From Paste Magazine:

Paste: You had an interesting opportunity while filming a scene from Margaret at the Met. Can you tell me what that was like?
Paquin: We got to shoot inside the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, which was incredible. Although they weren’t actually performing on the stage, the singers that we had in the scene are some of the most prestigious stars of that community. That was pretty amazing. My character and her mother go to the opera and we actually got to shoot inside the Metropolitan Opera House, which very few people have ever done, and hasn’t happened in a really long time to the best of my knowledge. It was absolutely incredible. It’s such a huge iconic place in New York City, and we have this scene where my character is running down the spiral staircase, and there’s all these sort of things that just feel so amazing. It was all very exciting.

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I added a photoshoot from Cannes in 2006 to the gallery. The album can be found here.

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The current issue of TV Guide has a blurb about HBO, which includes a new photo from “True Blood” of Sookie (Anna) and Bill (Stephen Moyer). I’ve added a scan of it to the gallery here.

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From Oscars.Org, for those of you in the Los Angeles area:

Beverly Hills, CA — The 1993 Best Picture nominee “The Piano” will be screened as the first feature in the fifth and final season of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The story, set in the mid-19th century, of a mute Scotswoman sent off to an arranged marriage in New Zealand will screen on Monday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Following the screening actor Cliff Curtis and U.S. casting director Victoria Thomas will participate in a discussion about the film.

“The Piano” received a total of eight Academy Award® nominations and won the Oscars® for Actress in a Leading Role (Holly Hunter), Actress in a Supporting Role (Anna Paquin) and Writing – Screenplay written directly for the screen (Jane Campion). The film also received nominations for Best Picture (Jan Chapman, producer), Cinematography (Stuart Dryburgh), Costume Design (Janet Patterson), Directing (Jane Campion) and Film Editing (Veronika Jenet).

The Oscar-nominated animated short “The Mighty River” will be screened prior to the feature.

Passes for all 17 screenings in part five of “Great To Be Nominated” are $30 for the general public and $25 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. A $5 discount is available for those who wish to renew their passes from parts one, two, three or four of the series. Individual tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Passes and tickets may be purchased online at www.oscars.org, by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the screening when the doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Curtain time for all features is 7:30 p.m., and pre-show elements will begin at 7 p.m. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.

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MovieFone ranked the Top 25 Child Stars of all time, and Anna made the list at #13! The full list can be found here.

13. Anna Paquin

At age 11, Paquin became Canada’s first Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner and the second youngest actress to claim an Oscar, thanks to her role as the daughter of (and interpreter for) Holly Hunter’s mute pianist in 1993’s ‘The Piano.’ ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Fly Away Home’ enhanced her rep, but the ‘X-Men’ trilogy gave her adult stardom.

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From Bloody Disgusting:

We discovered today that Legendary Pictures held a screening last night for their film Trick ‘r Treat, which was directed by Michael Dougherty. Apparently Warner Bros. Pictures has decided NOT to release it and the horror film is now up for sale to whomever would be interested in distributing it. This does mean that there are no release plans for the film, so until we update you with a new distributor, don’t hold your breath. The film features four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband.

This is really depressing news.

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From The A.V. Club:

At age 25, Canadian-born, New Zealand-raised actor Anna Paquin has already had a longer career than most. She won an Oscar at 9, for her performance in Jane Campion’s The Piano. She’s appeared in more than 20 films, working with directors as varied as Steven Spielberg (Amistad) and Spike Lee (25th Hour). She’s been a goose wrangler in Fly Away Home and the mutant superhero Rogue in the X-Men trilogy. When she graduated high school, she moved to New York City and enrolled in Columbia University, allowing her to work onstage, starring with Kieran Culkin in an Off-Broadway production of After Ashley. She even made her way to the London stage, working with playwright Kenneth Lonergan in a production of This Is Our Youth in the West End.

More recently, she and her brother Andrew have started a production company called Paquin Films; its first release is the politically fueled, romantic road comedy Blue State. She stars alongside Breckin Meyer, whose character decides to move to Canada after the 2004 presidential election when his candidate, John Kerry, loses to George W. Bush. Recently, The A.V. Club sat down with Paquin to discuss politics, dropping out, black leather, and claws.

The A.V. Club: You moved to New York a few years ago to attend Columbia. How is that going? Or is it over?

Anna Paquin: Well, it’s over, not because I finished, but because I kind of stopped going. I started working a lot and kind of forgot to go back.

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