If you’re a fan of The Twilight Saga series of books and movies and you’re going to be anywhere in the vicinity of downtown Miami this weekend, you might want to consider dropping by the Hilton for The Official Twilight Convention.

That’s right, its three, fun-packed full days of vampire chic and werewolf geek with all kinds of events like panels, trivia challenges, auctions, videos, costume contests and makeovers (makeovers!?) Also planned are lots and lots of autograph and photo opportunities for fans to cozy up to Twilight stars like Michael Welch, Peter Facinelli, Bronson Pelletier and Kiowa Gordon, all of whom seemed pleased to endorse and represent the product.

What’s that? You say that throwing money at Summit Entertainment (the movie producers) and Creation Entertainment (the convention producers) for the opportunity to hole up inside a dark convention hall for three days sounds like blast, but you can’t get to Miami?

Have no fear, fearless vampire lover. The Official Twilight Convention is no rare and special thing that appears once and then vanishes like some object of fantasy.

No, Summit and Creation will be setting up this pre-fabricated, pre-packaged, pre-produced fan “experience” as 25 individual Twilight “conventions”, all between now and December in cities from Atlanta to Anaheim, from Vancouver to Honolulu, from Chicago to Salt Lake City (Mormons love vampires!), from Portland to Parsippany. (That’s in New Jersey, people!)

For more info on The Official Twilight Convention, go here.

And before you email me to ask, no, I won’t be attending. I shall be hard at work putting together plans for The Official Cyclops Central Convention. So start saving your money now. Those hotel rooms in New Jersey don’t come cheap.

Let’s celebrate the start of the second decade of the 21st Century by giving a nod to 20th Century Fox’s Filmed Entertainment Co-Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman.

I’ve never met Mr. Rothman (though I did once pitch a movie project to his Co-Chairman, Jim Gianopulos), but I have spent time watching Tom in his role as host of Fox Movie Channel’s Friday night series, Fox Legacy.

Tom’s stated objective with Fox Legacy is to pay tribute to the studio’s greatest films and give the Fox Movie Channel audience an inside perspective on what he calls “the alchemy of great filmmaking.” That he does.

We’re told that Tom conducts most of his own research and writes all his own material for his Fox Legacy presentations and it’s easy to believe. Whether he’s sharing productions secrets of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Planet of the Apes or Wall Street, Mr. Rothman does so with the enthusiasm of a true film fan, without any of the self-serving smugness of previously televised CEOs (Anybody remember when Michael Eisner hosted ABC’s Disney Sunday Movie and NBC’s The Magical World of Disney?).

Mr. Rothman comes across like a guy who knows his cinema history, knows how much that history can enhance a movie-watching experience and wants his audience to know it, too. You can tell that Tom not only loves the movies, but that he’s got a codified aesthetic regarding making them (“Great screenwriting is about structure, not about the dialogue!”). That, for me, makes all the difference.

Tonight, January 8th, Tom and Team Legacy serve up Jan de Bont’s Speed. In successive weeks, it’ll be John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley, Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles and Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm (January 15, 22 and 29, respectively).

If you haven’t seen Fox Legacy, do yourself the favor. Tom Rothman’s movie show is good TV.