Entertainment Weekly can’t get enough of this vampire craze, and chose a Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner New Moon theme for this week’s cover.

The movie isn’t released until Nov. 20, which means — yes — there’s three more months of New Moon fun left. (Great)

But who knew Kristen and Taylor had such chemistry? The second installment focuses on the budding relationship between Bella and Jacob, and Kristen says she pushed hard for Taylor to get the part.

“It’s completely understandable why they wanted to make sure he was right,” says the actress. “But I knew he had [to do] it. Just because of how I felt around him. We have that relationship. It’s lamely cute.”

Uh oh. What will Robert Pattinson say about all this?

As you’ve noticed, vampires are so hot right now. So, naturally, it’s Entertainment Weekly’s job to ask the tough questions. Why? and Who’s The Best Vampire Of Them All?

The latest issue of EW interviews vampire writers and the creators of these vampire shows and tries to make sense of it all.  Anne Rice says she thinks the public is so taken with vampires because we want to be them.

“People are intrigued by what they would do if they were offered the opportunity to be a vampire,” she says. “ Would they be willing to drink human blood in order to be immortal? Maybe they would.”

Meanwhile, Alan Ball, c0-executive producer of True Blood, thinks the show is so popular because of it’s political undertones expressing the “eight years of institutionalized demonization of pretty much any group that wasn’t on the bus with Mr. Bush.”

And if you could honestly care less why you’re obsessed with Robert Pattinson, the magazine includes their top 20 Greatest Vampires.

Sorry Twilight-a-holics: R-Patz is in measly 4th place. Check it out:

1. Lestat, Interview With the Vampire
2. Christopher Lee’s Dracula
3. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula
4. Edward Cullen, Twilight
5. Bill and Eric, True Blood
6. Asa Vajda, 1960’s Black Sunday
7. Angel
8. Mr. Barlow, Salem’s Lot
9. Schuyler Van Alen, Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods series
10. Gary Oldman’s Dracula
11. Klaus Kinski’s Dracula
12. Zoey Redbird, P.C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night series
13. Jean-Claude, Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
14. David, 1987’s The Lost Boys
15. Miriam Blaylock and Sarah Roberts, 1983’s The Hunger
16. Blade, the Blade trilogy
17. Eli, 2008’s Let the Right One In
18. Countess Bathory, 1971’s Daughters of Darkness
19. Selene, the Underworld trilogy
20. Caleb and Mae, 1987’s Near Dark

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Entertainment Weekly is helping us wade through the endless Fall television flickers with a Fall TV Preview of 85 television shows worth watching.

While anyone with an opinion and press release can sound off on a new or existing series, Entertainment Weekly goes above and beyond with an interactive video player in the magazine. Like in the page. Using a paper thin player (literally), the 2.25-inch video player is loaded with 40 minutes of full-color video.

The reader is given options of watching around two minutes of either, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, NCIS: Los Angeles, and The Good Wife.

Which leaves one to wonder — is this the next wrinkle for advertising?

Check out a demonstration of the in-magazine video player below.

District 9 seems like an odd choice for EW to tout. It was directed by a “no-name” director Neill Blomkamp, on a paltry budget in a landfill with no A-list (or hell, even B or C list actors) to its credit.

Oh, but they did manage to snag Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) as a producer.

“It’s an utterly original film,” says Jackson. “In an industry that’s looking to make movies out of every obscure TV show, or sequels, or video games, you look at District 9 and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.”

Written by: Melissa Noble