Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 126th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The Stanley Kubrick Has Been Gone For 15 Years Edition (July 26, 1928-March 7, 1999).
Stanley Kubrick interview: November 1966:
The historian who unearthed “12 Years a Slave”.
Celebrate March 10th — Middle Name Pride Day — by checking out these famous names with 12 middle initials.
Fight Club reimagined as an 8-bit video game.
6 surprisingly fascinating stockpiles.
7 films to watch before seeing Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Wes Anderson on developing The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Q&A with low-budget filmmaker Shane Weisfeld.
‘Miracle’ machine turns water into wine.
The 10 indie films you must see in March.
News alert: Writers don’t make much money.
4 good reasons why people say “I could care less.”
Beau Willimon (“House of Cards”) on “The Colbert Report”.
What state is the movie-making capital of the world? Hint: It’s not California or New York.
What do IQ tests test.
Tribeca Film Festival announces its roster of movies.
7 cities that have their own currency.
Playboy must pay $6M to fired employee in whistleblower case.
Why Hollywood thinks atheism is bad for business.
This insane new app will allow you to read novels in under 90 minutes.
David Simon attached to HBO Martin Luther King, Jr. miniseries.
Someone made a song using Jeff Goldblum’s weird laugh from Jurassic Park.
Dallas Buyers Club cowboy hat to be auctioned.
Daughter’s Facebook brag costs her family $80K.
Culver Studios, site of Gone With the Wind mansion, sold for $85M.
Camera falls from airplane. You won’t believe what it recorded [video].
The 50 most successful movie sequels.
Rare footage of Kubrick in production on 2001: A Space Odyssey:
20th Century Fox revives West Side Story for Steven Spielberg.
27 amazing facts about famous comic strips.
5 year-old boy recites monologue from Wolf of Wall Street.
1o compelling unnamed protagonists in literature.
Exclusive interview with the parents of Midnight Rider victim Sarah Jones.
Chipotle warns it might stop serving guacamole. Cause: Climate change.
The New York Times names the best 1,000 movies ever made.
NPR’s Carl Kasell retiring from “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”
Spend 20 minutes watching Seymour Hoffman being amazing [video].
7 sentences that sound crazy but are still grammatical.
10 rules on the producer’s role in development.
The most popular baby names by state.
Suck it, haters: Female led films make more money.
Watch a pelican learn to fly [video].
How will Scarlett Johansson’s pregnancy affect Avengers 2.
Oscar pizza party sparks sales surge for pizza dude.
Now you can Travoltify your own name.
The full list of 2014 Oscar winners.
Original “Legend of Zelda” now in 3D.
15 things you might not know about This is Spinal Tap.
The dark origins of 11 classic nursery rhymes.
Finally R.I.P. famed French filmmkaer Alan Renais (1922–2014).
An excellent homage to the movies of Stanley Kubrick:
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Here is the lineup of courses Tom Benedek and I will be teaching through June:
March 10: Craft: Writing Scenes — Tarantino Study Models (Tom Benedek)
March 17: Craft: Character Introductions (Scott Myers)
March 24: Pages I: The First Draft — Introduction to Screenwriting [TB]
March 31: Craft: Character Development Keys (Scott Myers)
April 7: Breaking in — Network Hollywood (Tom Benedek)
April 14: Pages II: Rewriting Your Script (Scott Myers)
April 28: Craft: Create a Compelling Protagonist (Scott Myers)
May 5: Craft: Rewrite Boot Camp (Tom Benedek)
May 12: Craft: Write a Worthy Nemesis (Scott Myers)
May 19: Pages TV: Original Pilot Script Workshop (Tom Benedek)
May 26: Craft: The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling (Scott Myers)
June 2: Craft: The First 15 Pages (Tom Benedek)
June 16: Pages II: Rewriting Your Script (Tom Benedek)
June 23: Pages I (Scott Myers)
June 30: Craft: TV — The Half Hour Pilot (Tom Benedek)
Theory. Craft. Workshops. Movies. TV. We pretty much cover it all. If you feel like you can use some guidance from experienced professionals who have worked in the film and TV business for a combined six decades, who know what we are talking about, why not give us a try?
Onward!
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