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Sony Pictures hires YouTube's Fede Goldenberg to lead Screen Gems, a unit focused on genre films, as it seeks "digital-native storytellers" like Curry Barker (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Screen Gems Shocker: Sony Brings in YouTube Exec Fede Goldenberg to Run Genre Label in Pivot to Digital Creators (Exclusive)
Current head Ashley Brucks exiting to a producing deal with the studio.

I'm watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) #SpiderManBrandNewDay

Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change…

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

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/

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

I only watch the best movies!

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

Source: Turner Classic Movies, which airs films like The Blob, will be housed within Skydance Motion Picture Group, led by Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/turner-classic-movies-skydance-film-group-123715…

Turner Classic Movies To Sit Within Skydance Film Group
Deadline understands that the channel, will be rub by Skydance Motion Picture Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein.

There are no good movies anymore.

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.

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

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.”

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?

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…

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…

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

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.

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.

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…

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…

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/

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.

Uff, not going to become a fan of the #dune movies. 😞

#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…

5 Challenges David Ellison Faces as Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Merge https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/business/media/david-ellison-skydance-cnn-hollywood.html

Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/…

Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.

a new #Jellyfin puzzle: on scanning my shows …
mpp[3766883]: mpp_platform: can not found match soc name: raspberrypi,5-model-b brcm,bcm2712
what is an mpp when you get one home?
related to this, my Movies are barred from scans again, and it was going so well:
[ERR] Failed executing DbCommand ("11"ms) [Parameters=["@__date_1='?' (DbType = DateTime), @__p_0='?' (Size = 3004)"], CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='30']"
[ERR] An exception occurred while executing an 'ExecuteUpdate' operation for context type '"Jellyfin.Database.Implementations.JellyfinDbContext"'."
""Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException (0x80004005): SQLite Error 19: 'UNIQUE constraint failed
something sends a null SQL UPDATE, and the scan process aborts 😞
also https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-database-sqlite-error-19 and https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-database-issue-exception-occurred (first suggests it's unrelated to renamed files?)
This pre-release issue reports upgrade creating duplicate users and provides and SQL fix:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/14423
which leads to this useful rabbit hole: https://jellywatch.app/blog/jellyfin-database-maintenance-optimization-guide-2026

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

I'm watching Little House on the Prairie 1x06 "Peace on Earth" https://trakt.tv/shows/little-house-on-the-prairie-2026/seasons/1/episodes/6

Peace on Earth
Trakt Web: Track Your Shows & Movies

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

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…

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.".

California approves 35 films for its production incentive program, estimating that they will bring $1.08B in combined production spending to the state (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/michael…

'Michael' Sequel Among 35 Films Approved for California Tax Incentive
Lionsgate's upcoming sequel to the highest grossing biopic of all time, "Michael," headlined the latest batch of 35 films approved for California's production incentive program.

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

I'm watching Little House on the Prairie 1x04 "Life Let Us Cherish" https://trakt.tv/shows/little-house-on-the-prairie-2026/seasons/1/episodes/4

Life Let Us Cherish
Trakt Web: Track Your Shows & Movies

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.

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

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

David Ellison's Skydance executive team shows he favors movies with stronger commercial prospects than the artier fare that's defined WBD in recent years (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Doesn't surprise me much that the most impressive examples of AI cinema lately revolved around memes coming to life."
Credits: Alex Patrascu, @maxescu on X.com.
https://x.com/maxescu/status/2092666875201163720

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd2uz/-/a-rTa_vAoLSDKJ_uMkp8OG8A:a:107108217-/0
In the movies, if you see a gun, it is going to be used. Are there any nations today who are NOT hastily re-arming themselves at the expense of their social programs? Luxembourg perhaps? The Duchy of Grand Fenwick?

Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicity, Elio, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disne

Disney Licenses Titles to Netflix Including 'Ice Age' Movies, 'Will Trent,' 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians,' 'Felicity'
Disney Entertainment licensed multiple titles to Netflix including all five 'Ice Age' movies and series like 'Will Trent,' 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians,' 'Felicity' and more.

I'm watching Little House on the Prairie 1x05 "A Circle of Blue Sky" https://trakt.tv/shows/little-house-on-the-prairie-2026/seasons/1/episodes/5

A Circle of Blue Sky
Trakt Web: Track Your Shows & Movies

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.

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.

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

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

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

An interview with Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Garfield on Amazon passing on their OpenAI movie Artificial, fighting for artists to "make things freely", and more (David Canfield/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie…

‘Artificial’ Took on a Big Tech Giant. Hollywood Wasn’t Ready
Luca Guadagnino and star Andrew Garfield speak frankly about what went into their daring film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, and what led to Neon rescuing it after Amazon decided not to release it: “The fight is on to make sure that we are allowed to make things freely.”

