The 36th People's Choice Awards Love Vampires

The 36th annual People's Choice Awards have chosen vampire flicks as its big winners. "The Twilight Saga," "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries" ruled the ceremony held last Wednesday night at the Nokia Theatre.


"The Twilight Saga" bit hard with four trophies including the favorite movie, franchise, and on-screen team for Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner who played the most-loved characters of Edward, Bella, and Jacob. Taylor Lautner also received the breakout male actor award.

Meanwhile, HBO's "True Blood" won the favorite TV obsession award as CW series "The Vampire Diaries" received the award for favorite new TV drama.


Vampires aside, other winners from the TV world included "American Idol" as favorite competition show, "Glee" as favorite new TV comedy, "The Big Bang Theory" as favorite TV comedy, "House" as favorite TV drama, and "Supernatural" as favorite fantasy TV show. Steve Carell won the favorite TV comedy actor award, Alyson Hannigan as favorite TV comedy actress, Hugh Laurie as favorite TV drama actor, and Katherine Heigl as the favorite TV drama actress.

For the movie category, Sandra Bullock was the favorite movie actress and Hugh Jackman was the favorite action star. Miley Cyrus received the favorite breakout movie actress award while Jim Carrey was awarded as the favorite comedic star. Sandra Bullock's "The Proposal" was also awarded as the favorite comedy movie while "Up" received honor for favorite family movie. "Inglourious Basterds" was the favorite independent movie.

Winners in music category included Lady Gaga as the favorite pop and breakout music artist, Keith Urban as favorite male artist, Taylor Swift as female artist, Carrie Underwood as country artist, Mariah Carey as R&B artist, Paramore as favorite rock band, Eminem as favorite hip-hop artist, and "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West as the favorite music collaboration.

Awards in other categories included "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" as the favorite talk show, "Dog Whisperer" as the favorite animal show, and Ashton Kutcher as the favorite web celebrity.

Queen Latifah hosted the ceremony for the fourth consecutive year, kicking off the show with a jazzy number while appearing in spoofs of "Twilight" and "Paranormal Activity" throughout the show.

The awarding ceremony also featured performances by Mary J. Blige, Cobra Starship and Nicole Scherzinger. Debut footage from "Clash of the Titans," "Robin Hood" and "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" were also presented.

"The only reason that any of us are up here is because of you," Johnny Depp told the audience. He not only received the favorite actor award but was also titled as "Actor of the Decade" for winning the award several times since the last 10 years.

Miley Cyrus Likens Obsession Over Twilight To Supermodels

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" might have the best opening day in film history but Miley Cyrus does not give a damn. For the tween sensation, the whole Twilight craze is a cult. Worst, she compares the tweens' obsession to Twilight to people's fascination with supermodels.


Miley Cyrus says:

"I think it's like cult... I think it's a cult. I think it's bad. I think it's like, just people get too into it.

"For me, I think it's like when guys look at supermodels and they're like, 'That's the perfect girl.' That's what those kind of movies do to us. They're like thinking that's what girls should be like and not everyone is going to be Edward, hate to say it."

Definitely not a fan of Robert Pattinson, the Hanna Montana star goes on to quip:

"Johnny Depp is way hotter than Robert Pattinson, for sure."

Miley Cyrus may not like Twilight and other vampire flicks but more than half of the tweens who have access to Hollywood films feel the contrary. With their power over the economy, they might take her words personally and chose to antagonize her projects.

So watch your words, Miley. You have a lot of promotional campaigns to make for your upcoming movie, "The Last Song," remember? Oh, and let Twilight stars have their moment.

"New Moon" Has Best Opening Day In Film History!

With a shocking $72.7 million in its 24-hour run, Twilight's sequel "New Moon" has the best opening day in film history!


Summit Entertainment's "New Moon" grabs the title from Warner Brothers' "The Dark Knight," which has earned $67.2 million from 4,366 runs last July. The vampire flick makes the box office record from 4,024 theaters - a said exceptional feat for a film playing outside the summer frame. And while the franchise targeted young females, it has surprisingly played beyond its core crowd to males.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner's performances in "New Moon" are highly anticipated, but it is the "Team Edward vs Team Jacob" campaign that really does the magic.