The People’s Choice Awards announced today its list of nominees for the best in TV, movies, and music. Over 18 million votes were cast online by entertainment buffs to determine the nominees for the show’s 35 categories. Fans can now vote for their favorites to win by visiting PeoplesChoice.com.

Horror and fantasy fared well this year with top noms bestowed upon Summit Entertainment’s Twilight movie and HBO’s “True Blood” cable series. But, not all the nominees sucked (I mean that  figuratively … or do I?). Also scoring some much deserved nods were J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, Showtime’s “Dexter” and TV’s best drama ever – “Lost.”

The People’s Choice Awards will be hosted by Queen Latifah at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The show will be broadcast live on CBS on Jan. 6, 2010. Now, check out some of the contenders and their competition (horror/fantasy noms are in bold):

"Don't Mistake Coincidence for Fate."

Best TV Drama: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS),” “Grey’s Anatomy (ABC),” “House (FOX),” “NCIS (CBS),” and “Lost (ABC).”

Best TV Drama Actor: Hugh Laurie (“House”), Kiefer Sutherland (“24”), Mark Harmon (“NCIS”), Patrick Dempsey (“Grey’s Anatomy”), and Mathew Fox (“Lost”).

Best TV Drama Actress: Anna Paquin (“True Blood”), Blake Lively (“Gossip Girl”), Jennifer Love Hewitt (“Ghost Whisperer), Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy), Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: SVU”)

"The Mask is Slipping."

Best TV Obsession: “Dexter,” “Gossip Girl,” “The Hills,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “True Blood.”

Best TV Sci-fi/Fantasy: “Heroes,” “Lost,” “Supernatural,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “True Blood.”

Best New TV Drama: “Eastwick,” “FlashForward,” “Melrose Place,” “Mercy,” “The Forgotten,” “The Good Wife,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Three Rivers,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “V.”

Dude, Get Some Sun ... Oh, Wait ...

Best Movie Actor: Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Ryan Reynolds.

Best Movie Actress: Anna Hathaway, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Sandra Bullock

Best Action Star: Christian Bale (Terminator: Salvation), Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Shia LaBeouf (Transformers 2), Vin Diesel.

Best Independent Movie: (500) Days of Summer, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Paranormal Activity, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.

Best Breakout Movie Actress: Anna Kendrick (Twilight), Emily Osment, Ginnifer Goodwin, Miley Cyrus, Zoe Saldana (Star Trek).

Best Breakout Movie Actor: Chris Pine (Star Trek), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sam Worthington (Terminator: Salvation), Taylor Lautner (Twilight), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek).

Are You Out of Your Vulcan Minds?

Best Franchise: Harry Potter, Star Trek, The Twilight Saga, Transformers, X-Men.

Favorite Movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek, The Hangover, The Proposal, Twilight.

Favorite Web Celeb: Andy Samberg, Ashton Kutcher, Miley Cyrus, P. Diddy, Will Ferrell, and Eddie Muertos.

Remember the Swedish Bikini Team? Sure, they were American actresses playing Swedes to hawk Old Milwaukee beer. But, in retrospect, we all know they were selling us more than just booze. They were selling us on the idea of a physically superior race of women found in a magical far-off land know only as Scandinavia. It was a beautiful dream to have as we slipped into our inebriated comas.

Swedish Erotica

But, was it really just a dream? No, my friends, it’s all real. Turns out there is a Scandinavia and its inhabitants are a blonde and big-breasted people. How do I know this? Because Scandinavian studio FilmKoncept has released the following trailer for its upcoming slasher Mara.

Mara stars Scandinavian glamor/nude model Angelica Jansson as a vacationing coed tormented by something evil in her past. She and her beautiful (and authentically Swedish) friends must figure out how to appease the dark force or end up as dead meatballs.

(UPDATE: To see Angelica Jansson in new Mara trailer & BTS photos, go here.)

(Update: For official Mara poster and synopsis, click here. To see nude & semi-nude photos of Angelica Jansson, go here.)

The film is slated for a 2010 release and is produced by Fredrik Hedberg, Jacob Kondrup and Åke Gustafsson. To see a gallery of screen shots, click here. Clatto also stumbled upon the following BTS trailer:

Oh, yes, there will be blood (and boobs).

