Lancelot Link: Not So Fantastic?

Lancelot Link Monday! Okay, let's say you are making a movie and the script leaks and a bunch of people online bitch that it's not what they expected and the studio worries that it's not what the audience expected so they have the whole last half rewritten and reshot and now it's maybe exactly what the audience is expecting... but is that a good thing? What if they ruined the film? What if he film flops? Loses money? What if the boss was wrong? Can you fire the boss for screwing up? 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 over a dozen links plus this week's car chase...


1) Weekend Box Office Estimates:
1 MI: Rouge Nation................ $29,400,000
2 FANT4STIC 4..................... $26,200,000
3 The Gift........................ $12,007,000
4 Vacation......................... $9,145,000
5 Ant Man.......................... $7,826,000
6 Minions.......................... $7,400,000
7 Ricki............................ $7,000,000
8 Trainwreck....................... $6,300,000
9 Pixels........................... $5,430,000
10 Southpaw......................... $4,764,000


The only other Marvel movie that Fantastic 4 did better than on opening weekend was GHOST RIDER 2... and you probably didn't even know they made a sequel to the first one. F4 got a C- from the audience (through pollster CinemaScore), and even PIXELS ended up with a B! The biggest indicator that word of mouth killed this film is the major drop off from Friday to Saturday... it usually works the other way around, with Saturday posting higher grosses than Friday! So this is a *major* flop... and someone at Fox should not only lose their job, they should be kicked out of Hollywood for life. At #3 THE GIFT did great, it's one of Blumhouse's $5 million or less budgeted films. No one else in Hollywood seems to be able to make films in this price range... it would be a $30 million film at any other studio.

2) Managers: Here's A List Of Ones To Know.

3) The Far Side Of Joel & Ethan Coen.

4) What Movie Are You Seeing At The End Of 2017?

5) Edgy 70s Directors... Like William Friedkin, tells all!

6) Edgy Indie 70s Writers Didn't Outline, Right?

7) Wim Wenders Early Films Are Some Of My Favorites... And They Are Being Rereleased!

8) From Ian Fleming to Len Deighton: Screenwriters Wade & Purvis. SS:GB is one of those cool "What if the Nazis won WW2?" novels like FATHERLAND, for those who haven't read it. John Garner (who wrote some Bond novels) has a page turner called THE LAST TRUMP where Russia wins the Cold War and takes over the UK, which is also similar.

9) The First 2 Years Of A Screenwriter's Career.

10) When Demme Met Herzog.

11) When Billy Ray Met Reality.

12) When We All Met Reality????

13) GOOSEBUMPS Adaptation Is Like ADAPTATION?

14) Island Of Lost Films... Jerry Lewis' THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED May Get Released In The Year 2025... If Mankind Is Still Alive.

15) Is Tweeting That The Studio Ruined Your Film Career Suicide... If The Film Flops? 16) Tweeted To Death? And the Car Chase Of The Week:



Improved by dubbing?

Bill



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