Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 312th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Time for the 312th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other things of writerly interest.
Harvey Weinstein’s Firing: What Happens to TWC, the Movies, and Harvey.
Kim Masters on Harvey Weinstein and How to Help Cure Hollywood’s “Sickness” of Harassment.
The Weinstein Co. Nears The Brink As Agencies Cut Off Talent Supply.
Bob Weinstein Denies Weinstein Company Is for Sale.
CBS Films President Says She’ll Quit Academy If Harvey Weinstein Isn’t Removed.
Harvey Weinstein Stripped of Academy Membership.
With Harvey Weinstein out, Hollywood speculates on whether its culture will change.
‘Beautiful Girls’ Scribe Scott Rosenberg On A Complicated Legacy With Harvey Weinstein.
What We Can Do After Weinstein.
Will Hollywood Agencies Change After the Harvey Weinstein Scandal?
Amazon Suspends Top Exec Roy Price in Wake of Harassment Claim.
Roy Price Resigns From Amazon Studios.
What Does Roy Price’s Departure Mean for Amazon Studios?
Women in Film, A Call to Arms: Here’s How We Can Take Back Our Community After Abuse.
Sarah Polley: The Men You Meet Making Movies.
Sexual Violence in Spec Screenplays.
Women and Hollywood Announces 10th Anniversary Trailblazer Award Winners.
10 Oscar Underdogs Who Stand the Best Chance at Gold.
The Case For Comedic Actors Doing More Drama.
Sequels Aren’t Just Swallowing Hollywood, They’re Killing the Art of the Screenplay.
The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time.
5 Ways ‘Blade Runner’ Changed the Look of Sci-Fi Forever.
‘Blade Runner’: The Sci-Fi Movie That Became a Geek Metaphor for Art.
Weekend Box Office: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Careens Off Course With $31.5M Opening.
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Underwhelms In Debut Weekend.
Digging Into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title.
‘The Florida Project’ Is Big Indie Box Office Success.
‘The Florida Project’: Inside Sean Baker’s ‘Magic Castle’ Set on the Fringe of Disney World.
Why Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project” Put Him At A Creative Crossroads.
‘Get Out’ is a Serious Oscar Contender, and These 5 Scenes Prove It.
‘Get Out’ Leads 2017 Gotham Awards Nominations.
A Film Festival Throws Industry A Curve Ball Moving To September.
Bitter Script Reader: Black List website “success story” Justin Kremer reflects on how it launched his career.
Looking back on five years of the Black List website with Franklin Leonard (Part 1).
Looking back on five years of the Black List website with Franklin Leonard (Part 2).
Real Moviegoers Don’t Care About Rotten Tomatoes.
The 20 Goofiest Character Names in Movie History.
29 Stories Behind Some of Hollywood’s Greatest Movie Lines.
Variety’s 10 Assistants to Watch Class of 2017.
Hollywood’s New Leaders in Law and Finance.
Hollywood’s New Leaders in Digital.
Hollywood’s New Creative Leaders of 2017.
Hollywood New Leaders: Agents and Managers.
CBS Announces Writers for 2017–18 Mentoring Program.
Serialized Television Has Become a Disease.
The New Golden Age of Studio Science-Fiction is Upon Us.
13 Netflix Tricks Everyone Should Know.
Netflix Plans to Release 80 Original Films in 2018.
With 80 New Films in the Pipeline, Netflix Has Monetized Teaser Culture.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Says Disney Pullout Won’t Stop International Growth.
Barry Diller to Hollywood: The Boat Has Passed on Competing With Netflix.
Amazon Severs Ties With TWC: Drops David O. Russell Series, Takes Over ‘The Romanoffs’.
Fandango Is Buying MovieTickets.com, Further Monopolizing The Way You Buy Movie Tickets.
Why Snapchat might just win the augmented reality wars.
NBCUniversal, Snap Form Hollywood Studio, Ink Original Programming Deal With Duplass Brothers.
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: The tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia.
Listen: Scriptnotes (Episode 321).
Watch: Game of Thrones 150,966 Deaths in 21 minutes Compilation.
Finally, Gord Downie, Tragically Hip Frontman, Dies at 53.
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