Saturday Hot Links

Welcome to another installment of Saturday Hot Links!

Today: The Cute Cat Video Edition!

Why cats meow.

IndieWire: 25 films we’re looking forward to at TIFF.

More TIFF: Jason Reitman to lead live reading of American Beauty.

Thompson On Hollywood: Telluride wrap.

Mike DeLuca: On The Slate.

8 fairy tales and their not so happy endings.

Roger Ebert’s memoir headed to Hollywood.

Why do so many countries end in “stan”.

America’s fall TV pilots are flopping in foreign markets.

Creativity Post: You can’t create something out of nothing.

TotalFilm: 50 greatest gangster movie moments.

Kansas man campaigns to rename town Smallville.

Fox to offer movies early online for $15.

Sh*t Apple users say [video].

Christopher Nolan sues CAA and WME.

The 5 hottest new restaurants in downtown LA.

Hollywood’s private jets: Who owns what?

Bad Robot reups with Warner Bros.

Literature’s greatest closing paragraphs.

10 really bad movies that redefine “bad movies.”

How two Pakastani brothers created the first PC virus.

Eric Roth honored with Austin Film Festival Distinguished Screenwriter Award.

More AFF: Panels announced.

Hear Alice Cooper’s rejected 1974 James Bond theme.

Bad lip-reading version of Twilight [video].

Paranormal Activity producer moves into haunted house business.

WWII bomb discovered and detonated in Munich.

Movie posters with one letter removed.

“Big Fish” goes to Broadway… by way of Chicago.

10 essential Italian films.

15 third-party Presidential candidates.

Silver Pictures moves to Venice [California, that is].

17 euphemisms for sex from the 1800s.

Joss Whedon on Much Ado About Nothing.

The many myths of Jack Daniels.

Speaking of which: Alcohol and the creative process.

Kyle Killen with a new TV pilot at ABC.

20 famous writers on death and mortality.

China company buys AMC Entertainment for $2.6B.

Dante’s 9 circles of Hell… Lego style.

Ted Hope: Why make this movie?

The foot powder that ran for Mayor… and won!

Watch J.J. Abrams new TV pilot “Revolution” online now.

Differences in conservative and liberal brains.

10 best African movies.

Kickball rules from 1920.

A guide to Hollywood unions.

Hey, guys, line forms to the left: Maria Sharapova is single again.

Michael Bay comments on leaked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle script.

7 ways the world could have been completely different.

50 greatest concert films of all time.

Why America’s top colleges offer free classes online.

Oogieloves posts worst opening per screen B.O. average ever.

15 offbeat holidays you can celebrate in September.

How 10 iconic movies almost ended.

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