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First Lady Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner held a private screening of their controversial Amazon-funded documentary, Melania, at the WH on Saturday (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Inside the White House Screening for Amazon’s ‘Melania’ Doc (Exclusive Photos)
The White House held a private screening of the doc on Saturday night that included black-tied VIPs, monogrammed popcorn tubs and a military band playing movie tunes.

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 35 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Beyond #RingsOfPower, I’d totally missed further developments in the #LotR franchise. Andy Serkis, apparently, is heading “The Hunt for Gollum,” due out at the end of next year, set between the two trilogy #movies and f…

New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie From Stephen Colbert in Development
Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a brand new film in the "Lord of the Rings" universe.

Other business leaders at Saturday night’s White House Melania screening included Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Amazon execs who funded the film, per the Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Wow, it's the last #LetterboxdFriday of the year. Been doing some weird horror shorts. This year I surpassed 2,000 total films seen in my life, according to Letterboxd stats, and yeah, I probably have a problem. But at least I'm in my house watching weird movies and not out prowling the dark streets.
#Letterboxd

“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

Just finished "Caught Stealing" and it was great. Wondering who was responsible for such a delightful romp and it was none other than Darren Aronofsky!
#Film #Movies #CrimeDrama

Caught Stealing
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

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…

In a conversation someone asked me if it wouldn’t be great if AI could just generate stories/movies/tv-shows etc and my first reaction was to tell the story of that time I ate too much ice cream, but then I thought the most obvious thing possible: comic books.
If you like Marvel, especially super heroes from the golden age, you have so much to read that I don’t think you have enough time in your life to read them all.
But… how many really good stories? Eh, not many. Like, really re…

Just read Joe McGovern’s write up in this month’s The Wrap of Jared Harris’ great role and extraordinary performance in A House of Dynamite. So good to get some insights on that work. Now I wanna watch the movie again.
#movies #film

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…

Lex Luthor will not be calling: Miss Techmacherrrrrr any more. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-perrine-dead-superman-lenny-1236544394 😢

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/matt-damon-netfl…

Matt Damon: Netflix Wants Movies to Account for Viewers on Their Phone
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

The Biggest Mistake in the History of Hollywood by Slidebean
#movies

Imagine all the streaming!
Why is the EU still allowing geoblocking for series, movies and football?
This quote is from @… at @…
He sees geoblocking as “purely a leftover from ancient copyright rules and an attempt for th…

Imagine all the streaming
Kim van Sparrentak wanted to tune in to a Dutch podcast. As a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Greens, she spends a lot of time in Brus

Movies reconstructed purely from mouse brain activity https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-movies-reconstructed-purely-mouse-brain.html
Movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity

When your CV includes "sucked into a black hole, fused with crystalline extraterrestrial organisms, and emerged mutated" you're good enough for the big screen, again ... #SpaceGodzilla returns in 2027: https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/movies/godzilla-x-kong-supernova-test-screening-leak-reveals-movies-main-villain-cameos-and-more-a9685

There's a little "zambie" running through the corridor.
My first thought: what kind of movies do people let their little children watch these days?!
My second thought: oh, wait, zombies are a normal thing in animated movies for children these days…
I feel old.

This is timely - and well worth attending.
Timely Films of Remembrance shed light on WWII internment
https://www.sfexaminer.com/culture/movies-and-tv/timely-films-of-remembrance…

Film fest on WWII internment holds timely message
AMC Kabuki 8 to host showcase of 10 films Feb. 21.

Imagine treating movies like products that must be adjusted to meet the customers' demands 🫠
@…
https://chaos.social/@frumble/115912713690598697

Watching first-person video from Ukrainian drones chasing isolated Russian soldiers through the woods. It all feels like it's in the style of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies.

香港内地化的速度真的是超越光速//4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://apple.news/A10727rn5QwyaeM7Fkut7Pw

4 movies 'disappear' from Hong Kong Film Awards' contenders list — Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Four movies have been excluded from the Hong Kong Film Awards’ (HKFA) contenders list this year with no explanation, sparking censorship concerns.

