Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 213th installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Academy Launches 5-Year Diversity Initiative.
How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls.
Hollywood Sexism Exposed by Over 100 Women in Groundbreaking NY Times Cover Story.
13 Explosive Quotes on Hollywood Sexism From NYT Takedown.
Why Female Superheroes Are Flying on TV Instead of in Movies.
The 6 Worst Cases of Golden Globes Category Fraud in the Past Decade.
From ‘The Martian’ to ‘Room,’ How Confined Spaces Convey Character in 6 Oscar Contenders.
10 Ways the ‘Room’ Filmmakers Wrote Their Own Script for an Oscar Contender.
Hollywood Is Producing Higher Highs, Lower Lows.
Akiva Goldsman ‘Transformers’ Writers Room Leads Paramount & Hasbro To Set One For ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Micronauts’.
Box Office October Scare: Why So Many Movies Bombed.
Why Good Films Are Failing at the Box Office in Awards Season.
Know Your Audience: How Studios Failed at the First Rule of Storytelling in 2015.
Interview: Disney-Pixar’s Ed Catmull.
Global Warming Sparks Hollywood Production Meltdown.
Movie Mogul Musical Chairs: 5 Years of Hirings and Upheaval.
5 Biggest Hollywood Deals of the Past 5 Years.
The 10 Most Valuable Actors in Hollywood.
Josh Hutcherson to Scour Black List Screenplays for Young Filmmakers.
The Onion: Brad Pitt Scampers Away From Script After Detecting Musk Of Chris Pine On Pages.
You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie.
Why George Lucas sold Star Wars: “All you do is get criticized.”
‘Fast And Furious’ Franchise Character Spin-Offs Shift Into Gear.
How Universal Plans to Bring Its Monster Movies Back to Life.
Universal Boss Jeff Shell Leads Studio to Its Best Year Ever — Without Superheroes.
Read: 8 Page Comic Preview For ‘The Hateful Eight’ Written By Quentin Tarantino.
David O. Russell to Give BAFTA’s Annual David Lean Lecture.
Alexander Payne and Jon Favreau Reveal the Secrets of Writing a Great Comedy Screenplay.
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’ to Get Remake.
Don’t ‘Memento,’ Please!
The Original Script for ‘The Room’ Was Even Weirder, If You Can Believe It.
LAX to Build Paparazzi-Proof Terminal Facility for High-Profile Fliers.
The Importance of Sales Agents for Your Indie Film.
San Francisco Film Society Selects Winners for Fall 2015 Filmmaking Grants.
‘Shit My Dad Says’ Creator: I Killed Hollywood’s Obsession With Twitter TV Shows.
‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto Signs Overall Deal With HBO Through 2018.
12 of Television’s Most Complicated Superheroes.
Roy Price on Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Amazon Studios’ New Structure.
Amazon Launches Storywriter, a Free Screenwriting Tool.
YouTube India Production Facility Set for Launch.
Universal Renews Emerging Writers Fellowship for Third Year.
How Dead Authors Are Making a Killing in Hollywood.
Announced: The 2015 National Book Award Winners.
Ken Levine celebrates 10 years of blogging.
The Black List Table Read: “Three Months”.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 65.
Scriptnotes: Episode 224.
James Prideaux, Playwright Who Wrote Katharine Hepburn TV Movies, Dies at 88.
Watch: Rare Footage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald From the 1920s [video].
Watch: This cool short reminds people why film must be preserved [video].
Watch: In the Nostalgic World of Pixar, ‘Yesterday is Forever’ [video].
Watch: Final ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Gets Sweded [video].
Watch: Spike Lee’s 18-Minute Honorary Oscar Acceptance Speech [video].
Watch: 31-Minute Talk With Guillermo Del Toro About His Creative Journey, Inspirations, And Much More [video].
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