From People.com

It’s true love for True Blood couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. The two are engaged to be married, reps for both actors on the HBO vampire series confirm to PEOPLE exclusively.

No further details were available.

Paquin, who plays telepathic Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood, is originally from New Zealand and won a 1994 Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the precocious child in The Piano.

Moyer, from Essex, England, plays bloodsucking Bill Compton on the series. He also has two children from previous relationships: a son, Billy, born in 2000, and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002.

Last month, Paquin, 27, said of her nude love scenes with Moyer, 39: “Obviously, if you’re already with that person then you’re not having to sort of get over the ‘Wow, I’m naked with someone that I don’t even know the middle name of!’”

For his part, Moyer has said of his lady love, “My girl is hardcore.”

Congrats to Anna!

If you missed Anna on Jimmy Fallon last night, the full episode is now up on his website.

From Gold Derby

We’re chatting live with past Oscar champ (“The Piano”) and current Emmy contender (” True Blood “) Anna Paquin on Tuesday at 4 p.m. PDT / 8 p.m. EDT. Here’s your big chance to ask her your most interesting and exciting questions. I’m dying to ask what I’ve written about at length here at Gold Derby in the past: Do you think you can survive the curse� against vampires at the Emmys? � What do Hollywood award voters have against� the walking dead� anyway?

HBO released posters featuring the main actors. You can check out Anna’s below.

This is a long article on what is taking so long for Margaret to get released, if it gets released.

From The Los Angeles Times:

“You Can Count on Me” was the kind of Hollywood arrival that every aspiring filmmaker dreams about.

Kenneth Lonergan’s 2000 directorial debut about two siblings’ splintered relationship was a solid art-house hit, the film helped launch the career of costar Mark Ruffalo and was nominated for two Academy Awards — lead actress for Laura Linney and original screenplay for Lonergan.

It was hardly surprising, then, that in early 2005 Fox Searchlight and financier Gary Gilbert (“Garden State”) were eager to back Lonergan’s second turn behind the camera, deciding to co-finance his complex account of a young girl’s grappling with guilt and adolescence, “Margaret.”

But although “You Can Count on Me” seemed blessed at almost every turn, “Margaret” has turned into a nightmarish production that has devolved into a bitter court fight. Despite “Margaret’s” initial promise, it is now uncertain when Lonergan’s movie, which was filmed more than three years ago, will ever make it to theaters.

Movie studio shelves are filled with troubled projects that have been put on hold for any number of reasons, but rarely do they involve someone of Lonergan’s standing working with such quality actors (“Margaret’s” cast includes Ruffalo, Matt Damon and Anna Paquin) and an all-star producing team of Oscar winners — Scott Rudin ( “No Country for Old Men”) and the late Sydney Pollack (“Out of Africa”).

More unusual still is why, according to one of the film’s two lawsuits, “Margaret” hasn’t come out: Lonergan can’t finish the film.

Because of the litigation and a confidentiality agreement among the lawyers, all of the principals central to the film declined to be interviewed for this story. But conversations with a dozen people close to or familiar with the production, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, painted a picture of an endless post-production cycle that left Lonergan and Gilbert clashing and Fox Searchlight sitting on what might be an unreleasable movie.

A number of producers and editors — including Rudin, Pollack and Martin Scorsese’s legendary editor, Thelma Schoonmaker — have tried but failed to help Lonergan complete his movie, court documents and interviews show. With his financing from Gilbert and Fox Searchlight cut off, Lonergan borrowed more than $1 million from actor and close friend Matthew Broderick (who has a small part in “Margaret”) in an attempt to complete the editing of the movie, according to a person close to the production. (A Broderick spokesman said the loan was a private matter and disputed the dollar amount but did not provide another figure.)

The film’s lengthy post-production sparked two lawsuits, which are scheduled to be tried in June and September. Last July, Fox Searchlight sued Gilbert and his production company, claiming he failed to pay the studio half of the film’s production costs. Two months later, Gilbert’s Camelot Pictures sued Fox Searchlight and Lonergan, alleging that the studio and Lonergan thwarted Gilbert’s many attempts to finish the movie, forcing Camelot to pay for “a clearly inferior and unmarketable film” that Lonergan, several people say, will not support.

