Of course, if you’re going to see one teen cult-movie classic, you’re obviously going to be forced to see another one — or at least the trailer for it.

Hence, what could go better with the kids-fight-to-the-death match of “The Hunger Games” than a spanking-new vampire — Bella finally is one, in the second part of “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” — who hunts deer for their blood in a very lovely blue frock?

News flash: Bella and Edward are now the same temperature!

Enjoy:

Freaky blue eyes, freaky voice, freaky aliens come here to occupy us humans again.

I am so there.

Here’s the trailer for the movie version of the book “The Host,” by the same lady who wrote the “Twilight” series — although this time no vampires or werewolves.

Just irksome invasion-of-body-snatchers kind of thing.

Enjoy:

We Twihards saw it coming at the end of the last installment of the “Twilight” movie franchise, as the main character, Bella, finally got to be a sparkly vampire.

Actually, she seems to have become a rather pasty white one, with blood-red lipstick — which is also the look being sported by her long-tortured paramour, Edward, in this new clip from the second “Breaking Dawn” film.

The video ran in an exclusive deal with Target in its retail stores, connected to the DVD release for the first part of the movie. Guess what? Someone had a smartphone and caught the whole thing.

Kids today! Enjoy:

It turns out that people responding to our poll about whether they were buying an iPad 3 — which Apple is unveiling this coming week — are overwhelmingly planning to fork over the dough for a new one.

Nearly 70 percent of those who answered said they would be buying the latest iteration of the popular tablet device, while 17 percent said they were sticking with their old one.

Only 11 percent used a competing tablet — powered by Google Android or Amazon Kindle.

And about 4.5 percent of respondents said that they had not decided, but were looking forward to the last “Twilight” movie, now that Bella finally has her fangs as a newborn vampire with a newborn baby, too.

Thus, many want a bite of the latest Apple, but are definitely not Twihards.

Here’s the poll again, if you want to add your vote:

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Earlier this week, I posted a teaser clip for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” and now the entire movie trailer has been released.

It’s pretty much werewolves and vampire pregnancy and, well, the one where Bella and Edward finally …

Enjoy:

Here’s a short movie teaser trailer for “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” the one in which Bella and Edward finally marry. Unfortunately, she’s a woman in love with a sparkly vampire and she doesn’t love what’s going through her.

As in a honking big Dracula baby, coming to theaters on November 18!

It would, as is so hysterically acted by Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren, also include vampires. Old ones.

Enjoy:

Thank goodness for sparkly vampires and animated toys–otherwise, this summer has been pretty weak in the megahit movie department for Hollywood.

But both “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “Toy Story 3″ are sequels, so a lot of hopes for some entertainment innovation are riding on the success of a high-tech, big-brain film called “Inception.”

The story about people who slip into dreams and steal secrets is opening July 16 with the tag line: “Your mind is the scene of the crime.”

But that does not even come close to explaining this movie, which appears dense and difficult to comprehend.

Check out this trailer, which looks great and chock full of special effects, but is still pretty perplexing:

Guess what? Bella and Edward are still not together!

In any case, the buff werewolf is still around, so enjoy:

The rabid fans of the sparkly-vampire-in-love story have more to chew on with the latest trailer for the newest in the movie series, “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.”

It’s going to be a long summer.

The third installment, due on June 30, seems to be about a big war between vampires and other vampires, with some werewolves tossed in. Also a lot of longing stares between Bella and Edward.

Essentially, the same old same old vampires.

Enjoy the video of the trailer, as well as the first trailer out in March:

The “Twilight” saga, which seems to have just ended with the release of the second film in the series, “New Moon,” in November, is baaaaack.

And, of course, the Internet is huffing and puffing over this one, “Eclipse,” set for June, since its trailer just came out.

In the clip, it looks like Bella and Edward are still not together (as in not doing it). Good Lord, wasn’t that the plot of the last movie and the one before that? Plus, the Wolfman Kid is back, as part of the freaky love triangle.

