Happy New Year, everybody! While you folks are still nursing your champagne hangovers, I’d like to ring in 2009 in style by announcing that precisely one week from today, everyone’s favorite Screengrab game will be triumphantly returning to this site. That’s right, Famous Last Words is back! And because we know better than to mess with a good thing, Round 3 (i.e. Famous Last Words Beyond Thunderdome) will be adhering to all of the old rules and regulations you know and love! For all you newcomers, here’s a rundown of those rules:

1. Every Thursday at 3 PM Eastern Time, we will post a line or a short dialogue exchange from a movie. You, in turn, will e-Mail us your guesses as to what movie we took the dialogue from. Guesses must be submitted to me in e-Mail form, to the following e-Mail address: [email protected].

2. All quotes will be the final spoken lines of the film, delivered by an onscreen character or narrator. Likewise, the words must be audible. In other words, no silent films, and no onscreen text that isn't read aloud.

3. All quotes will be the final lines of the film proper. Any lines spoken in "credit cookies" or post-credits scenes won't be used. For example, the final lines of Ferris Bueller's Day Off would be "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it," rather than "You're still here? It's over. Go home."

4. The films selected may be in any language, but we will post the quotations translated into English whenever applicable.

5. Participants may only submit one guess per week of the game. If more than one guess is submitted, no points will be given for the week even if one of the guesses is correct.

6. Submissions must be made to the e-Mail address [email protected]. We will be turning off comments to each week's quiz to avoid confusion.

7. All entries must be received by the following Wednesday night at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Entries received after this time will be considered ineligible.

8. Each correct submission will be worth one point, each incorrect submission worth zero points. At the end of twelve weeks, each of the three competitors with the highest number points will each win a $25 gift certificate from The Criterion Store. If there is a tie for first place between more than three contestants, we will run tie-breaker rounds until the winners have been whittled down to three.

9. Employees of hooksexup.com or The Screengrab are ineligible for prizes. Sorry buds.

10. Have fun!

Will our returning champions Alex E., Ben Herrera and Victor Morton defend their Famous Last Words title? Tune in one week from today for the first installment of Famous Last Words With a Vengeance. See you next week!