The quandary surrounding the $12.6-million “Margaret” comes at an awkward time for Fox Searchlight. The studio is riding high from the success of the global smash “Slumdog Millionaire,” a best picture Oscar winner that the studio acquired as a largely completed film from the defunct Warner Independent Pictures. But Fox Searchlight, whose president, Peter Rice, just left to run Fox’s television network, has a spottier record when it comes to movies it develops and finances, such as “Margaret.”

Several people who have seen versions of “Margaret” say that, while the lengthy movie is not necessarily commercial, it does contain several great performances. Anne McCabe, who cut “You Can Count on Me” and was one of “Margaret’s” editors, said Scorsese told her a 2006 version of the film was “brilliant, a masterpiece.”

Fox Searchlight hopes the legal fighting can be resolved soon, so that it can submit the movie to film festivals. But one Fox executive says that, given all the problems with the film, the studio likes to pretend “Margaret” never happened.

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From Variety:

Anna Paquin was enjoying lunch in her trailer while shooting a film in Latvia when her phone started ringing. “I couldn’t be more thrilled. It’s incredibly exciting for all of us. I guess it means people are really responding to what we did. I love playing Sookie because I get to do everything. She’s sweet but strong and she gets into crazy scrapes. I fought really hard to get this role and it’s been incredibly rewarding because I get to work with such amazing actors, writers and directors, and thanks to HBO, we have the resources to do some pretty high level film quality work without having to censor the subject matter or content.”

- Anna Paquin, actress, “True Blood”

These are two articles about Anna’s sister, Katya and her fight with a brain tumour. As fans of Anna’s, let’s keep her sister in our thoughts.

From NBR:

Green Party co-leader Russel Norman’s partner Katya Paquin is to have further surgery to try and remove a brain tumour.

Dr Norman told NZPA that Ms Paquin visited Wellington Hospital on Thursday for pre-surgery preparation and would go back on October 17 for the operation.

“This is their third attempt to get the tumour, they’ve got parts of it before and they’re hoping this time they will finish it off,” Dr Norman said.

Asked how he coped with the stress, he answered: “I don’t know. I don’t know what the answer is.”

The tumour was diagnosed just a few months before the last election.

“It happened in April-May 2005, it was much more stressful because it was the first time and it was a haemorrhaging tumour back then and I was the campaign manager at that time.”

Ms Paquin is a Green Party researcher.

Dr Norman said the couple had good family support. Ms Paquin’s sister is the Oscar winning actress Anna Paquin.

From NZ Herald:

Katya Paquin, petite and wearing a Deborah Sweeney designer dress, and her partner Green Party co-leader Russel Norman are snuggled together in what could pass as a ramshackle student flat in an old Hataitai villa.

There’s a cheese board and Milton’s organic wine on offer amid the bohemian chic decor, a collection of mismatched and borrowed furniture dominated by a large home-made bookcase crammed with many books and CDs.

Here they have entertained Paquin’s famous sister Anna when she visits from Hollywood, where she has found fame after nabbing the part of Flora in the Jane Campion film The Piano in 1993.

Katya Paquin, now 29, went as 12-year-old to an open audition with a friend after the friend’s mother read an ad in the paper. Paquin and her friend were among a bunch of youngsters who turned up.

“We were not a theatre family at all. I’d never done any acting or anything like that.” Neither had younger sister Anna, but she tagged along for the experience.

“My sister came with us but we were too old for the part. I am three years older so that’s quite a big difference for that role, but it’s funny how things work out.”

Katya doesn’t remember Anna’s gasping Oscar acceptance speech: “I think I may have been at school. I think I got the news over the phone – it was really great.”

Now Paquin talks about the tumour growing in her brain with the same clarity and determination with which her partner talks about politics. “I am hoping to get through this,” she says.

Paquin’s had surgery on the tumour and faces more in the future. She’s had gruelling treatment and takes medication daily, but sidesteps questions about its severity.

“I don’t want to go into too much detail but, you know, I am hoping to get through this.”

There’s laughter and kisses and cuddles with Norman, 41. The room is filled with their love.

Diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago, Paquin has been “kind of dealing with it ever since”.

She downplays the gravity of her medical condition, using words such as “tricky health stuff” to describe all that she is going through.

“I mean a lot of people have difficulties that they have to deal with and we are trying to deal with it as best as we can.
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