Two Guys, A Girl And A Movie Podcast
Adam, Lee and Josie discuss movies both blockbuster and lacklustre...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/two-guys-a-girl-and-a-movie/

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 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

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

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

I'm watching Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) #FiveNightsAtFreddys

Five Nights at Freddy's
Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme…

Ben Affleck, who sold his AI company InterPositive to Netflix for nearly $600M, says Hollywood's AI panic is subsiding and the tech is not a "terrifying alien" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Ben Affleck Used AI “For Lots of Things” in His New Netflix Movie ‘Animals’
Well, sure, when a platform pays like $600 million for your artificial intelligence company...

I have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re

Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
What’s with starting “into the middle of things” (Latin: in medias res)? It is crazy, right? Who would do that (except all the movies that do that)? Who would do that enough over multiple millennia so that people over centuries would have to come up with an entire phrase

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.

I'm watching Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) #FiveNightsAtFreddys2

Five Nights at Freddy's 2
One year since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend,…

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 49 nodes and 180 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

I'm watching Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) #FiveNightsAtFreddys2

Five Nights at Freddy's 2
One year since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, the stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend,…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films
Athena apparently knows exactly how many treats she’s supposed to get, while my dad’s old home movies proved a little less cooperative. Between updating my genealogy site and repairing a broken 8mm film, it was a surprisingly busy quiet week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter…

Counting Dogs And Broken Films – Bob Mueller
Athena counts her treats, I update my genealogy site, and a broken 8mm film sends me searching for a way to repair Dad’s old home movies.

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…

I'm watching The Truman Show (1998) #TheTrumanShow

The Truman Show
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience…

A look at David Ellison's challenges: deciding CNN's future, movie quotas vs. quality, taming its huge streaming catalogue, keeping the NFL happy, and huge debt (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
ht…

5 Challenges David Ellison Faces as Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Merge
The tech scion has given his combination of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount a new name: Skydance. Now he must make tough decisions about news, movies, streaming, sports and debt.

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

Can You Give Me A Flick?
Bryce and Nic both are both involved in the entertainment industry and they both love movies! While Bryce scoffs at Nic's artistic and glossy recommendations, Nic turns his nose at Bryce's gritty and often macho taste...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

I'm watching The Lion King (2019) #TheLionKing

I'm watching Minions & Monsters (2026) #MinionsMonsters

Minions & Monsters
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed…

Digitizing old home movies has been opening the memory vaults. Then a random genealogy search uncovered my Uncle Ross’s witness statement about a B-24 Liberator lost over Germany in 1944.
Now I have a whole new trail to follow as I research his WWII service—and maybe even the aircraft he flew.
https://www.bo…

Familiarly Unfamiliar – Bob Mueller
Digitized home movies stir old memories, while a random genealogy search uncovers my uncle’s connection to a WWII B-24 bomber.

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sexual assault on a Project Runway staffer, in what could be his third and final sentencing (Nancy Dillon/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-

Harvey Weinstein Gets 15 Years For Sexual Assault of ‘Project Runway’ Staffer
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to another 15 years in prison Wednesday for his sexual assault on "Project Runway" assistant Mimi Haley.

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

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

I'm watching The Lion King (2019) #TheLionKing

The Lion King
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar,…

I'm watching The Lion King (2019) #TheLionKing

The Lion King
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar,…

Paramount's WBD settlement comes under harsh criticism from Mark Ruffalo, Connecticut's AG, and media advocacy groups over consolidation and workforce concerns (Matt Stevens/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/movies/paramount-agreement-reac…

After Crucial Paramount Agreement Come Relief, Anger and Concern
Few seem totally satisfied by the settlement that will let Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery move forward.

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

I'm watching Jungle Cruise (2021) #JungleCruise

Jungle Cruise
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an…

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…

I'm watching Moana 2 (2024) #Moana2 #trakt

Moana 2
After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys alongside Maui and a new crew to the far seas of Oceania and into…

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

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.

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…

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

I'm watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) #SpiderManBrandNewDay

Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change…

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.

I'm watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) #SpiderManBrandNewDay

Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change…

I'm watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) #SpiderManBrandNewDay

Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change…

Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/busines

Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.

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.

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.

A group of House lawmakers launches the Movies, Music, Entertainment & Sports Caucus amid an industry push for a federal film and TV tax incentive (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/house-entertainment-caucus-sydney-kamlager-dove-…

House Lawmakers Launch Movies, Music, Entertainment & Sports Caucus
The caucus will focus on the economic impact of the creator economy, as well as sports, music and other forms of entertainment.