Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 230th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
SXSW: Complete List of Winners at the 2016 Film Awards.
SXSW Film 2016 Reveals the Gaps of the Hollywood System.
The 2016 Indiewire SXSW Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival.
‘Miss Stevens’ is a breakthrough for filmmaker Julia Hart and actress Lily Rabe at SXSW.
SXSW 2016: Joe Swanberg Gets Honest About Making a Living in Indie Film.
Why SXSW Will Never Be the Same After Obama.
Academy Governors to Revisit Diversity Initiatives.
The Academy’s Newest Diversity Moves: Three Takeaways (Analysis).
Ang Lee, Other Asian Oscar Winners Protest ‘Racist Stereotypes’ to Academy.
Russo Brothers Launch Studio to Produce Chinese-Language Films.
Box Office Billionaire: How Legendary’s Thomas Tull Used Comics, China And A Secret Formula To Remake Hollywood.
Say What, Wanda? The Fuzzy Math Behind the $3.5B Legendary Purchase.
Warner’s Flagship Entertainment Unveils 12 China Movies.
Paramount Stake Attracts Interest From Three Dozen Companies.
‘The Mermaid’ Producer Explains How Chinese Movies Can Spark International Appeal (Q&A).
Why 3D Is No Longer Hollywood Studios’ Savior.
Indiana Jones and the End of Movie Trilogies.
Zootopia Confirms That Pixar Is No Longer the Undisputed Champ of Feature Animation.
10 Cloverfield Lane and the Reclamation of the Captive Woman.
Sony Takes PlayStation Vue Streaming Service Nationwide.
Inside the Screening Room’s Bold Plan to Disrupt the Movie Business.
Sean Parker Upended the Music Industry, Now He Wants to Do the Same for Movies.
600 Art House Theaters Oppose Screening Room, Question Revenue-Sharing Model.
Christopher Nolan Comes Out Against Screening Room.
When Will You Stop Going To Movie Theaters.
Relativity Announces It Has Secured $400 Million From Maple Leaf Films.
A New Weapon for Battling Cellphones in Theaters: Laser Beams.
Batman v Superman Outpacing Both Deadpool and Avengers in Advance Ticket Sales.
Why Religious Movies Are Luring Mainstream Stars.
Ghetto Film School L.A. Introduces New Program for Female Students.
Paramount lawyers call Star Trek fan film’s bluff in nerdiest lawsuit ever.
‘Spotlight’ Makers Reach Settlement With Real-Life Figure.
Fandango Launches Own On-Demand Video Service, FandangoNOW.
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg to Return for Fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ Movie.
How Expensive Is It to Insure Harrison Ford As Indiana Jones.
Reflecting on Woody Allen’s Lesser Known Films.
Remembering Nora Ephron, by the Family and Friends Who Loved Her.
The Coen Brothers: Clooney, Bridges and more on what makes them tick.
Is the Rule of Thirds Really All That It’s Cracked Up to Be.
Moving Forward as Screenwriters: How to Write for Females in Film.
The All-Female ‘Stand By Me’ Live Read Shows That Growing Up is for Everyone.
Attention, Screenwriters: 7 New Scripting Tips, Straight from Oliver Stone, Mark Duplass, Cassian Elwes and David Seidler.
The price of Hollywood whitewashing: How this complex drama about a Latina woman became just another Keanu Reeves cop movie.
A Pixar Quote for Any Occasion.
How to make a film out of personal experience.
Reboots Have Come To Television: Welcome To Nostalgic Revivalist TV.
The 2015–16 TV Season in One Really Depressing Chart.
The Rise of the Millennial Sitcom.
All Hail Comedy’s Takeover of TV.
Fox Ready to Do TV Ad Deals Without Nielsen Guarantees.
Facebook, Twitter Out to Compete For TV.
TV Shows That Pack Emotional Punch Have Higher Ad Recall.
Read Game of Thrones’ heart-piercing script for Season 5’s most pivotal moment.
Popular Film Social Network Letterboxd Debuts Long-Awaited iPhone App.
The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire.
Instagram Users Rebel Against Plans to Reorganize Feed.
‘Walking Dead’ Gets Permanent Universal Studios Hollywood Attraction.
Broadway Box Office: Crowdpleasers Climb in Spring Break Season.
3 Unreleased Prince Songs to Be Auctioned Off for $20,000-Plus.
Sony Buys Michael Jackson Stake in Music Venture for $750 Million.
Spotify to Pay More Than $20 Million to Music Publishers in Royalty Pact for ‘Unmatched’ Songs.
CBS Plans to Sell Radio Station Group.
CBS Predicts 8 Million Subscribers for CBS All Access and Showtime Streaming Services by 2020.
The Future of the Physical Bookstore: Amazon vs. The Independents.
The History of Wonder Woman’s Secret Comic Book Identity.
What the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature will bring to UMaine.
Michael Mann Plotting ‘Heat’ Prequel Novel.
A First-time Novelist’s 7-Figure Midlife Breakthrough.
19 Books That Honestly Confront Mental Health Issues.
The Top 55 Apps for Writers in 2016.
Delilah S. Dawson: 25 Steps to Being a Traditionally Published Author.
Bob Saenz: The Moment.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 80.
Scriptnotes: Episode 241.
Watch: 8-Minute Supercut Celebration Of Charlie Kaufman’s Filmography [video].
Watch: 10 of the Greatest Film Editors Are Women [video].
Watch: Jeff Nichols Shares the Personal Passion That Went Into ‘Midnight Special’ [video].
Watch: EX MACHINA: Questioning the Human Machine [video].
Watch: New Trailer For ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Brings More High-Tech Laughs [video].
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