Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 145th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The I’m In Canada This Weekend So Let’s Celebrate With SCTV Episodes Edition!
2014 Comic-Con: A bunch of stuff on Marvel [videos].
2014 Comic-Con: The Playlist primer on what happened.
2014 Comic-Con: Comprehensive list of /film’s coverage.
2014 Comic-Con: Variety with 5 ways Hollywood could improve Comic-Con.
2014 Comic-Con: All the articles from Vulture.
2014 Comic-Con: Everything from The Week.
2014 Comic-Con: An attempt to explain the utterly inexplicable San Diego Comic-Con.
2014 Comic-Con: The cosplay of Comic-Con [video].
2014 Comic-Con: Jimmy Kimmel harrasses Comic-Con cosplayers about their sex lives [video].
10 poetic tributes to cats.
In a battle of cinematic bad-asses, Lucy spanks Hercules.
The 50 worst synonyms in “Fifty Shades of Grey”.
10 hotels with very specific — and unusual — amenities.
Hollywood wants drones.
Could procrastination be genetic?
Frank Miller on screenplays: Thumbs down.
How the paleolithic lifestyle got so trendy.
The most ridiculous TV show concepts in pop culture.
Weird Al gets a bit verklempt when he discovers his latest album is #1 on the Billboard charts.
The new Project Greenlight now open for submissions.
Men are happier with a smarter wife.
The Playlist with five favorite female badasses.
20 things you should never do in a pitch meeting.
Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight to shoot next year.
What happens to your brain and body when you get a concussion.
10 films that can teach you everything you need to know about filmmaking.
The top 3 platforms for self-publishing a book.
Are there too many good shows on TV.
We’ve been thinking about talent the wrong way all along.
Stanley Kubrick’s list of his top 10 films.
10 of the most depressing places in literature.
How The Avengers and Lucy turned Scarlett Johansson into an action superstar.
How to diagnose what’s making you chronically late.
Teaser trailer for Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 [video].
3 previously out-of-print J.D. Salinger stories published.
A Kurt Cobain biopic: Thumbs up or thumbs down?
How your favorite sneakers got their names.
The strange year of posthumous performance.
Chuck Palahniuk working on a sequel to Fight Club.
How Nicole Perlman became the first woman to write a Marvel movie.
How to set up your desk for your best day at work.
8 great films about the great war (WWI).
How to trim $500 from your monthly spending.
The 25 best coming-of-age movies.
Life Hacks that will make your life worse [video].
17 banned films and what they tell us about the power of cinema.
The Devil’s Music: 10 songs based around the Tritone Interval.
Can the story of Hollywood be told in just 10 films.
How much sleep do you actually need.
Producer Mynette Louie (@mynette) with a list of 100+ American independent film producers.
The mystery behind China’s aggressive push into space.
And the Geeks shall inherit the Earth.
How to find the best waves at any beach.
The most underrated and underseen films of 2014 so far.
Snowpiercer hits $3.8M on VOD.
Online search engine ignites creativity by crowdsourcing associative thinking.
The films of Werner Herzog: A retrospective.
The 7 deadly sins of logo design [infographic].
Movie film, at death’s door, gets a reprieve thanks to Quentin Tarantino and J.J. Abrams.
Running 5 minutes a day has long-lasting benefits.
The alternate endings of 20 famous movies.
8 ways to make your phone live longer.
This summer’s box office hit: Twitter.
Watch the reaction at Dodger Stadium as it’s announced that Vin Scully will be back behind the mic for his 66th season [video].
15 years later: The chilling message behind the hype and backlash of Blair Witch.
A family tree of the entire human race.
Read Tom Hiddleston’s email to Joss Whedon after reading The Avengers script.
Timelapse: One year in a forest’s life [video].
What happened to original movies aimed at adults?
Why does your dog seem to know what time it is.
Rare script of Gone With the Wind found with alternate ending.
Do mosquitoes get drunk biting intoxicated people.
$200M and rising: Hollywood struggles with soaring marketing costs.
Ethereal photos make WiFi signals visible [photos].
What are some telltale signs of a bad actor.
Spike Jonze to guest star on Girls season 4.
11 controversial vanity license plates.
Prolific TV producer Robert Halmi, Sr. dies at 90.
Why is it called salt water taffy.
Are Studio Ghibli’s days numbered.
11 little quirks in baseball’s early rules.
12 hidden celebrity cameos in movies.
Nollywood (Nigeria) finds its global audience online.
Do you live in a dog state or a cat state?
Rian Johnson cites Twelve O’Clock High and Letters Never Sent as inspiration for Star Wars: Episode VIII.
These are the top 25 film schools in the United States… plus five up-and-comers.
Here is the absolute stupidest moment in Sharknado 2.
Stop giving all your money to Michael Bay.
The 11 indie movies you must see in August.
Finally, without a doubt, the best story you will see all week [video].
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Due to my travels up here in the Great White North, I’m pushing back the start date of Core III: Character to Monday, August 11th. If you’re interested in learning about character archetypes and how you can use them to develop your story’s characters as well as shape your screenplay’s structure, consider taking this class. More information here.
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