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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.

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 ...

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.

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

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@protopop/117073920365882773
This is really beautiful work! 😍
Though as an aside, in the bigger picture: My general problem with this kind of realism in games & movies (and it's bringing tears to my eye…

Cyril Cyril & Le Syndicat du Futur - "Le gros Hit" (2026)
If you know me, you know I love silly and absurd tv, movies, music, etc. So I was psyched to hear this groovy, energetic song from The Geneva-based experimental folk/jazz duo Cyril Cyril.
They literally handed the microphone over to their own kids and the result is a delightfully surreal, playful, and minimalist French indie-pop track.
The lyrics are 😂 and the deadpan delivery against the danceable m…

I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.

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

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

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…

back in my day video games and movies had piss filters on for artistic intent, these clankers should learn to respect the groundwork old timers like RE5 and GTA IV laid [huck tugh, that's the sound of me spitting into a bucket]

The case to buy physical media: Sony is removing all purchased Studio Canal movies from users libraries - no refunds - including:
▫️ Terminator 2: Judgment Day
▫️ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
▫️ Hot Fuzz
▫️ Total Recall
▫️ Rambo: First Blood
▫️ Paddington
▫️ Moonlight
▫️ Bridget Jones’s Diary
☑️ Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries

Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries
Sony will remove hundreds of purchased PlayStation Store movies due to licensing agreements, raising fresh concerns over digital ownership rights.

Bei @… wird 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' als Komödie beschrieben. Ich sehe da eher die schmerzhafte Häutung einer Frau, die ein Leben lang in konservativen Rollenstereotypen gefangen war.
Sehr großartig, wie immer: Emma Thompson.
Jetzt online bei Eurer Bibliothek.

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/

Behind the Blog: World Cup Madness and Film Reviews https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-world-cup-madness-and-film-reviews/

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

There are no good movies anymore.

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…

Born To Watch - A Movie Podcast
With many thousands of hours of movie-watching under their belts, these friends bring a unique, seasoned perspective where they don't take themselves or the movies too seriously...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/born-t

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…

There are a few evergreen movie quotes that every German knows but which might not be well-known or popular in their countries of origin (note: German movies have always been dubbed for general audiences).
One such example is from French comedian Louis de Funès and I've never heard the original words. Looked it up in Youtube today. 1971 movie! Relieved to see it's a literal translation and the voice actors captured the French exchange perfectly!

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

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

I hold on to a thousand micro-resentments for all the movies and shows "in development" over the years that I got excited about, and which came to nothing.

🕰️ 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

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.

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

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.

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.

wonderful piece on watching horror movies for comfort #movies

Why Horror When So Much Horror?
Or, Put That Back, We Have Horror at Home

Apparently, I am sincerely asking a coworker "Who is Tom Holland?" years old. 👴
#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 42 nodes and 109 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Took my daughter to see Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in the theaters tonight. Still slightly disappointed to raise her in a world without Gene Wilder in it, but I’ll do the best with what we have.
#movies #genewilder

Movie Magick
We have one mission with this podcast - To bring the joy of movies to as many people as possible, and create a space for all people and opinions to be shared and heard...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/talking-flicks/

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

If Sony isn’t going to make PlayStation discs anymore, how far behind are BluRay movies? Are they the same discs?

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

Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that
they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies
and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal.
As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store.
In a legal notice first spotted by gaming news outlet PlayStation LifeStyle,
Sony said that affected customers will lose the ability to stream titles i…

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

the Mission Impossible TV series had several stories where they kidnap a villain and put them somewhere that pretends to be the future, in order to get the villain to reveal some secret that's no longer important in "the future", which the agents then use to stop a plan that hasn't happened yet.
the movies also did a variation of this.
this sort of nonsense seems way easier with gen-AI: trap your guy in a bunker with a faked internet that says it's 2030, wit…

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

Let's post some cameos of #Commodore64 in popular media: here's a screenshot from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and one from Halt and Catch Fire. Please reply with examples from other movies or series. #commodore

I love heist movies (as genre) but cyber heist is just 🤮
#entertainment #preference #movies #heistMovies

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…

So far, "Mando" did $246M on a budget of $145M before marketing. "The Marvels" was #Disney's biggest failure w/$203M lifetime revenue.
▶️ The #Mandalorian & Grogu's Box Office Has Officially Just Soared Past the MCU's Biggest Ever Bomb - ComicBook.com

The Mandalorian & Grogu’s Box Office Has Officially Soared Past the MCU’s Biggest Ever Bomb
The Mandalorian and Grogu hasn't had the strongest box office run, but it's now surpassed Marvel's biggest flop.

Alamo Drafthouse is launching a distribution program for indie movies that were well-received at film festivals but didn't attract traditional distributors (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/alamo-drafthous…

Alamo Drafthouse Launches Program to Screen Unreleased Film Festival Movies
Alamo Drafthouse is launching a distribution program that's designed to showcase film festival releases that never scored distribution.

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 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

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

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

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

Off to the local Limelight Cinema with a friend tomorrow morning (Tuesday) to see the new Star Wars movie. Tradition dictates coffee and cinnamon donuts for our film viewing snack.
#HalPriceTuesday #Movies #StarWars

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…

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

Welcoming your suggestions for atrociously bad 70s/80s catastrophe 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 32 nodes and 80 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Today's events just reassured me that regularly buying music and movies in a way, that I can truly own them, was the right call, and I should buy more games DRM-free on GOG or itch, if they are available, there.

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

There is a movie out now I want to see, but my social anxiety of going to the movies by myself means I’ll wait until it’s out digitally.

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.

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

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

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.

Revisiting HER in the Age of AI Relationships by Panic World
#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 50 nodes and 169 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

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.

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.

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/

just realizing Keke Palmer was Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee. wild!
#movies

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…

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.

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…

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

Four animated titles from Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar made up over 38% of the ~$186.6M handed out to 41 new movies selected to receive California tax credits (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, DreamWorks Animated Titles Nab Nearly $72 Million In California Tax Credits
This round of subsidies is headlined by DreamWorks' 'Donkey,' Disney's 'Hexed,' and an untitled movie from Pixar. Changes to California's tax credit program expanded the eligible categories of production to include animation.

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…

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…

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

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

A profile of Netflix's film division chair Dan Lin, who's greenlit 88 films since 2024, shifting strategy toward budget discipline and in-house development (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/business/media/dan-lin-netf…

Netflix’s New Movie Strategy: Fewer, Better Films
Dan Lin doesn’t fawn over stars or write blank checks. And he still greenlights more movies than anyone.

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

Kane Parsons' Backrooms joins a wave of breakout films from young directors who got their start on YouTube; the film is on track for a $60M weekend box office (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29…

‘Backrooms’ Is Part of a Boomlet in Movies From YouTube Creators
“Backrooms,” a psychological horror flick opening this weekend, is part of a wave of breakout films from fledgling directors who honed their instincts on YouTube.

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…

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