Saturday Hot Links

A special New Year’s edition of Saturday Hot Links!

We begin with Part 1 of a 1980 “Today Show” appearance by Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford to promote The Empire Strikes Back:

A new online option for aspiring filmmakers: Openfilm.com.

Moviefone with the top 10 action films of 2010.

Bend It Like Beckham became the first Western movie to screen on North Korea TV.

Sorry all you Jack Bauer fans, but 20th Century Fox passed on a screenplay to resurrect the star of the TV series “24”.

Want to know how many Academy members there are who vote for the Oscar awards? 5,755.

Natalie Portman is pregnant. Now that will be one talented and interesting child, I’ll bet.

Here are 30 years of Lucas Film Christmas cards.

Cinematical: Top 10 sci-fi flicks of 2010. 

MovieFone: How women fared in movies in 2010.

The National Film Registry selects 25 more movies including All the President’s Men, The Exorcist, Malcolm X and Airplane!

Great way to waste some time… cinematically. Can you find the hidden 50 movie titles?

Everything you wanted to know about Kevin Smith’s new movie Red State here, a synopsis of Smith’s own Tweets.

IndieWire has this nifty list: Viewing the indie films of 2011 through the lens of 2010 movies. 

Ken Levine has figured out how to sell a 1-hour drama to cable TV nets.

Here are 20 movie things that won’t happen in 2011. 

Roger Ebert’s top 10 foreign films of 2010.

Here is a thorough chart of bad science in movies.

Good resource for writers: Top 10 fiction writing articles of 2010. 

Every film award season this happens. And every year I still don’ t know how to feel about it: ‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘King’s Speech’ Ineligible for WGA Awards. And don’t forget Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, Blue Valentine…

Check this out: US Postal Service to release Pixar stamps in 2011. Honestly, Pixar is so great, I think we should just name them President of the U.S. and be done with it.

The PR people for screenwriter Chris Sparling send a letter to Academy voters about his movie Buried. Unfortunately that’s against the rules. Oops.

Spend some face time with True Grit actor Hailee Steinfeld. Seriously, how great is she?

And here is Part 2 of the Hamill & Ford “Today Show” appearance:

Enjoy your hot links!

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