Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 320th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.

Golden Globes 2018 Film Nominees Led by ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘The Post’.

Golden Globes 2018 Full TV Nominations List: ‘Big Little Lies,’ ‘Feud’ Lead Varied Pack.

Golden Globes 2018 Film Surprises and Snubs: ‘The Greatest Showman’ Lands 3, But ‘The Big Sick’ Is Shut Out.

2017 British Independent Film Awards.

2017 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards.

SAG Awards: The Complete List of Nominees.

SAG Awards’ Winners and Losers: ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Get Out’ Get a Boost, ‘The Post’ Doesn’t.

The Year of the Woman: 5 Ways Female Filmmakers, Actresses, and Advocates Forever Changed Hollywood in 2017.

33 of Entertainment’s Most Powerful Women on What They Wish Men in Hollywood Knew.

Report Card on Female Representation in Hollywood Shows Few Women at the Top.

CAA Cancels Golden Globes Party, Will Start Legal Defense Fund for Sex Harassment Cases.

#MeToo’s Worldwide Moment: Global Industry Follows Hollywood’s Lead in Combating Harassment.

All the Films and TV Shows Affected by Sexual-Misconduct Allegations Post-Weinstein.

Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger.

What Disney Bought: A Billion-Dollar Breakdown of Assets.

Behind the Disney-Fox Merger: 7 Things We Still Need to Know — and 3 We Already Do.

Fox Merges With Disney: The Storied Studio’s 102-Year History.

Disney-Fox Deal Marks Seismic Shift for Hollywood’s Studio System.

Disney-Fox: Shock, Fear and Uncertainty Heighten in Face of Impending Mega Deal.

How Key Fox Execs Could Fit With Disney’s New Deal.

Will Disney-Fox Set Off Scramble for Big Media Deals?

Why the Fox-Disney Deal Could be Bad for Movies.

Writers Guild of America West Blasts Disney-Fox Deal as ‘Relentless Drive to Eliminate Competition’.

Fox’s Regional Sports Outlets Could Serve as Balm for Disney’s ESPN.

How The Overwhelming Disney-Fox Movie Lineup Will Impact Rivals And Exhibitors.

Fear, Anxiety Sink In at 20th Century Fox After Disney Takeover News.

Disney-Fox Deal: 5,000 To 10,000 Jobs Will Likely Be Shed.

Disney-Fox Deal Lands at Uncertain Time for Antitrust Enforcement.

‘The Simpsons’ Producers on How They Predicted Disney Would Buy Fox 19 Years Ago.

Rian Johnson’s pitch for his Star Wars trilogy was short, sweet, and very exciting.

‘Star Wars’ and Timeless Storytelling.

11 Star Wars Prequel Ideas Abandoned by George Lucas.

War Over ‘The Conjuring’: The Disturbing Claims Behind a Billion-Dollar Franchise.

Biopics Get a Brief Boost at the Box Office.

‘A Ghost Story’: The Craft of a Low-Budget Indie Shouldn’t Be Forgotten During Awards Season.

MoviePass Accounted For Over 10% of Opening Weekend Ticket Sales For Some Movies.

MoviePass, Fandor Partner on $90-a-Year Subscription Service for Costco Members.

MoviePass, Fandor Partner on $90-a-Year Subscription Service for Costco Members.

TV Animators Tooned Up for Big Screen Features.

Animation: An Indie Growth Industry?

Euro Animated Films Offer “Darker” Arthouse Alternative to Hollywood.

Saudi Arabia Legalizes Movie Theaters in Historic Decision.

Totems and Fetishes: How Guillermo del Toro’s Objects Tell Stories.

Alexander Payne on his latest movie ‘Downsizing’.

Paul Scheer’s Guide to Bad Movies.

Warren Beatty Flop ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Sparks $18 Million Lawsuit Over Losses.

After burning out writing blockbuster rom-coms, this screenwriter reinvented himself by tracking down infamous figure skater Tonya Harding.

The Origins of the Post-Credits Scene.

How SCREAM 2’s Script Leaks Saved the Movie from a Lame Twist.

A bot wrote a new Harry Potter chapter and it’s delightfully hilarious.

A Team of MIT Scientists Taught an AI to Get Emotional Over Movies.

Why a Short Story About a Terrible Date Went Viral.

In 2017, Netflix Officially Became the Best Network for Scripted TV.

‘Stranger Things’ and the Limits of the Netflix Model.

Apple Orders Ronald D. Moore Space Drama Series.

The 10 Best ‘Call Your Mom’ Movies of 2017.

The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2017.

The 10 Best Superhero Stories of 2017.

2017’s Best Films By and About Women.

The Worst Movie Action Scenes of 2017.

The 10 Best Cinematographers of 2017.

The Best TV Performances of 2017.

The 15 Best New TV Characters of 2017.

The 25 Best TV Episodes of 2017.

The 10 Best Songs of 2017.

New Yorker: The Most-Read Fiction of 2017.

Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 329).

Watch: Moving Pictures 2017 — Movie Trailers Mashup.

Watch: Cinema 2017: The Dance.

Finally, Howard Gottfried, Producer on ‘Network’, Dies at 94.

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
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January 22, 2018 — Craft: Story Summaries — From Loglines to Beat Sheets
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February 5, 2018 — Craft: Handling Exposition
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February 19, 2018 — Craft: Scene Description Spotlight
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March 5, 2018 — Craft: Character Development Keys
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March 19, 2018 — Craft: Create a Compelling Protagonist
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April 2, 2018 — Craft: Write a Worthy Nemesis
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April 16, 2018 — Craft: Scene-Writing Workshop
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April 30, 2018 — Craft: Dialogue-Writing Workshop
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May 14, 2018 — Craft: Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling
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May 28, 2018 — Prep: From Concept to Outline
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June 11, 2018 — Pages I: Writing First Draft
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July 9, 2018 — Prep: From Concept to Outline
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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.

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As always, I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!