Saturday Hot Links
The 132nd installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The Three Bob Hoskins’ Best Roles Edition.
Mona Lisa (1986)
Actor Bob Hoskins dies at the age of 71.
Interview with Bob Hoskins.
Here are your summer movie sequels in inforgraphic form.
We are very near the end of civilization as we know it: Part 3.
Cannes Film Festival 2014 overview: Big on female filmmakers, Canadians, English-language pics.
The best and worst of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
Complete list of this year’s Tony nominations.
/film analysis of what roles the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII might be playing in the movie.
Playful 8-bit versions of Studio Ghibli characters.
The Dissolve: Transcendence and the techno-paranoia thriller.
6 of the oldest trees in the world.
Coens-scripted caper The Gambit remake slinks onto VOD [trailer].
Spectacular photos of star trails in the night sky.
Forrest Gump title sequence… if it were a Wes Anderson movie [video].
The 50 best Side One Track Ones in music history.
Great filmmakers and their take on filmmaking style.
20 great Southern short stories.
Robert De Niro’s first Vine video.
How good design can save lives.
Official Goosebumps synopsis reveals meta storyline
10 amazing abandoned sets from film and television.
The most popular girl names in each state since 1960.
Game of Thrones characters reimagined as 80s movie characters.
Everything you think you know about cats is wrong.
Related: 8 benefits of being a cat owner.
Sort of related: 10 benefits of being a dog owner.
10 amazing Nordic horror films.
Can you really conjure up a ghost just with energy.
The PlayList: 10 one-man show movies.
The legend is true: Hundreds of lost E.T. Atari cartridges unearthed in New Mexico.
Related: Dozens of lost Andy Warhol artworks discovered on 1980s Amiga floppy discs.
Monty Python stage show to play in theaters live worldwide.
This review of The Other Woman is… well… just read it.
10 science fiction or fantasy stories that editors are tired of seeing.
George Clooney… engaged?!?!
“The Wasteland” read by the author T.S. Elliot… and Bob Dylan [audio].
Why do you always wake up 5 minutes before your alarm goes off.
Related: Why aren’t you supposed to wake a sleepwalker.
10 essential art house road movies.
Why does music give us chills.
Netflix makes a move to be able to watch TV… on TV.
Related: Netflix signs streaming deal with Verizon.
Related: 8 TV-show creators who are killing it right now… and they are all women.
Lucy Hay: 10 of the worst screenplay and novel “fillers”.
7 day productivity plan. Here’s mine. Day 1: Write. Day 2: Write. Day 3: Write…
22 things you might not know about Mulholland Drive.
27 things you don’t need to know about Batman vs. Superman.
Harper Lee agrees to an e-book of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.
What magicians can teach us about how our brain works.
‘Gone Girl’ author Gillian Flynn on thriller’s screenplay: “It was in good hands” [video].
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
What does the “M” in M&Ms stand for.
SNL writer Michael Che is joining “The Daily Show”.
This Medieval priest theorized a ‘multiverse’ 700 years before science.
Total Film: 50 worst movie wigs.
6 complicated things explained using kitchen items.
Paul Haggis hates his films, too, sometimes.
What the hell is wrong with horror movies at the box office.
9 bizarre weapons that failed spectacularly.
Why Melissa McCarthy is Hollywood’s top star.
Warner Bros. already developing 9 more DC Comics feature films.
Jeffrey Katzenberg predicts 3-week theatrical window in the future.
Related: DreamWorks Animation takes $57M hit on Mr. Peabody & Shermon
Meanwhile The LEGO Movie helps boost Time Warner’s 1st quarter profits 71%.
Maybe this will eat into profits: Writer sues Warner Bros. over the movie Gravity.
Surprise! Twitter did not lose money in 1st quarter 2014.
Yahoo to produce series from Paul Feig and Mike Tollin.
Why are “rhyme” and “rhythm” spelled like that.
John August lets you know what a writer-producer general meeting is like.
21 creative geniuses doing what they love in life.
How Baby Boomers killed the modern romantic comedy.
Heather Graham writes a “sexy screenplay” for women.
32 car name origins.
Oops! HBO releases a major Game of Thrones spoiler.
50 greatest found footage moments.
Irony Department: Neighbors mad about Up house remodel.
Favorite Person Department: Emma Stone because she can lip synch like this [video].
Craig Ferguson says good-bye to Late Late Show audience [video].
Meet Claus Pummer: Sleep Coach.
Take this Mean Girls 10 year anniversary quiz.
Medical student auctioning off her virginity. Current top bid: $550K.
THR: Top 100 Hollywood attorneys — 2014 edition.
The many meanings of May Day.
CBS CEO Les Moonves on content creators: “The future is extraordinarily bright.”
Uncensored F. Scott Fitzgerald work to be released for the first time.
It’s time to kill the Spider-Man franchise.
A mortgage is a terrible investment.
12 TV showrunners you should know.
How can a butterfly, weighing no more than a feather, fly into the wind.
WGA ratifies deal with producers.
10 things science can teach us about being sexy as hell.
Meet 7 women who rule Hollywood.
To remember a lecture better, take notes by hand.
10 great Canadian movies you need to see.
The surprise winner of America’s fallout with Russia: The U.S. space industry.
Disney to develop original comedy projects through Storytellers Initiative.
It’s 1974. Andy Warhol interviews Alfred Hitchcock. Read an excerpt here.
How to almost always win at Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Missing Fox executive Gavin Smith declared dead.
What happens when you pull the emergency brake on the subway.
Why studios won’t make better movies for female audiences.
Guess who said this: Hollywood lacks female heroes because “lady scripts” aren’t good enough.
TV writers weigh in on the legacy of “Hill Street Blues”.
The redemption of the Hipster Punch Line.
70 famous films get Sweded in 10 minutes [video].
Jennifer Lawrence confesses she got so drunk at post-Oscar party, she vomited. And we still love her!
Hot pilot prospects emerge after a week of screenings.
Japanese fans mock American Godzilla for being too fat.
Xbox steps up efforts to become an original programming player.
How Spielberg picked his next two movies.
12 things Rolling Stone learned from David Lynch’s talk at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Tired of blockbusters? Here are 10 great indie films to catch this summer.
The horrible bosses of Hollywood.
Why women rarely get to narrate movie trailers.
Finally this makes me very happy: A Hard Day’s Night being released in theaters to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1989)
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Here is the SMC course schedule for the month of May:
May 5: Craft: Writing the Low-Budget Film (Tom Benedek)
May 12: Craft: Write a Worthy Nemesis (Scott Myers)
May 19: Writing the Original Pilot One Week Class (Tom Benedek)
May 26: Craft: The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling (Scott Myers)
I’ll be wrapping up the 2014 cycle of Craft classes, then in June starting up this year’s set of Core classes. More info on that soon and if I can find the time, I have two more Core offerings I’m prepping to add: Conflict and Subplot.
As always, Tom and I look forward to having the opportunity to work with you.
Onward!