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News, Season 6, Season 6 News, Spoilers, Videos

VIDEO: #WaitingSucks! True Blood Season 6: Tru Blood Teaser

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The Battle for Blood Begins:

HBO's True Blood promo Season 6 Blood will SpillAnd so the plot thickens deliciously! It seems there will be a blood war as attacks on the Tru Blood manufacturing plants intensify in Season 6 of HBO’s True Blood. While fires rage out of control, people and vampires alike rush to stockpile the now valuable resource.

What do you think the outcome will be in Season 6 of HBO’s True Blood?

Let us know in the comments below.

Source: YouTube – True Blood Season 6: Bottle Preview

(Photo Credit: HBO Inc./Rachel Tsoumbakos)

 

Featured, News, True Blood Contests

Two True Blood Halloween Contests!

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Tru Blood BeverageAnnouncing not ONE but TWO True Blood contests! One by our Tru Blood friends over at FMCG Manufacturing  and one by us, TrueBloodNet.com!

Tru Beverage Contest

FMCG is offering a variety of True Blood items as a prize if you submit a photo of yourself holding a Tru Beverage. You can be in your True Blood Costume, at an unusual location or just about any creative picture of you getting your V on with your Tru Blood Beverage To enter, just either post a Twitpic and then let them know by tweeting them @FMCGmfg or go to their Facebook page at FMCG-Manufacturingand post the shot there! If yours is the winning submission you’ll win this fangtabulous prize package!

(1) 4 pack of Tru Blood
(1) Season 2 DVD set
(1) Men’s True Blood Shirt
(1) Women’s True Blood Shirt
(3) Tru Blood shot glasses
(2) Sookie Stackhouse novels (selected at random)
(4) Season 3 posters (selected at random)

TrueBloodNet.com Contest

True Blood KeyringTo enter the TrueBloodNet.com contest just submit a photo of you in your True Blood costume in the comments section and we’ll pick our favorite three and the three winners will get a True Blood keyring! These costumes don’t have to be ordered from HBO they just have to follow a True Blood theme, anything from a Werepanther to a Fang Banger or a Waitress at Merlotte’s! And we also might make you pseudo-famous because we’ll be taking those pics of you in costume and writing a little story about it. Free Key-chains and your name in lights! Even if it’s just the back-light of your computer screen!

The deadline for BOTH contests is November 10th, 2010

That will give you plenty of time to be creative, get over your Halloween Fangover and maybe even take a few pictures at Eyecon!

Image Credit: HBO and FMCG Manufacturing

Events, News

Tru Blood For Charity

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Let the blood spill at the party. Well, actually, let the Tru Blood flow freely at the Emerging Magazine’s 2010 Pre-Emmy Celebrity Luxury Party & Fashion Show. HBO’s official Tru Blood drink produced by FMCG Manufacturing is the Supporting Sponsor of the event.

If that wasn’t enough, the sponsor, FMCG Manufacturing, is donating items for a silent auction in order to gain funds for Shining Star Kids of America, which is creating a new way for long term residential care for foster children. The event is celebrating the best of Hollywood, past and present, while also honoring the nominees of 2010 Emmy Awards. Guest will glimpse the hottest fashions; not only will they see gowns, but also clothes and designs straight from vampire genre films and television shows.

During this two day charity event, Supporting Sponsor, FMCG Manufacturing will be giving away bottles of Tru Blood. The beverage is a product of the HBO hit True Blood. Mixing sex, danger, and romance, the show revolves around vampires as they try to integrate themselves openly into society and how certain humans and certain vampires are effected by all this. The reason for human-vampire coexistence is due to the Japanese creation of synthetic blood, which allows a vampire to gain all needed nutrients without a human victim. The beverage is called: Tru Blood.

In reality, the Tru Blood fans and celebrities enjoy is a carbonated blood orange flavored drink. While it pours like regular soda, in a glass the drink appears dense and opaque. It’s club-goers new favorite as it can be mixed with spirits and bartenders are creating fun new drinks.  Great flavor without the bite. Great taste that matches a great cause.

SOURCE: emergingmagazine.com

(Photo Credit: HBO Inc.)

News

Charlaine Harris to Attend Tru Blood & Gold Vampire Ball

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Charlaine HarrisCharlaine Harris will be the special guest for the Tru Blood & Gold Ball at REPUBLIC NEW ORLEANS, 828 South Peters Street in New Orleans on October 30.  The Ball is sponsored by the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club (ARVLFC) who are reaching out to True Blood and Sookie Stackhouse fans with vampire solidarity.

