Tootfinder

Google's free, ad-supported streamer Google TV Freeplay adds VOD support, letting users choose from over 10,000 shows and movies, and expands its live TV lineup (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978152/google-tv-freeplay-on-demand

Google’s free streaming service now lets you pick shows and movies to watch
Google TV Freeplay, the company’s free, ad-supported streaming service, now lets you pick shows and movies to watch on demand.

Sad to learn about the passing of Sam Neill. Who knows what my life would be like if I wasn't watching Event Horizon on one fateful evening in 2005? Still one of my favorite movies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/sam-neill-ac…

Sam Neill, actor known for ‘Jurassic Park,’ dies at 78
Sam Neill, the genre-spanning New Zealand actor best known for his starring role in the “Jurassic Park” movies, has died, his family said Monday.

As the implementation of AI disrupts dozens of industries,
it isn’t surprising that a crop of recent television shows and movies are depicting the villainy of this rapidly changing technology.
After all, screenwriters have been at the forefront of this fight. 
“We were on the front lines as both the people who are being stolen from,
and the people whose work is being used to eliminate them,”
Carolyn Lipka, who co-wrote Hacks’ QuikScribbl episode, told The Flytr…

Screenwriters Hate AI, and Who Can Blame Them?
The creative process is challenging for a reason—it makes stories better, and more human.

Unqualified Movie Reviews
Patrick and Benji review movies and tv shows...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unqualified-movie-reviews/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Proms special: classical music and movies
The first of four Classical Mixtapes featuring music in this year's BBC Proms, including works by Rodrigo, LIli Boulanger, Mozart, and Ravel.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yml5

Theater execs are split on the Paramount-WBD deal, as Paramount offers to guarantee 30 films annually for three years; California's AG wants asset divestitures (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/am…

An Offer They Can't Refuse: Theater Execs Split on Whether to Join Paramount-Warner's Merger Movement
Theater owners are split on whether to back Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. or continue to resist, despite David Ellison's 30-movies-a-year pledge.

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/amazon-makes-it-easier-to…

Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video | TechCrunch
Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.

In the movies, when aliens cut power to a whole city, they do so at night, neighborhood by neighborhood. And when they reach a prison, they take out power block by block, adding the sound of old-timey switches pulled down so the inmates hear the progression.
Fascinating. 😳
#entertainment #movies #aliens #effects

The case to buy physical media: Sony is removing all purchased Studio Canal movies from users libraries - no refunds - including:
▫️ Terminator 2: Judgment Day
▫️ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
▫️ Hot Fuzz
▫️ Total Recall
▫️ Rambo: First Blood
▫️ Paddington
▫️ Moonlight
▫️ Bridget Jones’s Diary
☑️ Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries

Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries
Sony will remove hundreds of purchased PlayStation Store movies due to licensing agreements, raising fresh concerns over digital ownership rights.

This might be my favorite movie review ever.
> One of the worst films I have a very screen. Terrible writing, acting and terrible dialogue.
#Movies

A temporary pool pump, a replacement pump, some major menu changes, and the beginning of a project I’ve wanted to tackle for years: digitizing my old 8mm home movies.
The first reel dates from 1961 and includes my parents, my infant brother, and several other relatives. I’ve had these films since around 2000, so finally seeing what survived all those years—and seeing some family members who are no longer with us—was pretty special.

New Life for Old Movies – Bob Mueller
The pool saga wraps up, alpha-gal changes our menu, & I begin digitizing home movies filled with memories. Plus, football season is here.

Bei @… wird 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' als Komödie beschrieben. Ich sehe da eher die schmerzhafte Häutung einer Frau, die ein Leben lang in konservativen Rollenstereotypen gefangen war.
Sehr großartig, wie immer: Emma Thompson.
Jetzt online bei Eurer Bibliothek.

I love, how 'The Odyssey' referenced 'Just a Man' and the beginning of 'Polyphemus' from 'Epic: The Musical', btw 🙂‍↕️💕
#TheOdyssey #EpicTheMusical #Movies

Hollywood is having its best year since 2019, with global ticket sales up 15% YoY in the first seven months and five movies crossing $1B in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-hollywood-movies-are-back/

'Musk' film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. (Travis M. Andrews/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2026/09/13/elon-musk-documentary-is-already-causing-stir-here-are-five-takeaways/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg5MjcyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkwNjU0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODkyNzIwMDAsImp0aSI6IjliNzZiZmU4LTlmNGYtNGQ4MS1iZjIzLTI2Y2QwMmM3MDkzNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L21vdmllcy8yMDI2LzA5LzEzL2Vsb24tbXVzay1kb2N1bWVudGFyeS1pcy1hbHJlYWR5LWNhdXNpbmctc3Rpci1oZXJlLWFyZS1maXZlLXRha2Vhd2F5cy8ifQ.zrAh7a2w2VPpVjHDGpe8O6qSTOPWPe4cpnEQfqkrnMY&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p80#a260914p80

There are no good movies anymore.

