Some of the most amazing and beautiful sites on the net are created by fans of movie stars. As a webmaster, I have some idea of how difficult it is to create a website - design and development wise. It is equally important to have dedicated people who will manage the site and update it with fresh, interesting content. In salute to some of the best fansites out there, The Movie-Fanatic is launching its first Fansite of the Month.

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As you know Robert Pattinson first came into prominence in the Harry Potter series (The Goblet of Fire to be precise). As the doomed Cedric Diggory, he was one of the most popular students at the school of wizards. He was also a great competitor. While the billing and the money went to Daniel Radcliffe, Pattinson began to make a name for himself and soon became one of UK's most sought-after actors.

You can consider vampires either as romantic and lovely creatures, or as evil and malevolent, or both. Since the first time I watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I've read many vampire books and have been fascinated - no, make that obsessed! - with these fiends. With the upcoming Twilight movie getting more and more buzz, it’s about time we revisited our favorite vampire books and movies.

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While many would recommend seeing the classics that starred Bella Lugosi, I tend to favor the more modern ones: I am Legend, Interview with the Vampire, the two Underworld flicks, Vampires: Los Muertos, Blade (except the last one!) and yes, Copolla’s Dracula and John Carpenter's Vampires - are among my top picks.

“I'm afraid to read other vampire books now, for fear of finding things either too similar, or too different from my own vampire world,” says Stephenie Meyer.

I can completely understand Ms. Meyers. She only wants to protect the integrity and originality of her work. I’m sure those of you who have written a book or are attempting to publish one would feel violated if someone tried to rewrite the plot or even kill off a character. How much more then if someone published a book similar to yours! Remember the fraud who sued J.K. Rowlings?

"...with the untimely passing of Heath Ledger, the entire tone of the film has shifted."

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With all the Oscar’s handed out and the award season complete, I’m kind of lost without as much stuff to do. So much so that I literally sat here this week and said, “what now?” There isn’t much else to do but look ahead to what 2008 has to offer. Surely there will be disappointments and surprises like there is every year. I mean, Spider-Man 3 would have been on top of this list last year and we all know how that turned out, right?

There are plenty of other films that I want to see this coming year. While I’ve never been a huge fan of the comic, Iron Man is shaping up to be a great looking summer movie. Then there is Quantum of Solace, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy II, and a few others. I wouldn’t say these are going to end up being the best five movies of the year, but they seem to be the ones least likely to disappoint. At the very least, the ones with the best chance of outrunning the Spider-Man curse.

tMF Top Five – My Most Anticipated Movies of 2008
By Jeremy Welsch

By now you know that we’re into emerging talents, yes the ones who are just ‘on the verge!’ Some of the actors we feature have already reached certain prominence like Ryan Gosling, Daniel Bruehl or Jake Gyllenhaal and some may have just played his first awesome role like Eddie Redmayne or Andrew Garfield, or some have been making waves in their part of the world like Kostja Ullmann in his native Germany or Andreas Wilson in Sweden.

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We've listed down our top 50 hottest young actors and would be coming up with the latest updates soon...

But how about the young actors we considered to be overrated? The guys who seem to be getting lots of buzz, but has no real talent at all, or perhaps a miniscule amount of it, and rely heavily on their talent managers to do what it takes?

Here’s our list:

Since I started The Movie-Fanatic, I've been quite particular with all the posts I made. I believed that quality is much more important than quantity. I hate posting about crap, so we (the tMF team) tried very hard not to post anything just for the sake of posting. So what's this post about? It's not about crap, be sure of that. Its about three things:

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I Hate Cats But I Love Pussy - Isn’t it ironic? Probably not because most of the girls I’ve met with cats are girls you wouldn’t want to sleep with anyway. Now I’m drifting off topic. So if there’s one topic for a website that’s sure to draw my ire, it’s cats. But you know what’s curious? Almost none of her posts are about cats. The vast majority of her posts are entries into online contests. Why?

