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Why Is Every Streaming Blockbuster So Bad?
#movies

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

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 25 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Advaya Capital acquires Comscore Movies, which collects box office data, for $70M in cash; it will be renamed Rentrak, and Chris Aronson will join the board (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

The Return of Rentrak: Private Equity Firm Advaya Capital Inks $70 Million Deal to Buy Box Office Data Firm Comscore Movies
Longtime Hollywood studio distribution chief Chris Aronson has been part of the team working behind the scenes to make the deal happen. Going forward, the venture will once again be known as Rentrak.

Claude Code is good at doing research!
In this case helping find the disposition of 126,000 digitized US Supreme Court dockets (cert denied or full opinion), and then reporting why in a archive.org review (using like a wikipedia discussion).
This took real hand-holding and QA to be sure, but it is super helpful. Looked at court listener, the supreme court site (and the old one via the wayback machine!), the Caselaw Access Project at harvard. So good.

AI Feature Film 'Dreams of Violet' to Premiere at Tribeca https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-film-dreams-of-violet-tribeca-premiere-1236606092/

#scifi #scifimovies

Project Hail Mary is the opposite of Don't Look Up. And both are great movies.

Movie Squad
Where you can hear Simon, Tristan and special guests discuss movies at length and in detail, covering every kind of topic and every type of movie, from blockbuster extravaganzas to arthouse fare, from celluloid excellence to glorious trash...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…

I saw something, 'What's your favorite Spielberg film?' and it got me thinking. It's very tough. I think mine has to be Raiders. Closely followed by Minority Report. What's yours?
#film #films #movies

I neeeeed to see the Mile End Kicks movie. Apparently they have lots of artists covering every song from Jagged Little Pill.
and a lot of the smaller artists I already know.
#music #movies

How sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple, as studios and estates of celebrities seek to monetize fan nostalgia; Michael is expected to earn more than $1B (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

Can't believe it's been half a decade since the last SAO season 🤯
Really hope that after the movies, they'll now focus on delivering another season 👀
#SwordArtOnline #Anime #ShareYourAnime

Welcoming your suggestions for atrociously bad 70s/80s catastrophe movies

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

YouTube TV custom multiview to let NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers mix and match 4 games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7238908/2026/04/28/youtube-tv-custom-multiview-nfl-sunday-ticket/

🤚 Getting a 2160p screen to watch 2160p movies.
👉️ Getting a 2160p screen to watch 1080p movies in split-screen with working.

Let us pray...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWLKaWJEq9s/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Cinema Freak on Instagram: "😂 Fackham Hall is a satirical British comedy film released in December 2025. Written by comedian Jimmy Carr in his screenwriting debut, it is a parody of period dramas like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, blending high-society drama with the slapstick style of movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. Plot & Cast The story is set in 1930s England and follows Eric Noone (played by Ben Radcliffe), a lovable pickpocket who blags his way into a job at the grand Fackham Hall estate. The Romance: Eric begins a forbidden romance with Rose Davenport (Thomasin McKenzie), the rebellious daughter of the house. The Conflict: The Davenport family, led by Lord Davenport (Damian Lewis) and Lady Davenport (Katherine Waterston), is facing financial ruin and needs Rose to marry her cousin Archibald (Tom Felton) to secure their inheritance. The Twist: A murder occurs at the manor, and Eric is framed, leading to a chaotic "whodunit" investigation. #reels #movie #funny #instagood #viral"
1M likes, 8,821 comments - cinemafreak_0407 on March 21, 2026: "😂 Fackham Hall is a satirical British comedy film released in December 2025. Written by comedian Jimmy Carr in his screenwriting debut, it is a parody of period dramas like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, blending high-society drama with the slapstick style of movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. Plot & Cast The story is set in 1930s England and follows Eric Noone (played by Ben Radcliffe), a lovable pickpocket who blags …

I hope you didn't "buy" any of these movies on Playstation: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/

https://youtu.be/eBZmaUGofJg
Pasted.sh advertisement for your consumption, I submitted this to the @… film festival ad reel to be played before the movies, hopefully it gets onto it B…

The Man With The Golden Gun: Not bad at all!
The first film that feels modern, without any hokey effects/compositing. Weirdly unremarkable theme song too—don't think I've ever heard it anywhere else. Also, second film now not to mention SPECTRE.
And Moore is a great Bond, in a different way. Doesn't have the physicality of Connery, but inhabits the persona well.
#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 38 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

FRIDAY, June 5th, 2026
@ 4 Star Theater
(2200 Clement St, SFO)
Talent Moat presents:
● Eli Winter Trio
● Danny Paul Grody Duo
● CHIROMANCER (with Evelyn Davis & Elihu Knowles)
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
Tickets: https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-

