CYBER MONDAY SALE!

Cyber Monday... it's the day in America where we shop online. There are no shootings or stabbings or trampled fellow customers. Well, those things may still happen, it *is* America... but they don't happen due to a sale. I want to be part of the big Cyber Monday thing, so...

All of the Blue Books over there >>>>
Usually $3.99, now $2.99 (that's twenty five percent off!).

Sale lasts through midnight on Cyber Monday (12/1).

If I have record sales TODAY, the next Blue Book will release at $2.99 for 2 weeks.
The next Blue Book is:

And should be out in about a week! (was supposed to be today, but those danged holidays got in the way).

Tell your friends about the deal!
Tell your screenwriting group!
Mention it on message boards!
Go into a coffee shop and yell about it!
Tell the security guard who comes to kick you out of the coffee shop about it!

I believe Amazon can do a gift thingie where they send it to your friend in "gift wrap" for the holidays.

Lancelot Links will be Tuesday!

Oh, and this...



Bill

Lancelot Link: Part 1

Lancelot Link Monday! MOCKINGJAY PART ONE filled cinemas this weekend, but made me wonder about this practice of splitting movies in half. KILL BILL was filmed as *one film* then split into two... imagine doing that to other movies! TRAINS, PLANE and PLANE, AUTOMOBILES? THE ONE AND A HALF WORLDS OF GULLIVER and THE OTHER ONE AND A HALF WORLDS OF GULLIVER? Where does it all stop??? 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 dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 Mockingjay Part 1.............. $123,000,000
2 Big Hero........................ $20,086,000
3 Interstellar.................... $15,100,000
4 Dumb & Dumber 2................. $13,820,000
5 Gone Girl........................ $2,815,000
6 Beyond Lights.................... $2,630,000
7 St. Vincent...................... $2,354,000
8 Fury............................. $1,900,000
9 Birdman.......................... $1,855,000
10 Theory Everything................ $1,500,000


2) How People Decide To See Movies.

3) Leak Casting Information, Go To Prison!

4) The Brit List

5) Interactive Short Films From Google... The Next Big Thing?

6) Joss Whedon: The Five Things Your Screenplay Must Have!

7) Five Big Mistakes Indie Films Make.

8) James Gunn on planning sequels before the first film makes any money... Counting chickens @ DC?

9) Mike Le's PATIENT ZERO gets a star. (Congrats to Mike!) (sat next to him at JOHN WICK)

10) My Portland Pal Daniel Wilson Writing New Film For Brad Pitt.

11) Mel Gibson's comeback film?

12) JURASSIC WORLD... an overly nostalgic trailer?

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



Everyone is going to the mall for Black Friday Sales!

Bill

Lancelot Link: Awards & Alcohol.

Lancelot Link Monday! The Hollywood Film Awards were broadcast last week and many of you are wondering what the heck those are and who the heck runs it? Good question! More proof that *anyone* can turn a screenwriting contest into an awards show and celebs will actually show up. This is more disturbing than NIGHTCRAWLER! 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 dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 Dumb & Dumber To................ $38,053,000
2 Big Hero Six.................... $36,010,000
3 Interstellar.................... $29,190,000
4 Beyond Light..................... $6,500,000
5 Gone Girl........................ $4,625,000
6 St. Vincent...................... $4,025,000
7 Fury............................. $3,810,000
8 Nightcrawler..................... $3,038,000
9 Ouija............................ $3,025,000
10 Birdman.......................... $2,450,000


2) INTERSTELLAR: From Spielberg To Nolan... what changed?

3) Six Studio Heads Discuss The Biz.

4) Number Crunching The Black List Site's Readers Reports.

5) Nicholl Fellowship Live Script Readings.

6) The Black List's Live Readings.

7) My friend Steve Weller's Blog is on props in Indie Films.

8) Five Types Of Twist Endings.

9) Egoyan talks about his new film.

10) James Gunn on GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2.

11) The Hollywood Film Awards... WTF?

12) Women Who Can Kick Steven Seagal's Ass.

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



From HIT & RUN...

Bill

Lancelot Link: Hunt For The Blood Banana

Lancelot Link Monday! A week into NaNoWriMo... how are you doing? Even if you are way behind, keep going! Maybe this will just be NaNoDecWriMos in your case, but you will get something done! I suspect some of you may have been playing hooky from writing by going to the movies... this was a record weekend. In fact, we've been having a bunch of those lately! So why are there news stories about how Hollywood is in trouble? Is that just wishful thinking by sloppy entertainment news people who wish comic book movies weren't making so much money? 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 dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 Big Hero........................ $56,200,000
2 Interstellar.................... $50,000,000
3 Gone Girl........................ $6,100,000
4 Ouiji............................ $6,017,000
5 St. Vincent...................... $5,707,000
6 Nightcrawler..................... $5,512,000
7 Fury............................. $5,500,000
8 John Wick........................ $4,075,000
9 Alex Terrible.................... $3,495,000
10 Book Of Life..................... $2,800,000


2) DeNiro Eats Pasta For RAGING BULL: 20 Greatest Actor Transformations Of All Time.

3) Fellow Raindance Juror Edgar Wright's Top Film Influences.

4) *Mensa's* Most Scary Movies.

5) BATMAN Home Video?

6) How Likely Is It That You Will Make One MILLION Dollars In The Film Biz?

7) INTERSTELLAR Interview With Nolan & Cast.

8) Remove One Letter And It's An Entirely Different Movie.

9) The Young & Hungry List: Give 'em A Sandwich & Wait 'till They're Older!

10) PULP FICTION 20 Year Anniversary Panel Discussion.

11) Martin Scorsese On His career So Far.

12) They Have Already Given Out Some Oscars! Who Got 'em?

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



From BOLT.

Bill

Lancelot Link: NaNoWriMoNaNoNaNo

Lancelot Link Monday! Happy November! This is not only NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, where everyone writes a novel by the end of the month) it's also Movember (where people grow a mustache). I already have a mustache, and am working on a screenplay rewrite instead of a novel, but I urge the rest of you, men women or children, to write a novel while growing a mustache this month. Plenty of famous novelists had facial hair! I'm sure the Bronte sisters did. They were writing in a time before the invention of the NoNo Facial Hair Removal Device. Isn't it weird that the one things you would never want to use in Movemeber when participating in NaNoWriMo is the NoNo? 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 dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 Nightcrawler.................... $10,909,000
2 Ouiji........................... $10,900,000
3 Fury............................. $9,100,000
4 Gone Girl........................ $8,800,000
5 Book Of Life..................... $8,300,000
6 John Wick........................ $8,050,000
7 St. Vincent...................... $7,752,000
8 Alexander Terrible............... $6,485,000
9 Judge............................ $3,400,000
10 Dracula Untold................... $2,946,000


2) Distribution Strategies For Your Indie Film.

3) 10 Lesson Learned From Making A Film For $10,000... that includes helicopters!

4) NIGHTCRAWLER's screenwriter Dan Gilroy Interviewed.

5) The 11 Scariest Films Of All Time According To Martin Scorsese.

6) Alexandre Aja on HORNS and PIRANHA 3D's TV Cut.

7) Behind The Scenes On TERMINATOR GENISYS... Will Ahnuld Use A Rascal?

8) Actors Who Win Oscars For The Wrong Roles.

9) Ivan Reitman: From Porn To Cronenberg To GHOST BUSTERS.

10) FLIGHT Writer John Gatins Hired For SKULL ISLAND.

11) JOHN WICK's Adrianne Palicki On Switching Genders!

12) An Ebola Proof Cinema For Your Safety!

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



Mustache.

Bill