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On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

Google returns as a partner service for Movies Anywhere, after leaving the service during a feud with Disney in October and November (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/18/google-youtube-return-movies-anywhere-how-to-re-…

Google and YouTube return to Movies Anywhere, here’s how to re-link your account
As promised, both Google Play and YouTube have returned to Movies Anywhere, here's how to restore your account link.

MPAA reveals the why of movie ratings.
This makes it easier for people to chose what rating to aim for when re-writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/movies/movie-ratings-sex-violence-drugs.html

How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?
The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.

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

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

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 40 nodes and 100 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Imagine treating movies like products that must be adjusted to meet the customers' demands 🫠
@…
https://chaos.social/@frumble/115912713690598697

I saw the photos online of "flaming space debris" on a remote road in Australia. I'm not sure that I would get close enough to take a photograph. I've seen too many science fiction movies that start that way.

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/115726274431421552
Interesting result. I loved all three movies but I would pick Knives Out as the best one, but not by a whole lot over Wake Up Dead Man. I wasn’t surprised that Glass Onion is the least favored but I expected that t…

Before we come to the time of christmas elve stories:
Could we please have more movies on actual globalized labour instead?
* [Santa's Workshop - Inside China's Slave Labour Toy Factories](https://youtu.be/yF8jUDzz5bE)
* [The True Cost](

Oof @… https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/863997/matt-damon-netflix-repeatedly-explain-plot…

Matt Damon told Joe Rogan that Netflix wants movies to repeatedly explain the plot in dialogue because people are always on their phone.

NFL Week 16 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games with the most holiday spirit https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6899686/2025/12/19/nfl-week-16-tv-schedule-patriots-ravens-cowboys/

With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/zootopia-2-animation-bo…

'Zootopia 2' Is Now Hollywood's Highest Grossing Animated Film Ever With $1.7 Billion
The Disney sequel has passed Pixar's "Inside Out 2" with $1.7 billion grossed worldwide

香港内地化的速度真的是超越光速//4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://apple.news/A10727rn5QwyaeM7Fkut7Pw

4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list — Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Four movies have been excluded from the Hong Kong Film Awards’ (HKFA) contenders list this year with no explanation, sparking censorship concerns.

NFL Week 16 schedule rankings: Top 5 Sunday games with the most holiday spirit https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6899686/2025/12/19/nfl-week-16-tv-schedule-patriots-ravens-cowboys/

Those are all wonderful films, but The Princess Bride is quite simply the perfect movie. @… https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/11572588…

„Only in the world of AI algorithm training can you claim that you were torrenting 2,400 porn videos for personal use and have that seem like the lesser of two evils.“ 😂
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meta-says-the-2400-ad…

Meta Says the 2,400 ‘Adult Movies’ They Torrented Were for Personal Use, Not Training AI
Two adult entertainment companies say Meta’s appetite for information has gotten a little kinky... and now they're suing.

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 15 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

*Now* it is my #GLT Cyber-Terminator notebook (again). 😉
#Graz #Steirertux

There exists the concept of "Twin Films".
Movies that were released around the same time with similar theme ("Armageddon"/"Deep Impact" - "Bugs Life"/"Antz")
Sometimes this happens on Youtube as well.
With just a couple days apart, Strange Aeons and Nick Robinson released a video on "Rawr XD" and "XD".
Love it when that happens.

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss - Scientific Data
In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset …

"Weapons" was quite a fucking ride. Should've known—"Barbarian" was too. Zach Creggers knows how to do this. 21st century fairy tale.
#movies #horror

You know those movies where there's a planet which has one side that is always facing the sun, and the other side which is frozen solid?
That's how my Microwave thinks baked potatoes need to be cooked 🥔😅
#Food

Zed’s dead.
#pulpfiction #movies
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/us/peter-greene-actor-death?cid=ios_app

My hero, Patton Oswalt, talks about 10 classic movies - the very best & the very worst.
▶️ Patton Oswalt Critiques Sci-Fi Films (Top 5 & Bottom 5) | GQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifRzEiNJ10E&si=2WdExDREQI0T0kJ_

Marie made biscuits with egg and bacon, tea and coffee. More movies tonight for our Christmas challenge. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/B1j7DuUDfU6vRBYKA

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…

RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/movies/tatsuya-nakadai-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.thAO.bom850YiVRtC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=a…

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…

I can't tell if this movie looks good or I just an a fan of Milly Alcock
#movies

In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

I wish they’d make more movies like this again

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 20 nodes and 30 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Netflix “Expects” to Keep Releasing Warner Bros. Films Theatrically
Now that that’s settled...

