Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 259th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
The Black List Unveils Shortlist For The 2016 Feature Writers Lab.
Top Hollywood Screenwriter Salaries Rival Studio Chiefs.
Film’s Streaming Future Could Be Its Physical End: Thoughts on the Future of Watching Movies.
What If 2016 Is Actually The Year That Saves Cinema?
The Complex Reality Of Chinese Money In Hollywood.
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Pacts With China’s Alibaba Pictures Group.
A Long History of Remakes Where Male Leads Were Changed to Female.
Wonder Woman at 75: How the Superhero Icon Inspired a Generation of Feminists.
‘Captain Marvel’ Will Be an Origin Story.
‘Jurassic World 2’ Will Be a Parable For Animal Abuse.
Movie Ads Really Did Dominate During the Presidential Debates.
Irish Film Board Gets 14 Percent Budget Increase.
Where ‘Brooklyn’ Is the Top-Grossing Film: An Art House Exec Explains Indie Film Strategy.
Mark Duplass Explains Why He Bailed on Hollywood and Embraced Netflix.
Chicago International Film Festival Gets Underway.
This Artist Re-creates Your Favorite Album Covers With Star Wars Characters.
Bill Hader Gets Trippy as Roger Corman, Kicking Off Series of Unmade-Script Live-Reads.
‘Green Room’ Director Jeremy Saulnier on What He Hates About Violent Movies.
William Friedkin on How He Filmed ‘The French Connection’s’ Iconic Car Chase.
‘Lost’ movie by silent film pioneer unearthed at Czech film archive.
A Complete Guide to the 2016 Austin Film Festival Parties and Events.
Excellent resource for screenwriters: WGA Ask the Expert links (Government Agencies, Crime and Law, Religion, Medicine, Psychology).
Hollywood’s 50 Most Powerful Showrunners 2016.
The 20 Most Powerful Women in Global Television 2016.
Carlton Cuse: How Staying Zen Makes Him One of TV’s Most Prolific Showrunners.
How Realistic Is Westworld: We Asked a Futurist.
‘Westworld’ Creators Answer Critics Who Find Their Show Too Hard to Watch.
‘Westworld’ show runner: There are some safe assumptions one can make about the Man in Black.
How HBO’s ‘Westworld’ indicts its own viewers.
Every secret Easter egg and obscure reference in ‘Westworld’ so far.
Nikki Finke Signs First-Look Deal with HBO.
How TV Can Weather the “Skinny Bundle” Storm of Streaming Services.
How Netflix’s Superhero Shows Distinguish Themselves From the Repetitive Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Netflix’s Latest Hire Proves It Wants to Control Even More of the TV Universe.
Don’t Sleep on Netflix.
Chris Rock Sets Comedian Record With $40M for Two Netflix Specials.
Participant Media Acquires Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake, Award-Winning Digital Entertainment Company.
The Complete List of Movies and TV Shows On Board the International Space Station.
Arthouse Trump Speaks: The Man Behind the Film Parody Feed Explains Himself.
Brad Riddell: Write Those Monologues!
Listen: 3rd & Fairfax (Episode 33).
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 271).
Watch: Webseries imagines young Hillary Clinton running for (class) president.
Watch: Carrie Fisher, Script Doctor.
Watch: A Supercut of Stanley Kubrick’s Favorite Films.
Watch: Steven Spielberg — Opening Shots (1971–1991).
Watch: How Quentin Tarantino Uses Violence.
Watch: An Ang Lee Production.
Watch: Character Arc in ‘The Graduate’.
Watch: Flesh + Steel — The Making of ‘RoboCop’.
Watch: 1 Brilliant Moment of Tension in ‘Sicario’.
Watch: ‘Reaction Shot’ — (The Economy of Storytelling).
Watch: Scott Pilgrim: Make Your Transitions Count.
Watch: The Nuclear Bunker Preserving Movie History.
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