Lancelot Link: Titanic Summer Cruise!

Lancelot Link Thursday! Is Hollywood doomed? Is it the end of the blockbuster as we know it? Or just a typical summer with hits and misses? 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) R.I.P.D. unites critics!

2) Summer Of Flops?

3) Is Save The Cat at fault?

4) 5 Ways We Can Fix Summer Movies.

5) Stephen King spends years coming up with a single sentence, maybe Hollywood should spend more time on screenplays and lock them down before they go into production?

6) Maybe A Different Perspective Is Required?

7) Maybe Film Execs Should Be Required To Know More About Great Movies?

8) And Stop Doing Silly Remakes?

9) This Writer Thinks We Need Fewer Sequels And Remakes And More Original Screenplays.

10) His Film was Called A Flop... But Looks Like A Hit Overseas. Artwork.

11) Same As it Ever Was? 25 Years Of Blockbuster Flops!

12) Biggest Flops Of All Time!

And the Car Chase Of The Week...



- Bill

Lancelot Link: Lancelot's Bogus Journey!

Lancelot Link Thursday! Mid Summer Edition. 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 ten links plus this week's car chase...


1) Lilo & Stick Pitch Book.

2) STAR WARS comic... from the epic rough draft of the screenplay.

3) ASH The Great And Powerful?

4) Note To Actors About Agents... Works For Screenwriters, Too.

5) 8 Year Old's Script Is Better Than SHARKNADO.

6) Take Him To Detroit!

7) Black List Screenwriting Lab In Vegas.

8) Page Awards Quarter Finalist List.

9) Beijing Screenwriting Contest Awards.

10) Scorsese on PSYCHO.

And the car chase of the week:



(My average day riding my bicycle in Los Angeles.)

- Bill

Lancelot Link: Born Of The 4th Of July

Lancelot Link Thursday! 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 eleven links plus this week's car chase...


1) Top 50 Recent Low Budget Movies.

2) For The 4th Of July: The Summer's Best Explosions!
3) Behind The Scenes On John Carpenter's THE THING!

4) Highest Grossing Movie Franchises infographic.

5) Behind The Scenes Photos From STAR WARS!

6) Good, Bad, & Weird Buddy Cop Movies.

7) Roger Corman Has His Own Channel... And Starts A Trend!

8) The Changing Shape Of Movie Screens

9) Saturn Awards.

10) Low Budget Films That Are Better Than Studio Films.

11) 4 Things STAR TREK Can Teach Us About Writing.

Not a car chase...



- Bill