• Nicole Kidman teams up with “Slumdog Millionaire” star Rubiana Ali in a Shekhar Kapur-directed, Ridley Scott-produced Schweppes ad. [Daily Telegraph]
• Patrick Goldstein pulls back the veil on studio manipulation of box office expectations. [The Big Picture]
• Revisiting “Star Trek: The Next Generation”‘s eerily prescient torture episode. [Slate]
• Dissecting the meaning and pronunciation of “synecdoche” across the pond. [The Guardian]
• Screenwriter David Nicholls on the “indulgence” of writing an adapted screenplay. [Live Journal via The Independent]