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Those are the days when celebrities were really gorgeous, having great fit, wealthy and also glamorous. But now there are a lot of changes happening including the return of witty jokes, cook books and films and also the TV shows about the aliens and supernatural. Lots of geeks are given really encouraging roles which has put the traditional celebs to the back. Let’s look at some celebs who are the upcoming geeks who seek fame and fortune.

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Popular social sites for movie enthusiasts

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This year Hollywood is making it to be really very big as “Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince’ has emerged as 16th $ 100 million earner of 2009 and the Transformer sequel has already made $350 million at the US box offices and have queued up for the 15th highest grossing movie of all time. However, if you wish to enjoy the more on movies and wish to share things at the same time, you can have 10 following social media site for all the best of movies to share among friends at the social networks.

IMDb: Owned by Amazon, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is the most complete film and television reference on the Internet and place for social gathering of movie fans.  It has very broad network of message board, for every film, television show, actor, actress, director, producer, and other named page on IMDb. IMDB, according to Big-Boards.com supports whopping 13 million posts and has over 4 million members, thus making it the biggest community on Internet.
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Flixster: With its “Movies” application on Facebook, it received phenomenal growth in 2007. “Movies” is one of the most popular applications on Facebook. Flixster is a full-featured social network for movie lovers with provided information on reviews, movie trailers and media along with social media features like profiles, reviews, comment walls and friending.

FilmCrave: It is a fun movie rating and review social site that give its users for rating movies, adding reviews, making list and writing plot summaries. To increase quality of the site it has also discussion forums, movie polls, and trailers.

Criticker: On the basis of “Taste Compability Index” (the TCIs) has made it very easy to rate a film. It provides a movie enthusiast with list of movies and numbers and rating between 1to 100 and a review under 500 characters. After rating enough movies, it suggests you the movie which you may like on the basis of TCIs matching with your taste.

Flickchart: It is the match to match movie viewing that creates ranking on Flickchart to make it the most realistic movie rankings. While determining these rankings, a user is shown two movies and after the end of the movies, it is asked to the users about the movie which they like the most.  Then again they are o shown head-to-head match ups and then after two more, this way it the best movie that is been selected out for a concrete listing.

I Heart Movies: I Heart Movies provide detailed movie information including ratings, recommendations, and reviews. A user can use site as catalog to keep its track of DVD collections in proper manner and in tuned.

Spout: Not as good site for information on movies compared to other sites, however, provides a number of methods for a user to interact with other users, rating and reviewing films, discussing groups, film news and trailers. On the site a movie can be put into the category of “Want to See It” or “Seen It” category.

Netflix: Known for its DVD-by-mail rental service its Movie Fans social network is also very popular for the type of services it offers. Operated by Ning, Netflix is most featured social network for movies.

The Auteurs: It is a social network for movie lovers and enthusiast. At the community you can see people discussing about foreign films and having critical discussion on art of movie. In the “The Cinematheque” section, there is organized four rotating curated film festivals every couple of months.   On the nominal charge of $2 and $5 you can watch a movie.

BoxOfficeMojo: Owned by IMDb, BoxOfficeMojo looks into the financial aspects of the movies in terms revenue in US as well as internationally. It tracks on the earning of the movies on daily, weekly and weekend basis.

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