The event is for adults 18 and over, with no exceptions, and costumes, creative attire, and evening wear are strongly encouraged by organizers.  The show starts at 9:00 pm and ends at 2:00 am (doors open at 8:00 pm).  Other guests include Gabrielle Faust, creator of the Eternal Vigilance series, and musical guests Saints of Ruin, the Kinky Tuscaderos, and Marc Gunn.

Charlaine told organizers that she is very “excited…to be coming to the party and she is even having a special costume made for the occasion!”  In addition, organizers say there will be an opportunity for Q&A with Charlaine and:

If you submit a question you may be asked to read it to her at the party. Submit all questions via email to suequiroz@gmail.com [Suzie Quiroz] and she will include them in a list for consideration.

Tickets are still available exclusively through the ARVLFC website to attend this event ($20 for members, $35 for non-members), though October 15 is the last day to have tickets mailed to your address, and will be sent through certified mail.  If you request shipping, you must add $6.00 for shipping to your order.  Shipped tickets will require a signature for delivery.  After October 15, all tickets will be held at the will-call window for pickup.  Non-members may only order up to four tickets.

True Blood and Gold Ball

SOURCE: Vampire Lestat Fan Club

(Photo credit: HBO Inc.)

Lafayette Reynolds, Nelsan Ellis, News

Nelsan Ellis Attends RCN Party In Chicago

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hamiltons_091109-134_print1RCN Corporation is a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high speed internet and premium voice services.  RCN hosted a Fangtasia event on Sept. 11 and Nelsan Ellis made a guest appearance.  Two hundred fans showed up for the event and the line stretched down the block.  To turn Hamilton’s into Fangtasia, the building was filled with coffins and tombstones.  Their version of True Blood was also being served along with food and other refreshments.

Twenty fans were able to meet Nelsan and get autographed photos.  Nelsan is a Chicago native and is best known for his role as Lafayette Reynolds on True Blood.  Tom McKay, general manager of RCN Chicago, says:

“The turnout for ‘Fangtasia‘ surpassed our expectations. Thanks to our partnership with HBO and Nelsan Ellis, who was very interactive with the crowd, the event was an excellent way for us to reach out to our customers including college students in the surrounding area.”

RCN will also be sponsoring blood drives at the University of Illinois Medical Center on Sept. 17 and 24 to continue with the True Blood theme.  Donors will be receiving giveaways.  Visit www.rcn.com/fangs for more information.

Source:  marketwire.com

Photo Credit:  (Vi Photography)

News

True Blood Sinks Its Teeth Into The Marketing World

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Digitaria’s Reena Leone recently wrote about how HBO has successfully used an integrated marketing campaign to promote “True Blood“.  HBO‘s campaign began last year at Comic Con and centered around the synthetic blood drink, TruBlood.  Posters soon started popping up on buildings and ads started appearing in magazines.  Reena Leone states:

“Instead of a traditional marketing plan, True Blood creates an “in world” perspective. This is done through a wide array of social media, digital, and traditional advertising techniques”.

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One of the first sites to appear on the web was http://trubeverage.com//, and HBO didn’t stop there.  There are also sites for The Fellowship of the Sun (http://fellowshipofthesun.org) and the American Vampire League (http://www.americanvampireleague.com/).  The Fellowship of the Sun site features words of wisdom and sermons, while the AVL site features Public Service Announcements and news.  There is also a vampire blog called Blood Copy (http://www.bloodcopy.com).  I even discovered a Human/Vampire dating service site at (http://lovebitten.net/).  You can also get your fix on Twitter by following BonTempsGossip.  The tweets are in first-person and offer the town’s gossip, leaks, and teasers.  HBO has recently taken their marketing back to where it began with the marketing of the TruBlood beverage.  It is now available for pre-order at the HBO True Blood shop.

Of course HBO was looking to top the Season 1 advertising campaign, so they challenged Digital Kitchen to make it happen.  Digital Kitchen’s website states:

“We created and executed a campaign to disrupt reality and people’s perceptions of what an advertisement really is”.

The campaign followed the perception that vampires are real and living among us, and Digital Kitchen decided to make them the target audience.  Real brands agreed to be a part of True Blood‘s Season 2 marketing campaign.  Digital Kitchen says:

“When we started we were hopeful to get 2-3 brands to sign on, however in a matter of weeks we were able to secure six brands: Geico, Monster, Mini, Harley-Davidson, Gillette, and Mark Ecko”.

Their campaign proved to be exceptionally successful.  According to HBO,  True Blood’s Season 2 opened with 3.7 million viewers, a 157% over last year’s Season 1 premiere.