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понедельник, 15 октября 2012 г.
'Vampire Diaries' premiere: Executive producer previews season 4
The ‘Vampire Diaries’ premiere raised a lot of questions about the future of protagonist Elena and her friends and love interests. Executive producer Julie Plec previews what’s coming up on the show.
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‘Vampire Diaries’ actress Claire Holt portrays vampire Rebekah on the show.
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Looks like the supernatural baddies of Mystic Falls won't have Elena to push around anymore… or at least, doing so won't be so easy now that she's a bloodsucker! With that shocker, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES took things to a whole new level. So what happens next? Let's ask executive producer Julie Plec!
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It was three years in the making, in that we knew when we started the series that we'd get there eventually. At one point, we thought we wouldn't get there until Season 5, and then at one point contemplated getting there by the end of Season 2! We began Season 3 knowing how we were going to end it, so all the choices we made and everything that we did was all trying to very gently and quietly tee that up and put Elena in a situation where that was the biggest move that could happen in her life.
It's exciting, because it's fresh, you know? It gets us jazzed every day, because we don't feel like we're just retreading the same old stuff. It's daunting, because we think it's awesome, but if nobody else likes it, there is nothing we can do. We have put the show on this course, and there's no going back. So if it gets rejected, then we're going to have to take a beat and think about what we've done. That said, I think people will like it, because it's still Elena. It's just Elena with a dozen, two dozen more layers to herself.
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Nina is nothing if not a total champion, and she loves to be challenged as an actress. So far, so good! She's finding all the nuances in the character that are different than Katherine and different than the human Elena. A lot of actors during Season 4 of a TV series don't necessarily get to wake up and be somebody new, so I think she's very excited about that.
Ultimately, the pitch of the show back in the beginning was a love triangle between two vampire brothers and their love for the same girl, so it's certainly something we're not going to just lock up in a briefcase and put away. It's always going to be there. What's great about turning Elena into someone "new" is that it takes where she was with Damon and Stefan and puts it in a blender and spins it around. We don't really know what's going to come out of that. Because this is a new person, we don't know how she'll connect with them and how they'll react to the changes in her. It adds a lot of fun, new dynamics to this triangle.
With Joseph, certainly our intention was to kill him. And then we changed our minds because he's so good, and we felt it was too soon to say good-bye to that character. So a lot of what you're going to be seeing at the beginning of Season 4 is him at his most devilish and darkest. He is such a magnificent, nasty villain! The last thing we want to do is cut his legs out from under him, so we're going to get to see some of nasty Klaus in action.
Well, the good news is that both of them have the ability to return to our show at any time in their contracts. They love us, and we love them so much. With Alaric being dead, of course, we won't see much of him. But we've definitely got some new faces. Some of them are more mysterious, some of them are younger. There's a new character named April who is a high school student that returns to town after a couple of years away and kind of lands right in the middle of everything. And then there's a new vampire hunter named Connor who comes to town. He's no Alaric. He's a hardcore, humorless, take-no-prisoners, get-it-done character, and he's a bit of a threat for our heroes. More so than they expected to come across!
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суббота, 13 октября 2012 г.
AMC Theatres® and Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate® Company, Present The Twilight Saga Marathon at 291 AMC Locations
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AMC Theatres® is excited to announce the details of the
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SAGA so compelling," said Sun Dee Larson, vice president of film
marketing and communications at AMC. "The feedback from guests has been
overwhelming in that they want to see this story finished properly by
watching how we got to this point from the beginning before the
climactic conclusion of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2."
The Twilight Saga Marathon begins Nov. 15 at 11:30 a.m. and will feature
the following films in order:
Fans attending the event will receive a limited edition lanyard and a
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supplies last.
For more information or to purchase tickets, which are on sale now,
visit .
To learn more about AMC Stubs, visit .
THE TWILIGHT SAGA film series stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
and Taylor Lautner, and tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who
moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father,
and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who
seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction
that pulls them together…even when Edward confides that he and his
family are vampires. The action-packed, modern day vampire love story
TWILIGHT, the first film in the series, was released in theatres on
November 21, 2008 to a blockbuster reception. The second installment of
the film franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was released November
20, 2009, the third installment, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE was released
June 30, 2010, and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 was
released on November 18, 2011.
AMC Theatres delivers distinctive and affordable movie-going experiences
in 338 theatres with 4,865 screens primarily in the United States. The
company operates 22 of the 50 highest grossing theatres in the country,
including four of the top five. AMC has propelled industry innovation
and continues today by delivering premium sight and sound, enhanced food
and beverage and diverse content. AMCTheatres.com.
