Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 318th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Time for the 318th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
To Win an Oscar in 2017, You Have to Make the Movie That Speaks to the Moment.
National Board Of Review Winners: ‘The Post’ Comes Up Strong With Best Pic, Best Actress Meryl Streep, Best Actor Tom Hanks.
Gotham Awards 2017: Complete Winners List.
‘Lady Bird’ Takes Best Picture At 2017 New York Film Critics Circle Winners.
British Independent Film Awards: ‘Death of Stalin’ Wins Big in Craft Categories.
Here are the 110 feature films set to screen at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance 2018 Lineup Shows Timeliness is Essential.
Slamdance Sets 2018 Competition Lineup.
Variety Announces 10 Directors to Watch for 2018.
Why ‘Coco’ Feels Like an Act of Defiance.
4 Reasons Why ‘Coco’ Became Another Pixar Hit.
Pixar’s Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina on making ‘Coco’ feel authentic.
The Tricks Pixar Used to Make Coco’s Super Slick Skeletons.
That Long ‘Frozen’ Short Before ‘Coco’ Has People Irked: ‘Nobody Asked for That’.
‘Lady Bird’ Becomes All-Time, Best-Reviewed Movie On Rotten Tomatoes.
AFI Receives $500,000 Donation for Female Filmmaker Initiative.
WWE Studios Expands into Scripted Series, Animation, and Digital Content.
Disney sues Redbox to stop digital movie sales, in the latest feud between the companies.
John Lasseter and Beyond: How Does Pixar Get Out of This Mess?
Garrison Keillor Fired Over Alleged Improper Behavior.
How the #MeToo Movement Is Changing Showbiz Culture Worldwide.
Can the “Teen Sex Comedy” Genre Survive the Consent Era Reckoning?
How FCC’s Net Neutrality Repeal Would Rock Hollywood and Big Media: Winners & Losers.
Film academy releases new renderings of its museum on the Miracle Mile.
Ava DuVernay’s Visionary Filmmaking Is Reshaping Hollywood.
45 Guillermo del Toro Projects That Weren’t Meant to Be.
Freddie Mercury Movie Halts Due To Bryan Singer ‘Health Issue’.
Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script: Fears, the Critics and His Private Battles Behind ‘Molly’s Game’.
‘The Post’: Screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer on Revisiting History with Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg.
Robert Rodriguez Will Return to His Low-Budget Roots for New Feature With $7K Price Tag.
Paul Scheer Explains Why ‘The Disaster Artist’ Is ‘La La Land,’ But Reversed.
Onetime outsiders, ‘Disaster Artist’ screenwriters connected to a tale of following a dream — no matter how weird.
Casablanca at 75: Why we’re still quoting Hollywood’s most quotable film.
Another Sphinx Head Discovered From ‘The Ten Commandments’.
‘Godless’ Is So Good, You’ll Like It Even If You Don’t Like Westerns.
Netflix Unveils First Bollywood Film Project.
Netflix to Make its First Original Colombian Series.
Amazon Unveils Web-Based Tools for Creating VR and AR Apps, Characters and Scenes.
Listen: 3rd & Fairfax — The WGA Podcast (Episode 79: Darren Aronofsky).
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 327).
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week
It’s not too soon to be thinking about courses I am offering through Screenwriting Master Class in 2018.
January 8, 2018 — Craft: The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling
presented by Scott Myers
January 22, 2018 — Craft: Story Summaries — From Loglines to Beat Sheets
presented by Scott Myers
February 5, 2018 — Craft: Handling Exposition
presented by Scott Myers
February 19, 2018 — Craft: Scene Description Spotlight
presented by Scott Myers
March 5, 2018 — Craft: Character Development Keys
presented by Scott Myers
March 19, 2018 — Craft: Create a Compelling Protagonist
presented by Scott Myers
April 2, 2018 — Craft: Write a Worthy Nemesis
presented by Scott Myers
April 16, 2018 — Craft: Scene-Writing Workshop
presented by Scott Myers
April 30, 2018 — Craft: Dialogue-Writing Workshop
presented by Scott Myers
May 14, 2018 — Craft: Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling
presented by Scott Myers
May 28, 2018 — Prep: From Concept to Outline
presented by Scott Myers
June 11, 2018 — Pages I: Writing First Draft
presented by Scott Myers
July 9, 2018 — Prep: From Concept to Outline
presented by Scott Myers
I only offer my Craft classes once per year. Moreover the two Prep and one Pages I workshops I have scheduled in summer 2018 are the only times I will be leading group versions of these courses.
Consider the Craft Package: All 10 Craft classes for $40 per course. Exclusive access to the Craft curriculum. Automatic enrollment in each Craft class.
For more information, go here.
As always, I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!