Monday, August 25, 2014

Lancelot Link: TV Or Not TV

Lancelot Link Monday! Since movies have become these huge silly event things where stuff blows up (not that there's anything wrong with that) and TV seems to have entered a new golden age... should we be thinking about writing TV? While you're thinking about that, 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 baker's dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 Guardians Of Galaxy........... $17,631,000
2 Mutant Turtles.................. $16,800,000
3 If I Stay...................... $16,355,000
4 Let's Be Cops................. $11,000,000
5 Game Stands Tall............. $9,000,000
6 Giver........................... $6,730,000
7 Expendables 3................. $6,600,000
8 Sin City 2..................... $6,477,000
9 Hundred Foot.................. $5,562,000
10 Into Storm................... $3,800,000


2) 18 Filmmaking Jokes From The Internet.

3) Vintage Behind The Scenes At ILM.

4) The Science Of Typos.

5) 10 Insane Development Notes.

6) (White Male British) New Screenwriters To Watch.

7) The Myth Of Overnight Success In Screenwriting.

8) Webisodes, TV, YouTube, what's the difference?

9) Top TV Writers From The Beginning Of Time Until Now Talk TV.

10) What TV Network Execs *Really* Want!

11) TV Drama Writers On Cable Vs. Network.

12) Amazon Not Looking For Unknown TV Writers Anymore.

13) Top 20 British Horror Flicks.

And the car chase of the week!



The 70s were full of great TV car chases like this one from CANNON (a Quinn Martin Production).

Bill

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