'Vampire Diaries' premiere: Executive producer previews season 4
The ‘Vampire Diaries’ premiere raised a lot of questions about the future of protagonist Elena and her friends and love interests. Executive producer Julie Plec previews what’s coming up on the show.
The TV Addict, /
October 12, 2012
‘Vampire Diaries’ actress Claire Holt portrays vampire Rebekah on the show.
John Carucci/AP
Looks like the supernatural baddies of Mystic Falls won't have Elena to push around anymore… or at least, doing so won't be so easy now that she's a bloodsucker! With that shocker, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES took things to a whole new level. So what happens next? Let's ask executive producer Julie Plec!
Skip to next paragraph
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It was three years in the making, in that we knew when we started the series that we'd get there eventually. At one point, we thought we wouldn't get there until Season 5, and then at one point contemplated getting there by the end of Season 2! We began Season 3 knowing how we were going to end it, so all the choices we made and everything that we did was all trying to very gently and quietly tee that up and put Elena in a situation where that was the biggest move that could happen in her life.
It's exciting, because it's fresh, you know? It gets us jazzed every day, because we don't feel like we're just retreading the same old stuff. It's daunting, because we think it's awesome, but if nobody else likes it, there is nothing we can do. We have put the show on this course, and there's no going back. So if it gets rejected, then we're going to have to take a beat and think about what we've done. That said, I think people will like it, because it's still Elena. It's just Elena with a dozen, two dozen more layers to herself.
Are you a TV trivia buff? Take our quiz
Nina is nothing if not a total champion, and she loves to be challenged as an actress. So far, so good! She's finding all the nuances in the character that are different than Katherine and different than the human Elena. A lot of actors during Season 4 of a TV series don't necessarily get to wake up and be somebody new, so I think she's very excited about that.
Ultimately, the pitch of the show back in the beginning was a love triangle between two vampire brothers and their love for the same girl, so it's certainly something we're not going to just lock up in a briefcase and put away. It's always going to be there. What's great about turning Elena into someone "new" is that it takes where she was with Damon and Stefan and puts it in a blender and spins it around. We don't really know what's going to come out of that. Because this is a new person, we don't know how she'll connect with them and how they'll react to the changes in her. It adds a lot of fun, new dynamics to this triangle.
With Joseph, certainly our intention was to kill him. And then we changed our minds because he's so good, and we felt it was too soon to say good-bye to that character. So a lot of what you're going to be seeing at the beginning of Season 4 is him at his most devilish and darkest. He is such a magnificent, nasty villain! The last thing we want to do is cut his legs out from under him, so we're going to get to see some of nasty Klaus in action.
Well, the good news is that both of them have the ability to return to our show at any time in their contracts. They love us, and we love them so much. With Alaric being dead, of course, we won't see much of him. But we've definitely got some new faces. Some of them are more mysterious, some of them are younger. There's a new character named April who is a high school student that returns to town after a couple of years away and kind of lands right in the middle of everything. And then there's a new vampire hunter named Connor who comes to town. He's no Alaric. He's a hardcore, humorless, take-no-prisoners, get-it-done character, and he's a bit of a threat for our heroes. More so than they expected to come across!
The TV Addict staff blogs at The TV Addict.
четверг, 11 октября 2012 г.
AMC Theatres® and Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate® Company, Present The Twilight Saga Marathon at 291 AMC Locations
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–(BUSINESS WIRE–
AMC Theatres® is excited to announce the details of the
upcoming Twilight Saga Marathon, which will run at AMC locations
nationwide on Thursday, Nov. 15, and will finish with the 10 p.m.
release of Summit Entertainment's THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN –
PART 2.
The Twilight Saga Marathon features all five movies from THE TWILIGHT
SAGA, and will play at 291 U.S. AMC locations nationwide. Tickets for
The Twilight Saga Marathon are just $35. AMC Stubs members who purchase
tickets before Nov. 15 will receive $5 Bonus Bucks on their AMC Stubs
account valid the day of the event.
"For the past five years our guests have been following the epic story
of Bella, Edward, Jacob and all of the characters that make THE TWILIGHT
SAGA so compelling," said Sun Dee Larson, vice president of film
marketing and communications at AMC. "The feedback from guests has been
overwhelming in that they want to see this story finished properly by
watching how we got to this point from the beginning before the
climactic conclusion of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2."
The Twilight Saga Marathon begins Nov. 15 at 11:30 a.m. and will feature
the following films in order:
Fans attending the event will receive a limited edition lanyard and a
full size commemorative one-sheet at participating locations while
supplies last.
For more information or to purchase tickets, which are on sale now,
visit .
To learn more about AMC Stubs, visit .
