The Movie Fanatic continues their look at rising actors. This time they compare them to mega-stars who were relatively unknown indie actors in the not too distant past. Rob Pattinson is among those featured.

If you want to check out the Twilight footage from Spike TV you can do so here.  Much of the footage was previously seen, but there is about 30 seconds of new material.

According to MTV and a new interview, once New Moon gets the go ahead, Taylor is ready to deliver one of the Twilight Saga’s most quoted lines.

Reelz Channel has placed a bunch of the best submissions to their Ultimate fan Search online. There is still time to enter the contest.  You don’t have to do a video, you can :

Up for the challenge? Prove your Twilight devotion by submitting a video (up to five-minutes long), short essay, art, photos, or any other form of media expression. Be sure to include your name, email, and phone number so we can contact you, if selected. The submission deadline is October 31, 2008. US residents only."

 You can find the details here.

According to Barb of http://www.eclipse-la.com/  Rob Pattinson is schedule to make an appearance in Mexico City on October 23rd.

"Robert will be on Thursday October 23rd at 4 PM in Centro Santa Fe of
Mexico City, at the parking lot just at the Cinemex enter.

The first 160 person who take an original Twilight Saga book in Spanish
will have the chance to get an autograph of him."

According to one of our Italian members Monica:

Catherine Hardwicke, Rob Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart’s press conference and previous red carpet on October 30th at Rome’s International Film Festival will be available live on http://comingsoon.it/ (official site of the Rome Film Festival).

The live broadcast is expected at 5 pm local time.(in Italy). The 15 minute sneak peak of the film will be available only for the people at the Festival but be sure that Italian fans will post on YouTube some videos. Meanwhile take a look on the Italian official web site. http://www.twilight-blog.eaglepictures.com/

MTV just announced that the Twilight Live podcast to be held in Westwood on  November will have Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, and Mike Welch present.

Be My Escape from the Lexicon is going to be part of the panel discussing Twilight. She was also part of the inaugural Twilight Live podcast back on August 1st in New York City.

The main organizers of the Twilight Live podcast are also the people running the Twicon Convention this summer in Dallas, TX.

In order to celebrate the 30 day countdown to Twilight the LA Times is going to bring us a daily dose of all things Twilight.  Today they have chosen their favorite sims video.  They also have links to some new set photos.  Check out all the coverage here.

The show Dallies showed some of the entrants into the Ultimate Twilight Fan Contest tonight.  You can see the clip here.

TeenVogue is asking who you think is hotter Rob Pattinson or Chace.Crawford  Voice you opinion here.

Media Blvd. magazine has an interview with not one, but two Twilight stars. Both Taylor Lautner and Edi Gathegi chat with Christina.

Edi is also featured over at The Movie Blog where they ask "Is Laurent a vampire with a good heart?"

So a lot of the Lexicon staff is going to be at various Hot Topics around the country to hear the soundtrack on Friday night. We are curious how many of you are going to be at a Hot Topic ( that and to be honest we’re checking out the polling software).