Lancelot Link: Deflated Balls Edition

Lancelot Link Monday! The Super Bowl. There is no actual bowling, and no one has super powers. So what's up? Is this false advertising? Plus, the stigma of underinflated balls. They never had to deal with that in either BLACK SUNDAY or TWO MINUTE WARNING (both about the Superbowl, one based on a book by the guy who wrote SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). The cool thing is that they have the trailers to all of the cool new summer films. None of them feature Hannibal Lecter and deflated balls.... 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 Sniper.......................... $31,850,000
2 Paddington....................... $8,505,000
3 Project (farmers) Almanac........ $8,500,000
4 Black Or White................... $6,456,000
5 Boy Next Door.................... $6,093,000
6 Wedding Ringer................... $5,700,000
7 Imitation........................ $5,173,0008
8 Taken 3, Aud 0................... $3,650,000
9 Strange Magic.................... $3,441,000
10 The Loft......................... $2,879,000


AMERICAN SNIPER breaks Superbowl Weekend records... Now just shy of $250m domestic.

2) All Of The Super Bowl Movie Spots.

3) Another damned comic book movie!

4) Rose Byrne news (this may only appeal to me).

5) And the Winners at Sundance Film Festival are...

6) And the ANNIE Aweard for Best Animated Film goes to...

7) And the USC Scripter Award goes to...

8) All of Mick Garris' Interviews With Horror Folks From The Z Channel!

9) What does writing do to the human brain?

10) Is Hollywood Broken?

11) Title Sequences From Hitchcock & Fincher.

12) Los Angeles Bars & Restaurants On Screen! I'll bet money if I walked into the Blue Room (from MEMENTO) right now the bartender would have my drink ready by the time I reached the bar! I was a regular there for a while when I was working on a script and the Starbucks across the street closed.

And the Car Chase, er, movie clip Of The Week:





Bill





IMPORTANT UPDATE:
TODAY'S SCRIPT TIP:Social Issues On Film - DISTRICT 9 to CHAPPIE.
Dinner: Pork Chops, yams, italian squash.
Pages: A couple.
Bicycle: Longish bike ride on Saturday, shortish one on Sunday.

Movie: Been watching DVDs and Blurays.