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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes 2026's highest-grossing film so far, earning $629M globally, including $308M in North America; Project Hail Mary hits $500M (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-offi

'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Is Year's Highest Grossing Movie, 'Project Hail Mary' Hits $500 Million
"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" is officially the year's highest-grossing film to date with $629 million at the global box office.

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hackers-leak-the-entire-upcoming-Avatar-movie-ahead-of-October-release.1272688.0.html

Hackers leak the entire upcoming Avatar movie ahead of October release
A major leak for Avatar Aang, The Last Airbender reveals a full recasting of the original characters and a big strategy shift from a theatrical release to a Paramount+ debut on October 9, 2026. Paramount has not yet commented on the matter.

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 35 nodes and 75 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

#Framed #1494
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛
https://framed.wtf

Geno Smith excited for second act with Jets: 'It’s kind of like a movie' https://www.nfl.com/news/geno-smith-excited-for-second-act-with-jets-it-s-kind-of-like-a-movie

Started writing about #selfhosting #movie #streaming using @…

Predator: Badlands is on Disney UK https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/predator-badlands

Predator: Badlands - movie: watch streaming online
Find out how and where to watch "Predator: Badlands" on Netflix and Prime Video today - including free options.

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

David Bowie’s single 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' came out this week in 1982 for the horror movie 'Cat People'. And I highly recommend seeing this ridiculous flick, as I did recently 😹
#Bowie

A look at Saudi Arabia's ambitious push into Hollywood, sources say including contributing ~$12B for Paramount's WBD acquisition, as part of a soft power game (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood
The Saudis are pouring billions into the Ellisons' Warner Bros. megamerger — and that's just the latest move in a Hollywood takeover that's really about courting Trump, buying Washington influence and giving a restless young population bread and circuses instead of human rights.

That walk by Rege-Jean Page "over the rock" was totally unscripted. 😂
I need a sequel to this movie. This and "Spy"!
▶️ They didn't say “cut" and it led to one of the best jokes of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
https://youtube.com/shorts/KgyzRRAMSf4…

So, this is one my wife’s favorite Valentine’s Day movie so, guess what we’re watching tonight!
❤️😁 https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/111162212377873057

The new Cathode Ray Dude video about movie CRT monitors and fake user interfaces reminded me of the short @… trailer I helped produce.
Was quite fun coming up with the fake hacking interfaces you can see scrolling by.
And there were so many more jokes that sadly didn't end up in the video

I kinda wanna see this movie: #Backrooms #movie

Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one wo…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Ennio Morricone & Ennio Morricone:
🎵 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (original movie soundtrack); The Ecstasy Of Gold
#EnnioMorricone
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PrKZUXJPmBiobMN44yR8Y
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

"What if you could just make a movie?"
My dude you can pick up your phone right now and just make a movie. The reason why you don't doesn't have anything to do with technology.

Framed #1461
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https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game
Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

Movie definitely made by someone who hasn't been to Hungary and Romania. #monsterdon

Cowboys WR George Pickens promises big year; Stephen Jones confirms no trade calls https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/14/cowboys-stephen-jones-george-pickens-no-trade-calls/89609355…

If you're a fan of the #movie Heathers, sit at my table. You're my kind of people.
Also, if you're not a fan of the movie Heathers, sit at my table. You're my kind of people.

One fascinating film trivia I learned recently is that Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze’s marriage from 1999 to 2003 partially inspired Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation and Jonze’s 2013 film Her.
Coincidentally, both films star Scarlett Johansson as the main female protagonist, both films were nominated for the Oscar Best Picture, and both films won the Oscar Best Original Screenplay for Coppola and Jonze.

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation #Africa

African climate science policy has a serious blind spot: The slowing Atlantic circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age.

Would anyone else just watch the everliving hell out of a movie about the Choctaw vampire hunters in Sinners?
Aaaaand I have just, in checking my spelling, discovered that there is a HUGE number of people who feel the same.