LIVE MUSIC: Eli Winter Trio, Danny Paul Grody Duo, CHIROMANCER (Presented by Talent Moat) ~ Doors at 7:00 PM & Music at 8:00 PM — CINEMASFBAY
Presented by Talent Moat: Eli Winter Trio Eli Winter is a composer, self-taught guitarist, essayist, and Houston native. His music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music, maintaining a waggish disregard for genre constraints emblematic of Chicago, his adopted hometown.&am

A look at AI's potential for animation as Hollywood stays cautious; some animators expect better, not cheaper, films, while others see costs falling 30% to 90% (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

I just watched an episode of Masters of Horror called Homecoming directed by Joe Dante.
Almost all of Dante's movies are political but you often need to interpret. In 2005 he had something to say about the Iraq War and George W. Bush. This time there was no subtlety involved.
Homecoming is not great. If it had been purely black humor it might have worked better but it also tries to be sentimental which falls flat. As a political statement I love it.
If you want the spoi…

A catalog of free & public domain movies from Archive.org and YouTube
https://select.github.io/movies/

Just saw Glennkill. Storywise it’s nice and I enjoyed it. It had Wallace and Gromit or Shawn the Sheep vibes.
The CGI sheep were incredible. Not just the wool, also their horns. I just didn’t really buy Wolverine as a shepherd. But as you know from the trailer: he gets killed early on 😀
#movies #TheSheepDetectives

Five Sci-Fi and Fantasy Found Footage Movies - Reactor https://reactormag.com/five-sci-fi-and-fantasy-found-footage-movies/

Back when the Polish TV introduced the Dragon Ball series (in the late 1990s, IIRC), my parents were perplexed. How could you create a children's animated movie (because obviously animated movies must have been for children) with so much violence?
On the other hand, I'm worried about modern animated series (these formally classified as appropriate for children). They are specifically designed to keep children overstimulated, addicted to nonstop action, thirsty for more.
My brother recently told me that he set a Disney animated movie from the era of our childhood to his children. They simply didn't want to watch it, they found it so boring.
PS. I actually find these modern animations tiresome. I mean, why do things have to move that fast all the time?!

I'm very sad I will not be able to see Speed Racer in theaters. All the times are terrible for me.
#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…

SCS Software, the creators of Euro Truck Simulator 2 put out a blog post about their upcoming "Isle of Ireland" DLC
#gaming #pcgaming #eurotrucksimulator2

Isle of Ireland: N59 & Connemara Loop
SCS Software's official blog - information, screens & movies from our truck simulator games Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.

A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (Emily Zemler/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/m

Inside Doug Liman's $70 Million AI-Made Movie Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot | Exclusive
Doug Liman made a $70 million movie using AI about the creator of bitcoin called Killing Satoshi, starring Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson.

'Hold on to your butts!': Using '90s movie quotes to scout 2026 NFL Draft's top prospects https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7210183/2026/04/21/nfl-draft-2026-top-30-prospects-movies/

Senator Mark Kelly, former astronaut, explains his top 3 space movies.
Do they overlap with your favorites?
#Space #MarkKelly #movies

#filmtipp #finnland #filmfriend #unplugbigtech

filmfriend - Master Cheng
In search of an old Finnish friend, Chinese Cheng travels to a remote village in Lapland. Upon arrival, no one in the village seems to know his fri...

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…

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

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

Ok so just finished "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and good lord it is an objectively bad film
#cinema #movies #JamesBond

Started writing about #selfhosting #movie #streaming using @…

I Love Boosters is badass, Boots Riley is a genius, dammit, he did it again. More movies like this, less of everything else. 😂

Two Chairs Talking
Two ex-chairmen of the World SF Convention talk about books, movies and anything else we feel like...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/two-chairs-talking/

Every day I think about how right that little gray dude was

Graduation Day (1981)
Speaking of graduations...
The new wave band Felony performs “Gangsters of Rock” at the 55min mark in this slasher movie. I love that band!
This film was made for about $250k but grossed more $24million 🤯
Oh and Vanna White makes an appearance.
#music #movies

Graduation Day
A coach (Christopher George) wearing black gloves and a stopwatch i...

Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel: #movies, too ...

wait... i can buy Sony VHS movies from Amazon?
lol
Why is a BluRay of a 1994 reasonably good, but not incredible, movie $60?
Our media world is so weird.

Boots Riley must believe good movies have the same metric as bad code – WTFs per minute, https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/ – and i gotta say it really works for him.

Aadam Jacobs ging 1989 mit einem Rekorder zu einem Konzert von #Nirvana. Seitdem hat er sich seinen Spitznamen "Taper Guy"" redlich verdient. Mittlerweile nahm er mehr als 10.000 Konzerte auf Band auf. Jetzt werden die Aufnahmen digitalisiert und bei

This is an absolute gold mine for music fans, especially us #genx folks. After listening to pre-Grohl Nirvana, I'm now listening to Tracey Chapman from 1988. Thank you Aadam Jacobs and the @… !!

