The Empire Strikes Back is 30, and is the only 30 year old I know who didn’t have to move back in with his parents. In honor of the big 3-0, Spike is throwing a big party and screening a marathon of the films starting today at 1pm ET. One of last year’s winners, Star Wars In A Notebook will be screened during the marathon as well. If you’d like to have your film acknowledged by George Lucas himself and screened on TV, you should check out the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge.

When I was a kid, my favorite thing about Thanksgiving weekend was watching TV. Cable is so much better during the Holidays, you know?* Stations give away shit, they replay the same movies on loop over and over, and they screen Christmas specials a full month early. In keeping with the holiday spirit of re-running excellent stuff that rarely has anything to do with Thanksgiving,

Atom’s Comic-Con team headed for the eighth annual Lucasfilm-Atom Star Wars Fan Movie awards ceremony on Friday night. As always, the Lucas crew packed two or three thousand die-hard Star Wars fans into the big ballroom here at Comic-Con, cheering on the best of the year’s crop of fan films submitted to http://starwars.atom.com.