Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 206th installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Meet the 2015 MacArthur Fellows.
Intellectuals, Screenwriters and Wrestlers, Oh My: A Brief History of Marvel’s Celebrity Writers.
A24: The Distributor as Auteur.
Four Disputed Films Yanked From Relativity Media Auction.
The 15 Indie Films You Must See This October.
The 11 Indies to Watch on VOD This October.
‘99% of women working in the film and TV industries have experienced sexism’.
Women and Hollywood to Submit Names for Fox Writers Intensive.
Help send two female directors to Sundance 2016.
‘Midnight Rider’ OSHA Case: Film Allman “Misrepresented” Facts Repeatedly, Judge Ruled.
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost Hollywood franchise.
John Lasseter on Early ‘Toy Story’ Draft: “Woody Was a Jerk”.
High Anxiety on Hollywood Mega-Movies: How ‘Gambit’ Lost Its Director.
The Stunning Mansion in Ex Machina Is (Mostly) Real, and You Can Spend the Night There.
Orson Welles’ personal Citizen Kane scripts sell for over $102,000 at auction.
James Dean Crash Site: 60 Years Later, Fans Still Leave Cigarettes, Beer Cans and Bras.
‘The Martian’: Ridley Scott Takes Credit for NASA’s Water Discovery on Mars.
Is an Icelandic Film a Good Investment?
Why Do Hollywood’s Message Movies Have To Play It So Safe And Be So Dull?
Michael Moore’s ‘Where to Invade Next’ Picked Up by New Distribution Label.
UCLA Honors Legendary Film Professor Howard Suber for 50 Years of Teaching.
Why Steven Soderbergh Will Never Return to Making Feature Films.
Budget Breakdowns: What a Typical Movie and TV Pilot Really Cost to Make Now (and Why).
Here’s How to Shoot a Sci-Fi Film on a Low Budget.
6 simple steps for making millions on a crappy horror movie.
10 Great Films Made By Filmmakers Under 25.
‘The Leftovers’ Creators on Their New Recipe for Season Two.
David Cameron Allegedly Did Weird Things With a Pig and Now People Are Freaking Out About That Black Mirror Episode.
HBO Now: Movies, TV Coming and Going in October.
HBO in “Preliminary Discussions” for ‘Watchmen’ TV Series.
Sex Workers Claim A&E Screwed Them Hard in ‘8 Minutes’ Lawsuit.
South Asian Actors Are All Over TV This Year.
Turkey Replaces Israel as TV’s New Hot Market.
‘Serial’ the Podcast Will Now Become Serial the TV Show.
CBS is dusting off one of Michael Chricton’s old scripts about evil DNA.
‘MacGyver’ TV Reboot Developing at CBS.
‘Lethal Weapon’ TV Reboot in the Works at Fox.
What’s New on Netflix: October 2015.
Apple iPhone 6s Models Break Sales Record in First Weekend.
Apple Under Investigation in Russia for Gay Emojis.
Facebook Experiences Second Outage in One Week.
Raymond Chandler’s Ten Commandments for Writing a Detective Novel.
The perils of writing about Los Angeles as a New Yorker.
Screenwriting From Iowa: George Miller Masterclass in Visual Storytelling.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 60.
Scriptnotes: Episode 217.
Watch: David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film [video].
Watch: Why Comedy Matters [video].
Watch: The Philosophy of Steve Martin in ‘The Jerk’ [video].
Watch: Compare the First & Final Frames of 125 Movies [video].
Watch: 19-Minute Video Essay Explores The Influences And Techniques In The Films Of Martin Scorsese [video].
Watch: 21-Minute Documentary ‘Vision Of A Future Passed: The Prophesy Of 2001’ [video].
Catherine Coulson, Log Lady on ‘Twin Peaks,’ Dies at 71.
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