Lancelot Link: Spy Vs. Quake

Lancelot Link Monday! Summer is here, but the audience seems to be working on their tans! After a slam bang spring at the box office, summer has tapered off. Hey, we're still 2.2% ahead of last year and 5.4% ahead of 2013, but we were ahead by *double digits* only a couple of weeks ago. What happened? Hollywood is hoping JURASSIC WORLD will come to the rescue, but I wonder if part of the problem is we have so many movies with numbers in the title and so many movies based on stuff like comic books and theme park rides. Where is the exciting movie that came out of nowhere to save summer? 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 Spy............................. $30,000,000
2 San Andreas..................... $26,440,000
3 Insidious 3..................... $23,000,000
4 Entourage....................... $10,420,000
5 Fury Road........................ $7,970,000
6 Pitch Perf 2..................... $7,700,000
7 Tomorrowland..................... $7,022,000
8 Ultron!.......................... $6,201,000
9 Aloha!........................... $3,300,000
10 Poultry.......................... $2,850,000




2) Spielberg, Hanks, BRIDGE OF SPIES, Trailer.

3) Inside The TRANSFORMERS Writers Room. Once inside, will they let us escape?

4) Jackie Chan Is THE FOREIGNER.

5) John Cusack & Brian Wilson Discuss LOVE & MERCY In Interview.

6) Seattle International Film Festival Winners!

7) Francis Ford Coppola On Adapting THE GODFATHER. (video)

8) Agency Defections And The Agent Wars In Hollywood.

9) Sex Changes On Screen! Roles written for men, cast as women. Lassie went the other way.

10) Matt Damon Ins THE MARTIAN clip.

11) The Characters Of THE MARTIAN.

12) Streaming Becomes The New DVD. Does this mean a boom in Direct To Streaming Films from the home video divisions of studios?

13) It's A Pizza *And* A Movie!

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



SUPERCOP 2. Hey, I've been on this road in Hong Kong!

Bill



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