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgement — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

die doku "the librarians" ist jetzt bei filmfriend.de verfügbar und im mai "film des monats"!
u.a. die stadtbücherei münster weist darauf in ihrem newsletter hin; sehr gut. 💪
» https://muenster.filmfriend.de/de/movies/the-librarians

Hast du eine Superbox zum Serien streamen zu Hause? Verbrenn das Ding sofort! Darknet Diaries hat eine ganze Folge darüber gemacht. Sehr hörenswert.
Darknet Diaries: 172: SuperBox
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/
Warum hat die Fernbedienung dazu ein Mikrofon und einen Bluetooth-…

SuperBox – Darknet Diaries
What if there was a device which gave you endless movies and TV shows without ads? Ok great sign me up! In this episode we interview D3ada55, who found such a device, but as she gazed into it, she discovered it gazing back at her.

james cameron didn't make these shitty avatar movies with over the top messaging for you to repeat exactly what was criticized

MINI MOVIE REVIEW
"Remarkably Bright Creatures"
This movie was like if a Hallmark or Lifetime movie became watchable and had a budget.
It's simple and fun, and Sally Field still has it.
My wife, as usual, told me I should read the book because it's much better.
#Movies #Netflix

I haven't been seeing a lot of movies in the theater, lately. It's mainly because hollywood hasn't been releasing a lot of movies lately. I still pay Marcus a monthly fee for their membership program, though and I am up to 7 credits. I need to make more room in my schedule to see something.

🕰️ Those were the days!
Real animation done by a real human.
Today marks 20 YEARS since "Animator vs. Animation" by Alan Becker was posted to https://www.newgrounds.com/movies

Revisiting HER in the Age of AI Relationships by Panic World
#movies

A look at the continued success of Korean content on Netflix, where subscribers watched 51B hours of Korean movies and TV shows between 2023 and 2025 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/913101/netflix-korean-movies-tv-shows

How Netflix made us fall in love with K-dramas
Korean TV shows outperform other sources of entertainment on the service — and we’re not just talking Squid Game.

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

My friend and I went to see *Project Hail Mary* today. A hearty recommendation from me. I haven't been to the movies for ages but this one was definitely worth the admission (especially when it's half price on Cheapie Tuesday).
#Movies #ProjectHailMary

Project Hail Mary (2026) | Sci-Fi
Project Hail Mary: Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Ryan Gosling, Milana Vayntrub, Ken Leung, Sandra Hüller. An astronaut tries to save Earth while alone in outer space.

Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/02/easter-bunny-movies-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

cool #movies we seen lately
#cinema #cinemastodon
http…

A Poet (2025)
Genre: Drama | Synopsis: Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and ...

A Q&A with Mike Richards, the Daily Wire's new CEO following the abrupt departure of Caleb Robinson, on the Daily Wire's continued entertainment push and more (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/b…

The “Canceled” Man in Charge: Mike Richards Takes the Wheel at The Daily Wire
Four years after a scandal ended his 'Jeopardy!' career, the former game show wunderkind has rebuilt himself inside the conservative media company — and is now its CEO. In his first interview since the promotion, he talks layoffs, Ben Shapiro's numbers, Jonathan Majors' action-hero rebirth ... and why the exile economy has become a business model.

patrick h willems is so good at making videos.
#youtube #movies

Patrick (H) Willems
Pretty much the Terrence Malick of YouTube. All videos directed by Patrick Willems Send any mail to: Patrick Willems P.O. Box 380333 Brooklyn, NY 11238

I’m pivoting to my agentic era*
*rewatching James Bond movies

Don't tell me that a film has a twist. That is in itself a spoiler.
#films #movies

I wonder if there is a correlation between the fact I’ve watched more horror movies since I’ve transitioned.
#trans

A researcher finds the average length of a wide-release theatrical film grew from about 106 minutes in the 1990s and early 2000s to 114 minutes in recent years (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mov…

It’s Not Your Imagination: Movies Are Getting Longer
The run time of average major-release films have ballooned in recent years. And, yes, Marvel movies are partly to blame.

Didn‘t watch this yet but ARTE already had another great doc by the same director ( @ sixtus@mastodon.social ) about AI slop and fakes on the internet. If know German or you‘re francophone. This latest one might even be English. https://chaos.social/@Katika/116534409768887613

@… https://archive.org/details/typecatalogs

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched for this week- I mean, The Royal Hotel was from a previous week (not watching a ton of movies lately), but I did see three flicks since the last time. Finally took in World War Z (weird) ahead of its sequel. The Well was awesome- great twist- and Mike and Dave was hilar…

just realizing Keke Palmer was Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee. wild!
#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 70 nodes and 299 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Artists Equity says it has paid out a performance bonus to the cast and crew of The Rip based on viewership figures, an unusual back-end payment from Netflix (Aaron Couch/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

‘The Rip’ Cast and Crew Lands Netflix Performance Bonus
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity negotiated a deal with the streamer for such a bonus, something that is not typical for Netflix.

