2025-10-24 14:09:53
Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…
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 most excellent @… has posted his tapes from the very tasty looking fly around festival from august, with a bunch of great contemporary acoustic improvisers (powers/rolin, elkhorn) & a few songwriters (myriam gendron, joan shelley). looking forward to getting autumnal with a bunch of these sets soon.
Multimodal Recurrent Ensembles for Predicting Brain Responses to Naturalistic Movies (Algonauts 2025)
Semih Eren, Deniz Kucukahmetler, Nico Scherf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17897
Went to the movies. They're selling fleece blankets. Turn down the aircon and cash in!
From The Georgia Straight
"The Park Theatre is closing and maybe I shouldn’t be taking it as hard as I am
"It’s unknown what will happen to the physical space the Park is set to depart. Figuratively, it will undoubtedly leave a massive hole in the city’s cultural fabric. It’s also a huge loss for Cambie Village.
"The Park’s final day of operation will be October 26. I plan to stop by there before then to smell the popcorn."
We need a Batman movie/game/story where the bad guys are trying to subverse the status quo because it's shit and Batman tries to defend it, to slowly realize that he is only defending the rich and powerful people of the city.
I guess some of the movies come close, but they don't have a satisfying conclusion to me.
Chinese movies have averaged ~20% of the global box office since 2020, with 98% of their earnings coming from their domestic market, as America's dominance ebbs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-box-office/
Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/
time to escape into a classic
#movies #residentevil
VPN is up - I'm on a lunch break but will start at 1300 (as they say in american movies with soldiers in them)
Seriously, what a breath of fresh air.
It's not a 'Verse. I don't have to have watched all the Marvel movies to know what the fuck is going on. It's not based on a comic book. There's no antiheroes. Each episode is its own self-contained story. People do the right thing.
Cannot recommend more highly. https://
Does anybody remember Film Critic Hulk? What happened to him (or her)?
#movies #FilmCriticHulk #BirthMoviesDeath
Sources: Disney is on the hunt for original movie concepts to lure young men aged 13-28 back to the brand, as audiences dwindle for the superhero genre (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/disney-marvel-lucasfilm-gen-z-1236494681/…
To inaugurate my new section for short and impromptu articles, I share my Dataview script to list all the movies I watched in a given time period (and it supports movies watched multiple times).
https://www.davideaversa.it/bytes/202508181825-movie…
What Are The Best Robert Redford Movies of All Time? https://nofilmschool.com/the-best-robert-redford-movies
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…
Boys Go to Jupiter 🍊 Official Trailer
#movies
> French Connection II (1975) is a fictional sequel.
#WikiWeird #Movies
Character-Centric Understanding of Animated Movies
Zhongrui Gui, Junyu Xie, Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12204 https://
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@… Wild! I do remember a few movies in this universe too!
we're at a drive in for a double feature of the live action scooby doo movies and there's like a million kids and literally all I remember about those movies is There Are Sex Jokes
This week’s #LetterboxdFriday
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.
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p37#a250916p37
Prompt: “Three movies that are similar to Zatoichi but not the most popular ones”.
Likewise.com gives what seems to be a predefined list as changes to the last part are not influencing the result.
Gemini (2.5 Flash): 3 movies from the 70s. I believe they are good recommendations.
ChatGPT: 3 options from the late 60s. I believe they are also good recommendations.
In the end I chose to watch “The Twilight Samurai” 2002.
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…
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](
Venice Film Festival Hacked, Attendee Data Compromised
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-film-festival-hacked-data-compromised-1236338374/
The Best Movies You've Never Seen
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Obligatory reminder that pirates with accordions are even less historical than #TalkLikeAPirateDay 🏴☠️
The “pirate accent” dates to Robert Newton’s movies (Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard (1952)
https://youtu.be/wdGuGaNDH6Q
Frage an die Bundespost-Fernmelder unter euch: Von Bell gab es eine ganze Weile lang das "Bell System Technical Journal", in dem verschiedenste Details von Kommunikation auf einem sehr technischen Level beschrieben sind (https://archive.org/search?query=bell system technic…
Been getting kinda obsessed with the Tubi free streaming service. Lots of good movies on there.
I know that Robert Redford did many movies, but the first one to come to my mind will always be his role as Martin Bishop in “Sneakers” (1992).
Holy shit the trailer for "Young Washington" (why oh why did I watch it?) made me want to vomit. I feel a truly painful campus "history at the movies" event coming somewhere down the road.
Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/5]:
- MovieCORE: COgnitive REasoning in Movies
Faure, Chen, Yeh, Cheng, Su, Tang, Lai, Hsu
Don't buy the movies "#F1" or "#Greenland" on #4KUHD if you're not bought into Apple TV.
Unlike EVERY other publisher, the discs for these movies come bundled with digital m…
from my link log —
The curious case of the “pygmy nuthatch” in Charlie’s Angels.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/birds-movies-charlies-angels-2000-pygmy-nuthatch.html
saved 2025-05-23
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…
Started watching "Wonka" yesterday. But gave up about 3 or 4 Songs in. I hate musical movies...
Five Movies That Attempt to Capture the Brilliance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein https://reactormag.com/the-perfect-film-adaptation-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-does-not-exist/
I know Star Wars is often kinda dumb. The movies are plot-holey and often kinda bad.
But seeing the first one with my almost 6 year old and playing Lego Star Wars with him is something special. Like the joy he feels seeing those characters do their weird shit, the way he really gets into thinking about the stories and why people do what and who they might have also talked to is just ... the best. I'm actually looking forward to watching even the prequels with him.
Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/openai-training-da…
I did just do 24 hrs of movies on like prolly 4 hours of sleep in a tent lol
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 33 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…
A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use (Zico Ghosh/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
Dan Harmon on movies:
> Eddington: masterpiece. Weapons: masterpiece. Companion: masterpiece. Can’t wait to see One Battle. Might have to go to a theatre? Movies are good again?
I can vouch for Companion since I consider it the best film of the year so far. Icelandic cinemas seem to have decided to skip Eddington.
I think it has been a good year for cinema and we haven't even entered the awards-bait season (which translates to January to March in Iceland).
#alert! #SpinalTap is tonight’s offering on Turner Classic Movies.
#classicMovies
😱 A Guide to Traversing the Furthest Reaches of the Alien Franchise
http://www.vulture.com/article/best-alien-books-video-games-comic-books-tv-show.html
#movies
Paramount's streaming head Cindy Holland says streaming movies are "not a priority", as CEO David Ellison says debate on value of theatrical releases is "over" (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/par
we did it
24 hours of horror movies
Best '80s Movies: The Ultimate 10 Films of the Decade https://nofilmschool.com/best-80s-movies
Popcorn Dialogues: A Popculture Podcast
Take a deep dive into great movies, television and all things entertainment...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/popcorn-dialogues/
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 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
great podcast about #HackersMovie especially the part where they liken it to other movies where kids go on an adventure and have a lair: Peter Pan or The Goonies
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/1152111371
Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/
Meta rolls out Horizon TV for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780492/meta-quest-headset-horizon-tv-streaming
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 188 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
can't believe we just drove past a movie theatre and I immediately thought "oh sick wonder what's playing" BITCH YOU JUST WATCHED 13 MOVIES BACK TO BACK
How Lionsgate built a roster of about 15 TikTok movie fans to make "fan edits" to market movies, using language that feels "native to the platform" (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/lionsgate-tiktok-fan-edits-1236551825/…
#LetterboxdFriday time! My #LastFourWatched.
#horror #comedy #film
ope one of the movies just Stopped Working
35mm will Do That sometimes ig
The 21 Worst Things About the Worst Movie of the Year, ‘War of the Worlds’ https://flip.it/2eHWai
I don’t know — this kinda makes me want to see it…
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…
Literally the only good thing about debilitating sciatica pain is taking off work to watch movies all day 😂
Instagram unveils updates to overhaul the app for teen users, including age-gating inappropriate content, in a bid to make its content similar to PG-13 movies (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/instagram-says-making-ap…
Regretting You | Official Trailer (2025)
#movies
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 43 nodes and 113 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
As the latest Conjuring movie grosses $83M domestically this weekend, Warner Bros. sets a record with seven consecutive movies opening above $40M domestically (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-box…
A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use (Zico Ghosh/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
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…
Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
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
Meta rolls out Horizon TV for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780492/meta-quest-headset-horizon-tv-streaming
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 32 nodes and 134 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
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 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group is undergoing 10% cuts across multiple divisions to transition "toward a fully global structure" (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-new…
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 58 nodes and 201 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Frank Price, the writer-producer who presided over the TV and movie divisions at Universal and served two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, dies at 95 (Mike Barnes/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m