Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 258th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
R.I.P. #OscarsSoWhite: Why 2017 Will Be The Most Diverse Awards Season In Decades.
How the Academy’s New Class Impacts Asian Representation in Hollywood.
‘Harry Potter’ Films All Returning to IMAX Ahead of ‘Fantastic Beasts’.
Ryan Kavanaugh Puts Relativity Up for Sale.
Wanda’s Wang Jianlin Announces Hollywood Visit.
Indian Film Producers Set Temporary Ban on Pakistani Talent Amid Political Tensions.
How Hurricane Matthew Is Impacting Film and TV Production in the Southeast.
The movie geek who dreamed his way into making films.
The 22 Pro Athletes, Hedge-Fund Guys, and Oscar Winners Who Helped Pay for Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’.
Why I Stopped Wanting to Make Serious Art Films and Came to Believe Movies Should Be Fun.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Has The Highest On-Screen Body Count In Movie History.
In ‘Deepwater,’ ‘Sully,’ and more, name actresses are stuck at home on the phone with their hero husbands.
Donald Trump, Wannabe Movie Mogul: The Little-Known Story of His Almost-Hollywood Studio.
An Appreciation of ‘That Thing You Do’ on its 20th Anniversary.
‘Hell or High Water’ Is The Indie Box-Office Hit of 2016, and Here’s How Taylor Sheridan Wrote It.
Why It Took ‘The Girl on The Train’ Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson 30 Years To Break Through In Hollywood.
The Rise of the Female Impostor Comedy.
In Defense of TV’s Good Guys.
How ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Falling Crime Are Rewriting the Rules for Legal Dramas.
Conan O’Brien Joke Theft Lawsuit Adds an Additional Joke.
Salaries of TV’s Top Talent Revealed.
Stars’ Soaring Salaries Rattle TV Business.
11 Rules of Westworld: HBO’s Killer Robot Series.
Our Biggest Questions After Westworld: Episode One.
The Long, Weird History of the Westworld Franchise.
The 7 best Westworld theories to make your brain hurt (so far).
Our Biggest Questions After Westworld, Episode Two.
‘Westworld’: How Video Games Inspired Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s New Sci-Fi Western Hybrid.
Will HBO’s ‘Westworld’ Include Roman World, Medieval World Or Futureworld?
Netflix Allegedly Cut Its Streaming Library in Half During the Past 4 Years.
Netflix Investors Apparently Excited Over Disney Acquisition Rumor.
Netflix Inks Deal With 15-Theater Chain iPic Entertainment for Original Movies, Angling for Oscar.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Blasts Theater Owners as ‘Strangling’ Movie Business.
How Amazon Became a Major Player in Half-Hour Television.
Everyone Can Now Create Twitter Moments: Here’s All You Need to Know.
Google Unveils Daydream View Virtual Reality Headset.
In Virtual Reality, Women Run the World.
AT&T Turns to Media Acquisitions as Its Video Ambitions Grow.
Streamy Awards 2016: The Complete Winners List.
The 2016 National Book Awards Finalists.
Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography.
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 270).
Watch: Ava DuVernay ‘13th’ New York Film Festival press conference.
Watch: Seven Samurai — Drama Through Action.
Watch: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ — Where Story Meets Style.
Watch: Why ‘Aliens’ Is the Mother of All Action Movies.
Watch: Virtual Reality Execs Explain How the Technol (Video)ogy Makes Money.
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