Movies reconstructed purely from mouse brain activity https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-movies-reconstructed-purely-mouse-brain.html
Movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity

Another statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has appeared on the National Mall, this one styled after Jack and Rose from Titanic.
#Titanic #JeffreyEpstein #DonaldTrump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Florry:
🎵 First it was a movie, then it was a book
#Florry
https://florry.bandcamp.com/track/first-it-was-a-movie-then-it-was-a-book
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CO8FICjkvVDekOcarbvIR

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116381403837185427
In the classic movie "Idiocracy" people were watering their crops with Gatorade. I could accept the movie's goofy premise about smart people not procreating enough. But the Gatorade thing alwa…

So there is an upcoming novel about #asteroid #2024YR4 which has just sold its movie rights: #TheLastOrbit eventually figure out that it's not only no risk for Earth anymore (as has been known for a year now, of course) but also not for the Moon. Talk about bad timing ... ;-)

Great movie, highly recommend.
#ProjectHailMary

Universal says it is shifting to five weekends of exclusive theatrical runs, up from three, and will move to a minimum of seven weekends in January 2027 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/business/universal-…

Universal Will Give Movies Longer Exclusive Runs in Theaters
Theaters will get a minimum of five weekends of exclusive play and then, starting next year, seven. A pandemic-era policy was guaranteeing only three.

„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ angespielt: Zombie-Action für B-Movie-Fans
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ ist ein kompromissloser Koop-Zombie-Shooter mit B-Movie-Flair.
https://www.

Marie’s biscuit day! Egg bacon tea coffee. Just a movie and maybe drinks today. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/HMec7VrVTG7ULJML8

Framed #1433
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https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game
Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

Watched the movie Mickey 17 last night. I know it was not commercially successful, but I liked it. Good weird sci-fi movie with interesting characters. #movies #cinema

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgement — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Cigarettes After Sex:
🎵 Baby Blue Movie
#NowPlaying #CigarettesAfterSex
https://theflyingrobindj.bandcamp.com/track/cigarettes-after-sex-baby-blue-movie-t-f-r-piano-house-club-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3iGXWMpEPjRONz3v1Gba0Q

Funny thing about this film is that parts of Transsylvania being in Hungary is an artifact of like 4 years, this movie came out during one of 'em. #monsterdon

As a first-year undergrad, I took intro to film. We had to write about a movie of our choice. For whatever reason, I chose "Mr. Mom." My memory of it, which I'd seen as a kid when it came out, was of playful subversion of gender conventions. Holy shit was I wrong. So I wrote a paper about sexism, with some xenophobia I'd totally missed the first time thrown in too. It probably wasn't a good paper, but writing it really helped flush my system of a certain kind of pernici…

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
<em>Melania</em> Is a Horror Movie
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/melania-trump-documentary-horror-movie/685843/?gift=TPTA7XiYh…

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie
The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

YouTuber Markiplier's self-funded horror film Iron Lung debuted at No. 2 at the US box office with $22M after a fan campaign helped land it on 2,500 screens (Megan Farokhmanesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/movies/markiplier-iron-lung-movie.…

A YouTuber’s Film Beat ‘Melania’ at the Box Office. Here’s How.
“Iron Lung,” a horror movie directed and funded by the video creator known as Markiplier, pulled in $22 million in its first weekend after fans across the country requested screenings.

Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview (Maer Roshan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/harvey-weinstein-prison-interview-rikers-exclusive-1236523824/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p64#a260310p64

Movie Squad
Where you can hear Simon, Tristan and special guests discuss movies at length and in detail, covering every kind of topic and every type of movie, from blockbuster extravaganzas to arthouse fare, from celluloid excellence to glorious trash...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

"The movie and TV rights to Chia Pet, yes Chia Pet, were recently acquired by producers."
They're Making a Movie About What?!?!
https://gizmodo.com/theyre-making-a-movie-about-what-2000715249

You don't need AI, AI needs you.

Because @…’s Flipboard site won’t scroll for me (?!?), here’s the paragraph with the punch:
❝It’s worth noting that over the decades, Pixar has explored topics such as, but [not*] limited to: becoming a widower, suddenly becoming a single or adoptive parent, environmental collapse, existential dread, motherhood, and job burnout. The first Incredibles has a subplot where Elastigirl thinks Mr. Incredible is having an affair, Toy Story 3 has the toys accept death by furnace, and Elemental is about interracial relationships. The last two movies Docter directed were Soul, which is about a Black man finding joy in his life again, and Inside Out—maybe the most therapy-ass movie (and series) in the studio’s entire 40-year tenure—is about messy preteen emotions that lead to its main character running away from home.❞
* The word “not” is missing in the original, surely an editorial mistake?
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-M010weUPTnu1lZIfiOE3oQ:a:1876139665-/0

What you do if you actually should do more boring things… 😇🤓
And now back to the future—eh—more boring things… 🥴
#LEGO #BackToTheFuture #DeLorean

Just watched Predator Badlands. Contrary to what I thought, I liked the movie and it wasn't a cliché predator movie. Unexpected, I liked it.
#predator #PredatorBadlands #PredatorBadlandsMovie

I can understand not supporting old devices in perpetuity, but on top of having discontinued the ability to side-loading content via USB? Amazon's messaging is pretty clear, in a hostile capitalism kind of way.

