Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 207th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Oscars: 81 Countries Submit for Best Foreign Language Film.
Over 70 New Sales Companies Heading to AFM.
The Dangers When Financiers Think They Can Produce Movies, Too.
‘Transformers’ Sequels Planned for the Next 10 Years.
Disney Announces Release Dates For ‘The Incredibles 2,’ ‘Toy Story 4,’ And More.
Why Disney May Not Screen Star Wars: The Force Awakens for Critics.
How the Making of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Was Different From Other Pixar Movies.
Paramount Has Created Its Own YouTube Channel to Let You Stream Movies For Free.
Brad Grey Re-Ups at Paramount to 2020.
CAA Book Promises To Surprise, Will Hit Store Shelves Next Summer.
A Widow’s Threats, High-Powered Spats and the Sony Hack: The Strange Saga of ‘Steve Jobs’.
George Miller Says He’s Got Two ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Sequel Scripts.
George Miller to Receive Environmental Media’s Lifetime Award.
Robert Zemeckis is the King of Nostalgic Cinema.
Meet 12 Participants in Fall Black List Screenwriting Mini-Labs.
John Williams Tapped for 44th AFI Life Achievement Award.
The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2015 (A Running List).
NASA Scientist Reviews “The Martian”.
Disney Parks Consider Demand Pricing.
New York City Opens First Public Graduate Film School.
How Women in Hollywood Are Finally Taking a Stand Against Sexism.
Female-Driven Movies Make Money, So Why Aren’t More Being Made?
How This Film Producer Is Changing a Male-Dominated Industry.
‘Suffragette’ Screenwriter Abi Morgan on Feminism and the Challenges of Casting Men for the Women’s Rights Film.
Australian Films Break Local Box-Office Records.
DOC NYC Announces ‘Short List’ Program of 15 Documentaries.
The Future of Virtual Reality is Amazing (and Nauseating).
Tom Hanks Finds Student’s ID, Launches Successful Twitter Campaign and Returns It.
7 Studio Jobs That Can Get Screenwriters Closer to Their Dreams.
9 Reasons Screenwriting Is Exactly Like Poker.
Ten Amazing Discussions on Screenwriting and Filmmaking From the Masters of Cinema.
10 Movies Disowned By Their Screenwriters.
10 Totally Confusing Hollywood Screenwriting Disputes.
Profiling the 15 Types of Movie Villains.
17 Screenwriting Lessons From Stephen King.
Top Ten TED Talks on Storytelling and Filmmaking.
Aaron Sorkin on Adapting the Film ‘Steve Jobs’.
‘Back to the Future’ Screenwriter: I Never Could Have Predicted Smartphones.
Producer Gale Anne Hurd Interview: Never Take No For An Answer.
5 Hot Trends of TV’s Development Season.
‘Haywire,’ ‘Lethal Weapon,’ ‘The A-Team,’ And ‘MacGyver’ TV Shows In Development.
Scripted TV Boom Buoys L.A. Location Shooting.
Tim Goodman: How to Not Get Canceled in the New World of Television.
ABC Family Is Changing Its Name to … Freeform?
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Has His Next Gig: Writing for HBO’s Silicon Valley.
Platform Wars And Backroom Deals: Why Amazon Ditched Apple TV and Chromecast.
Amazon Mulls Launch of Standalone TV Service.
Vimeo Invests in First Slate of Original Programs With 3 Shows.
Quvenzhané Wallis Adds Author to Her List of Young Accomplishments, Will Write 4 (!) Books.
Huffington Post Staff in Talks to Unionize.
New York Times Reveals 11-Page Memo Detailing Ambitious Plan to Double Digital Revenue in 5 Years.
Kurt Cobain Did a Grunge-y Cover of the Beatles’ ‘And I Love Her,’ Which You Can Finally Hear.
Death Cab for Cutie Instrumentalist Chris Walla Released a Perfect Record to Work To.
The Kid In The Front Row says goodbye.
John August: The Martian, or Making Things Going Wrong Well.
Jessica Bendinger: Ladies + Movies + Freakonomics.
The Bitter Script Reader: THE MARTIAN is the kind of film screenwriting classes will study.
Ted Hope: Five Crucial Things We Want From Stories.
Ken Levine: The truth about network casting.
Doug Richardson: Lie to me.
Chuck Wendig: How To Outline During National Plot Your Novel Month.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 61 (John Gary),
Watch: The History of the Future in Film [video].
Watch: Watch Conan’s ‘Steve Jobs’ Parody ‘Michael Dell’ [video].
Watch: 6-Minute Video Essay Explores The Parallels Between ‘Whiplash’ And ‘Black Swan’ [video].
Watch: 8-Minute Video Essay Explores How Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ Is A Disobedient Fairy Tale [video].
Watch: 26-Minute Documentary ‘Turning Like Clockwork’ About Stanley Kubrick’s Dose Of Ultraviolence [video].
Watch: 27-Minute NYFF ‘Steve Jobs’ Press Conference [video].
Watch: 2-Hour Doc ‘Fog City Mavericks’ Doc Talks San Francisco Directors, Features Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Eastwood [video].
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