Saturday Hot Links
Back with another edition of Saturday Hot Links. Today accompanied by a spicy bowl of black bean soup!
We start with the salty tears of Julianne Moore:
What Steven Soderbergh is up to next.
THR with 12 of the most anticipated TV shows for this fall.
Meryl Streep is being honored this year at The Kennedy Center. Here are 5 things you should know about our greatest contemporary actor.
DreamWorks and Fox to co-finance Spielberg’s Robopocalypse.
Gillian Anderson [with blond hair!] ready for a third X-Files movie.
HBO gives green light to new Aaron Sorkin series.
We have covered the arduous path the movie Moneyball has taken to get into theaters. Here’s a THR review — and it’s a good one.
And the “J.J. Abrams Takes Over The Entertainment World Watch” continues.
Abrams still has a way to go to dethrone George Lucas who has a new LucasFilm building in Singapore that looks like a Jawa sand crawler.
Indie Wire with 13 movies to watch at the Toronto Film Festival.
Maybe you’ll get your film at an upcoming TIFF is you follow these tips on crowdfunding.
Total Film: 20 most tense movie scenes.
The frontrunner to host the 2012 Academy Awards is… Eddie Murphy. Update: Murphy is the host.
Writer-director Cameron Crowe talks about rare video [which is shown] of Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder slow dancing at the MTV Awards in 1992.
Michael C. Hall in talks to star in upcoming Broadway musical version of “Big Fish”.
This reads like an Onion headline, but it’s true: Mel Gibson developing Jewish epic hero movie. The screenwriter attached? Joe Eszterhas.
Noah Baumbach to adapt Jonathan Franzen’s “Corrections” for HBO?
Ten great sports scenes from non-sports movies.
The Weinsteins go all-in on the ‘day and date’ front by forming VOD division.
Paris Review interview with Maurice Sendak.
Domestic movie ticket sales this summer was the lowest since 1997. But China and Russia are booming, so who cares!
If anyone can make a successful movie out of “The Great Gatsby,” it’s probably Baz Luhrmann
Speaking of big bucks, next year’s Super Bowls ads are selling for $3.5M each.
Is Citizen Kane really the greatest American movie of all time?
13 ways not to start a novel.
What’s it like to be directed by Quentin Tarantino? Samuel L. Jackson tells us.
The first teaser poster for the Diablo Cody written-Jason Reitman directed movie Young Adult. And GITS reader Diogo notes the screenwriter gets a better billing.
How many registered Twitter accounts are there? You can find out here. Frankly Twitter has become my go-to way of aggregating news re Hollywood.
Cheers to all you “I-love-board-game-movie” fans: “Monopoly” project lands a top screenwriting team.
Studio Ghibli announces new projects for Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
GITS reader Nick O. has found a guaranteed time-suck site: This Is Why I’m Broke.
29 year-old Obama speechwriter heads to LA to pursue dream… of becoming a screenwriter. [HT to @UnkScreenwriter for the link]
The six nominees for this year’s Booker Prize are… here.
And we end with the salty tears of Natalie Portman:
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