Lancelot Link: BEN HUR edition.

Lancelot Link Monday! Okay, for those of you read Vintage Screenwriting #1 you know that the first two versions of BEN HUR were written by women. But not the Heston version, which I'll be watching at the end of the week. Imagine if Ben Hur were remade as a wacky comedy where Ben Hur was a woman masquerading as a Gladiator? Who would play the lead? What is the rest of the story? Imagine the chariot race... 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 Home............................ $54,000,000
2 Get Hard........................ $34,610,000
3 Insurgent....................... $22,075,000
4 Cinderella...................... $17,515,000
5 It Follows....................... $4,021,000
6 Kingsmen......................... $3,050,000
7 Run All Night.................... $2,205,000
8 Second Best...................... $2,185,000
9 Do You Believe................... $2,150,000
10 Gunmen........................... $2,045,000


Box Office still surging: 4.0% over last year and 12.1% over 2013.

That number five movie IT FOLLOWS is a low budget independent horror flick... that is beating a bunch of big budget Hollywood films because people say that it's, you know, good.

2) Star Salaries: Your romcom where Sandra Bullock has to choose between Denzel and Damon?

3) NOIR CITY Los Angeles... including Woolrich!

4) TRANSFORMERS *spin offs*?????

5) The Terminator Can't Be Stopped... But Can He Play The Drums?

6) Dog Days Of Summer... and WHITE GOD director.

7) Quicksilver? Scarlet Witch?

8) In Case You Missed The SPECTRE Trailer.

9) PRETTY WOMAN didn't start out all that pretty...

10) Raymond Chandler (THE BIG SLEEP) chats with Ian Fleming (GOLDFINGER).

11) Season One HANNIBAL Scripts?

12) Indiewire reports on HITCH 20... My name pops up.

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



Okay, chariots.

Bill

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
TODAY'S SCRIPT TIP: PULP FRICTION - Characters at war with themselves.
Dinner: Hot dogs at the movies.
Pages: Five pages before the movies.
Bicycle: Rode to the movies.

Movie: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2... which sucked. Saw it at the dollar cinema, though.