Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The “Holy Crap, Mick Jagger Is 70 Years Old This Week” Edition!
Franklin Leonard interview: What you need to know about the Warner Bros.-Black List $90,000 diversity initiative .
The daily routines of famous writers.
The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, terminally ill with cancer, giving away all his money.
Why the social media generation never really breaks up.
The French really do love Jerry Lewis, call him “akin to Godard.” But why?
10 amazing things your ashes can do after you die.
A surprising list of movies Stanley Kubrick loved.
25 legit hep cat terms from a jive talk dictionary.
Let’s talk about sex: 2o movies about losing your virginity.
26 bizarre animal mating traits.
The To Do List reinvents the teenage sex comedy.
Aubrey Plaza explains The To Do List masturbation.
The science of implanting false memories.
10 of Woody Allen’s best female characters.
Yes! Night owls are smarter than early risers!
According to the movies: A nine-step checklist to the perfect high-school house party.
Psychopathic criminals have an empathy switch.
We are the disease: Apocalypse porn, American zombies, and World War Z.
If you haven’t heard of the “hyperloop” transport system, you will soon.
Can Netflix prevent an Emmys hangover.
Manhattan Beach real estate prices are going wild.
So did you know Stanley Kubrick liked White Men Don’t Jump and hated The Wizard of Oz?
How to find buried treasure.
How expensive is the average movie ticket now?
Brain chemistry and the self.
2013: The year PG-13 broke.
We need to reboot the MPAA.
Why men need women.
3 things about Pixar’s Inside Out from Pete Docter.
16 quotes about writing for children.
TIFF to do The Big Chill 30th anniversary reunion.
When doctors tells patients what they don’t want to hear.
The 10 most exciting young female directors in the world today.
How seeing eye dogs made their way to America.
Why so serious, superhero movies.
J.K. Rowling explains her pseudonym.
Bombs! Flops! Duds! How the summer box office could still be the biggest ever.
What makes an extravert.
The original Sharknado: High school teacher came up with the idea two years before it hit Syfy.
10 very costly typos.
Paul Thomas Anderson directed Fiona Apple’s new video [video].
5 surprising facts about daydreaming.
How to make your screenplay look like it was written by an amateur.
The real reason Hollywood makes bad movies.
New Sundance Channel series “The Writers’ Room” with episodes online [video].
5 ways to fix summer movies.
Summer B-movies are doing A-list business.
3 lessons Hollywood should learn from the success of The Conjuring.
From The Purge to The Conjuring, low-budget horror rules the summer box office.
7 brights spots to end a crowded, messy summer at the movies.
A new story from novelist Joseph Heller (“Catch 22”)… 14 years after his death.
Hollywood movies losing out to Chinese films in a big way.
Man Booker Prize longlist includes 3 first-time novelists.
The 25 essential American independent films: 1988–2013.
How to escape from quicksand.
What do Edgar Wright, Alfonso Cuaron, and Marc Webb think of the upcoming Hollywood apocalypse.
5 horrifying ways plants can fight back.
Screenwriter Katie Dippold (The Heat): “It’s a great time to be a woman in the film industry right now.”
New hypothesis on why we sleep.
Chuck Palahniuk announces graphic novel sequel to “Fight Club”.
A list of all the announced films at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Mike Myers to make his directing debut on “Supermensch,” a documentary about famed talent agent Shep Gordon.
26 minority screenwriters to inspire you.
Some links from Shaula Evans:
What’s your place in the film industry [infographic].
Highest grossing movie franchises [infographic].
The Star Trek reboot and how it treats women [infographic].
Wonder Woman is not the problem.
Return of the Jedi cast reunited.
The visual intelligence of Pacific Rim.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Here is the upcoming schedule of classes through September:
August 5: Prep: From Concept to Outline (Tom Benedek)
August 19: Tarantino Scene Class (Tom Benedek)
August 26: Core I: Plot (Scott Myers)
September 2: Core II: Concept (Scott Myers)
September 9: Core III: Character (Scott Myers)
September 16: Core IV: Style (Scott Myers)
September 23: Prep: From Concept to Outline (Scott Myers)
September 30: Core V: Dialogue (Scott Myers)
Tom is going to be in Ann Arbor teaching at the U. of Michigan this fall, so I’ll be hitting it hard and heavy with the entire Core curriculum beginning at the end of August. Take one or two classes to upgrade your understanding of those specific aspects of the craft or the entire curriculum of eight Core courses to immerse yourself in a comprehensive, coherent, character-based screenwriting theory, all lectures and content written by me.
Tom and I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!
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