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/yo

#Framed #1488
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https://framed.wtf

Here's the thing about generative AI in particular & intellectual property theft. When it comes to IP theft, I am very much for it when you're punching up. By all means, torrent that Amazon movie or download that new album*. Rip off Disney. Share things you enjoy with others.
AI IP theft is very much punching down. Well-funded companies ripping off the commons. Using AI helps them.
* I do try to support smaller artists via bandcamp fridays, or going to their shows an…

„I Hate This Place“ im Test: Ein spielbarer B-Movie mit 80er-Jahre-Flair
Der Survival-Horror „I Hate This Place“ überzeugt im Test mit 80er-Jahre-Charme und netten Ideen, stolpert aber gelegentlich über die eigenen Ambitionen.

Framed #1432
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https://framed.wtf

Framed - The daily movie guessing game
Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

The chinese policeman enters the elevator with a smoking cigarette. Watching a movie on his mobile. Casually keeps smoking in the elevator despite lots of "smoking prohibited " signs. A real rebel 😂

So you mean I get to watch #Heman and see a shirtless man all movie? Sign me up.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Florry:
🎵 First it was a movie, then it was a book
#Florry
https://florry.bandcamp.com/track/first-it-was-a-movie-then-it-was-a-book
https://open.spotify.com/track/0CO8FICjkvVDekOcarbvIR

Ben Stiller voiced his anger at the White House‘s use of a clip from
Tropic Thunder to support its war initiative on Friday.
“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” he wrote on social media.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. -- War is not a movie.”
The White House’s X account on Thursday published a montage of scenes from movies and TV shows including Tropic Thunder, Braveheart, Top Gun: Mav…

‘War Is Not a Movie’: Ben Stiller Claps Back at White House Propaganda Video
Ben Stiller has sounded off about a White House propaganda video about the war against Iran using a clip from 'Tropic Thunder.

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I thought that I would watch a good bad movie while I eat supper tonight. Remember when a movie like Escape From LA felt like an improbable dystopia? I miss those times.
#Movie #EscapeFrom #EscapeFromLA

I’ve been informed that this is a thing. That exists.
#indieanimation #furryart

Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-sued-by-autodesk-over-ai-powered-movie…

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Reading the Wikipedia deletion page for "Ghost Murmur" - a supposed CIA technology for locating people over long distances based on heartbeats - allegedly used in the Dude 44 rescue.
Mainly because it's driving me crazy trying to remember which movie or video game it's from.

In an interview, Harvey Weinstein says prison life is "hell", Disney cut off his insurance and pays a $60K/year pension, he will be "proven innocent", and more (Maer Roshan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m…

Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview
In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I’m dying here"), his wrecked legacy and his delusions about the future ("I will be proven innocent. That I promise you"). 

A documentary from several years back that's worth checking out if you're already a fan or just curious about Charlie Parr, IMHO a true great of American music.
#americana

Meeting Charlie Parr - The Movie
Meeting Charlie Parr - The Movie---------Meeting Charlie Parr is a travel documentary about one of the most emblematic blues folk singer from American Midwes...

#MONSTERDON
Man this had me scared for a moment, then I realized it was two different posts. 😂

Jonathan Majors Makes Movie Comeback In Daily Wire Action Pic Filming This Week In South Carolina (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/jonathan-majors-movie-comeback-daily-wire-south-carolina-1236737180/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p96#a260226p96

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Tim Cook Attends White House Screening of 'Melania' Movie, Prompts Calls for Apple Boycott
https://gizmodo.com/tim-cook-attends-white-house-screening-of-melania-movie-prompts-calls-for-apple-boycott-2000714041

Me burning a CD in 2000: I'm gonna be wild and put short #movie quotes between songs.
The CD after playing Space's Female of the Species: "You're wild." - Baby
#movies

Amazon's Melania documentary fell 67% in its second week box office with $2.4M; Amazon MGM Studios says it is sparking "interest" among Prime Video subscribers (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

Amazon MGM Goes on Offense as ‘Melania’ Risks Getting Sacked at Super Bowl Box Office
The first lady's documentary is falling off steeply in its second weekend, prompting Amazon MGM to go on the offensive and stress that the film is in it for the long game, whether theatrically or streaming.

