By Bill Keveney Will True Blood be a buzz transfusion for HBO? The pay-cable network is reuniting with the creator of one of its signature hits, Alan Ball of Six Feet Under, for its big fall launch: an adaptation of Charlaine Harris' novels about vampires and humans in backwoods Bon Temps, La.

By Ridley, Jim Dead Silence Directed by James Wa

Poor Flicka. Today's new version is a swell retelling of the Mary O'Hara book that became a 1943 film and 1956 television series.