I hope they don't cast Mark Wahlberg in the inevitable Louvre heist movie. 🎬🤞
#Louvre #heist #news #prediction #hope #movies

NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150 AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

NBC Sports Bringing Live Milan Olympics Coverage to AMC Theatres
The companies experimented with the idea during the 2024 Paris games, and are now expanding on the idea.

"Those aren't mountains... they're waves."
What's your favorite line from the movies?
#favoritemovielines

Been watching old movies while visiting family for Xmas. Tonight we saw "Random Harvest" (1942). It's a great story that sort of resembles a war-time Severance if you squint. Greer Garson is radiant and Ronald Colman is likeable enough. It's on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100038725/ra

The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.
How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI:

How Total Recall Created Sci-Fi Mutant Kuato Without An Ounce Of CGI - SlashFilm
Total Recall's mutant rebel Kuato is one of many impressive non-CGI effects that Rob Bottin provided for Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi film.

The AI market feels like a heist movie, where all participants are in on the initial job, but will start picking each other off as they scramble to make their stake bigger and take out everyone else.
The problem is that in those movies, there's a ton of collateral damage and no one really gets out alive.

Ihr kennt natürlich alle die Greatful Dead Collection im Internet Archive. Nicht?
Dann nehmt euch ein bisschen Zeit, es gibt da knapp 18000 Aufnahmen von diversen Konzerten.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?tab=collection

NO DANTE, NO DEAL
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/warners-gremlins-3-steven-spielberg-chris-columbus-1236419932/

Warners Making ‘Gremlins 3’ With Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus Returning
Warners Bros. is reviving the franchise after decades on the shelf for a 2027 release.

An older video essay from the great #PatrickHWillems about trains in movies. Why is it such an essential vehicle in so many movies since the brothers Lumière? It restricts space and moves the plot forwards - and both things are great for propelling the plot and forcing the scriptwriters to get creative. And have you noticed that the conductor is often invisible? It's the train who is …

A24 renews its multiyear distribution deal with HBO Max; upcoming movies in the deal include Marty Supreme and The Moment starring Charli xcx (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hbo-max-a24-movies-streaming-deal-renewa…

HBO Max Renews A24 Movie Streaming Deal for Marty Supreme, The Moment
HBO Max and A24 inked a renewal of their licensing pact that will continue to bring the indie studio's films exclusively to HBO and HBO Max in the U.S. in the pay-TV window.

These movies are so unrealistic! The camerapeople are so often in middle of the action, yet they almost never get hurt.

How many Linux ISOs are sitting on your hard drive pretending to be open-source software?
🏴‍☠️ #Linux

My year 2025 in podcasts:
Doug Loves Movies
Critically Acclaimed Network
Unspooled
What Went Wrong
Behind The Bastards
#Podcasts.
#AntennaPodEcho.
#AntennaPod

The Mr. Scorsese documentary on Apple TV is amazing.
I have new found respect for him and his movies, some of which I haven’t enjoyed, but now I understand.
#movies #scorcese

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

If cows didn't like mustard, there would be no movies.
#cinema
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/805480293661278208?source=share

This is true. Just—AI enables the production of slop in far greater quantities and much faster and with frightening consistency.
When ChatGPT first came out, many of us saw that one could produce perfectly mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays with it. Problem is: long before ChatGPT was a gleam in Altman’s eye, there were Movies of the Week. Based on mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays—albeit written by humans.
And yes, I do think that last bit makes a diff…

I never saw Godzilla (1998), but #monsterdon watched it tonight. I *still* haven't seen it (I was putting kids to bed at 9pm), but that movie soundtrack included an incredible song by Rage Against The Machine that called out movies like Godzilla for being part of American imperialism.
🎶 Coca-cola is back in the veins of Saigon. And Rambo, too, he [or we?] got a dope pair 'a …

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 28 nodes and 75 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Christmas at the Movies
George Morton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert of Christmas film scores. Live from Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre. Presented by Katie Derham.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kzm9

All tv shows and movies are about time travel but usually only in one constant direction.
#tv #movies

My bet is that this will turn into a fairly substantial copyright and contract case.
"Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her"
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/kristen-bel…

Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her
Fox's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.

No. It’s for guitar picks. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115519178697717162

Marie’s biscuits (mine with cheddar and jalapeño relish), egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Mahjongg and movies last night, more movies tonight.
#TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/wyN3P4VnN3tWYHDX8

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…

RIP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/movies/tatsuya-nakadai-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.thAO.bom850YiVRtC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=…

For some live events, NBC Sports plans to use tech from Japan's Nippon Television Network that uses AI to track individual players and reframe them vertically (Pranob Mehrotra/Digital Trends)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/nb…

NBC Sports will soon use AI to put your favorite athletes front and center during live broadcasts
NBC Sports has announced it will debut a new AI feature in its mobile app later this year that will let fans follow their favorite athletes in real time.

