Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
This week: The B-Movie Trailer Edition!
All the 2012 Cannes Film Festival movie trailers in one spot.
IndieWire with 12 reviews of films from Cannes.
The entertainment economy is completely different than the way it was.
7 essential books on optimism.
Read about the gay DC Comics character.
How agencies did at this year’s upfronts: New scripted series package scorecard.
And more: How did women writers fare in pilot season?
Congratulations, your pilot just got picked up. Here’s what you have to do. Everything.
Why great ideas comes when you aren’t trying.
Hulu unveils it summer slate of new programs.
William Peter Blatty, author of “The Exorcist,” suing his alma mater Georgetown University for straying so far from its roots, it should no longer call itself a Catholic school.
But on the upside for Blatty, they’re doing a 10-episode TV series version of split-pea soup spewing girl.
The mommy porn book trilogy “50 Shades of Grey” has sold 10 million copies.
And it appears that Nebraska moms like “50 Shades” best.
The case for Benedict Cumberbatch as the greatest onscreen Sherlock Holmes.
Pakastani student filmmaker wins award in U.S., unable to attend because they won’t grant him a visa.
Photographs of superheroes lurking in vintage war photographs.
Will Smith raps “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” on BBC one [video].
Not even a year ago, the studios were all screaming, “The sky is falling” about this. Now more distributors are going day-date VOD and streaming options.
Why success always starts with failure [HT to @nate_winslow for the link].
TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at the age of 96.
Note: The 2012 Peabody Awards.
Watch Bill Murray provide a drunken tour of the set of the movie Moonrise Kingdom [video].
Can you really go blind staring at a solar eclipse?
It’s the Pixar Avengers! [HT to John Casu for the link].
Speaking of which are The Avengers and The Hunger Games squashing the box office for other movies?
10 students win Academy Awards.
Humor: Osama Bin Laden’s office memos.
I am so pumped! The long awaited “The Confederacy of Dunces” movie project gets its Ignatius: It’s Zach Galifianikis.
Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer.
Mark Cuban’s HDNet becomes AXS.
Ban on plastic bags in L.A. markets passed.
Disney halts big budget film project Order of the Seven.
How do cranes get on top of skyscrapers?
An anonymous TV show runner explains why NBC canned Dan Harmon from “Community.”
Why do we capitalize the letter “I”?
Billy Wilder, Frank Capra and other notable directors to be featured on U.S. post office stamps.
Bloggers unite! Nine year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes.
Gavin Palone: The unglamorous, punishing hours of working on a Hollywood set.
Does insecurity drive creativity?
The art of storyboarding with M. Night Shyamalan [video].
Why rich people are investing in newspapers again.
Humor: How a book is born [infographic].
Crazed bidding war for cable porn provider.
Does being cold make you more susceptible to getting a cold?
Is this what the ending of “The Sopranos” was supposed to mean?
The creative benefits of exploring the uncomfortable.
Andrew Stanton shares some Pixar family photos.
Awesome: The Hemingway papers.
Jailed swindler becomes Hollywood sensation.
Interesting book: The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning.
The strangest source material in movie history.
What 50 famous authors want us to know about writing.
Finally thoughts and prayers out to legendary guitarist Doc Watson who is recuperating after a fall and surgery.
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