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 31 nodes and 98 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Saw a post titled "The insane VFX of old movies" and I'm afraid to click it. I fear that it's going to be a vertical video montage of movie VFX from 2010 onwards 🥲 #old

I don’t know why Warner Bros. thinks a 2:30 video is a teaser, but I am freaking here for it! 🤩
#movies #films

Lesson from the movies: The more important it is for two professionals to work together, the more antagonistic they are to each other. At least at first.
#movies #lesson #observation

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/tv-movies-obm3v418z/-/a-MftrGJgmRPu-21NDaQC9GA:a:3199477-/0
Mi favorita era "Sinners", pero tenía muy pocas posibilidades pues no era una película muy…

The Beekeeper movie is a great action film but is also a mixed bag of values making it a bad movie. Ends up being not a good vigilante movie, not a good anti-hero movie, zero suspense, wasted conspiracy potential, unapologetic copying and badly done trope of the 'John Wick as the boogyman for bad guys'.
I understand movies that just try (and many times succeed) to be mindless action movies where the plot is not the priority. But the Beekeeper movie does try to have a moral mes…

AMC Networks' Sundance Now rebrands from offering scripted TV to airing indie film and festival titles, for $7.99/month, as this year's Sundance Festival begins (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Sundance Now to Rebrand as “Algorithm-Free” Streaming Service for Indie Film
AMC Networks runs the shingle that previously had scripted TV offerings.

Did you miss one of the Web414 meetings in 2007? Looks like we recorded them!
#mke

from my link log —
The perils of ISBN.
https://rygoldstein.com/posts/perils-of-isbn
saved 2026-02-19 https://dotat.at/:/U7VPF.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Making Movies:
🎵 The Wake Of The Fall (Nibiru)
#MakingMovies
https://makingmovies.bandcamp.com/track/the-wake-of-the-fall-nibiru
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AzAdMNd3gxmyx6MCOPmMk

You should consider watching retro Oscars!
Better movies, also a few months later you could have gone and bought an Apple I from Byte Shop in Mountain View.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8RjvesnvDPydq4p8oTiYNgA0sGA4YYX&si=ALw6_scEyhV_PGZ2

This is true. Just—AI enables the production of slop in far greater quantities and much faster and with frightening consistency.
When ChatGPT first came out, many of us saw that one could produce perfectly mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays with it. Problem is: long before ChatGPT was a gleam in Altman’s eye, there were Movies of the Week. Based on mediocre, standardised, and shallow screenplays—albeit written by humans.
And yes, I do think that last bit makes a diff…

Paris syndrome is a rare and temporary mental condition considered an extreme form of culture shock. It was first identified in the 1980s by Japanese psychiatrist Professor Hiroaki Ota. The condition mainly affects tourists who feel intense disappointment when the real city of Paris does not match their idealized image shaped by movies, books, or media.

Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview (Maer Roshan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/harvey-weinstein-prison-interview-rikers-exclusive-1236523824/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p64#a260310p64

The Creators Guild of America launches Mosaic, an "IMDb for creators", in beta; creator economy workers can list their work credits and are given a Creator ID (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

“IMDb for Creators” Platform in the Works for Stars, Crew of Digital Projects (Exclusive)
The Creators Guild of America, an industry nonprofit, has created what it says is a "first of a kind" platform showcasing verified creative work on projects that aren't traditional TV or movies.

One of the reasons I like music and movies so much is that they force my stupid fucking brain to think about something else for a few minutes

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…

of interest to a few certain strains of music heads: huge stash of NME back issues now dropping on @…, 300 issues, 1969-1983 (so far).

My hero, Patton Oswalt, talks about 10 classic movies - the very best & the very worst.
▶️ Patton Oswalt Critiques Sci-Fi Films (Top 5 & Bottom 5) | GQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifRzEiNJ10E&si=2WdExDREQI0T0kJ_

"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebrate on Jan 2…

Watched the movie Mickey 17 last night. I know it was not commercially successful, but I liked it. Good weird sci-fi movie with interesting characters. #movies #cinema

So bad people are almost being paid to attend. Republican clubs buying the tickets en mass and offering them for free.
🤣🤣🤣
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-trumps-film-struggles-sell-234538656.html

Melania Trump's Film Struggles To Sell Tickets, As Insiders Expose Alleged Plot To Shore Up Sales For First Lady
Poor ticket sales for the first lady Melania Trump's documentary have reportedly led to a rescue effort by the GOP.

I was watching Hijack and wondering why movies set in Berlin frequently have a blue palette. Is it to evoke the feel of a particular movie, or is it some reference to the use of Prussian Blue in art?

