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I'm Glad I Waited...

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... to post the pictures of Alexander Skarsgård in the new issue of Interview Magazine, because they've released the hi-res versions now and they were worth it. Jesus, that one with the bat will get me through some lonely nights. (click these to mightily embiggen)

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A note: Remember how Blogger went down last week, and all the posts I wrote on Thursday disappeared? Well Blogger's finally returned several (though not all of them, yet) of them to my saved pile, but not republished them at the appropriate in-the-past place. I'm too distracted today to figure out when they were originally scheduled, and also all the comments y'all made on them are gone now anyway, so I'm just gonna republish each one right now. So yes, you've seen these stories before, and yes they are nearly a week old. Let's do the time warp, et cetera...

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--- Swamp Sweat - The first clip with actual footage from the fourth season of True Blood is online and you can watch it at PopWrap. And yes, as you can see there to the ?, they are highlighting their finer points.

--- And speaking of the finer things on True Blood, Alexander Skarsgard has joined the cast of a movie where he will be married to Julianne Moore. I want to watch them make out.

--- No Escape - John Carpenter's The Ward is getting dumped released on VOD on June 8th. It'll then get chucked into a couple of theaters on July 8th. It is supposedly awful. Dammit, John. I'll watch it at some point no doubt, but just dammit.

--- We Need To Talk About We Need To Talk About Kevin - I mention all this in the comments of the post I'm about to link to, but I started reading Lionel Shriver's book We Need To Talk About Kevin last night and the ol' cliche came true - I couldn't put it down! I lay there til my exhausted eyes ached, completely and immediately sucked right in. Shriver's writing is wonderful. Anyway over at The Film Experience Nat's talking about the reviews coming out of Cannes today for the film adaptation with Tilda Swinton, and how he's staying away from those clips that came out earlier this week. Me too!

--- Block Busted - I'll be in Italy when these happen so I'm gonna miss it - and I'm not that unhappy about missing it since I will be in motherfucking Italy - but that "British kids fighting aliens" movie Attack the Block that's got every blogger from here to thither foaming at the mouth over it is screening in 25 cities on May 25th. Find out more at that link. Word is that it won't be out in the US for real until Fall.

--- Hard For Hammer - You can hear a few thoughts from screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the subject of his latest politically minded movie, J. Edgar, over here. This bit was up my alley:

"Leo knocked it out of the park. He worked incredibly hard, he devoured research quicker than I could produce it, and he’s one of the best actors we have. And I love Armie. He’s a great guy, a real rising star, and he’s not hard to look at either."

--- And finally, it's a fairly lengthy piece but it's really all sorts of wonderful - here's Alexander Chee talking about what the X-Men meant to him thirty-five years ago growing up bi-racial, and what they mean now in the world we live in.

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Alexander Skarsgård Eight Times

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(via, via)

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The Time Has Come To Abandon Sleeves

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But only if your name is Alexander Skarsgård. And then, if your name is Alexander Skarsgård, then the time has also come for you to stop reading my blather and send me an email with the time and the place. You name it, Alex. But if you're not Alexander Skarsgård, then whatever, do what you want, I don't care. God. Why don't you watch the trailer for the Straw Dogs remake and leave me alone, Not Alexander Skarsgård. He mostly never wears sleeves!
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And yeah, Jimmy Marsden's there too but he only shows a little chest fur and leg, he doesn't get full credit for that. Not in the face of this all. Fail, Jimmy! Fail. I know you can do better. Look at them, up on that roof! Remember the last time you were on a roof? I certainly do. I remember it well. Why don't you do that again, hmmm?

The Boys of Bon Temps

io9's got the first trailer for the fourth season of True Blood, but there's no new footage in it. It's just a bunch of shots of their pretty cast being pretty. So in that spirit, here are the five dudes (minus Lafayette, who I like just fine, but not that way). The show's back on June 26th.

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--- Strike A Pose - A few of the stories I'm shepherding into this post should probably get posts all their own, and this is one of them. Steven Soderbergh making a male stripper movie starring Channing Tatum, based on Channing's own well-documented g-stringed past? Uh... what? And I love the assertion that Soderbergh was totally gonna retire but this story was one he just couldn't not tell! The epic thrust of it! I love this crazy world sometimes. So that means SS is going from covering Michael Douglas in glitter for a Liberace bio-pic to stuffing Channing into a thong. Never leave us, Steven.

--- Slice N Dice - Slash has got the trailer for Takashi Miike's next film, which is apparently another samurai movie, called Hari-Kari: Death of a Samurai. It will be shown at Cannes.

--- Arrrgh? - I have no idea what the hell this Cobra: The Space Pirate movie is, but it's from Alexandre Aja so I'm immediately curious. But that poster is ridiculous. Ridiculous! (via) 

--- War Man - The terrific Anthony Mackie is up for a role in World War Z opposite Brad Pitt. I'm really curious to see how they managed to make a script from that book, which was just a series of stories told from the point of view of survivors of a zombie apocalypse. There wasn't a through-line to follow so much, no central characters. I guess they just pick one and follow him through the people's stories, probably. Not that hard.

--- The Pie King - Another story that'd deserve it's own post on a morning when I'm not too groggy for it is this: Lee Pace has joined the cast of The Hobbit! Kick-ass! Congrats, Lee! He'll be playing the Elven King Thranduil. I can already see the long flowing blond hair on him, can't you? He wore it so well in Soldier's Girl after all.

--- All Josses Eve - Rumors have it that Lionsgate intends to release Cabin in the Woods on October 28th. I am so glad the Saw movies are finished so we can have horror movies come out at Halloween again! Hooray!

--- Rape Me - The first couple of images from the so-unnecessary-it's-painful Straw Dogs remake, starring James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård and some bland skinny blond woman, are over at BD, and just look at Alex there and tell me you wouldn't want to get raped by that. It's not rape if it's Alexander Skarsgård! Okay I'll stop that now. Sorry. I got carried away.

--- Chain Gang - And yet a third story deserving it's own post - Tarantino's next film has a title - Django Unchained - and a bit of plot. You can read about it over at DH. Sounds like it deals heavily with slavery and racism, in a Spaghetti Western sort of context. Instead of a Western he's calling it a Southern. Sounds like there's a kick-ass lead role in store for a lucky black actor.

--- Nerd Porn - There were some pictures taken from the NYC set of the next Spider-Man movie over the weekend and they included that adorable one of Andy there. how could I not share that? Collective awww. He looks so cute in glasses! Awww.

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Meloncholia and the Infinite Sadness

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It's out in less than a month in Denmark, so we're seeing a bunch of stuff from Lars Von Trier's Meloncholia these days. There was a poster earlier today that I liked even while thinking it was a little bit boring (but beautiful boring), and now we've got a big ol' batch of new pictures via The Playlist. These are just a couple, click over for the deluge.

Anyway look at what a pretty blond pair Kiki and Alex make! I think their babies would just be tiny little balls of blinding white light.
 

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... gettin' sloshed with Godric.

Yes, that Allan Hyde, who played Godric way back when on True Blood. (Sidenote: Are we ever gonna get flashbacks to his and Alexander Skarsgård's long-time relationship or what? I keep waiting and waiting and wanting and wanting...)

These shots are from a new web-series that Allan's starring in called Alla Salute!, which you can watch the first of five parts of right here. As you can see, it's worth ten minutes of your time. (via)

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