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Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

Delays, reshoots, and inflation have driven up the budgets of this year's summer blockbusters, with Superman costing $400M when including marketing spends (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.co…

Would You Pay $400 Million for This Movie?
Between delays, reshoots and rising costs, this year's summer blockbusters are racking up astronomically high price tags when factoring in marketing costs. Can the box office keep up?

Research shows family movies stereotype males as predators and females as vulnerable prey
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-family-movies-stereotype-males-predators.html

Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden due to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use (Lila Shapiro/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html…

Hollywood Already Uses Generative AI (And Is Hiding It)
With dozens of new studios and rapidly evolving tech, generative AI video is more embedded in Hollywood movies and TV than we may realize.

Dustin Lance Black, Sean Penn Hit Back as Navy Ship Is Stripped of Harvey Milk's Name: "These Guys Are Idiots" (Exclusive) (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dustin-lance-black-sean-penn-pete-hegseth-navy-harvey-milk-1236255648/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p127#a250604p127

Another step toward generating “live action” movies and shows.
AMC Networks Is Teaming up with AI Company Runway https://ground.news/article/amc-networks-inks-deal-with-ai-company-runway

When my wife and I are watching things, we're always amused at how many characters in TV shows and movies are named Tommy or Billy. These are obviously fairly common names, but the amount of times we've noticed it in all kinds of different shows like X-Files, SVU etc is so often that it's comical-- it's bizarre. And sometimes in episodes right next to each other in a season. Just a ton of fictional guys out there with these two names across age groups, all over popular cultur…

This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because
the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it
recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"
the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the
airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can
show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right
out of Vend…

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…

Movies watched in March 2025, ranked (being on the bottom doesn't mean it's bad):
(1/2)
- Fargo (1996)
- Blade Runner (1982) 🔁
- Flow (2025)
- Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
- Lady Vengeance (2005)
- Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1990)
…
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
📼 — SHV

All the different species in the #StarTrek universe have different requirements for (bodily) comfort. An aspect only sometimes mentioned in the different series and movies. But we will look at this aspect for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling t…

the year is 2025 there are TWO (2) types of videos on YouTube: adults obsessing over kids movies (8 hour long video essay) & political analysis (30 second infotainment)

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

Get up right this damn minute and go see Sinners. If you ever loved Call of Cthulhu, John Wick, Django Unchained, From Dusk til Dawn, or any of the movies that are so clearly made by people who *love* making movies - go. now. See it in Dolby or IMAX if you can for the best sound; you won't regret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

AMC Entertainment has reached an agreement with National CineMedia to run ads right before the start of a film, starting July 1 (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-03/amc-theater…

Various Artists – Beyond The Body
#electronic

Combining social relations and interaction data in Recommender System with Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering
Tin T. Tran, Vaclav Snasel, Loc Tan Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02834

Combining social relations and interaction data in Recommender System with Graph Convolution Collaborative Filtering
A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all other users. The recommender system creates convenience for e-commerce users and stimulates the consumption of items that are suitable for users. In addition to e-commerce, a recommender system is also used to provide recommendations on books to read, movies to watch, courses to take or websites to visit. Simi…

I hope Andor season 2 does not have any Jedi or light sabers in it. I love how season 1 and Rogue One are more like war movies without magical space wizards.

Been watching live tv for the past few hours. I’ve seen commercials for 4 movies in theaters. Three of them are live-action remakes of animated movies. We really are out of ideas aren’t we?

Wes Anderson movies are just awesome! Go watch #ThePhoenicianScheme !

A feature request came in asking to allow users to enable/disable the watched check mark individually for each library.
Here's what I came up with.
A new setting button in the top left that opens the library settings menu. Currently, only 1 setting, but gives us room to expand in the future.
#jellyfin

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo Hosts: Nathan and Mariana Category: TV & Movies Sub-Category: After Shows & Reality TV First Episode: 2021 Bravo Bravo Effing Bravo is a place where you can hear no…

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

So if anyone wants better Bad 70s Movies, I will nominate "Killer Bees" and "Ssssss!"
#Monsterdon

James Cameron: Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema in deal for #Meta #Quest
Meanwhile, still short of 3D movies unlike Vision Pro.

James Cameron: VR Headsets Solve The Problems Of 3D Cinema
James Cameron, who recently announced a partnership with Meta, waxed lyrical about how XR headsets solve the problems of traditional 3D glasses.

RoboCop: Rogue City (Multiplatform, XPd on a Linux PC via Steam)
In an original story set between the 2nd and 3rd movies of the OG series, take on the role of RoboCop and end a crime wave by taking down the "New Guy" in town. TL;DR: Robo fan? Play this.
So right off the bat, this is not a AAA game. There's definitely rough edges here. But that's OK with me, as the things it does do right it does quite well.
Starting with hiring Peter Weller to reprise his …

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

Not been watching any of the recent Terminator movies but watched “Terminator: Dark Fate” yesterday on the plane and it was surprisingly good.

"Is this your homework, Larry?" I'd kill for a #TheBigLebowski movie done entirely with #Muppets. Where do I sell my soul to get this done? #movies

1st PR opened to add a setting allowing you to choose how many columns you want your library displayed with in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
Here's a screenshot of me viewing #movies in genre vi…

I think the new Mission Impossible is the first time I’ve seen a British Film Commission logo in the credits.
I’d always respected that the U.K. government never required a Union Flag be added to the credits on movies it assisted, but that’s apparently no more?

Do we have a fediverse equivalent to Trakt for scrobbling TV and movies? #askfedi

I thought NeoDB was a general database but I was wrong.
When I understood what it is it felt more like an open source version of Bookwyrm(since Bookwyrm isn't open source. It is source-available)
Apart from that it also includes movies and some other stuff...so it's like an open source alternative to BookWyrm but with extra features...
#OpenSource

Anyone noticed how the characters in the Alien movies (the ones about Rippley) got progressively dumber as new chapters were released?
Don't remember it? Try to watch them in a row, it's astonishing. It's a good "exercise" because them being part of the same series makes it much easier to make comparisons.
I'd say that's what makes a big difference between the first one and the rest, not the plot in itself, but how idiotic are the characters after the first chapter.

Star Wars Outlaws allows players to operate in the criminal underworld of the Star Wars universe.
Except there’s no real crime. It’s defanged. There’s smuggling, gambling, violence. But no drug trade, and apparently no chattel slavery (which Hutts and Pykes engaged in during the period). It’s in the movies, but not appropriate for the game, I guess because it makes the characters less sympathetic?

I enjoy that the droids in Star Wars have pronouns. Will there be a tariff on future movies if this continues to be the case?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/C-3PO

I enjoy that the droids in Star Wars have pronouns. Will there be a tariff on future movies if this continues to be the case?
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/C-3PO