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…

After a backlash, AMC opts out of screening an AI short film during its pre-show, programmed by ad company Screenvision, before feature films (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-…

AMC Theatres Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar
AMC has opted out of screening the award-winning short film during its third-party programmed pre-show, and it’s unclear if other chains will follow suit.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Just finished watching “Rental Family” with Brendan Fraser. It’s a really lovely movie. Fraser was long time underrated as an actor. Famous true, but probably more for his looks than his acting talent. That’s totally different in his last movies like the “The Whale” and “Rental Family”. He’s a real good character actor too. @…

There have been like 20 fucking horror movies about the dangers of thawing ancient things out from ice, but I sure am glad scientists are doing it today https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/science/romania-ice-cave-resistance-antibiotics

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics
In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

All tv shows and movies are about time travel but usually only in one constant direction.
#tv #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 27 nodes and 45 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

*Now* it is my #GLT Cyber-Terminator notebook (again). 😉
#Graz #Steirertux

A24 renews its multiyear distribution deal with HBO Max; upcoming movies in the deal include Marty Supreme and The Moment starring Charli xcx (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hbo-max-a24-movies-streaming-deal-renewa…

HBO Max Renews A24 Movie Streaming Deal for Marty Supreme, The Moment
HBO Max and A24 inked a renewal of their licensing pact that will continue to bring the indie studio's films exclusively to HBO and HBO Max in the U.S. in the pay-TV window.

Oof @… https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/863997/matt-damon-netflix-repeatedly-explain-plot…

Matt Damon told Joe Rogan that Netflix wants movies to repeatedly explain the plot in dialogue because people are always on their phone.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115820386909186674
It's like one of the best movies ever made—a real tour de force of style and admiration for movies. And it's super funny.

A look at Norway's growing film industry, after it earned its first-ever Oscar, the Academy Award for best international feature, for the film Sentimental Value (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Norway’s Oscar Victory Was Decades in the Making
How Scandinavia’s "cinema underdogs” used innovation — and a lot of oil money — to build a film industry from scratch.

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 34 nodes and 171 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/disney-is-rolling-out-its-tiktok-lik…

Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like 'Verts' short-form video feed | TechCrunch
Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+'s catalog.

New Boots Riley flick I Love Boosters comes out May 22, and of course it looks great. Demi Moore as the villain 😂💯
#movies

How A24, which racked up seven Oscars in 2022, fell flat with Marty Supreme, which had nine nominations but won none despite Timothée Chalamet's viral campaign (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/movies/a24-marty-supreme-ch…

How ‘Marty Supreme’ and Timothée Chalamet Went Home With No Oscars
A few years ago, the indie studio A24 was luxuriating in Academy Awards. On Sunday it was shut out entirely.

While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM

I should be playing video games but I just keep watching tv and movies.
Okay A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. what do you got?
#tv

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…

How a cinematic clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt made using Seedance spooked Hollywood, drawing condemnation from some and indifference from others (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/tom-c…

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.

NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150 AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

NBC Sports Bringing Live Milan Olympics Coverage to AMC Theatres
The companies experimented with the idea during the 2024 Paris games, and are now expanding on the idea.

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eddy Cue Calls Out Top Apple TV Shows and Movies In Year-End Memo Pledging “Innovation”
The Apple services executive released a note saying that Apple TV set new monthly engagement records, while Apple Music has hit subscriber records.

Like the whole fart-shite about “make your own custom movies!” is a soup-to-deez-nutz power-fantasy wankery of tech bros who have a sad that they’re not as cool as “the creatives”.

Mexico announces a 30% tax incentive for film and TV productions in Mexico, even as the Trump administration pressures studios to shoot more films in the US (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Salma Hayek, Mexican President Back New 30 Percent Film Tax Incentive
Mexico unveils a series of incentives to support local cinema and attract international productions, just as the Trump government is threatening tariffs.

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 35 nodes and 75 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/zootopia-2-animation-bo…

'Zootopia 2' Is Now Hollywood's Highest Grossing Animated Film Ever With $1.7 Billion
The Disney sequel has passed Pixar's "Inside Out 2" with $1.7 billion grossed worldwide

David Cronenberg, master of body horror movies, was born today (March 15) in 1943 (during World War II!)
I saw his films 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' early, around the same time, in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've seen many more of his- I just counted, I've seen 13 of his 23 films, and I've loved all of them. I'm a huge fan. My favorite was Shivers for a while. I'm not sure what it is now. Gotta see those final 10!
Happy birthday, David. We love …

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

For some live events, NBC Sports plans to use tech from Japan's Nippon Television Network that uses AI to track individual players and reframe them vertically (Pranob Mehrotra/Digital Trends)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/nb…

NBC Sports will soon use AI to put your favorite athletes front and center during live broadcasts
NBC Sports has announced it will debut a new AI feature in its mobile app later this year that will let fans follow their favorite athletes in real time.