That's not me! I'm quoting a site review from IHateYourWebsite.com

#1. Site Review: I'm going to actually submit tMf for a site review next month with either Tyler Cruz or some other top site reviewers...but at this point, I'm thinking why not get a review from this guy?

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#2. Traffic: I'm enjoying the surge of traffic and visitors! Since January, I've noticed that there are a lot of comments coming from lots of blogs and fansites. That's a tremendous boost to tMF and we've made sure we comment back. As you can see it's now our policy that any comment we get, we respond back with not just one but 2 or more. We say what we mean, and mean what we say.

There are also some ads appearing on tMF. One of them is the popular entrecard. It's where you can find lots of blogs (I'm especially looking for movie blogs to affiliate with!) and all you need to do is visit websites drop your card and wait for them to drop back. You may want to place an ad at tMF, we're quite cheap- for a site that boasts of 1,200+ unique visitors per day that is...

What makes entrecard cool is that I've found some amazing movie blogs. Here's 3 of them:

Quite new, launched just last January, I find this site to be quite amazing. For starters, Jaden, the owner is a freelance writer who did projects for some of the big film studios in Hollywood. I'm sure there will be lots of new articles that would give us more insights into the Hollywood scene. One of the most interesting posts I've read over there is: 80 Years of Oscar Losers I Love. I'm not into much of classics, but there are some interesting movies on the list worth watching. There's also a nice article about Heath Ledger- not at all crappy and silly like most of the stuff you can read from the vultures who love to exploit people's misery.

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#3. Fansite of the month feature: tMF is also going to launch the fansite of the month feature. Stay tuned tomorrow for the first ever site of the month!

After "Gigantic," Dano will segue to the indie feature "The Good Heart," which reunites him with Brian Cox; the two starred in Michael Cuesta's "L.I.E." Shooting on "Heart" is scheduled for New York and Iceland at the end of April. "Heart" revolves around an abrasive barman (Cox) and a young homeless man (Dano) who becomes his protege.

Paul Dano, coming off his featured role in "There Will Be Blood," will star in and executive produce "Gigantic," an offbeat romantic comedy being helmed by first-time director Matt Aselton. Zooey Deschanel will also star in the indie feature.

Killer Films' Christine Vachon and Charles Pugliese are producing, as is Mindy Goldberg of Epoch Films.

Written by Aselton and Adam Nagata, the script revolves around a mattress salesman and a young woman he meets at his store. Production is tentatively set for early March in New York. Machine Made Media is financing.

I started acting when I was 10, but I never had a total fascination with it. It was just kind of a fun thing I did. Then I saw A Streetcar Named Desire [1951] with Marion Brando and Vivien Leigh when I was 14, and it was like a slap in the face. It was a wake-up call. " says actor Emile Hirsch.

Hirsch (just like James McAvoy) failed to make the final list of Best Actor nominees for the Oscars. His fans are, of course, quite disappointed and annoyed for this shabby treatment. But his time will come, and it might be sooner than later. Milk, one of his next movies, is getting lots of buzz and we can't wait to see him in another challenging and meaty role.

While we're at it, we might as well celebrate Mr. Hirsch and launch our first-ever DVD contest! yes, we're giving away 3 Emile Hirsch dvds to anyone who can submit an incredibly insightful and entertaining profile of the young actor!

In partnership with amazon.com, tMF will award these amazing DVDs to the winner of the Emile Hirsch profile writing contest. Here they are:

Two low-profile, yet extremely talented actors got some of the spotlight during the Oscars - James McAvoy and Casey Affleck. Although McAvoy did not get a nomination for Atonement, Affleck managed to get a nod for The Assassination of Jesse James.

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Affleck has a rather good start at the Oscars, if you’re to ask me, while McAvoy seems to be quite unlucky. It was the second year in a row that he didn't get nominated. Last year, he was terrific in The Last King of Scotland, but as you know, the Best Actor trophy went to his co-star, Forest Whitaker.