “The Sopranos.” Its success has transformed child star Anna Paquin from a brooding indie darling to the leggy blond telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, whose on-screen love affair spilled into real life when Paquin and Moyer got engaged. And it has cemented Ball as the creative hero of HBO.

In two years, the show has inspired a sort of grown-up answer to the “Twilight” phenomenon, albeit one with a good sense of humor and buckets’ more blood. Its fans might be equally ardent though — a panel devoted to the series at last year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego was brimming with hundreds of devoted viewers lining up to query the cast and crew, and this year an even bigger crowd is likely to turn up for a late Friday afternoon session at which Ball, Moyer and a handful of other actors are scheduled to appear.

To read more go to the Los Angeles Times

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alanball12 274x400 Alan Ball to produce and direct HBO pilot All Signs of DeathYesterday we learned that True Blood was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama series.  Even though Executive Producer, Alan Ball and his writers are already working on season 4 of True Blood, Alan is busy on other things as well and is prepping a new hourlong project for the pay cable network called, All Signs of Death.

Obviously death is a theme I’m fascinated by,” Ball said.

HBO has greenlighted a pilot for “All Signs of Death”, a dark comedic drama based on Charlie Huston’s 2009 crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. Ball is executive producing and directing the pilot, which was written by Huston. The project, which is now casting for an August production start date in Los Angeles, centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past. “It’s not so much about the crime, it’s about the personal story of the central character and his journey back to being fully connected with his life after some very traumatic things,” Ball said.

As a director, Ball will experiment with smaller, portable cameras for a cinema verite style. “The show is about contemporary Los Angeles, but not the glamorous LA, it’s about the dirty underbelly of LA,” Ball said. “We’re going to try to go against the grain, away from the overlit, stylized noir for a more frantic, contemporary, naturalistic style.” Ball is executive producing All Signs of Death through his company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment, under his overall deal at HBO. Huston is co-executive producing, with Your Face executives Christina Jokanovich and Peter Macdissi also producing.

Ball discovered Huston through Charlaine Harris, the author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels that True Blood was based on. She gave Ball a box with her favorite books. One of those books was Huston’s 2004 novel Caught Stealing. Ball loved it and went on to read the other 2 books from Huston’s Hank Thompson trilogy as well as Huston’s Joe Pitt series of novels about a PI who is a vampire. He met with Huston only to discover that the two were already connected – Ball had cast Huston’s wife, actress Virginia Louise Smith, in his 2007 film Towelhead. The two became friends, and one day, Huston told Ball he was considering pitching his latest novel, Mystic Arts, as a TV series and asked him whether he thought the the book could be a series. Ball’s answer? “It could be a great series.” “All Signs has a hard noir feel but it’s also ironic; it’s graphic and gritty but human and very moving at the same time – it is able to capture all those elements in a very distinctive tone,” Ball said.

Master horror writer Stephen Kings agrees. He gave Mystic Arts a glowing review, calling it “fiercely original.” “Charlie Huston is a brilliant storyteller, and writes the best dialogue since George V. Higgins – but what pushes my personal happy-button is his morbid sense of humor and seemingly effortless ability to create scary/funny bad guys,” he wrote. “There are a lot of those in this book, and several I-can’t-believe-I-laughed-at-that scenes of grue, but the best thing about Mystic Arts is how decency and heroism rise to the top in spite of everyone’s best efforts to crush them under heel.”

For Ball, there is a thread that links his lauded mortuary drama for HBO Six Feet Under, vampire drama True Blood and All Signs. “Obviously death is a theme I’m fascinated by,” he said. UTA-repped Ball is currently splitting his time between pre-production on All Signs and breaking stories for Season 4 of True Blood whose writers reconvened at the beginning of this week. There was “a round of Starbucks” in the writers room yesterday to celebrate True Blood’s first best series Emmy nomination. “It as was a fantastic surprise,” Ball said. HBO’s current batch of pilots also include Luck and Tilda, which have wrapped production, and Miraculous Year, which is finishing casting.

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emmyAward 313x400 Alan Ball and his writing team on True Blood celebrated Emmy nomination with StarbucksSince Season 3 has wrapped, Alan Ball and his writing team are already busy working on Season 4. Being so busy, when Alan heard the news that True Blood was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, he was surprised because he had no idea that the nominations were even being announced today.  Once he heard the news, he said,

starbucks Alan Ball and his writing team on True Blood celebrated Emmy nomination with StarbucksWe’re breaking Season 4, so I’m with the writers and we had a celebratory round of Starbucks,” said creator and executive producer Alan Ball. “It’s such a great time for television right now. There are so many great, amazing television series on. To be considered part of that by your peers is really gratifying.

Since he didn’t know the nominations were being announced Thursday, he wasn’t prepared for the onslaught of good wishes.

I have such a tunnel-vision life,” he said. “If I’m not working on the show, I’m home reading or walking my dogs in the canyon. I did not even know it was happening today, and it’s a good thing because I probably would have been all nervous. When I woke up and there were a gazillion messages, it was a fantastic surprise.”

Oh, and here’s another reaction from Alan Ball: “I have never had this much fun on anything I’ve ever worked on. All I can say is, I don’t know why people are so obsessed with vampires, but I’m really happy that they are.”

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Alexander Skarsgård and Stephen Moyer rehearse a scene from True Blood Season 3, episode 12, yesterday on the set while Alan Ball directs.

As you can see in the picture, the scene goes on around a cement truck.  Can’t wait to see the actual scene!!!

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