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Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!

Today: The ?Hollywood Stars In Japanese TV Commercials? edition!

First Ben Stiller schilling ?Kirin? beer:

Some dude bet $1K that the NY Giants would score a safety for the first points of the Super Bowl. He was right. Won $50K.

Strange: Will Ferrell did a TV commercial that only aired in North Platte, Nebraska on Super Bowl Sunday [video].

More Super Bowl commercials: About that Clint Eastwood Chrysler ad? It wasn?t political.

Jammin?! Magnolia Pictures acquires rights to Bob Marley documentary. Available 4/20 on VOD.

More doc news: Daryl Hannah has signed on to be executive producer of Greedy Lying Bastards, a look at the fossil fuel industry?s influence over politics.

Analyzing writers? personalities from their handwritten manuscripts.

Speaking of writers, the new Lemony Snickett book ?Who Could That Be At This Hour? set to roll out with a 1,000,000 copy first printing.

Rumor: Harrison Ford in talks for a new Blade Runner movie.

Or maybe not.

Okay, Ridley Scott puts nails in that Harrison Ford/Blade Runner coffin here.

Speaking of coffins, Legendary Pictures kills its movie project ?Paradise Lost?. And John Milton turns over in his? well, you know.

This week?s hot Hollywood real estate deals: Penelope Cruz, Gordon Ramsay, Sofia Coppola, and Tim Headington.

Vincent Gallo flips Nicholas Cage?s old downtown LA pad for $2.59M.

Not a real estate deal, but it?s big news in Hwood: MGM lines up a $500M line of revolving credit to retire debt and make movies.

Found: Frank Lloyd Wright?s lost doghouse.

Are Verizon and Redbox aiming to take on cable TV?

It?s official! Bridesmaids is the most popular VOD of all time.

On the other hand, videogame sales tanked in January.

CAA signs its first Bollywood star: Priyanka Chopra.

19 famous people who started as extras.

When Catherine Hardwicke read the first draft of the script for Twilight, she thought it ?sucked?.

You know what you really need? The musings of a three year-old philosopher. Seriously, read this. Great stuff.

Clint Eastwood?s next gig: Helping to launch a new golf network.

And while we?re on Dirty Harry, why not take the time to learn your evil movie cops.

Next Natalie Portman promotes Lux shampoo:

Comic-Con 2012 to begin with a 136 mile Olympics style light sabre relay.

Legal roundup: MovieTickets.com Sues AMC; Tabloid Journalism?s EU Legal Victory; Porn Copyrights.

More Legal: Judge slaps down lawsuit from some dude who claims a bunch of reality TV shows stole his ideas. Hm. Sounds like the premise for a reality TV show.

More legal: Relativity Media sued for $44M, ?one of the greatest heist stories ever told in the movie business.

So much legal, it?s criminal! ?Survivor? producer extradited to Mexico for wife?s murder.

And even more criminal: Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening ?South Park? Creators for Mocking Muhammad.

TotalFilm: 50 most controversial movies of all time.

A professor of psychology claims that adversity can be a catalyst for positive change. But movies already teach us that!

The best Movie Posters of 2011 [HT to @franklinleonard for the link].

Photos of six of the oldest trees in the world.

Here are some strange reasons why foreign countries ban some American movies [HT to @DFTVYP for the link].

Book stores at war with Amazon.

Meanwhile Amazon and Viacom are scheming to do their own stand-alone streaming service.

Hollywood to be wooed by $800M Chinese media fund.

Science on what makes a hit song.

Meryl Streep talks about how her opera training helps her vocal control.

One reason why Warner Bros. can afford to buy all those spec scripts: Time-Warner beats 4th quarter forecasts and jumps 5%.

But that?s peanuts compared to News Corp which reported a 71% increase in quarterly earnings largely on the strength of movies and TV.

John Williams turns 80. Here is a video to celebrate some of his greatest hits.

Finally this is the ultimate cool: 16 year-old girl gets accepted into M.I.T., then shoots her acceptance letter into outer space [video].

And we end with a younger, more innocent Brittany Spears advertising Japanese candy:

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