Finally watched Snakes on a Plane and loved it. Now I’m watching Encino Man. Enjoying some comedy movies. How is your Sunday?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Weyes Blood:
🎵 Movies
#WeyesBlood
https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/movies
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f4itfvWzS59Qu7JWorhxn

Haven't been able to do as many movies lately but I've done a few, enough for a #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday this week. Worldbreaker I saw a week or two ago, it got criticism but it wasn't bad. Little Brother was hilarious, and I'm now over half done with Evil Dead Burn, I'v…

HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies
A podcast about the movies of Alfred Hitchcock...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad?
#movies

Patrick (H) Willems — Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad?
A hard-hitting investigation into these movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and might as well not exist.

New Life for Old Movies
The pool saga finally seems to be over, I’m making some significant changes to our menu, and I’ve started digitizing old 8mm home movies—including footage of family members who have been gone for decades. Plus, it’s football season again.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/new-life-

New Life for Old Movies – Bob Mueller
The pool saga wraps up, alpha-gal changes our menu, & I begin digitizing home movies filled with memories. Plus, football season is here.

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

Sources: Netflix will report box office grosses for six upcoming movies with theatrical releases, including La Bola Negra, which will have 46 days in theaters (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-report-box-office-the…

Netflix Movies Get Cozier With Theatrical Distribution
How serious is Netflix going to get about releasing its movies in theaters?

Something I love about film festivals is, whereas most commercial movies are made for audiences & fine-tuned by algos, here you still find self-indulgent flicks. Some are terrible, and some are just amazing. RIIFF is one of my favorite things about summer!
https://film-festival.org/

Home RIIFF - Rhode Island International Film Festival
Discover the Rhode Island International Film Festival — a premier showcase of independent cinema and Oscar-qualifying short films.

RE: https://hostux.social/@zmef42/117264708394594123
Ever wonder why that auteur director from the '70's started putting out less compelling movies later in his career? Check out when he divorced.

Apparently, I am sincerely asking a coworker "Who is Tom Holland?" years old. 👴
#movies

With the addition of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, four movies in 2026 have earned $1B at the box office globally, the most in one year since the Covid pandemic (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/hollywood-2026-billion-dollar-movies.html

AI anxiety comes to Telluride, with Bill Gates sounding the alarm
The Telluride Film Festival devoted two Saturday events to the rise of artificial intelligence,
an unusually explicit engagement with an issue festival director Julie Huntsinger called a “threat.”
Bill Gates said AI had advanced faster than he expected,
warned the next five years would be critical
and said he would likely support a credible plan to slow development or hold it in stasis.
Tri…

Bill Gates warns of AI risks at Telluride Film Festival
At a festival built around the human touch, two events confronted the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, as Bill Gates warned “the aliens are here.”

Cowboys cinema 🎥 #DallasCowboys #NFL #football #cinema

If Sony isn’t going to make PlayStation discs anymore, how far behind are BluRay movies? Are they the same discs?

I haven’t seen the Odyssey movie yet, but this is an interesting commentary on it and the zeitgeist were in.
#movies

Ali G is back??
#film #movies #comedy
https://www.…

#NowPlaying Since @…’s post last month I’ve been thinking about albums in tribute to Tarkovsky’s movies, so here’s a quick thread 🧵 for #BandcampFriday. Let me know if I…

Charlie Chats Movies
Welcome to my film and TV podcast, where I invite friends to discuss and debate anything in the arts...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/charlie-chats-movies/

Finally got around to moving from Trakt to SIMKL as Trakt just keeps firing shotgun at their own feet at every turn. I hope SIMKL doesn’t end up the same way :-S #movies

"Aren't we the ones building it?"
#AI #LLM

Baron Ryan on Instagram: "AI movies."
949K likes, 8,631 comments - americanbaron on July 15, 2026: "AI movies.".

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/amazon-makes-it-easier-to…

Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video | TechCrunch
Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.

Let's post some cameos of #Commodore64 in popular media: here's a screenshot from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and one from Halt and Catch Fire. Please reply with examples from other movies or series. #commodore

Home Movies
Check out a home movie from 1967.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/home-movies/

Home Movies – Bob Mueller
Sit with me for a bit and watch some home movies from a 1967 family reunion.

North America's 2026 summer box office revenue of $4.76B is 17% below 2019, adjusted for inflation; est. Jan. 1-Aug. 16 tickets fell 30% vs. same period in 2019 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/07/business/media/summ…

Hollywood’s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets
Strong box office sales this summer have Hollywood celebrating. But a closer look at the numbers offers a sobering reality check.

When Matt Damon found out in this movie they don’t send people to help him get home and he has to help himself get home.
#movies #Odyssey

I collected some home movies on my family reunion trip last week. #genealogy #familyhistory
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.c…

Home Movies – Bob Mueller
Sit with me for a bit and watch some home movies from a 1967 family reunion.

#ElonMusk strikes me as the type of person who watches #RaidersoftheLostArk and thinks it's a downer ending when the faces start melting.
#movies

It always frustrates me when shows and movies do the trope that a relationship won’t work due to long distance.
I think I prove in my 4 years that it can and does work.