Folks that don't 'get' the Sinners thing - it's an important movie as a statement for black folks, their culture, how they've been treated through the years, and how they're still treated. Period pieces are tough for me, but once I got into it, yeah, it's damn good. Coogler did a great thing there.

#Shitpost #shitposting #melaniamovie

How Hollywood's once-reliable bets are floundering, as stars matter less, auteur filmmakers become selling points, and sequels lose their grip on the box office (David Sims/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/03/…

Hollywood’s Star Power Is Shifting
Auteur filmmakers have become as much of a selling point as the actors they work with.

That wasn't a good movie but I am now positive Angela Bassett makes any movie she's in at least watchable. #monsterdon

"Watched 10 minutes. I found myself with tears streaming down my face.
Watching Trump take the oath to defend the Constitution, as he tears it down. The dissonance of Melania saying her husband would be a 'unifier,' and all the pomp and circumstance for someone so venal. So beneath the great office - and wishing we could turn the clock back.
Journalist gives brutal review of Melania movie: 'Not a single person in the theater' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/melania-2675108961/

movielens_100k: MovieLens 100K (1998)
Three bipartite networks that make up the MovieLens 100K Dataset, a stable benchmark dataset of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies. These data capture the tag-movie, user-movie, and user-tag networks. (Also available from MovieLens are 1M, 10M and 20M folksonomy datasets.).
This network has 24129 nodes and 95580 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

BFI: 2025 spending on UK film production hit a £2.8B record high, of which 91% came from non-domestic films; UK cinema admissions fell 30% compared to 2019 (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/british-movie-spend-hit-record-h…

British Movie Spend Hit Record High Of $3.8B In 2025
Spend on movies in the UK hit a record high in 2025 including on 'Wuthering Heights', 'Supergirl' and 'The Beatles' film.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Domestic box office revenue is off to its strongest start since the pandemic, aided by The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which has made $191M in North America (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/07/2026-box-domestic-office-start

Theaters flex strongest run since COVID
"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" delivered the year's biggest domestic opening.

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Cinema operators are relieved Paramount won WBD due to its support for theatrical releases, but skeptical about its plans to increase output and sustain windows (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/warner-bros-s…

Warner Bros. Sale to Paramount Over Netflix Won't Save Movie Theaters
Movie theater owners have feared that any Warner Bros. merger -- whether Netflix and Paramount prevailed -- would results in fewer new films.

AI studio Moonmax unveils a slate of features signifying a push into more mainstream film production, including an AI-assisted movie on Captain James Hook (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/ai-assisted-captain-james-hook…

AI-Assisted Captain James Hook Feature in Works at Moonmax
AI studio Moonmax has unveiled a slate of projects, including a new AI-assisted feature based on the origin story of Captain James Hook

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 31 nodes and 98 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgment — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

After a backlash, AMC opts out of screening an AI short film during its pre-show, programmed by ad company Screenvision, before feature films (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-…

AMC Theatres Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
AMC has opted out of screening the award-winning short film during its third-party programmed pre-show, and it’s unclear if other chains will follow suit.

A researcher finds the average length of a wide-release theatrical film grew from about 106 minutes in the 1990s and early 2000s to 114 minutes in recent years (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mov…

It’s Not Your Imagination: Movies Are Getting Longer
The run time of average major-release films have ballooned in recent years. And, yes, Marvel movies are partly to blame.

flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Pixar's Hoppers opened to an estimated $88M worldwide this weekend, the biggest debut for an original animated movie since 2017, as Disney tries to revive Pixar (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.c…

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 34 nodes and 171 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity signs a first-look streaming production and distribution deal with Netflix; it also has a theatrical deal with Sony (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Artists Equity Inks Streaming Pact With Netflix
The Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-led company recently released the crime thriller 'The Rip' on the platform.

An interview with BBC Studios executives about BBC News' popularity in the US, WBD-Netflix merger, success of BritBox and BBC Select in North America, and more (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

BBC Studios Chiefs on Mega-Mergers, Own M&A, Trump Tariffs, U.S. Streaming Growth, and the ‘Bluey’ Movie
During the annual BBC Studios Showcase in London, CEO Tom Fussell and Zai Bennett, the company's production head, also discussed growth, diversification, microdramas, and 'Top Gear.

First Lady Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner held a private screening of their controversial Amazon-funded documentary, Melania, at the WH on Saturday (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter)
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Inside the White House Screening for Amazon’s ‘Melania’ Doc (Exclusive Photos)
The White House held a private screening of the doc on Saturday night that included black-tied VIPs, monogrammed popcorn tubs and a military band playing movie tunes.