Lancelot Link: European Edition.

Lancelot Link Monday! Wait... half the world gets AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 2 weeks before we do??? And they get STAR WARS 2 days before we do? What's going on here? 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 Furious 7....................... $18,259,000
2 Blart 2......................... $15,500,000
3 Adeline......................... $13,375,000
4 Home............................. $8,300,000
5 Unfriended....................... $6,244,000
6 Ex Machina....................... $5,441,000
7 Longest Ride..................... $4,365,000
8 Get Hard......................... $3,905,000
9 Monkey Kingdom................... $3,551,000
10 Woman In Gold.................... $3,501,000


LITTLE BOY opened wide but the best it could do was #13... which is pretty close to it's Rotten Tomatoes review rating.

2) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON has already opened in about half of the overseas markets, and made over $200m.

3) Alex Garland On EX MACHINA.

4) DEEP BLUE GOODBYE Postponed.

5) Kevin Spacey On The Importance Of Storytelling.

6) Guillermo Del Toro on CRIMSON PEAK.

7) The Golden God Becomes The Joker.

8) GOODFELLAS Anniversary... Are You Calling Me A Clown?

9) John Boyega On That Movie He's In...

10) Why Is Everyone Writing A Screenplay?

11) Release Date Shuffling For PACIFIC RIM 2, more.

12) Nickelodeon Wants You To Write For Them!

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



From the uncut version of MONKEY KINGDOM...

Bill



IMPORTANT UPDATE:
WATERING YOUR PLANTS - and HANCOCK.
Dinner: Chicken dinner (winner winner)
Pages: 8 pages on a chapter for one of the Blue Books.
Bicycle: Short ride (feeling crappy today).

Movie: Finally saw FURIOUS 7, and the fun thing is that I'm using it in a class for Writer's Store next month!