Final trailer for Coyote vs. Acme: #CoyoteVsAcme #movies

Alamo Drafthouse is launching a distribution program for indie movies that were well-received at film festivals but didn't attract traditional distributors (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/alamo-drafthous…

Alamo Drafthouse Launches Program to Screen Unreleased Film Festival Movies
Alamo Drafthouse is launching a distribution program that's designed to showcase film festival releases that never scored distribution.

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Weyes Blood:
🎵 Movies
#WeyesBlood
https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/movies
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f4itfvWzS59Qu7JWorhxn

NBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html…

NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers
Beginning in early 2027, YouTube Premium subscribers will receive the entirety of Peacock content, including sports and movies.

I will be using this insult everywhere now.
#TheOdyssey #meme #movies

I think pairing Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as a double feature with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert might make people less friendly towards that latter.
#Movies

Today's events just reassured me that regularly buying music and movies in a way, that I can truly own them, was the right call, and I should buy more games DRM-free on GOG or itch, if they are available, there.

Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that
they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies
and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal.
As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store.
In a legal notice first spotted by gaming news outlet PlayStation LifeStyle,
Sony said that affected customers will lose the ability to stream titles i…

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

Sources: Paramount has offered three-year agreements to AMC and Regal to release 30 movies a year exclusively in cinemas for at least 45 days if it acquires WBD (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-09/pa…

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

Death of Stalin has to be one of my favourite movies. Have seen it so many times and it always makes me laugh.

Letter: WGAE withdrew its sponsorship of NY film festival Urbanworld after it unveiled a new programming section for directors using generative AI in their work (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/movies/urbanworld-writers-guild-ai.htm…

Writers Guild Withdraws Support From Film Festival Over A.I.
Urbanworld, a New York event, has added a section for movies made with A.I. tools. The union was a sponsor but has been outspoken on the dangers of A.I.

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

The Right Wing: Do not hire based on skin color! You must hire the best person for the job!!!
Chris Nolan: Got it! I've cast my #odyssey movie based on who is best for the job.
The Right Wing: No, not like that!
#movies

Netflix wins rights to the Sesame Street movie; Rideback, the production company behind live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, will produce the feature (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/mo…

Netflix Wins ‘Sesame Street’ Movie Rights
Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action "Lilo & Stitch" and "Aladdin" movies, brought it to the studio and will produce.

Physical Film Files
From the film itself, to the artwork, the packaging, and the special features—this is about celebrating movies the physical way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/physical-film-files/

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 46 nodes and 191 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

FilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/

Los Angeles Film and TV Production Sinks 12% Despite New Tax Credits, FilmLA Study Shows
While high-employment TV dramas are holding on, reality TV's continued exodus fueled the decline

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

Four animated titles from Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar made up over 38% of the ~$186.6M handed out to 41 new movies selected to receive California tax credits (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, DreamWorks Animated Titles Nab Nearly $72 Million In California Tax Credits
This round of subsidies is headlined by DreamWorks' 'Donkey,' Disney's 'Hexed,' and an untitled movie from Pixar. Changes to California's tax credit program expanded the eligible categories of production to include animation.

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

dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…

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 12 nodes and 42 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

MPA: Southeast Asia's premium VOD subscribers rose 15% YoY to 75M in Q2, with viewing hours up ~33%; streaming revenue is projected to grow 14% to $2.9B in 2026 (Natsumi Kawasaki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asea

Southeast Asia's streaming success spurs filmmakers' global hopes
Thai, Indonesian, Filipino movies and series face further 'travelability' test

Internal docs: Paramount plans to launch a free tier for movies and shows in Q3, requiring users to register via email (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/paramount-free-tier-pluto-tv-streaming-youtube-tubi-elliso…

Paramount+ is building out its free tier to win cost-conscious viewers
Paramount+ is planning to make more movies and shows free to give users "more reasons to sign up," an internal presentation said.

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 70 nodes and 299 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

The North American box office recorded its biggest weekend ever with ~$430M across movies, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day's $355M and The Odyssey's $51M (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office…

'The Odyssey,' 'Spider-Man' Fuel Biggest Collective Box Office Weekend
Thanks to the one-two punch of "The Odyssey" and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," the box office had its biggest collective haul of all time.

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 47 nodes and 219 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Focus Features' horror hit Obsession crosses $500M in gross at the global box office, becoming the highest grossing film ever with a budget of less than $1M (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-…

'Obsession' Becomes Hollywood's First Original Film of 2020s to Gross $500 Million Worldwide
Focus' smash hit horror film passed Pixar's "Elemental" to become the top grossing original film since the pandemic

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

AMC Theatres launches Leawood Films, a new label for distributing small and mid-sized movies while allowing filmmakers to maintain ownership of their feature IP (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/amc-theaters-leawood-films-launch-12370…

AMC Theatres Gets Into Distribution Game With Launch Of Leawood Films Label
AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, is getting into the distribution business launching Leawood Films, a label for small and mid-sized films.

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…