Loved Backrooms. Found it cool as hell. One of the best flicks I've seen in a WHILE. Bizarre, all kinds of unexplained shit-- just everything I love about movies. Highly recommend.
#horror

Backrooms (2026)
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A look at Saudi Arabia's ambitious push into Hollywood, sources say including contributing ~$12B for Paramount's WBD acquisition, as part of a soft power game (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Inside Saudi Arabia’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Hollywood
The Saudis are pouring billions into the Ellisons' Warner Bros. megamerger — and that's just the latest move in a Hollywood takeover that's really about courting Trump, buying Washington influence and giving a restless young population bread and circuses instead of human rights.

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

UNIC: cinema admissions fell 4.4% YoY to 873.2M in Europe in 2025 and box office revenue fell 1.2% to €6.9B; US movies make up the bulk of the European market (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/cinema-admissions-europe-2025-1236964978/

Cinema Admissions Dropped Across Europe In 2025 
UNIC’s report also states that box office revenues across Europe dropped slightly by 1.2% to €6.9 billion. 

Just did Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and it was easily one of the best, funniest comedies I've seen in a while. Just unreal 😂
#movies

A ★★★★★ diary entry for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)

A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M (Emily Zemler/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/m

Inside Doug Liman's $70 Million AI-Made Movie Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot | Exclusive
Doug Liman made a $70 million movie using AI about the creator of bitcoin called Killing Satoshi, starring Gal Gadot, Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson.

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 38 nodes and 96 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

Sources: Ted Sarandos met with several heads of exhibition at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and discussed the possibility of putting more Netflix films into theaters (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/netflix-theaters-ted-sara…

Netflix's Ted Sarandos Meets Theater Owners at CinemaCon as Streamer Considers Bigger Theatrical Presence | Exclusive
Ted Sarandos might be changing his tune when it comes to theatrical exhibition, as he met with theater owners at CinemaCon.

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 Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-featur…

Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgment — Including in Script Development
“When they say, ‘You should be using AI,’ the first thought in your head is: ‘Are you asking me to teach you how to replace me with technology?’” says one studio assistant.

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

Netflix quietly unlocked Sony Pictures legacy titles and recent Pay-1 films for ad-tier subscribers for the first time and much earlier than expected (Kasey Moore/What's on Netflix)
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-ju…

Netflix Just Unlocked Sony Pictures Movies for Ad-Tier Subscribers Early
That means if you're on the ad tier you can now watch titles like Annaconda and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple without having to upgrade.

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 42 nodes and 109 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

The Academy tightens rules about AI use for Oscar competitors in 2027, says only human-authored screenplays are eligible, and revises international Oscars rules (Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Oscars: Film Academy Cracks Down on AI, Opens Up International and Acting Categories
The organization also announced changes impacting a host of other categories and its Governors Awards.

A Japanese court sentences a website administrator to prison for posting spoiler-heavy movie summaries, ruling such spoilers constitute copyright infringement (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/914

Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers
Toho and Kadokawa Shoten have won their lawsuit against a website for publushing spoiler-filled posts about movies and shows.

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 80 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

2026 News & Documentary Emmys: HBO/CNN's Prime Minister won best documentary; ABC won the most news awards at eight, followed by Nat Geo's seven and CNN's four (McKinley Franklin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

‘Prime Minister’ Takes Top Prize at 2026 News & Documentary Emmys
The documentary winners were handed out at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall on Thursday night, where Michael Ian Black hosted.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/super-mario-galaxy-movi…

'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Becomes First $1 Billion Hit of 2026 Box Office
The Universal/Illumination film crossed the milestone after its ninth weekend in theaters

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 50 nodes and 169 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Disney announces InfinityVision, a new certification for big theaters; Avengers: Doomsday will debut the same day as the third Dune film, which has an Imax deal (Jesse Hassenger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/17/hollywood-big-screen-imax…

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

A profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

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 37 nodes and 71 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Paramount CEO David Ellison makes an unexpected appearance at CinemaCon, promising a 45-day theatrical window for all Paramount movies going forward (Rebecca Keegan/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/david-ellison…

David Ellison vows Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger won't cut film output
Paramount Skydance Chief David Ellison made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon on Thursday, assuring movie theater owners that the studio’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

TrueShort, which makes vertical AI-generated movies broken into one- to three-minute episodes, raised a $12M seed led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/khosla-vent…

Khosla Ventures, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and others are investing $12 million in a new AI movie app
TrueShort, which makes AI vertical films for mobile phones, just raised $12 million from a who's who of Hollywood and tech.