Then again, to be fair, Harry Potter is still battling Voldemort. The next movie in that series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the first of a two-parter, comes out in mid-November.

Here’s the video of the new “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” trailer, as well as a teaser trailer the next “Harry Potter” film:

I am not quite sure what to make of the comic by Newsvetter’s Andrew Fowler, who also created Guhmshoo cartoons, but it is definitely worth checking out.

So, here is “All Things Digiphobic,” which you can click on to make larger:

Here are two quotes that got me thinking about what would happen if Facebook–whose user base is inexorably marching toward 400 million–ever got serious about the news aggregation business.

First, perpetual apple-cart-upsetter Mark Cuban raised everyone’s hackles this week by taking aim at online sites that aggregate news from other sources, especially Google (GOOG).

Among other colorful things Cuban said during a keynote speech:

“Google is a vampire, and you run scared. There is no reason to be indexed in Google….You haven’t gotten anything back except that you’ve turned into zombies….You’ve got to realize they’re vampires and you can’t be the dumb blonde showing your neck.”

Then, yesterday, in a fourth-quarter earnings call, AOL (AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong, answering a question about the renewal status of its search deal with Google, talked about how other outlets, especially Facebook, are now more important than ever to getting traffic for his company’s content.

“Our strategy on distribution is not relying on search,” said Armstrong. “Fragmentation is our friend.”

It was a curious way of putting it, but the message was clear and correct–it will be increasingly obvious that consumers are inevitably moving away from the only-search paradigm to that of discovery through social and other jacked-up affiliation networks.

Of course, this puts a site like Facebook in the catbird seat, given that vast seas of rich data flow through it all the time.

In fact, Facebook is already one of the bigger sources of traffic to media sites, behind just Google, Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO).

That’s because, at any given moment, Facebook users are trading bazillions of links to articles, blogs, videos, photo images and more, pointing the way to their friends in a giant did-you-see-this mosh pit.

While this is dispersed widely all over the social networking service–on the Wall, on fan pages, in email, in comments–one has to wonder what would happen if Facebook ever decides to start corralling the information with some kind of aggregation method.

Could it pick the most linked and emailed stories of the day? Could it select the most popular photos? Could it tell you accurately what its little slice of humanity was buzzing about on a minute-by-minute basis?

Of course it could, but as more of a new sparkly “Twilight” vampire than the scary old-time one Cuban described.

Not that it will. I once queried Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about the idea that Facebook could make some sort of newfangled competitor to the still-powerful Yahoo News.

No, she replied pretty flatly, noting that the whole service was already about people sharing all kinds of news and information with their friends.

But, it is clear to me, that–much as Google moved into the automated new business–Facebook could do the same anytime it wants to and create what would probably be one of the top aggregation sites for any topic on the Web.

The Silicon Valley phenom certainly could not be as easily de-indexed as Google by worried media companies, because the skeins of information are so enmeshed that separating them is impossible. And why would you?

In his speech, Cuban urged traditional media creators to stop the aggregation madness.

“Show some balls,” he said. “If you turn your neck to a vampire, they are [going to] bite. But at some point the vampires run out of people’s blood to suck.”

In a deeply socially connected world though, it’s a very different story. And in that world, vampires really do live forever.

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

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Microsoft (MSFT) in October began showing tweets in Bing’s search results, calling it a way to make Bing more useful as a real-time search service (Google responded by announcing a similar deal).

A beta version on Bing lets visitors see relevant Twitter posts in addition to standard Web search results. It also displays a cloud of “hottest topics” that Twitter users are discussing, similar to Twitter’s “trending topics.” On Monday, for example, Bing’s hottest topics included Black Friday, Chelsea Clinton and Afghanistan.

According to Twitter, however, its users were more concerned with Music Monday (a weekly tweet-exchange of popular songs), Google Wave (GOOG), Cyber Monday and vampire movie “New Moon.”

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