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date With Exclusive Films
Letterboxd Video Store is launching Dec. 10 with films available to rent in 23 countries, including some exclusive indie titles.

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115820386909186674
It's like one of the best movies ever made—a real tour de force of style and admiration for movies. And it's super funny.

old school movie time!
#tron #movies

When it came to quoting movie lines there were two movies that were incredibly popular in Germany when I was young: Spaceballs and Life of Brian.
"Please just one cross each" (or whatever the original English line was) still cracks me up today.
#80sKids

Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/zootopi…

Box Office Annihilation: ‘Zootopia 2’ Zooms Past the $1 Billion Mark Globally in Only 17 Days
Disney's year-end holiday tentpole achieved the feat faster than any Holllwood animated film in history, as well as any PG-rated film.

#zootopia

Marie made waffles today, with egg and bacon, tea and coffee. A play yesterday followed by movies. House game night tonight and probably more movies! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/RMCx4qiXDzP2GFsP8

Rule #1 of movies:
"Never kill the dog."
Corellary:
"...unless it underpins the main character's motivation. See '#JOHNWICK'."
Dunno how many times I've been in a theater & when the dog is in jeopardy, the people sitting next to me whisper, 'oh no no no... don't you dare f'ing do it..."

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 67 nodes and 186 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Atropia Trailer #1 (2025)
#movies #trailer…

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eddy Cue Calls Out Top Apple TV Shows and Movies In Year-End Memo Pledging “Innovation”
The Apple services executive released a note saying that Apple TV set new monthly engagement records, while Apple Music has hit subscriber records.

In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Netflix “Expects” to Keep Releasing Warner Bros. Films Theatrically
Now that that’s settled...

I'm in the middle of watching the new Knives Out on Netflix. I'm liking the humour so far! At one point they even did a noticeable animated film grade to underscore the mood change of a dialogue scene. It's not often that this done in movies (grading usually only changes this drastically when cutting to a past event or a "vision").
#KnivesOut

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

One of the GREAT original movies created around the "Halo" universe from Microsoft Studios, now FREE to view - all 1hr 31min.
▶️ Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | FULL MOVIE | Video Game Sci-Fi Action Adventure Microsoft
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZj3Is6Upng&…

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 26 nodes and 45 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Ted Sarandos says that Netflix will maintain 45-day theater windows for movies after its acquisition of WBD closes, adding that he wants to "win" the box office (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/media/ted-sarand…

Ted Sarandos Says Critics Just Misunderstand Netflix
The company’s co-chief executive sat down for an extensive interview for the first time since announcing plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV business.

One of my all-time favorite movies.
▶️ Night Assault on Fort Wagner | The Ending of "Glory" (1989) First Time Watching Movie Reactions
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6WRHTL726PA&si=R8kGM5TWarU2splS

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 27 nodes and 69 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

None of the 25 dramas and comedies in N. American theaters in the last three months had $50M in sales; October had the lowest box office on record, except 2020 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/box-office-co…

Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

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…

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date With Exclusive Films
Letterboxd Video Store is launching Dec. 10 with films available to rent in 23 countries, including some exclusive indie titles.

PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-

Hollywood Is Reeling—and PG Movies Have Never Been So Popular
The PG rating has become the king of the box office. The entertainment business now relies on kids dragging their parents to theaters.

A profile of Mubi, as it deals with backlash including employee dissent and subscriber and partnership cancellations over its investor Sequoia's ties to Israel (Will Tavlin/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor…

Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

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 23 nodes and 68 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

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

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 56 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: Apple TV set a monthly engagement record in December, with total hours viewed up 36% YoY (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eddy Cue Calls Out Top Apple TV Shows and Movies In Year-End Memo Pledging “Innovation”
The Apple services executive released a note saying that Apple TV set new monthly engagement records, while Apple Music has hit subscriber records.

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

How Toy Story, released 30 years ago, changed animation, relying on 117 computers running rendering software 24/7, as modern animation now appears artificial (Maya Phillips/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/movies/toy-story-anniversary-animatio…

‘Toy Story’ at 30: Animation Has Never Been the Same
The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.

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…

A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html

‘Alan’s Universe’ Shows What It Might Look Like to Win at YouTube
As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

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

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 27 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

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
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