SOURCE: BD While most teens were anxiously awaiting the release of Twilight, they should have been keeping their eyes glued to HBO Sunday nights for a real vampire drama, True Blood, which will be entering its second season on June 14. If you missed the first season, now is the time to find a way to catch up (Hulu maybe?) on the adaptation that follows Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), 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. Today the first images from the second season have sunk their teeth online, click here for a look.

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD : With Johnny Depp getting so much advance buzz for Public Enemies (Michael Mann’s summer movie for Universal), his upcoming projects are news. Now I’m told that Tim Burton may have to postpone the start date on his and Depp’s hotly anticipated Dark Shadows, their Warner Bros film version of the gothic TV series with a huge cult following. It was June, then August, and now maybe not even this fall.

First, any rumor that Burton may bail altogether is “definitely” not true, says my insider: “He loves the project”. But his helming of Alice In Wonderland for Disney — and people who’ve visited the set tell me it looks amazing — is demanding more time than originally planned. Now Burton is facing a hot delivery date for a March 5, 2010 release. And so he’s exploring pushing back the start date for Dark Shadows.

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If you haven’t already heard, IconsOfFright.com has a great article about the dumbing down of the American release of the fantastic vampire film Let The Right One In. Specifically, the subtitles. IOF has a side-by-side comparison of several scenes in which the subtitles have been shortened, dumbed down or outright changed from the theatrical release of the film.

If you’re already rented/purchased the film, all is not lost – the English dubbed version uses the original (correct) translation.

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VARIETY reports: Summit Entertainment has cast Native American actors Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

The quintet will join Taylor Lautner in portraying members of the wolf pack in "New Moon," in which the pack defends humans against vampires.

"New Moon" stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson reprising their "Twilight" roles as Bella and Edward with Chris Weitz directing. The pic, centering on Bella being drawn into the world of werewolves, will be released domestically on Nov. 20

Spencer is Lakota (Sioux), Pelletier is Cree-Metis, Meraz is Purepecha (Tarasco), Gordon is Hualapai and Houseman is Cree. Casting was overseen by Rene Haynes, who's worked on projects involving Native Americans including "Dances with Wolves" and "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

"Twilight" has grossed nearly $380 million worldwide and sold over 3 million DVDs in its first day of release.

The casting news is rolling out slowly for the Dylan Dog live-action film Dead of Night. Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), as it's been known for some time, is Dylan and, at the start of this month, it was revealed Sam Huntington is playing his sidekick (details). But let's focus on the supernatural element of the film for a brief moment, shall we?

ShockTillYouDrop.com learned actor Taye Diggs is now set to star opposite Routh. The actor, currently seen in Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, will play Night's leader of the vampires. An official confirmation, we're told, is forthcoming. This is Diggs' return to the genre after 1999's The House on Haunted Hill. Since then he has also starred in Equilibrium, with Christian Bale, and Chicago.

Make-up FX for Diggs' bloodsucking turn, as well as Huntington who is a member of the undead himself (in a different sorta way), are being handled by Drac Studios. The film is said to feature a range of beasties, from vampires to zombies to werewolves.

Dead of Night - based on the popular Italian comic books "Dylan Dog" by Tiziano Sclavi - is shooting in the New Orleans area. Expect to see more casting announcements here on Shock very soon!

You can now check out the full Japanese trailer for the live-action adaptation of Blood: The Last Vampire, which tells the story of a mysterious girl known as Saya (Gianna Jun), who is employed by a covert US government agency to eradicate a species of vampire-demons that is about to threaten mankind. Half-demon herself, and armed with just a samurai sword and a whole bunch of attitude, Saya kicks vampire ass like nobody you have ever seen before. Forget Blade, forget Buffy, and check out the trailer to witness, in action, the hottest and gutsiest vampire slayer ever to grace the screen.

Summit Entertainment announced today that the home entertainment release of the studio's action-packed, modern day vampire love story TWILIGHT sold over 3 million DVD units in its first day of release. The DVD launch commenced this past Saturday morning at midnight with nationwide events during which time Summit and its retail partners provided TWILIGHT fans with the chance to celebrate the DVD release of the film. "TWILIGHT at Midnight" allowed participating retailers the opportunity to stay open late as fans lined up in impressive numbers to purchase the DVD of the epic romance at midnight parties.

With over 3 million DVD units sold, TWILIGHT enters the top five best first day DVD releases over the past two years along with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END, THE DARK KNIGHT, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, and TRANSFORMERS.

Veteran TV writer Evan Charnov (Fearless) has been tapped to pen the screenplay for The Lost Boys 3, Warner Premiere’s next direct-to-disc sequel to the classic teen-vamp film from 1987. In addition, Corey Feldman has come on to executive produce and will also return once again as Edgar Frog. This film will actually focus on Feldman’s popular character. Corey Haim’s return as Sam Emerson is highly, highly unlikely at this point in time.

Source: Bloody-Disgusting.com

National Vampire is a documentary about people living “the Vampire Lifestyle” all over the USA. Geoff Harkness is a Chicago-based documentarian. Following, he shares some details about how National Vampire came to be…

Making National Vampire
by Geoff Harkness

The idea for National Vampire came to me in a dream. In the dream, I was buying a six-pack of beer at a convenience store. The clerk — a vampire replete with a gleaming set of fangs — somehow knew that I was a filmmaker and told me, “You should make a documentary about us. We’re everywhere. Nationwide.” The next day, I Googled the web for vampires and happened upon Dnash, a fangmaker from Connecticut. I e-mailed and Dnash agreed to do an interview if I was ever in the neighborhood. As it happened, I was going to be in New York City in a few weeks and arranged a meeting. As luck would have it, Dnash had a client coming in the day of our interview. The client and her husband graciously agreed to let me shoot the fang fitting. National Vampire was born. I spent the whole day hanging out with Dnash, who turned out to be a funny, smart guy with a gift for gab. During an interview that lasted more than three hours, Dnash regaled me with stories and filled me in on the various subsets of the vampire culture: the role-playing gamers, the bondage and fetish crowd, the goth-music scene, the vampire tours, Halloween, blood drinkers. I knew it would be a great documentary — now I had to put it together. All of this occurred in December, 2002. At the time, I was living in Lawrence, Kansas and getting a master’s in sociology. (continue reading…)

“Since this month sees the DVD release of Twilight, the film’s vampires visited our building here in Los Angeles last week to record a special segment for E! News. And while they were here, we made sure to grab them and have our own exclusive chat. Kellan Lutz, Edi Gathegi and Rachelle Lefevre sat down with us and revealed the latest in the Twilight film universe, from gearing up for New Moon (which they’ll start working on this week through the end of May) to the delights and horrors of intense Twilight cast hazing, to their off-screen rivalry with Taylor Lautner—who plays werewolf Jacob Black—and their thoughts on the director for Eclipse. Is Drew Barrymore in the franchise’s future? Hit the jump for the full interview with the anti-Cullens!”

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