Monday, March 27, 2017

Lancelot Link Monday: Families Love Movies About Beastiality!

Lancelot Link Monday! The live action version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST continues to break all kinds of box office records, despite having a story that's kind of creepy if you think about it. 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 Beauty ........................ $88,347,000
2 Power .......................... $40,500,000
3 Kong ........................... $14,425,000
4 Life ........................... $12,600,000
5 Logan .......................... $10,145,000
6 Get Out ......................... $8,681,010
7 Chips ........................... $7,600,000
8 Shack ........................... $3,785,000
9 Lego ............................ $1,970,000
10 Sgt Belko ....................... $1,807,025




2) Indie Box Office Hits & Misses.

3) Oprah Sued Over Screenplay!

4) LIFE Screenwriters: We Started Out Adapting The Board Game And Ended Up With This!

5) HAN SOLO Movie Details - The Beauty & The Beast Romantic Twist!

6) Adam Sandler Is A Massive Movie Star!

7) I Am Not Mentioned In This Article - But Everybody Mentioned I Have Worked With!

8) Aaron Sorkin And Diversity At Writers Guild Fest. How Many West Wing Characters Were Minorities? Sports Night?

9) When B Genre Films Hit Cult Status & Get Big Hollywood Remakes.

10) JUSTICE LEAGUE Trailer... Which I Do Not Care About, But Maybe You Do.

11) Will There Be A WGA Strike?

12) The Strike Letter...

And the Car Chase Of The Week:





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Monday, March 20, 2017

Lancelot Link Monday: No Beast So Fierce!

Lancelot Link Monday! After news leaked that there was a "Gay moment" in the new live action version of BEAUTY & THE BEAST, cinemas throughout the South pulled the film. Nobody wants to see that kind of stuff on screen! Censors in Malaysia cut 4 minutes from the film. Nobody wants to see stuff like that in Asia! Hey, a woman falling in love with a beast is fine, but Gay stuff? Nobody wants to see that! Except, even without those Southern cinemas, BEAUTY & THE BEAST broke all kinds of box office records - and those cinemas that didn't show it got *nada*! And in Asia? Without a single cut, BEAUTY & THE BEAST made almost $43 million in China over the weekend. I haven't seen it, so I don't know what the Gay moment is (I always thought Gaston was probably deep in the closet), but it doesn't seem to have mattered to the people buying tickets. The film made a ton of money - and Disney will probably do live action versions of all of its cartoons. Can't wait to see BAMBI live action! What actors will play Bambi? 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 Beauty ........................ $170,000,000
2 Skull .......................... $28,850,000
3 Logan .......................... $17,500,000
4 Get Out ........................ $13,249,475
5 Shack ........................... $6,130,000
6 Eggo Batman ..................... $4,700,000
7 Sgt Belko ....................... $4,051,000
8 Hidden .......................... $1,500,000
9 John Wick 2 ..................... $1,200,000
10 B4 I Fall ....................... $1,034,425


So far this has been a good Box Office year - we are ahead of previous years, and have a bunch of great films coming out this summer. Ahead of last year by 5.8%, ahead of 2015 by 17.1%, ahead of 2014 by 21.4%, ahead of 2013 by only 31.0%, and ahead of 2012 by 14.4%. Not bad!

2) Breaking Box Office Records!

3) Indie Box Office Numbers.

4) Will There Be A Writers Strike?

5) MATRIX REBORN?

6) THE DARK TOWER First Look...

7) David Lynch Talks ERASERHEAD on 40th Anniversary.

8) Why Do Women Make Less $ In Hollywood Than Men? Balls.

9) The Next Next ALIEN Movie... Will It Be A Musical?

10) The Proven Formula For Great Writing (from The Smithsonian!)

11) South By Southwest Fest Audience Award Winners.

12) The Future Of Film Studios?

And the Car Chase Of The Week:



JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2.

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Monday, March 13, 2017

Lancelot Link Monday: Spring Forward

Lancelot Link Monday! Like some character in a cheap paperback thriller, I woke up yesterday with no memory of one hour of my life. Had I committed a murder? If so, where was the cliche attractive dead woman in my bed? All of those cheap paperbacks had those attractive dead women, except for the ones with female protagonist that had some dead boytoy. And why was the microwave in my kitchen still living in the past? Was it time travelling? If so, did it take my car with it? What kind of cheap paperback novel was this? 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 Skull Island ................... $61,015,000
2 Logan .......................... $37,850,000
3 Get Out! ....................... $21,072,600
4 Shack .......................... $10,050,000
5 Eggo Batman ..................... $7,820,000
6 B4 I Fall ....................... $3,107,910
7 Hidden .......................... $2,765,000
8 JW: C2 .......................... $2,700,000
9 La La Land ...................... $1,770,000
10 50 Shades ....................... $1,629,250




2) KONG Destroyed Overseas, Too!

3) NEXT YEAR's Oscar Race Heats Up! Spielberg. Hanks. Streep. Nixon.

4) Ridley Scott: ALIEN COVENANT Will Be A Musical!

5) Rennie Harlan's New Epic Film!

6) AVATAR 2, 3, 4, 5 News. Haters: It's Still The #1 Box Office Movie Of All Time And Now A Major DisneyWorld Theme Park Attraction.

7) Terrence Malick's New Film Premiere's At SXSW Fest.

8) Hollywood Reporter's Full Writer's Round Table Interview. All Of The Oscar Nominees!

9) Eric Heisserer On Writing ARRIVAL.

10) A Film I've Been Waiting To See Since Grade School! A WRINKLE IN TIME - First Photos!

11) SXSW Fest: GAME OF THRONES Panel... And The HODOR SHOW Spin Off!

12) Fellow Raindance Film Fest Jurist Edgar Wright's New Film BABY DRIVER Trailer. Is Minnie Driver In It?

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