Eli Roth's 'Cotton'

Looks like horror makers have found a new weapon of choice: the shaky-cam. Next year will see a spike in hand-held horror projects, including Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) and Strike Entertainment’s (Dawn of the Dead) exorcism tale Cotton and Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment’s similarly plotted The Vatican Tapes. Can these “docu-drama’ inspired flicks mimic the box office success of Paramount Pictures Paranormal Activity? Depends on the marketing campaigns.

The Blair Witch Marketing Project

Ten years ago, The Blair Witch Project successfully intertwined the cinema verite approach with innovative marketing to scare up over a $100 mil at the box office. Imitators followed of course, but lacked the imagination, in story and promotion, necessary to match the Blair Witch’s success. Not surprisingly, the style was pretty much abandoned. Until now.

The First 'Cloverfield' Ads

Crafty marketing campaigns are shaking things up again. J.J. Abrams sci-fi/monster flick Cloverfield gobbled up over $170 million worldwide. Peter Jackson’s aliens-meet-apartheid film District 9 broke free with over $200 mil worldwide. And, in just seven weeks, Paranormal Activity has grossed $100 million in the U.S. alone. Even the inexpensive zombie flick Quarantine (based on the critically acclaimed Spanish shaky-cam frightener Rec) ate up over $35 mil during its run last Halloween.

Eli Roth and Strike Entertainment’s Cotton is directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and employs shaky-cam techniques to capture an evangelical minister’s last exorcism in documentary fashion. It’s an interesting concept for sure. But, Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment have done Roth one better by roping in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh (Man on Wire) to direct The Vatican Tapes. I’s unclear what may have possessed Marsh to take the gig, but his expertise in the Doc genre will surely benefit the project, a “docu-drama” centered on the unholy events that occur after tapes from a botched exorcism come to light.

'Vatican Tapes' Director & Oscar Winner James Marsh (On Right)

The premier of director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s long delayed feature film debut After.Life took place Saturday night as part of the AFI Fest in Los Angeles. The screening was followed by an after-party at the Shangri La hotel in Santa Monica. Among those in attendance were stars Christina Ricci (Sleepy Hollow, Monster) and Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell, Jeepers Creepers) and your own beloved Clatto Verata blogger Eddie Muertos (turns out a cousin of mine works the kitchen).

To see After.Life’s first official trailer, go here.

(UPDATE: To See Ricci’s Nude Photos from After.Life, click here.)

"Man, the 'Dell Guy' never had it this good! I love Macs!"

After.Life is the story of a woman (Ricci) who wakes up after a fatal car accident to discover she is being prepped for burial at a funeral home run by by a mysterious mortician (Liam Neeson).  The Plum Productions’ feature first generated buzz as a Kate Bosworth vehicle in 2007. Ricci and Neeson stepped into the lead roles last October.

"You're saying that, if I lose this dress, people will forgive me for Speed Racer?"

According to overheard party chatter, After.Life features a frighteningly disturbing turn from Neeson as creepy funeral director Elliot Deacon. The film also boasts plenty of eye-popping nudity from Ricci. A totally nude Ricci in a horror flick? I’ve been waiting for this since Addams Family Values!

Twisted Pictures (Saw) have produced their first family film: The Tortured. Directed by Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky), The Tortured stars Erika Christensen (Flightplan, Swimfan) and Jesse Metcalfe (Insanitarium) as a young married couple out to punish the man who abducted their son. The following trailer was premiered at the AFM.

Take a look:

Shady’s back!

Rap star Eminem is plotting a return to the big screen with Shady Talez, a 3-D horror anthology written by Kevin Grevioux (Underworld). Described as Creep Show meets Twilight Zone, Shady Talez will pay homage to classic horror flicks such as The Lost Boys and Aliens. Eminem will play various roles in the film, including that of host. Considering Em’s highly publicized mommy issues, an ode to Psycho’s Norman Bates seems like a no-brainer to me.

Mrs. Mathers

Eminem dabbled with horror themes earlier this year in the music video for “3 a.m.” The track is off his Relapse CD and is just one of many songs fueled by serial killer fantasies.

Eminem made his film debut in 2002’s critically acclaimed drama 8 Mile.

