“The Vampire Diaries” — A Slice of SciFi Review
September 8, 2009 || Category: TV Reviews || Tags: Vampires || 2 Comments
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (Slice of SciFi Editor)
Network: The CW
Pilot Air Date: September 10, 2009
Actors: Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
SoSF Rating = 3.0 out of 5.0 Stars
While it’s not reinventing the wheel, the series does show promise thanks to the talents of Ian Somerhalder and Kevin Williamson.
It would be easy to dismiss the CW’s [...]
Jun Talks “Blood: The Last Vampire”
July 8, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
Actress Gianna Jun recently told SciFi Wire that she was attracted to the lead role in the upcoming, “Blood: The Last Vampire,” by her character’s intensity.
“When I first saw her, she looked very mysterious, unfriendly and gloomy,” June said. “It was kind of shocking, but very attractive.”
The movie is a live-action adaptation of a popular [...]
With the renewed interest in vampire romance sagas and the series winning a Saturn award for best DVD presentation last week, it appears there may be some momentum for a “Moonlight” movie.
The series, which came just before the latest vampire craze fueled by “Twilight,” was canceled after one season on CBS. Despite a solid start [...]
Experience “Dracula” In Real Time
May 11, 2009 || Category: Book News || Tags: Vampires || 1 Comment
If you’ve read the original novel, “Dracula,” you may recall that the story is presented in the form of diaries, journal entries and letters by various parties involved in the story. Author Bram Stoker did extensive research to ensure that his diary and letter dates would fit and work within the story.
But what is Bram [...]
O’Loughlin Talks About “Moonlight” — A TV Guide Interview
April 29, 2009 || Category: Interviews || Tags: Vampires || 1 Comment
Our partner TV Guide On-Line has a new interview today with former “Moonlight” star Alex O’Loughlin. In the interview, the actor talks about his time on the show, his reaction to the cancellation and what his fans can look forward to in the future.
VGuide.com: Where have ya been, man? We had a long stretch there, [...]
“USA Today” Offers First Look at “New Moon” Wolves
April 23, 2009 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || 2 Comments
Here’s a little something for our “Twilight” fans out there. “USA Today” has an exclusive first look at the young actors chosen to be part of werewolf Jacob’s wolf pack when the sequel, “New Moon” hits theaters later this year.
Actor Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Bronson Pelletier are all of Native-American heritage [...]
Actor Ed Quinn, who played Nathan Stark on SciFi’s “Eureka” for two and a half seasons, has signed on for the second season of HBO’s “True Blood” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Quinn will play Stan, a powerful vampire from Texas.
“True Blood” returns to HBO later this year. The first season is set to debut [...]
Steve McQueen’s Grandson Cast in “Vampire Diairies”
March 3, 2009 || Category: TV News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago, we brought you news that the CW had optioned the rights to “The Vampire Dairies” and were developing the series of best-selling novels as a potential fall series.
Now comes the first news of casting. The grandson of actor Steve McQueen has landed the role of Jeremy. Steven R. McQueen has [...]
Summit Options Third “Twilight” Movie
February 23, 2009 || Category: News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
After “Twilight” raked in huge box-office returns in its first weekend last year, Summit Entertainment quickly gave the green light for the second installment in the best-selling series to get the big-screen treatment. Now Summit is anticipating the next installment will do so well, they’re rushing to green ligtht production on the third installment and [...]
“New Moon” Release Date Set
December 16, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
The first several “Harry Potter” films were released in November, leading audiences to expect a new helping of Harry and the rest of the crew from Hogwarts along with their Thanksgiving dinner. Summit Entertainment is following the lead in scheduling installments of Stephenie Meyer’s big-screen adaption of her “Twilight” novels.
Summit announced yesterday ”New Moon” would open in [...]
“Twilight” Will Debut on Showtime
December 5, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || 1 Comment
Cable outlet Showtime has secured the rights to air “Twilight” and 42 other current and upcoming films according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Showtime signed a deal with Summit Entertainment that includes the current hit vampire love story and its two potential sequels.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but the license fees will be a percentage [...]
“Twilight,” Based on the Best Selling Novel Opens in Theaters November 21
September 3, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || 3 Comments
“Twilight” — an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little [...]
“Twilight” Fills Potter Spot
August 17, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
The highly anticipated adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer teen vampire romance novel “Twilight” has been moved from its December 12, 2008 release date to November 21, 2008, the date just vacated by Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“When Warner Bros. decided to move ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood [...]
The Blood Ties Podcast hosted by Kevin Bachelder, Akira Ravens and Vivenne Rose and featuring Review of Blood Ties from “˜The Signal” podcast, Listener Question of the Week, Blood Ties news and more is now up and running with their first official episode called “Bite Back.”
To visit the website and subscribe to the show visit [...]
Vampire Knight Shoots For Second Season
June 24, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Animation, Vampires || 1 Comment
The “Vampire Knight” manga series will get a second season in anime. It will be seen on TV Tokyo this coming October. The final episode of season one will run next week in Japan and “A Vampire Knight: Cross Academy Broadcasting Club,” the web radio show based on the series, will see its [...]
