Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 209th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Fans Blast Movie Ticket Sites for Presale Crashes.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Shatters Ticket Sales Records.
Please Don’t Pay $400 for Star Wars Tickets: Tales of the Force Awakens Ticketpocalypse.
A Handy Guide to All the Reasons ‘Star Wars’ Fans Are Freaking Out.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Tickets Bought Mostly By Older Men.
We’re Living In A New Golden Age Of Space Movies.
IFP Gotham Independent Film Award Nominees Announced.
Can Budget-Slasher Jason Blum Prove the Way Hollywood Makes Movies Is Horrifyingly Wrong?
Studios Finally Experiment With Release Strategies, But Results Are Mixed
Great Scott! The Unexpected Afterlife of ‘Back to The Future’.
Blast From The Past On ‘Back To The Future’: How Frank Price Rescued Robert Zemeckis’ Classic From Obscurity.
Michael J. Fox Receives First Pair of ‘Back to the Future’ Power-Lace Nike Shoes.
‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Donald Trump Inspired Biff.
The Hotel That Inspired ‘The Shining’ is Building a Horror Museum.
The Coen Brothers (Finally) Join the Criterion Collection This January.
George Clooney To Direct Coen Bros Crime Noir Drama ‘Suburbicon’ At TriStar.
24th Philadelphia Film Festival Reveals Charlie Kaufman Retrospective.
7 Characters You Can Find in ‘Steve Jobs’ and Every Other Aaron Sorkin Project.
Examining Steven Spielberg’s Fascinating Shift From Popcorn Movies to Politicized Ones.
12 Ways ‘Back to the Future II’ Predicted the Present.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe Is Killing Auteur Theory. Good.
Hollywood Slugger Warner Bros. Strikes Out at 2015 Box Office.
Chris Rock Returns To Host The Oscars.
Why the Oscars Producers Chose Chris Rock to Host.
124 Documentaries to Compete for Oscars This Year.
10 Great Movies That Only Became Hits After They Went to Video.
The History of Horror-Comedy in 11 Crucial Films.
‘Beasts of No Nation’ Boycott Exposes a Worried Theatrical Business.
Top Casting Directors For Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and More Reveal Industry Secrets.
How the Caribbean Film Industry is Surviving the Invasion of Hollywood.
Average Ticket Prices Hit Record High for Third Quarter.
How Sony Could Lose James Bond After Bloated ‘Spectre’.
Austin Film Festival 101: Why to Go & How to Plan Your Trip.
13 Filmmaking Blogs You Might Want to Browse (including Go Into The Story).
Top Female Producers Talk Perseverance and Finding Your Tribe at the LA Film Fest.
How Many Women Are on Hollywood’s Boards?
Ava DuVernay’s Glorious Speech at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards.
Tribeca and Chanel Launch Emerging Writer-Director Program for Female Filmmakers.
‘Project Greenlight’ Exemplifies All That is Wrong With the Film Business.
Can a Faith-Based Documentary About Gun Culture Connect with NRA Members?
How Much Do Screenwriters REALLY Make?
What Does ‘Cinematic TV’ Really Mean?
On screen, TV is more diverse than ever. Why aren’t writing staffs catching up?
Former Texas Senator Wendy Davis Inspires TV Show.
ESPN Begins Layoffs of Nearly 300 Staffers.
Mythbusters Ending After Next Season, Busting the Myth That Anything Lasts Forever.
Gilmore Girls Limited-Series Revival Set at Netflix.
Netflix New Releases Coming in November 2015.
Netflix Is Making Movies Shunned by Studios.
Yahoo Loses $42 Million on ‘Community’, Other Original Series.
4 Key Takeaways from Yahoo’s $42 Million ‘Community’ Debacle.
YouTube’s New Subscription Video Service Goes Head-to-Head with Netflix.
Twitter Launches Polls Feature on Mobile and the Web.
‘Harry Potter’ Stage Play Will Be Two-Part Sequel About Harry’s Son.
John August is thinking about doing NaNoWriMo.
David Lynch Writing Memoir To Correct “A Lot Of Bullsh*t Out There About Me”.
Ken Levine: How to create a hit procedural.
The Moment: Brian Koppelman interviews John Dahl.
3rd and Fairfax: Episode 10 (Billy Ray).
Chicks Who Script: Episode 63.
Scriptnotes: Episode 220.
Women and Hollywood: Episode 17.
Watch: Full Tilt: The Art Of The Dutch Angle [video].
Watch: First Full Episode of ‘Science vs Cinema’: ‘The Martian” [video].
Watch: Extended Talks With Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, And Paul Thomas Anderson About ‘Bridge Of Spies’ [videos].
Watch: Sarah Silverman is Dangerously Out of Rehab in Exclusive ‘I Smile Back’ Clip [video].
Watch: The Art Of The Car Chase — A Supercut From Bullit To Bourne [video].
Watch: You Won’t Need Roads With This Time Travel Supercut [video].
Watch: ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Recut As A Romantic Comedy [video].
Watch: 8-Minute Video Essay Reveals ‘Birdman’ Editing Secrets [video].
Watch: 56-Minute Talk With Todd Haynes, ‘Carol’ BFI London Film Festival Press Conference Plus New Poster [video].
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the Week: Many writers benefit from the structure of a writing workshop to encourage them through their story-crafting process. Plus you receive the benefit of feedback and support from your peers and the instructor. Finally, you not only work your way through your story, you also learn proven principles and practices you may adopt and adapt on all future writing projects.
So if you’re ready to learn the ins and outs of prep-writing while wrangling one of your original stories, I have got a terrific writing workshop geared for you!
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
A proven, professional approach to prep-writing: From a Protagonist Character Treatment to a Master Brainstorming List, Ten Major Plotline Points to Narrative Throughline.
COURSE DETAILS
- Six lectures to guide you through the prep-writing process
- 24/7 online forum discussions moderated by instructor
- Weekly writing assignments to develop and build your story
- Instructor and class feedback
- Due dates to motivate you to write and post assignments
- A weekly teleconference with instructor and class members
WHO SHOULD CONSIDER TAKING THIS COURSE
Screenwriters, TV writers, novelists, and playwrights who want to develop their story to an outline enabling them to have the confidence to pound out a first draft.
“From Concept to Outline is a course I wish I had known about years ago. I would recommend this wholeheartedly for anyone who is about to embark on their first script or ANY script. This lays the foundation stone to your story.”
— Camilla Castree
Start Date: Monday, October 26.
Note: This is the final session of the Prep workshop in 2015, so act now!
Instructor: Scott Myers
Scott leading Black List screenwriters workshop
Las Vegas, 2014
For more information, go here.
Remember: You can take any of our workshops on a private one-to-one basis. Indeed, one popular approach is to combine Prep and Pages I which takes you from concept all the way through the first draft process. It’s not only a great way to work your way through the writing process and complete a first draft, guided along the way by Tom or myself, it also enables you to learn a proven, professional approach to prep and page-writing which you can adopt and adapt for all future projects.
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– Amy Bircher
As always, I look forward to the opportunity to work with you.
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