Jennifer’s Body didn’t show legs at the box office this Fall, but Fox Home Entertainment is looking to get better traction over the holiday season with an Unrated Version of the Megan Fox frightener, available Dec. 29 on Blu-ray disc and standard DVD. While both editions include audio commentary from director Karyn Kusama and Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno), the film’s Blu-ray release is crammed with special bonus material, including video diaries, gag reels, deleted scenes (“Ass, Gas, or Grass” sounds particularly enticing), featurettes, and the wickedly funny Megan Fox “Peer Pressure” PSA.

Jennifer’s Body stars Megan Fox as a high school heartbreaker turned man-eater after a fateful encounter with a band of satanists. Amanda Seyfried plays her best friend and foil. Despite its quality kills and quotable dialogue (“It smells like Thai food in here. Have you guys been fucking), the horror-comedy failed to find its audience. To date, the film has only grossed $16 million.

She’s Got Books That Kill

Jennifer’s Body most likely took a beating at the box office its opening weekend for two reasons: 1.) the R rating forced the much sought after under 17 chronic masturbator market to buy tickets to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to gain entry into the theater and consequently into Jennifer’s Body. 2.) Girls that don’t look like Megan Fox dragged their boyfriends to see The Informant.

Guys, listen to the teachings of Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. Don’t let your “fat little girlfriends” influence you. If you have the means this Christmas, I highly recommend you pick up Jennifer’s Body on Blu-ray.

Director Joe Johnston is ready to walk the dinosaur again. The man behind Universal Pictures Jurassic Park 3 has expressed interest in helming the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park saga. Johnston told Ain’t It Cool News:

There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with, and it’s nothing like the first three. It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved. Why would anybody go back to that island? It was hard enough to figure out the second and third reason for them to go, but it would take it off in a whole other trilogy basically, but when it gets to that level it’s sort of about studios and Steven [Spielberg’s] thing and who knows. I think we are at that point where we are due for another one if we are going to do it.”

The Jurassic Park films have grossed over $2 billion worldwide. In a 2006 interview with the now defunct fan site StevenSpielbergFilms.com, Jurassic Park producer Steven Spielberg referred to Johnston as the “go-to Jurassic guy,” stressing that the director was “the right guy to do the fourth one.”

Johnston most recent project is Universal’s epic reboot The Wolfman, opening in theaters on Feb. 12, 2010.

Universal Pictures has not released any official news on the development of Jurassic Park 4. But, in the meantime, we can enjoy this wonderful mash-up of JP scenes set to harmonious sounds of Weird Al Yankovich:

Earlier this morning, Cinematical scored this exclusive first look at the new poster for Universal Pictures’ The Wolfman featuring Emily Blunt. Just a few moments ago, Ain’t It Cool News received an exclusive peek at a second poster showcasing Benicio del Toro as the titular man-beast. The Wolfman will be in theaters on Feb. 12, 2010.

It’s always disappointing for me to see all the big boy sites getting the exclusives. How do I handle the soul crushing despair? By digging up projects you may have missed! There’s no doubt in my mind that director Joe Johnston’s take on The Wolfman will be a cinematic marvel of horror, romance, and gothic extravagance … but will it keep things real? Director Zackory Winston does just that in the barely seen werewolf genre gem Bloodz vs. Wolvez.

Biting just a little off Boyz N the Hood and the Underworld franchise, Bloodz vs. Wolves pits angry, impoverished lycanthropes against privileged and assimilated bloodsuckers. For the Wolvez, there is nothing more important than street cred. For the Bloodz, it’s all about bitches and money.

The folks at Wild Bunch sure know how to sell a film. The following promo trailer for The Killer Inside Me was presented at this year’s American Film Market and features Jessica Alba taking a mean ass-whuppin’ from Casey Affleck’s belt. The five minute long trailer also finds Affleck engaged in a game of erotic asphyxiation with Kate Hudson.(Update: Jessica Alba walked out during a recent screening of the movie. Click here to read more.)

(To see pictures of Alba & Hudson getting friendly with each other at the film’s Tribeca premiere, go here.)

Michael Winterbottom (24 hour Party People) handles directing duties. Bill Pullman, Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty, and Simon Baker costar.

Check out the trailer:

The Killer Inside Me is an adaptation of the 1952 Jim Thompson novel of the same name. The book details the homicidal tendencies of 29-year-old Texas lawman Lou Ford. It was first adapted for the big screen in 1976 with Stacy Keach in the lead role.

Jessica Alba’s next role is as a masturbating twin in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete. Click here for more info.