Blood Ties Variety.com Ads To Begin on June 9th
June 7, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Vampires || 17 Comments
Below is a copy of the official message that the hard working folks at the Variety.com Ad Campaign shared on several of the Blood Ties fan email lists and forums earlier this evening. The message can also be viewed from SaveBloodTies.org.
Read the ad here
Lifetime Makes It Official - No Blood Ties on that Network….However!
May 22, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Vampires || 18 Comments
Lifetime began sending out emails yesterday confirming that “Blood Ties,” the fan fave vampire series, will NOT be returning to their network…Read full details at SaveBloodTies.org.
However, the news isn’t all bad!
The Variety.com Ad Campaign has announced that they have not only reached, but actually exceeded their goal for donations!
The purpose of the Variety.com Ad Campaign [...]
Looks Like “Blood Ties” Won’t Be Coming Back to Lifetime
May 14, 2008 || Category: TV News || Tags: Vampires || 1 Comment
As many of you are aware there has been an ongoing campaign to call Lifetime regularly to tell them how much fans enjoy “Blood Ties” and to ask about it’s renewal status. Well this week a couple of long time fans were told by Lifetime that they will NOT be renewing the show.
Our friends [...]
“Moonlight” Star Confident of 2nd Season
This is one of the stories we had to cut from this weekend’s show because we ran a tad long, but we wanted to give this further addition to the story we did earlier in the week here on the website.
Fans of the CBS vampire saga “Moonlight” may be happy [...]
Huff & Cox Up For Constellation Awards
April 22, 2008 || Category: Events || Tags: Doctor Who, Vampires || 5 Comments
Actress Christina Cox from ‘Blood Ties’ and the author Tanya Huff of the books that the popular series is based on have been recently nominated for Constellation Awards. The Constellation Awards are Canada’s Fan Awards for Excellence in Science Fiction Television and Film. “Doctor Who” leads list of nominees for second straight year.
All Canadian [...]
Central site to save Blood Ties launched
April 14, 2008 || Category: Podcasting || Tags: Vampires || 7 Comments
While the campaigns to save Journeyman and Dresden Files may not have yielded the results we hoped for, fans of Lifetime’s Blood Ties still have an opportunity to save their favorite series.
A new site, www.savebloodties.org was launched last week and is intended as a central resource for fans to work together and bring the show [...]
Blood Ties Fans Give Back
April 5, 2008 || Category: Human Interest || Tags: Charity, Vampires || 12 Comments
Written by: Deb Neufell
Fans of the Lifetime original series “Blood Ties” have worked tirelessly in campaigning to save the show they love, but they have also used the campaign to help raise money for charity at the same time.
A total of $900 was raised to benefit The Best Friends Animal Society. This donation was [...]
Vinnie Jones is moving on from his breakthrough role of Juggernaut on “X-Men: The Last Stand” and can be seen in several new films including this new offering titled “The Bleeding.”
Co-starring fan favorites Michael Madsen and Armand Assante, “The Bleeding” revolves around an ex-Army Ranger in search of the people who murdered his parents only [...]
One of our Slice of SciFi fans named Laura reminded us that next Tuesday, March 11, is the 1 year anniversary of the airing of “Blood Ties” on the Lifetime Network.
She suggested that this would be a good day to pull out all the stops and contact Lifetime and anyone else who’ll listen. We couldn’t [...]
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are UnDead” Wraps Shooting
February 24, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
Press Release
Don’t let your ex-girlfriend suck the life out of you!
New York, NY –– C Plus Pictures, a production company that specializes in creating character driven, multi-themed independent features, recently wrapped shooting on their new vampire comedy ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE UNDEAD.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE UNDEAD was filmed entirely in New York City and has [...]
Blood Ties Fans Bite Back!
Fans unite to save the show they love. Join us in the fight!
There have been many rumors and speculation circulating regarding the fate of our beloved show but know this, NOTHING IS OFFICIAL! There is still a chance to save the show so now is the time to do it!
The most [...]
Help private detective Vicki Nelson solve a series of unexplained missing persons cases that appear to be connected to a secret society.
Is the connection real? Vicki thinks so, and its up to you to help her, along with her friend Henry (a 450-year-old vampire) and assistant Coreen, to investigate the crime scenes and solve the [...]
Hayek Retuns With Horror
January 11, 2008 || Category: Film News || Tags: Vampires || Leave a Comment
Actress Salma Hayek will star in a horror movie, her first film since returning from maternity leave.
The movie is titled “Cirque du Freak” and will feature John C. Reilly in the male lead.
“Cirque de Freak,” which is based on the best-selling children’s book series, centers on a vampire who mentors a 14-year-old to serve as [...]
The campaign which we and others have been waging to get “Blood Ties” back on U.S. television with all new episodes has been capturing some attention outside the normal online bloggers.
According to the latest article from E online’s Watch with Kristin segment, her talks with “Blood Ties” executive producer Randy Zalken might indicate that getting [...]
Written by: Lora Friedenthal (Dark Magess)
According to Tanya Huff’s blog, the last two episodes of “Blood Ties” will only be shown online. Additionally, because she is standing with the WGA in their strike, Tanya won’t be blogging about the episodes on Lifetime’s blog.
Here was Tanya’s official word to Lifetime on the matter:
“While I’ll certainly [...]
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