Lancelot Link: BBQ Edition

Lancelot Link Monday! This was the Independence Day weekend here in the United States, and that means barbecues and fireworks. I did my civic duty by attending a fireworks exhibition in Porter Ranch which was bigger and better than last year. This is also the time of year that the police remind gun owners in America about gravity... and any bullet shot into the air in celebration will come back down and maybe kill somebody. Many seem to believe the bullets are absorbed into the atmosphere or something... which worries me a little that they own guns. 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 Transformers 4.......... $36,400,000
2 Tammy.................... $21,170,000
3 Deliver Us From Evil... $9,500,000
4 22 Jump Street.......... $9,400,000
5 How Dragon 2............ $8,750,000
6 Earth To Echo............ $8,250,000
7 Maleficent................. $6,133,000
8 Jersey Boys............... $5,160,000
9 Think Like A Man 2...... $4,900,000
10 Edge Of Tomorrow..... $3,640,000


This was one of the worst July 4th weekends on record, down 47 percent from last year. Yikes! This is due to TRANSFORMERS doing a massive nosedive in its second weekend... down 64%... and TAMMY doing much less that expected, and EARTH TO ECHO totally tanking. Part of the ecosystem of big movies is that when they sell out, people buy tickets for other films on the list. That happened last week with TRANSFORMERS... but not this week. So the two top films doing blah business meant all of the films underneath them did blah business.

2) The script for THE WIZARD OF OZ!

3) Ehren Kruger On Writing A Transformers Movie.

4) Micahel Bay Thinks TRANSFORMERS Is A Work Of Genius!

5) How To Make A Feature For Under $10k With A 2 Man Crew.

6) Unusual Russian Cinema Posters.

7) PIRATES five and BAD BOYS 3 updates.

8) Malick's KNIGHT OF CUPS release information.

9) One Of My Favorite Films! Behind The Scenes On LOCAL HERO.

10) MIGHTY QUINN's Lorene Scafaria On Screenwriting.

11) Top 10 Practical FX

12) 3 Short Films About The Planet Of The Apes.

And The Car Chase Of The Week!



Sure, that could be the end of a real car chase...

Bill