Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 260th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
2017 Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay.
How Disney Companies Like Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm Maintain Their Creative Cultures.
Wanda to Unveil Massive 40 Percent Incentive to Lure Hollywood Film Shoots to China.
Why Women Rule This Fall Movie Season.
16 Key Changes Between ‘The Girl on the Train’ Book and Movie.
Warren Beatty’s New Movie Has 16 Credited Producers: “It’s Deplorable”.
Warner Bros. Rebooting ‘Willy Wonka’.
Imax, Warner Bros. Sign 12-Picture Deal, Extend Long-Term Partnership.
Time Warner in Talks to Merge With AT&T.
Peter Chernin Poised for Top Time Warner Role if $85 Billion AT&T Deal Closes.
From Hollywood to Silicon Beach, L.A. Creatives are Plotting Virtual Reality’s Boom.
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather Notebook’ Details the Making of a Classic.Ava DuVernay’s 13th and the Importance of Telling True Stories.
Michael Moore Unveils Secret Donald Trump Movie.Ava DuVernay Suggested These Star Wars: The Force Awakens Reshoots that Put the Focus on Rey’s Perspective.
Joss Whedon on a Lot of Stuff.
Harry Shearer Sues Vivendi’s Universal, Studiocanal for $125 Million Over Music Copyrights to ‘Spinal Tap’.
Tom Cruise, John Wick, and the New Hollywood Gunfight.
AFF 2016: Complete List of Screenplay and Film Competition Jury Award Winners.
The Black List Partners with Autograph Collection Hotels for Sundance Social Space.
How genre cinema fueled our collective fear of killer clowns.
Reflecting on ‘The Leftovers’ Leads The Mind to a Weird Place.
Can Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Overcome Its Behind-the-Scenes Chaos?
The Strategy Behind Discovery’s $100M Bid for Millennials.
How Amazon Became a Major Player in Half-Hour Television.
Fandor Is Now Available to Prime Members on Amazon Channels.
Twitter Fires Its New Head of VR After Two Days.
NBCUniversal Investing Another $200M in BuzzFeed.
20 Great Podcasts Under 25 Minutes Long.
The Twin Peaks Character Backstories We Learn From Mark Frost’s New Novel.
Bob Dylan Won’t Return the Nobel Committee’s Calls.
Listen: Broken Projector (Episode 25).
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 272).
Watch: That’s Amore — Evil Laughs & Smiles.
Watch: A Writer and Three Script Editors Walk Into a Bar.
Watch: Every Tom Cruise Run. Ever.
Watch: Hitchcock Meets Kubrick.
Watch: Steven Spielberg Channeled His Inner Stanley Kubrick.
Watch: Akiva Goldsman talking about working with Ron Howard on ‘A Beautiful Mind’.