Lancelot Link: Lost Hour Edition

Lancelot Link Monday! Wait? Where did that hour go? Why am I naked in the leopard's cage? This blood... is it mine? "Even a man who is pure of heart and has never committed a crime, may become a leopard in that missing hour at the end of Daylight's Savings Time." Here are this week's links to some great screenwriting and film articles, plus some fun stuff that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent...




Here are a bakers dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 300 Rise Of Empire... $45,050,000
2 Peabody & Sherman.... $32,500,000
3 Non Stop............. $15,378,000
4 The Lego Movie....... $11,005,000
5 Son Of God........... $10,000,000
6 Monuments Men......... $3,100,000
7 3 Days To Kill........ $3,062,000
8 Frozen................ $3,010,000
9 12 Years A Slave...... $2,175,000
10 Ride Along............ $2,004,000


2) Free Book with wrap of of 2013 Spec Sales!

3) 24 Writers Will Be Chosen To Ride Amtrak For Free, How To Be One Of Them.

4) Screenwriter John Logan On The New Bond Film.

5) Producer Jason Blum On Low Budget TV.

6) Who Killed The Romantic Comedy?

7) Two Sentence Horror Stories, Are Your Loglines This Good?

8) Cult Movies That Everyone Should See, My Friend Darin's TALES FROM THE HOOD Makes The List!

9) Screenwriter Stephen Knight's New Film.

10) WGA Contract News.

11) Interview With Manager Zach Tann @ Magnet.

12) Screenwriter Ed Neumeier On The Origins Of ROBOCOP.

13) Hey, Everyone Gets Rejected.

This Week's Car Chase...



HARD TARGET...

Bill

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HITCHCOCK DID IT FIRST!

We all know that Alfred Hitchcock was the Master Of Suspense, but did you know he was the most *experimental* filmmaker in history?

Contained Thrillers like “Buried”? Serial Protagonists like “Place Beyond The Pines”? Multiple Connecting Stories like “Pulp Fiction”? Same Story Multiple Times like “Run, Lola, Run”? This book focuses on 18 of Hitchcock’s 53 films with wild cinema and story experiments which paved the way for modern films. Almost one hundred different experiments that you may think are recent cinema or story inventions... but some date back to Hitchcock’s *silent* films! We’ll examine these experiments and how they work. Great for film makers, screenwriters, film fans, producers and directors.

Films Examined: “Rear Window”, “Psycho”, “Family Plot”, “Topaz”, “Rope”, “The Wrong Man”, “Easy Virtue”, “Lifeboat”, “Bon Voyage”, “Aventure Malgache”, “Elstree Calling”, “Dial M for Murder”, “Stage Fright”, “Champagne”, “Spellbound”, “I Confess”, and “The Trouble with Harry”, with glances at “Vertigo” and several others.

Professional screenwriter William C. Martell takes you into the world of The Master Of Suspense and shows you the daring experiments that changed cinema. Over 77,000 words.