Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 249th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
Toronto International Film Festival announces 2016 lineup.
Comic-Con: Winners and Losers From the TV and Film Panels.
Marvel vs. DC: Which Superhero Movies Won Comic-Con.
What’s Smarter Bet: Costly Franchise ‘Star Trek Beyond’ or Low-Budget Horror Flick ‘Lights Out’?
Summer of Scary Movies: ‘Lights Out’ Quadruples Budget on Big Opening.
Will the Olympics Hurt ‘Suicide Squad’ and Other August Movies at Box Office?
Box Office Meltdown: Hollywood Races to Win Back Summer Crowds.
A Girl Escaped: Jailed Women In 21st Century Cinema.
Why Female Screenwriters Shouldn’t Get Depressed by WGA Stats.
Dreaming Big: The greatest blockbusters of the 21st century.
Will these superhero and fantasy blockbusters ever get made?
Larry Ellison’s Billion-Dollar Lanai Makeover and Hawaii Studio Plan.
A Hollywood Start-Up Sees New Life in Dead Movie Scripts.
Sable Ranch, Popular Film & TV Location, Destroyed By Wildfire.
Critics Survey: What Is The Best Short Film Ever Made?
New Line Sets Sequel To Fright Sensation ‘Lights Out’.
Writing ‘Rodham’: The strange tale of a Hollywood screenwriter who fell in love with the Hillary who could have been.
Max Landis Penning Pepé Le Pew Movie, Alongside Slew of Other Projects.
Comic-Con: Joss Whedon on the Problem With Modern Movies and How to Solve It.
Luc Besson Found Guilty of Plagiarizing ‘Lockout’ From John Carpenter’s ‘Escape From New York’.
Recently Discovered Michael Crichton Novel Coming in 2017
Beau Willimon writes a letter to Bernie Sanders supporters.
Screenwriting guru Robert McKee writes his story’s next chapter.
Jeff Bridges Wants To Make “A Little Lebowski” Sequel.
Artificial intelligence writes ‘perfect’ horror script, seeks crowdfunding.
Troma Lives: Inside the Wacky, Repulsive and Weirdly Meaningful World of a B-Movie Legend.
Feed me a line: Idris Elba joins Ridley Scott in hunt for UK scriptwriters.
Chuck Wendig’s final Aftermath novel will help set up The Force Awakens.
Read an excerpt from Imitation Game screenwriter’s new novel, The Last Days of Night.
Dory And Short-Term Memory Loss: Is Pixar Getting It Right?
Goodbye, VHS: A Visual Ode To A Disappearing Format.
MTV Classic Is Bringing Back Daria, Beavis and Butt-Head, and More ’90s Gems.
No Slowdown in Netflix’s Spending on Original Series.
Verizon to Buy Yahoo’s Core Assets for $4.8 Billion.
As Pokemon Popularizes Augmented Reality, Hollywood Explores AR’s Potential.
Reddit AMA: Aaron Sorkin.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 88.
Scriptnotes: Episode 250.
Trailer: Doctor Strange.
Trailer: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Trailer: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Trailer: Kong: Skull Island
Trailer: Wonder Woman.
Watch: The Coen Brothers: Green.
Watch: American Beauty — The Art of Character.
Watch: Making a Film Within a Film (Supercut).
Watch: Special Comic-Con footage of Justice League.
Watch: Hollywood Reporter TV Drama Showrunner Roundtable.
Watch: Young Han Solo Audition Tapes (Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Jeff Goldblum, and more).