It’s time once again for Saturday Hot Links. Today sprinkled with paprika.

We begin a segment from an unaired 1979 Orson Welles TV pilot:

Bob Dylan turned 70 this week. Check out these never before seen photos.

Flavorwire: 10 great 24 hour movies. As a writer, the best thing about 24 hour movies: It’s easy to sustain the narrative’s pace.

It’s been a whole year since the finale to “Lost” aired… and people are still analyzing it.

This year animated movies may break 2010 box office record of $1.5B.

More signs buyers are shaking loose with acquisition dollars again: The state of euphoria of Cannes buyers and sellers.

Here are 30 books that could be the next Harry Potter.

No, George Lucas does not have 50 hours of a live-action Star Wars TV show in the can.

Here’s a 6 minute video in which Pixar principal John Lasseter discusses something really important: How extensive his Hawaiian shirt collection is.

Being a Yale Divinity School graduate, this news gives me pause: Reality TV producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor”) to produce “The Bible” miniseries for History. I’m sure it will take a scholarly, nuanced view of the source material.

Deadline: Final thoughts on the broadcast upfronts: Winds of Change.

Why David O. Russell and Sony couldn’t make it work for the movie “Uncharted”.

TotalFilm: 20 movies improved by muppets

How Nazi scientists tried to create an army of talking dogs. Thank God Pixar beat them to the punch with the movie Up.

Two writers watch all 7 American Pies and somehow survive a bad case of “sequelitis.”

THR reviews The Hangover II.

Candy Land screenwriters: “We envision it as Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy.”

Screenwriter and TV writer Kyle Killen blogs what it was like to visit France for the premiere of “The Beaver.” Then blogs again about it.

More screenwriters in the news: Robert Orci discusses 70 page treatment he and his writing partner (Alex Kurtzman) have put together for Star Trek 2.

In yet more screenwriter news, when John August isn’t busy writing screenplays, fiction, or blogging, he somehow finds the time to create a Final Draft app for the iPad.

More screenwriting: Albert Brooks talks screenwriting pet peeves.

But wait. Even more screenwriters: In an interview, Diablo Cody talks about two upcoming movies and the cancellation of “The United States of Tara.”

TotalFilm: 20 movie houses you can live in.

And we end with another segment from the Orson Welles TV pilot, here with actress Angie Dickinson:

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