Saturday Hot Links
Yes, it’s time for yet another installment of Saturday Hot Links, today smothered with melted Velveeta!
We start with a TV news reporter having a wee bit of trouble breaking a car window:
Foreign B.O. to save movie studios in 2011.
Another sign Hollywood’s purse string are opening: Studio-produce deals increased year-to-date by 12, ending a downward slide that started in 2000.
Speaking of which: Prolific producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura re-ups his deal at Paramount.
For those of you who are visually inclined [like me] who can draw [I can’t], this is a must-see: 50 beautiful sketchbooks scans.
Digital books now up to 20% of all book sales.
Flavorwire: Our 20 favorite Vonnegut-isms.
The excellent site Film Studies for Free with a nifty post: 100+ film and film studies Facebook pages.
Per Roger Ebert, a female reader asserts that horror movies do nothing more than reveal male fears, lusts, and insecurities.
List: 50 worsts kids movies.
J.J. Abrams selects the Bad Guy for Star Trek 2. Click here to find out who it is.
Sundance Cinemas to take over Sunset 5 from Laemmle Theatres.
Ted Hope: 10 things to do before you submit a script.
Darren Aronofsky has shot some anti-meth PSAs and they are seriously scary [video].
Morgan Freeman to receive the Golden Globe’s Ceciell B. DeMille Award.
Harold and Kumar go to… Zucotti Park?
Speaking of H&K, the director of Christmas installment Todd Strauss-Schulson looks to be headed to screenwriters Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer’s Warner Bros. projec Family Getaway.
And Eddie Murphy… ah, you already know.
Biggest Hollywood real estate deals of the week include Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Kristen Stewart’s mom.
Ten wonderful fake books by fictional TV characters.
Film Studies for Free updates their online film and media studies journal links.
Total Film: 18 genius pieces of movie exposition.
Remember when CDs were like so hot? Not so much by 2012.
The most most definitive music cues in film history.
And another TV blooper where a news reporter has an unfortunate date with a bug:
In screenwriting news, Paul Haggis to promote Canadian Film Center.
Chad Damiani and JP Lavin [Max Steel] hired by ImageMovers to write the script for TV adaptation of his novel “The Corrections.”
Nicholl Fellowship finalists Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair land OWA: “The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League”.
Asteroids, based on the 80s video game, gets a screenwriter: Evan Spiliotopoulos (Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, Battle for Terra).
Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) just did a polish on One Thousand A.E.
Mike Jones (In the Event of a Moon Disaster) lands WB gig to script Marco Polo.
WME signs writer-director M. Night Shymalan.
Tom Cruise attempts something really scary: Singing.
This guy claims Twitter ruined his life.
Warner Bros. greenlights Lego movie.
Total Film: 50 funniest movie one-liners.
The Criterion Collection hits iTunes.
The doc Greedy Lying Bastards goes after the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry.
Classic book chapters written on grains of rice.
10 phrases to purge from your writing.
A new image from the Toy Story short to play with The Muppets.
Finally the best for last the inimitable Bill O’Reilly losing his shit:
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