Back in 2005, long before Anna Paquin had signed on to True Blood, she starred as a provocative high school student opposite Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo in a film called Margaret, directed by Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me). Expectations were high for the Fox Searchlight drama … and then it never, ever came out, owing mostly to Lonergan’s inability to complete anything under a three-hour cut. Good news, though: Exhibitor Relations claims the movie is finally going to get a limited theatrical release on September 30, almost six years after shooting concluded.

Official True Blood HBO Twitter profile just announced:

True Blood will make its fourth consecutive appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego with panel on Friday, July 22.
Confirmed panelists: Alan Ball, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Kevin Alejandro, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Nelsan Ellis, Joe Manganiello, Deborah Ann Woll. Moderated by @EW’s Tim Stack.

Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan‘s follow-up to the acclaimed feature debut You Can Count on Me, is one of those movies that people are dumbstruck by when I describe its post-production history to them. Shooting began on the film in late 2005, and has failed to see any sort of release in the long, long time since production was completed.

And this isn’t some small, independent production, either. This has a cast that includes Matt Damon, Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Allison Janney, Olivia Thirlby and Kieran Culkin. Take any of the names from that cast; if they weren’t known when it was shot, they’ve achieved a significantly larger amount of fame by this point. The problem (in a nutshell) is that the original cut of the movie was around three hours long, and Fox Searchlight only gave Lonergan final cut if it was around two hours. As he’s said to have a heavy desire to only make it his way…well, complications arose.

True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer wed Saturday evening at a private residence in Malibu, Calif. Guests — many of them bearing gifts in purple boxes and with purple bows — included Elijah Wood and True Blood costar Carrie Preston with husband Michael Emerson (Lost). Paquin, 28, and Moyer, 40, exchanged their vows beneath a tent across the street from the beach.

Congratulations to the couple! We wish them a long lifetime together filled with love, joy, happiness and health.

Edit: Following this site’s rules of not posting paparazzi pictures, I’ll just redirect you to Just Jared website, which has some Anna and Stephen’s pictures.

The nominees for the 36th Annual Saturn Awards have been announced.

Anna has been nominated in Best Actress on Television and True Blood was nominated in Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series

Source: Saturn Awards