HAPPY NEW YEAR: Kyle Schmid WINS Sexiest man in Vampire Realm!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2010 (or 20 Zen) my Fang-tastic Followers!

Well Henry Fitzroy Fans, yup you've read it right (re: title)!

Updating on that vote poll I told about only 4 days ago, being done by The Memphis Vampire Examiner, it was a close race to the sunset, but ultimately Kyle Schmid's fans rallied en mass, and in only two days, staked a win over Twilight's Robert Pattinson.

Blood Ties, Vampire Henry Fitzroy himself, a.k.a Kyle Schmid has won "fangs" down as the Sexiest Man in the Vampire Realm!

Kyle won with 2,706 votes (beating R. Pat's 2,571).

Here's looking at you, Kid!

 Image Courtesy of KyleSchmidCentral:

And info to the end, over at Nicole Hadaway's blog, All Things Smart and Scary, she has posted a treat entitled: Little Bit of Blood Ties!

Also, on Marta Costa's Vampire Wire blog, for her Gratuitous New Year's day videos, she posted "Videos set to...", with Blood Ties, Henry Fitzroy as the 1st (scroll dwon page to find, after enjoying the Supernatural badges of course).

Bite Bits: Various and Sundry

Justin Timberlake admits that Twilight's Rob Pattinson is hotter than he, do you agree?

Over at Eternal Vigilance, there're updates on the Blood and Gold vampire ball from the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club.

Submit a short fan made trailer for a new vampire epic, The Strain, by director Guillermo del Toro and it may win to premiere in a Canadian theaters in August.

Casting news for Let the Right one in, the American remake of the Swedish film.

Read the commentary - Vampires: All dried up.

The Examiner.com has a 5 part series concerning the current popularity of vampire fiction.

Bits and Bites: Twilight, Blood Ties, Free Book Friday

Recently Announced, the 3rd installment of the Twilight saga: Eclipse is set to begin shooting in Vancouver this coming August (by August 17th). With New Moon set to be released this coming Nov. 20th, I'm thinking they must be aiming at releasing Eclipse for next Summer 2010??
See the link for more details: http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/twilight-3-begins-shooting-in-vancouver-next-month/2009/07/02/


Don't forget it's Free Book Friday today over at fang-tastic books: http://fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com/


Have a look at this interesting fan listing : Night Walker, dedicated to Blood Ties : http://bloodties.painted-dreams.net/extra.php

New Moon Trailer preview & Set Pics.

The trailer for "New Moon" (the second of four Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series) premiered last night on the MTV Movie Awards 2009.
Here is a view of the trailer via youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29xmnNJvb4

Also, 35 New Pics from the set of New Moon, see here at this link:
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20234559_20234565_20279381_1,00.html

The film is set to be released on November 20th 2009.

Twi-Lite

Okay, so I had been meaning to write a review on Twilight for a while now (since having seen it 2x last Nov. '08). Well the DVD is soon to be released, so still, this review is better late than never.

As much as I had looked fwd to the film - because I had read the books (well the 1st 3 anyway, as I still have yet to read bk 4) - as much as I'd looked forward to it, I didn't have too many high expectations (nor did I have low ones). I just went in there to see what a/o how it was being brought to the screen.

So, yes. I liked it, yet I didn't like it!

On it's own, not taking into consideration it was based on a book, it was good.
But when comparing it to the book it's based upon, I would say it fell short in (some / so many) areas.

But I guess those are some of the sacrifices that are made from book to film.

Nevertheless, the cinematography of the film itself, left a lot to be desired in my opinion. The continuity issues in some scenes ( Edward and Bella when she was in the hospital. Edward in a diff. position almost each time the camera flashes to him, when he is supposed to be pretending to be asleep. The forever moving/changing breathing tube in Bella's nose, when it was supposed to be a one clean shot).

In some scenes, it was almost as if the director threw all rules that apply to cinematic continuity out the window.

In other scenes, there were the long uncomfortable silences (Bella and her father in the kitchen). This scene (as an example of one) could have used some non-diegetic background music in it.

In all, Twilight was just simply "good" as the movie it was... but in juxtaposition to its' source, i.e.: the book : Twilight , it could have been better.