Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 257th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
Westworld is Everything to HBO.
HBO’s ‘Westworld,’ With $100 Million Pricetag, Faces Huge Expectations.
‘Westworld’ Premiere Addresses Production Delay, ‘Game of Thrones’ Comparisons and Violence.
‘Westworld’ Creators Explain the Show’s Existential Use of Violence and Sexual Assault.
4 Things ‘Westworld’ Will Remind You of (and One Thing It Won’t).
2017 Original Screenplay Oscar Predictions.
2017 Adapted Screenplay Oscar Predictions.
Women Dominate as Academy Unveils Nicholl Screenwriting Winners.
Paramount Announces They’ll Lose $115 Million On ‘Monster Trucks’ Months Before It Opens.
The Future of Movie Theaters is Not Movies.
Star Wars movies are on the way for 2021 and beyond, confirms Disney.
Marvel vs. DC: The Real Difference Between the Fans Finally Revealed.
‘Wonder Woman’ Comic Writer Confirms Hero Is Bisexual.
Stars Getting Rich Off Fan Conventions: How to Take Home “Garbage Bags Full of $20s”.
Hollywood’s New China Syndrome: Country’s enormous audience means money for movie studios and restrictions.
Silver Screeners: The Generation Helping Cinema Blossom.
Why Movies Keep Going Back to the Holocaust.
How Hollywood Is Getting Back in the Agatha Christie Business.
Hollywood Celebs Cashing in on the Pot Business Despite Legal Risks.
Michael Ovitz Apologizes For “Unbridled Ambition”: “I Was Myopic In My Drive”.
CA’s Film and TV Tax Credits Get Scrutinized by Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Hollywood Rallies Behind Producer Gordon Gray & Family With Call-A-Thon.
TheWrap’s 2016 Innovators List: 11 Change Agents Who Are Disrupting Hollywood.
Hollywood Salaries 2016: Who Got Raises (and Who Didn’t), From Movie Stars to Showrunners.
‘Dunkirk’: Christopher Nolan Earning Massive $20 Million Pay Day For World War II Epic.
Why ‘Legally Blonde’ Was An Impressive Feminist Film For 2001.
The 30 Most Beloved Micro-Budget Movies Since 1990: ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ ‘A Separation’ and ‘It Follows’ Make the Cut.
“Remake me! Remake me!”: 19 films improved by second takes.
The strange story behind $250 sci-fi film ‘Phobe’.
Man Who Pirated ‘The Revenant’ Ordered to Pay $1.1 Million to 20th Century Fox.
What If The Book Is Better Than The Movie?
Is This the Best Fall TV Season in Recent Memory?
The 8 Stages of a TV Couple, From ‘Will-They-Won’t-They’ to ‘OMG, They Did’.
Why Time Travel Is Suddenly All the Rage on TV (Again).
Has Traditional TV Dropped the Ball on eSports?
David Lynch Is Wrong: Why Cable Television Isn’t the New Art House.
Netflix’s Big Narrative Play: Why the Company Is Loading Up on Small Movies This Fall.
Disney Is Looking Into Buying Twitter.
Comics Circulation Just Hit a 20-Year High.
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 269).
Watch: What Makes A Good TV Title Sequence.
Watch: Split Diopter Supercut.
Watch: The Art of Steadicam.
Watch: The Adventures of Indiana Jones by Patrick Schoenmaker [animated].
Watch: John Malkovich playing 7 David Lynch roles.
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