New promo for season 2. It hurts so good.

And the video screencaptures:

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by Ted Casablanca
Anna Paquin and her BF and costar Stephen Moyer, hitting Venice Beach on a sun-tastic Monday afternoon. The True Blood lovers—how convenient a coupling! So Gossip Girl of them—sweated it out at Gold’s Gym, but not in a conventional way.

They pretty pair opted to try out the new Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout game on Nintendo Wii instead of running on an old-fashioned treadmill. What’s next, getting your assistant to exercise for you?

The film took three months to film and has run aground in the editing room — for three years.

by John Horn

“You Can Count on Me” was the kind of Hollywood arrival that every aspiring filmmaker dreams about.

Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 directorial debut about two siblings’ splintered relationship was a solid art-house hit, the film helped launch the career of costar Mark Ruffalo and was nominated for two Academy Awards — lead actress for Laura Linney and original screenplay for Lonergan.

It was hardly surprising, then, that in early 2005 Fox Searchlight and financier Gary Gilbert (“Garden State”) were eager to back Lonergan’s second turn behind the camera, deciding to co-finance his complex account of a young girl’s grappling with guilt and adolescence, “Margaret.”

But although “You Can Count on Me” seemed blessed at almost every turn, “Margaret” has turned into a nightmarish production that has devolved into a bitter court fight. Despite “Margaret’s” initial promise, it is now uncertain when Lonergan’s movie, which was filmed more than three years ago, will ever make it to theaters.

Movie studio shelves are filled with troubled projects that have been put on hold for any number of reasons, but rarely do they involve someone of Lonergan’s standing working with such quality actors (“Margaret’s” cast includes Ruffalo, Matt Damon and Anna Paquin) and an all-star producing team of Oscar winners — Scott Rudin ( “No Country for Old Men”) and the late Sydney Pollack (“Out of Africa”).

More unusual still is why, according to one of the film’s two lawsuits, “Margaret” hasn’t come out: Lonergan can’t finish the film.

Because of the litigation and a confidentiality agreement among the lawyers, all of the principals central to the film declined to be interviewed for this story. But conversations with a dozen people close to or familiar with the production, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, painted a picture of an endless post-production cycle that left Lonergan and Gilbert clashing and Fox Searchlight sitting on what might be an unreleasable movie.

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Anna, Stephen, Lilac (Stephen’s daughter) were spotted riding bikes in Santa Monica on April 21st. They all look very happy and absolutely cute!

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HBO released a brand new True Blood season 2 clip! Check it out, it’s amazing!

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by Devin Faraci

Just watching some of my favorite bits from Trick R Treat in a brand new trailer made me smile; Mike Dougherty’s Halloween anthology film is a bona fide classic, and while it’s a tragedy that Warner Bros has been sitting on it for about two years now it looks like it will at least get some sort of release. That new trailer includes a sting at the end where it’s announced that the film will hit Blu-Ray and DVD this October.

I really hope that Warner Bros promotes the film by setting up at least a handful of screenings. This is a movie that works magnificently in a crowded theater, a movie that’s a great date flick. The trailer uses a Wizard magazine quote saying that Trick’r Treat is the best Halloween film in 30 years, but I disagree. I think it’s the best Halloween film I have ever seen.

by Larraine Stacey

Hey all you True Blood addicts out there (myslef included). There are only a couple of months left until we get our latest dose of vampire sexin’ with True Blood again. But already the marketing onslaught has begun.

E Online reports the following about the upcoming season which begins June 14 on HBO: Will Sookie dump Bill for Eric?

Despite the fact that True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are a rock-solid twosome in real life, the show’s Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle was the question of the hour as the cast and producers of HBO’s vampire drama hit the Paley Center for Media’s 25th Annual TV Festival Monday night.

Happily, Blood boss Alan Ball and his stars, including Paquin and Alexander Skarsgård, dished to us exclusively on the red carpet about the Viking vampire getting a hot spotlight, who’s getting a serious beatdown and who’s playing with the new supernatural creatures.

Alan Ball, executive producer – Anna won a Golden Globe for playing Sookie over the hiatus—what are you doing to up the ante and keep her challenged?
Anna loves it when she’s getting beaten up or kicked or smacked around, and lucky for her, Charlaine Harris put a lot of that stuff in the second book.

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Hey :)
I’ve just changed the gallery layout. I decided to update that parte of the site with a gorgeous Anna picture, and I hope you all like it!

By Amy Amatangelo

Anna Paquin feels humbled by her latest project.

The actress stars as Nobel Peace Prize nominee Irena Sendler, who risked her life to rescue Jewish children during World War II, in “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” tonight at 9 on WBZ (Ch. 4).

“She did an absolutely extraordinary thing, and she was so young and that’s intimidating,” Paquin said in a recent interview from Los Angeles.

“I was like, ‘I make movies and TV shows and she rescued 2,500 kids out of the Warsaw Ghetto.’ I wanted to do her justice and tell that story in a way that has integrity and truth,and also is not going to be fluffy or trivial. Ultimately, her story is one of hope.”

The 26-year-old made the movie last November between seasons of HBO’s supernatural drama “True Blood,” which returns June 14. She is grateful that her industry allows her to shift between portraying a young woman in Poland nearly 70 years ago and playing a telepathic waitress in modern-day Louisiana who happens to be in love with a vampire.

“I love to challenge myself,” Paquin said. “I love to do the exact opposite of what I’ve been doing. And also, it makes it more exciting to then go back to your other part. I have the kind of looks and the kind of face that I feel like I can blend into whatever scenario. It goes along with not exactly being modelesque in your looks. You’re more chameleonlike, and I love that.”

Paquin, who won an Academy Award when she was 11 for “The Piano,” received a Golden Globe in January for playing Sookie Stackhouse on “True Blood.”

“It was exciting and flattering, and all it really means is that you get to do more,” she said.

Her Oscar win in 1993 has become akin to folklore in her own mind.

“Of course I remember it, but not in any kind of overly visceral way anymore,” she said. “It’s obviously the one thing I’ve been asked about more than anything else in my entire life. I’ve sort of retold my version of what I remember, and how much of it becomes what I remember because that’s how I’ve told it. It’s a pretty incredible thing to happen to a little kid, and I have the career I have because of it and I’m very grateful.”

Paquin is dating Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill Compton on “True Blood.”

“I have a very, very ridiculously perfect setup because usually the thing about acting and relationships is someone is on the other side of the planet,” she said. “So it’s an incredible luxury to get to spend your work time and your personal time with the person you want to be with all the time.”

by Mike Hughes, TV America

Weekend’s must-see:
“The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” 9-11 p.m. Sunday, Channel 6 (CBS).

As the Nazis tightened the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, a young social worker found ways to walk children out, one at a time. She saved an estimated 2,500 lives.

That story is simplified here, to fit a two-hour spot. John Kent Harrison wrote it and directed it beautifully in Latvia; Anna Paquin gives a subtly solid performance as Sendler.