Lancelot Link: Trailer Edition

Lancelot Link Monday! You may still be watching new movie trailers. There were a handful just released, from QT's HATEFUL EIGHT to BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN to FANTASTIC FOUR to STAR WARS to... Did you miss the HATEFUL EIGHT trailer? It was released on the same day at the same time as the new STAR WARS trailer and seemed to get buried. No mention of it on *any* of the entertainment TV shows (which are really just celeb TV shows now... could we have them arrested for false advertising?) and I wonder why they picked that time to release (or dump) the trailer? Could all of those terrbile things people said about the leaked screenplay fro HATEFUL EIGHT be true of the film? Or did QT take the notes and fix things? Why dump the trailer? 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 Furious 7....................... $29,056,000
2 Paul Blart 2.................... $24,000,000
3 Unfriended...................... $16,023,000
4 Home............................ $10,300,000
5 Longest Ride..................... $6,850,000
6 Get Hard......................... $4,830,000
7 Monkey Kingdom................... $4,715,000
8 Woman Gold....................... $4,587,000
9 Divergent........................ $4,150,000
10 Cinderella....................... $3,871,000


Box Office still surging: Summer hasn't even begun, and this is a summer filled with huge movies that everyone wants to see, and we are 4.9% ahead of last year and 14.8% ahead of 2013. FURIOUS 7 has only made $1.15 BILLION so far (worldwide). Give the audience what they want.

2) Indie Box Office Winners.

3) Okay, We Got The New STAR WARS Trailer And The New HATEFUL EIGHT Trailer And The New BATMAN Vs. SUPERMAN Trailer And The New FANTASTIC FOUR Trailer.... but what about the NEW NEW STAR WARS Trailer?

4) Banned TV episodes from your favorite shows!

5) Female Screenwriter Over 40? Streep Wants To Help!

6) Film Editing For Improv.

7) Film For Adults Keep Flopping... But Has "For Adults" Become Code For Boring And Downbeat?

8) This Year's Cannes Line Up.

9) Word Counts For Novels, Novelettes, Novellas, Towelettes.

10) Audio interview with Derek Kolstad, writer of JOHN WICK.

11) A novelist looks at the fight scenes in JOHN WICK.

12) Princess Leia Talks New STAR WARS.

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



The best motorcycle chase ever filmed?

Bill



IMPORTANT UPDATE:
A LATE START - Start when the story starts.
Dinner: All You Can Eat @ Hometown.
Pages: Just a couple
Bicycle: Short rides.

Movie: EX MACHINA. Cool, stylish, 4 cast members and a handful of rooms... but what is the test and who is being tested? Young computer genius is hired to go to a remote location to test a sexy A.I. Robot for a rich and possibly crazy version of himself. The great part about this film is it turns *you* into the "tester", you have to figure out who is telling the truth, who is plotting, who is lying, and what are they lying about? There's a line in the film where they talk about a test where someone lives in a black and white world and then is introduced to color... and the inside of the facility is monochrome, and when characters go outside it's so colorful it blinds us... maybe confuses us. This is a film you think about for a week after seeing it.