Saturday Hot Links
Another edition of Saturday Hot Links, today drizzled with a hazelnut cream sauce.
Today is “Arrested Development” day for reasons that will become clear as you read further. To celebrate, here are bloopers from Season 2:
“Arrested Development” news: Mitch Hurwitz plans on doing a “limited” TV season before making the movie.
THR with 5 thing you should know about the returning “Arrested Development” series.
More “AD”: The series 10 best minor characters.
The recent “AD” cast reunion featured them doing the chicken walk [video].
Finally the entire 97-minute video of the Bluth family reunion.
Moving on, IndieWire with 9 indie films you must see this October.
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has selected the top ten American columns in history.
Screenwriter Jason Keller on how he ended up writing Machine Gun Preacher [HT to @Story_Craft for the link].
10 child actors who became awesome adults.
A feature on screenwriter Will Reiser about his real-life story as inspiration for writing 50–50.
Ted Hope has found what he thinks is one of the best short films ever.
Tony Kushner, America’s most prominent playwright: “I make my living now as a screenwriter.” And he doesn’t sound too happy about it.
Total Film: 50 unsexiest movie moments.
And in that vein, here is the entire Melissa McCarthy sex tape from the end credits of Bridesmaids [video].
Aussie filmmaker Joel Mitchell blogs about taking the Screenwriting Master Class course “Prep: From Concept to Outline.” Guess what? He loved it!
Yahoo! announces slate of web series.
20,000+ defendants dismissed from massive Hurt Locker torrent lawsuit.
Screenwriter and soon-to-be director Diablo Cody relaunches her “Red Band Trailer” web talk show.
Warner Bros. goes after another franchise as Robert Downey, Jr. looks to reboot “Perry Mason”.
The return of “Beavis and Butthead” [video].
More TV animation news: “The Simpsons” renewed for two more seasons.
Ever wonder why studios wait until December to do a limited release of certain kinds of movies? Here are five reasons why.
“Mad Men” creator Matthew Wiener says of all the series’ characters he’s most like Peggy Olsen.
Screenwriter Dante Harper hired to adapt Isaac Asimov’s book series “Foundation”.
Paul W.S. Anderson talks Resident Evil 5: “The undead ride motorbikes and shoot machine guns.”
Here is the list of the top 10 movies to be rented on Netflix.
The Princess Bride cast and crew reunites on GMA [video].
Just after my “Business of Screenwriting” post this week on what to do if your movie sucks comes news that director Jim Sheridan wanted his name off “Dream House”.
Aronofsky about the Wolverine script: “This is the best one I’ve read.”
More Aronofsky: His big-budget project “Noah” finally lands a studio home — actually two of them.
Yet more Aronofsky: Remember that lawsuit filed by two unpaid interns who worked on Black Swan? Fox Searchlight has thrown Aronofsky’s prod co under the bus.
The Variety review of the new doc on Joseph Campbell: Finding Joe
How about a Coen brothers’ TV series?
The biggest box office flops of late summer.
The best Pixar voiceover performances.
The National Book Award names its 5 Under 35.
Leonard Nimoy attends his last “Star Trek” convention.
Another review this from THR: Martin Scorcese’s doc on George Harrison Living in the Material World.
Parody: “You’re Going Through Puberty, Charlie Brown”.
Star Trek 2 to include comic books.
Salon: Hollywood’s creepiest psychopaths.
David Cronenberg finishes the script for The Fly 2.
As if there aren’t enough already, Total Film suggests 40 videogames that need movies.
Finally a terrific set of links to all things Steve Jobs from Talking Points Memo.
More bloopers from “Arrested Development,” these from Season 3:
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Time is fundamentally a mystery and no more so than in a movie. Centuries can pass in a matter of cinematic minutes. Conversely a single moment can be stretched for pages. There are montages. Series of Shots. Flashbacks. Flashforwards. And always a writer must be cognizant of and manage a story’s inner clock, giving each script its own unique pulse and pace. That’s why we put together the 2-week online course Core VIII: Time. A brand new class, I will be teaching it beginning Monday, October 17th. Six lectures, two teleconferences, two writing exercises to work on your own stories, online forum feedback, and much more. If you struggle with pace and/or aren’t sure how to handle narrative devices like montages and flashbacks, setups and payoffs, this is the class for you. And for GITS readers, a special 10% discount. When you enroll, enter: Discount10. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you.
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