THE TWILIGHT SAGA film series stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
and Taylor Lautner, and tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan who
moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father,
and becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale, mysterious classmate who
seems determined to push her away. But neither can deny the attraction
that pulls them together…even when Edward confides that he and his
family are vampires. The action-packed, modern day vampire love story
TWILIGHT, the first film in the series, was released in theatres on
November 21, 2008 to a blockbuster reception. The second installment of
the film franchise, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON was released November
20, 2009, the third installment, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE was released
June 30, 2010, and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 was
released on November 18, 2011.
AMC Theatres delivers distinctive and affordable movie-going experiences
in 338 theatres with 4,865 screens primarily in the United States. The
company operates 22 of the 50 highest grossing theatres in the country,
including four of the top five. AMC has propelled industry innovation
and continues today by delivering premium sight and sound, enhanced food
and beverage and diverse content. AMCTheatres.com.
'The Vampire Diaries' season premiere recap: Death Becomes Her
Let’s go ahead and add this to the list of Vampire Diaries episodes that made us misty. And gave us chills. As I said in , we all knew Elena would complete her transition and become a vampire, so this episode had to deliver in emotion what it couldn't offer in suspense. And for me, it did. It’s funny, I’ve already read comments from some people saying they felt too much was crammed into the hour and others saying it felt too repetitive. I think four things happened here:
1. They really wanted to make this episode accessible for new fans. By doing so, they had to keep rehashing themes diehards are very familiar with, like Stefan will always respect Elena’s choice and Damon won’t if he thinks it’s one that will cause him to lose her. The goal, I assume, was to do it in a clever way that felt like a payoff for longtime viewers and not a rerun. It didn’t always work.
2. We’ve been so Original and love-triangle focused that seeing all those different faces on the Council members may have felt… off. We had this intense little world last season, and opening it up left some air out of it. For now. After we meet this new vampire hunter arriving in next week’s episode and begin to learn his story — which will add to the mythology of the show and give us a direction for the season — I think we’ll feel more at home.
3. They knew they couldn’t drag out Elena’s decision on transitioning for more than one episode, so a lot did have to go on at the same time in this hour — which meant a lot of cutting back and forth between story lines.
4. Delena fans don’t like being reminded that Elena chose Stefan and watching her reaffirm that decision multiple times. (Reminder: I am Switzerland.
Let’s dig in.
Diehards will have already seen the opening scene, which was released online. It played out as you’d expect: Damon wanted Elena to feed immediately; Stefan didn’t. He wanted to give Bonnie time to ask the witch spirits, who’d helped her bring Jeremy back to life at the end of season 2, if they could make Elena human again. Elena never wanted to become a vampire, so that was her preferred plan, too. «You’re choice, Elena. As always,» Damon said. He was pissed at Stefan for saving Matt first, as Elena had requested. «And now the world has one more quarterback. Bravo, brother,» Damon told Stefan. «I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life. Now let me try to fix it,» Stefan said.
Even though we know Jeremy’s history with vampires, and that Elena is the only family he has left, I still found the words he used when he told her he couldn’t lose her — «I need my sister, not another one of them» — jarring. That worries me. Jeremy’s in need of a new story line. He wouldn’t turn on Elena, right? But what about the other vampires?
Over to Bonnie, the deal Bonnie made with Klaus in the season 3 finale was that he’d leave Tyler’s body and jump into someone else’s. But that was when he thought he’d be a pile of ash. Fate, oxygen, and viewers’ love of Joseph Morgan’s devilish smile, accent, and soft eyes when Klaus feels alone and cries, intervened. Now Klaus wanted back in his own body, especially because Tyler and Caroline had been outed to the Council. Bonnie told him she couldn’t do it right now — she had to focus on Elena’s problem first. Bonnie’s excellent at talking when someone is strangling her: She convinced Klaus to move to the back of the line by reminding him that if she keeps Elena human, he still has his blood supply to make hybrids. In exchange, Klaus told her no one could know it was him in Tyler’s body.
Speaking of the Council, Pastor Young showed up at the hospital to let Meredith know that the Council was cracking down on vampires and those who are friendly toward them. He told Meredith she should look for a new job and sent men to secure the blood bank and check the rooms. Caroline was in a room with Matt, who sadly had already put his T-shirt back on after presumably changing out of a hospital gown. Damn his layering. He felt guilty for Elena being a vampire, and Caroline felt lost because her plan to run away with Tyler had died with him. They heard a Council member coming, and Caroline was nowhere to be seen when he burst into the room. We never found out where she’d gone. The guy did a piss poor job searching the place, so she could have just hid under the bed or behind the curtain. As Tyler’s and Caroline’s mothers were taken into custody for questioning and shut out of their offices, Caroline was at home packing her bags. Liz called her to make sure she’d left town and overheard her getting vervained.
NEXT: Laugh, Stefan!
вторник, 9 октября 2012 г.
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