Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 165th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The We Bid A Fond Farewell To ‘The Colbert Report’ Edition.
‘The Colbert Report’ by the numbers.
Related: The 16 best times Stephen Colbert broke character.
Related: ‘The Colbert Report’s’ 10 best moments [video].
Related: 49 celebs say farewell to “The Colbert Report”.
Related: An annotated list of every single person who sang in “The Colbert Report” finale.
The 22 best documentaries of 2014.
The 20 best movie posters of 2014.
The 20 best movie posters of 2014.
The 17 most thrilling action sequences of 2014.
The 15 best movie soundtracks of 2014.
The 13 best movie characters of 2014.
The 11 best stand-up specials of 2014.
The 10 best books of 2014.
The 10 best comic series of 2014.
The 10 best movie scenes of 2014.
10 great underrated movies from 2014.
The 10 best TV shows of 2104.
The best TV shows and moments in 2014.
The best TV episodes of 2014.
Todd McCarthy’s 10 best films of 2014.
A.O. Scott’s top 10 movies of 2014.
Why Selma is the film of the year.
IMDb’s highest rated movies of the year.
The best films about women in 2014.
The best films made for under $100K in 2014.
‘Walking Dead’ is the most tweeted TV show of 2014.z
The 10 moments in The Interview that would have most upset North Korea.
Related: How The Interview got made — a timeline.
Related: Theaters cancel screenings of Team America.
Related: 11 times North Korea was the bad guy in movies and TV shows.
Related: White House views Sony hack as a security issue.
Related: President Obama to Sony: Made a “mistake”.
Related: How Sony bungled the hack attack.
Related: Hollywood outraged at Sony’s decision to dump The Interview.
Related: Reaction to the Sony hack attack is “beyond the realm of stupid”.
Related: What are US options toward North Korea if they hacked Sony.
Related: The evidence North Korea hacked Sony is filmsy.
Related: New Regency scraps Steve Carrell movie Pyongyang.
Woman recovers lost luggage after 20 years.
The curious case of copyright and It’s a Wonderful Life [video].
The 15 worst Internet hoaxes of 2014 — and where the pranksters are now.
5 reasons why The LEGO Movie is more feminist than you think.
See if you can handle the truth with the Chris Rock Wisdom Generator.
Lost 1927 Disney cartoon discovered in Norway.
7 hat legends, fact checked.
21 things you did not know about The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Plotting the possible survival of three 1962 Alcatraz escapees.
Mark Hamill goes to the Dark Side in The Empire Strikes Back staged reading.
What ‘Serial’ really taught us.
Related: Let’s talk about the end of ‘Serial’
Related: Every ‘Serial’ theory from most to least plausible.
Background on Margaret Keane, the woman featured in the movie Big Eyes.
The day 43 Mexican students went missing — and how it might be a turning point for the country.
‘Fargo’ heads to Hulu in exclusive streaming deal.
Pac Man restaurant to open in Chicago.
5 things we learned about moviegoing this year.
Are Cuban cigars legal now.
Study confirms: Kids’ movies are really sad and violent.
Eureka! A beer that will solve your creative problems.
The crazy history of Star Wars.
Richard Hottelet, last of CBS news ‘Murrow’s Boys,’ dies at 97.
2014 and the rise of thoughtful blockbusters.
5 delicious twists on latkes.
Attention filmmakers: Here’s how to self-distribute your films.
10 Shakespeare words with unclear meanings.
Peter Jackson on the end of his Middle Earth odyssey.
This is what it really feels like to be bullied.
25 more movies enter the National Film Registry.
Almost (really) famous: 9 former Supreme Court candidates.
Physician diagnoses Die Hard’s craziest injuries.
Graves and garbage: The hard life of an archeologist.
CAA promotes four to agent.
Navy develops shark-shaped reconnaissance robot.
How Hollywood’s toxic (and worsening) addiction to franchises changed movies forever in 2014
California needs over 11 trillion gallons of water to get over the drought.
Roman Polanski’s attorneys seek to close sex abuse case.
Inside a top-secret factory where scent is made.
Related: What causes “old book smell”.
The 2105 Sundance Film Festival online calendar of events.
Dalai Lama says he could be the last one.
Here’s how having women in the story room changes everything.
Los Angeles to buy 7,000 body cameras for police officers.
Ted Hope’s 16 predictions for the movie business in 2015 and beyond.
15 vintage photos of nuns doing normal things.
Where have all the TV dogs gone.
The amazing origins of 15 etiquette rules.
The woman who walked 10,000 miles.
English soccer U.K. TV rights could reach $7B.
The origins of 10 popular Christmas carols.
MSNBC expanding online with original programming, streaming video.
$30,000 time traveling DeLorean conversion kits.
Hooray for Nollywood: Nigerian film industry raises the artistic bar.
15 ongoing space missions you should know about.
The 10 levels of unoriginality in Hollywood movies.
The mechanized future of warfare.
Related: How computers will replace your doctor.
18 facts about your favorite Christmas TV specials.
10 attempts to thwart Christmas tree thieves.
Watch 10 classic German expressionist films [videos].
5 historical attempts to ban coffee.
15 podcasts for extremely specific types of nerds.
Who was Heisman and why does he have a trophy.
‘Miami Vice’ reboot rumored at Universal.
7 incredible things you didn’t know your fingers could do.
‘The Leftovers’ season 2 will change locations and supporting cast.
These are the 10 most dangerous toys this holiday season.
Watch The Guardians of the Galaxy blooper reel [video].
Why fear kills productivity.
12 things you might not know about “The 12 Days of Christmas”.
8 nuclear weapons the U.S. has lost.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: I have gazed into the crystal ball of what is 2015 and while working out my schedule of online classes, I have discovered three spots in my calendar where I will be able to host the Quest Writing Workshop live and in-person in Santa Monica, California. If you are interested, circle these dates:
March 12–15, 2015
July 23–26, 2015
October 15–18, 2015
Each workshop runs Thursday-Sunday from 10AM-5PM with discussions continuing afterward in one of the local watering holes. Following the workshop, participants finish prepping a story and writing a first draft in a unique 16 week online program. For more information, go here.
If you’re serious about your writing and you like what read here on the blog, my character based approach to screenwriting, perhaps you should include the Quest Writing Workshop on your letter to Santa!
To everyone who has taken a Screenwriting Master Class course with me over the last 4 years, I send you a special holiday blast of creative juju.
HOHOHOGOGOGOYOYOYO!!!
As always, I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!