Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links, today with a side of raw oysters!
This week we honor the greatest 1-hour TV series ever: “The Wire”. First a classic scene with Bunk and McNulty:
James Bond #23 announced and given a title.
For all you novelists and short story writers, here is a list of 550 alternative words for “said”.
Who are the highest paid authors? Here is Forbes list.
How Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller connect every single buddy comedy. [More Eddie Murphy later].
Five short films inside longer ones [Mulholland Drive, The Social Network, Magnolia, A Serious Man, The Rules of Attraction].
Interesting interview of the technology sort with James Cameron in “Popular Mechanics”.
Darren Aronofsky directing a music video featuring Metallica and Lou Reed.
Wh-a-a-?!? ABC announces Thanksgiving TV special featurin… Lady Gaga.
A brief sordid history of one of Hollywood’s [although it’s not in Hollywood] most famous addresses: 141 S. Carolwood Drive.
Has Viacom figured out social media buzz in terms of movies?
Writer-director Alexander Payne explains his take on adapting the novel into the movie The Descendants [video].
Man found guilty for strangling his wife after she smashed his “Star Wars” toy collection.
Fox Searchlight signs overall deal with Martha Marcy May Marlene producers Borderline Films.
It has come to this: Mexican soccer team replaces player’s names on jerseys with their Twitter handles.
Crap! “Treme” to end after four seasons.
This is how tough the movie business is today: You can be a well-known studio, open a movie at #1 B.O., but still disappoint Wall Street.
Speaking of last weekend’s box office, Vulture explains all.
One more box office note: The new Tintin movie is setting records in its European release.
Bummer: Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel have called it quits.
But in good news, Pixar honcho John Lasseter gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
THR asks the question no one is asking: Does Brad Pitt’s Beane in ‘Moneyball’ = Gregory Peck’s Finch in ‘Mockingbird’?
What?!? Movie ticket prices are actually going down?
What is going on in the 20th Century Fox movie division?
More “The Wire” — Omar comin’, yo!
In screenwriting news, Eddie Murphy (?!?) is writing an alien comedy.
The Logan’s Run remake starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn gets a new screenwriter: Andrew Baldwin.
Joss Whedon’s new company Bellwether Prods allows him the opportunity to make other scripts he’s written. Here’s news about In Your Eyes to be directed by Brin Hill.
Paramount and Bad Robot hire D Payne and Patrick McKay for “Boilerplate” project.
Clash of the Titans 3 announced with writers for #2 — Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson — landing the OWA.
Smurfs scribes ay Scherick & David Ronn to write Popeye.
Simon Kinberg (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper) hired to write X-Men: First Class.
John August is Beta testing a new site: Screenwriting.io, answering basic questions about screenwriting.
Samuel Goldwyn Foundation announces the winners of their 56th annual screenwriting awards.
Studios are hoping to find success with some current movies feeding off the Occupy Wall Street protests.
The Sundance Institute announces a new Frontier Program focusing on media and transmedia.
First online movie premiere… and it took place in Russia!
Is this a good sign? Home entertainment spending rose amongst U.S. consumers for the first time since 2008.
Remember that deal Sony made to turn the hit videogame franchise “Assassins Creed” into a movie? Here is some analysis that says the movie will never happen… not with that deal.
I knew you were dying to know this answer: How much does the Internet weigh?
Porky’s star Wyatt Knight found dead in his Hawaii home.
This is crazy. Terence Malick, who like never makes movies, now has four of them in the works.
And while we’re on it, here is a list of Malick’s films — from worst to best.
John Hodgman’s guide to mustache etiquette.
How to read like a writer.
For you business-minded folks, here are quarterly earnings reports for various movie studio congloms: Sony Pictures (Sony) , Universal Pictures (Comcast), and Warner Bros. (Time Warner).
October box office worst since 2006.
For all of you interested in writing comic books and graphic novels, a good read here with Alex de Campi.
For those of you looking for a surefire way to escape the trap of getting distracted while you try to write, you can thank Amos Posner for finding this must-see video.
Finally more of “The Wire”: Clay Davis and his favorite one-word expletive:
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