They actually show Google.com being used in Silent Hill from 06 (rare in movies, a lot of times it's a made up search engine and phony looking computer).
But then he goes to the ghost town website, and the URL is ghosttownsamerica.web. 😂
#SilentHill #movies

Apple hosted an Apple TV media event to announce its original TV shows and movies for 2026, featuring star appearances and trailers for upcoming projects (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/apple-original-movies-r…

Apple Movies Include Ryan Reynolds, Jonah Hill Titles for 2026
Apple Original Films made a grand slate presentation with first looks at titles from Ryan Reynolds, Jonah Hill, Mattel and Chris Pratt.

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

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…

YouTuber Markiplier's self-funded horror film Iron Lung debuted at No. 2 at the US box office with $22M after a fan campaign helped land it on 2,500 screens (Megan Farokhmanesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/movies/markiplier-iron-lung-movie.…

A YouTuber’s Film Beat ‘Melania’ at the Box Office. Here’s How.
“Iron Lung,” a horror movie directed and funded by the video creator known as Markiplier, pulled in $22 million in its first weekend after fans across the country requested screenings.

The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.
How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI:

How Total Recall Created Sci-Fi Mutant Kuato Without An Ounce Of CGI - SlashFilm
Total Recall's mutant rebel Kuato is one of many impressive non-CGI effects that Rob Bottin provided for Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi film.

Amazon's Melania documentary fell 67% in its second week box office with $2.4M; Amazon MGM Studios says it is sparking "interest" among Prime Video subscribers (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

Amazon MGM Goes on Offense as ‘Melania’ Risks Getting Sacked at Super Bowl Box Office
The first lady's documentary is falling off steeply in its second weekend, prompting Amazon MGM to go on the offensive and stress that the film is in it for the long game, whether theatrically or streaming.

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

Disney reports Q1 operating profit down 9% YoY to $4.6B, weighed down by high movie production costs and a 15-day YouTube TV carriage dispute that cost $110M (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/business/disney-profit-wilts-movies-t…

Disney’s Profit Wilts, Pulled Down by Movies and TV
Per-share quarterly profit declined 7 percent from a year earlier despite revenue growth from the company’s streaming and cruise businesses.

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…

Netflix execs refute a rumor that creatives making movies or shows are told to repeat plot points in dialogue often because viewers are distracted by phones (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-execs-not-asking-re…

Netflix Execs Say They're Not Really Asking Creatives to Repeat Plots
At a press conference on Wednesday, Netflix execs stressed that they're not really asking creatives to repeat TV and film plots.

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/disney-plus-vertical-video-verts-explained/

Disney+ Rolls Out Its Vertical Video Offering 'Verts' This Week in the US
Users will be able to swipe through a stream of scenes from movies and shows on Disney+

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 23 nodes and 68 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

In an interview, Harvey Weinstein says prison life is "hell", Disney cut off his insurance and pays a $60K/year pension, he will be "proven innocent", and more (Maer Roshan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m…

Harvey Weinstein: The Rikers Interview
In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I’m dying here"), his wrecked legacy and his delusions about the future ("I will be proven innocent. That I promise you"). 

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 56 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Artists Equity signs a first-look streaming production and distribution deal with Netflix; it also has a theatrical deal with Sony (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Artists Equity Inks Streaming Pact With Netflix
The Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-led company recently released the crime thriller 'The Rip' on the platform.

A profile of Mubi, as it deals with backlash including employee dissent and subscriber and partnership cancellations over its investor Sequoia's ties to Israel (Will Tavlin/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/mubi-art-house-movies-streamer-distributor…

Who Is Mubi For?
Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

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…

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…

Ted Sarandos says that Netflix will maintain 45-day theater windows for movies after its acquisition of WBD closes, adding that he wants to "win" the box office (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/media/ted-sarand…

Ted Sarandos Says Critics Just Misunderstand Netflix
The company’s co-chief executive sat down for an extensive interview for the first time since announcing plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV business.

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…

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…