Saturday Hot Links

Here are today’s hot links:

Pixar doing a live-action movie and another superhero film? Says so right here [H/T to Rob Fuller for the link].

Be still my beating heart! Can it be true? A new Monty Python movie… sort of?

FilmmakerIQ witrh Top 7 New York films.

Huh? Magnolia sets pay what you want ticket price for “Freakonomics”. Since when do corporations actually care about consumers anymore?

The Social Network opens this weekend and director David Fincher says, “I wanted to make a 21st century John Hughes movie”.

So the latest version of Halo generates $200M in sales on Day 1… which means the video game industry is getting bigger than movies, right? Wrong!

Hollywood Reporter to become a weekly.

The death of indie films? Overexaggerated.

Tired of me answering your screenwriting questions? Here’s another resource for you. 

23 Great Leondardo DiCaprio struts.

TotalFilm with the Best & Worst: Buddy Copy Movies.

From Deadline: Who’s Up or Down for Oscar.

And nice to see Warner Bros. goes to Al Capone vault from a script by veteran TV writer Walon Green who is 64 years old and whose first writing credit was “The Lost Bunch” TV series in 1969. See, you don’t have to be a recent film school grad to get writing work in Hollywood.

Enjoy your hot links!

UPDATE: Good news out of TIFF:

TORONTO — Filmmakers registered “strong sales” at the Toronto film festival this week with more than 20 films being purchased by distributors from around the globe, the sales and industry office said Friday.

The value of the distribution deals, however, was not announced.

“To date, more than 20 films have been sold to territories in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, with more sales expected to be announced in the coming days,” the festival’s sales and industry office said.

Key acquisitions include Nicole Kidman-starring “Rabbit Hole,” “Barney’s Version,” with Hollywood icon Dustin Hoffman, director Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” and the William H. Macy vehicle “Dirty Girl.”

US sales were also confirmed for “Casino Jack,” “The Conspirator,” “I Saw The Devil,” “Outside the Law,” “Potiche” and “Saray’s Key.”

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“We are very pleased to see Toronto playing a role in the turnaround in the sales climate,” commented festival co-director Cameron Bailey, heralding an end to two years of torpid sales since the 2008 economic downturn.

Maybe the indie market is on the rebound?