2026-01-06 14:39:28
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…
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…
Ben Stiller voiced his anger at the White House‘s use of a clip from
Tropic Thunder to support its war initiative on Friday.
“Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip,” he wrote on social media.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. -- War is not a movie.”
The White House’s X account on Thursday published a montage of scenes from movies and TV shows including Tropic Thunder, Braveheart, Top Gun: Mav…
2025 definitely felt like the year the movie industry decided "People don't like what we are putting out there. Let's try making fewer movies."
One of my New Year's resolution is about watching (and reviewing) a bit more movies this year. So I thought I might as well share (some of) those reviews here:
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/late-shift-2025/
This (fictional) film follows the protagonist throu…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SoundOfCinema
- With Debbie Wiseman and Jools Holland
Your weekly trip to the movies with Edith Bowman- this week, Debbie Wiseman talks about her score to the film Wilde, and Jools Holland chooses his Pick of the Flicks.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqlw
According to the movies, Aliens only land and attack in the USA.
So if they ever do it, we could use that right now. Make them annoy something else for a few years.
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…
It's #LetterboxdFriday and these are my #Last4Watched. Some cool stuff this week. Zombies, monsters, and witches, oh my 😂
#movies #films
OMG, one of my fave 70s movies... now available FREE!
"We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude! You have our gratitude! TAKE HIM TO DETROIT!"
▶️ The Kentucky Fried Movie | FULL MOVIE | John Landis, David Zucker
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rivPTWDxux
If your kids (or you!) live in Ontario and are learning French, why not check out this book written for 9 to 13 year-olds? Le Kaiju de Mississauga tackles the 1979 Mississauga train derailment - an event that led to the largest peacetime evacuation in North America prior to Hurricane Katrina - through the eyes of a group of local kids who are obsessed with Japanese monster movies. Michèle Laframboise spins a fun yarn while weaving in some local color and history.
Movies watched in January, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- Children of Men
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Brokeback Mountain
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 🌏🔁
- Sinners 🔁
- The Stepford Wives 🤖
- John Wick 🔁
- Letters from Wolf Street 🔁
- Friendship
- Hamnet
- House of Games 🕵️
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🕵 — Boulevard Noir
🗞️ — B…
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.
#Letterboxd does this weird thing. It waits for the year to end before they make a big deal about the stats for that year. Or maybe the strange thing is that some services do this in early December.
They say I watched 377 movies last year and I say we are in a disagreement about what should be counted as a movie. I have a list over there of the 106 movies I saw at the cinema last yea…
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…
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…
Been watching old movies while visiting family for Xmas. Tonight we saw "Random Harvest" (1942). It's a great story that sort of resembles a war-time Severance if you squint. Greer Garson is radiant and Ronald Colman is likeable enough. It's on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100038725/ra
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…
Test Pattern
A podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/test-pattern/
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
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' Review: Brett Ratner's Melania Trump Documentary Is an Unabashed, Fly-on-the-Gilded-Wall Fawn Job (Frank Scheck/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/melania-review-brett-ratner-melania-trump-documentary-1236489604/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p159#a260130p159
At the start of the year, I began a list of all the #movies I’ve watched in 2025. I realised I have a huge list of #films I want to watch, but I just stumble through the medium at random, paying little attention to them as they go by. I hoped this list might change that. In reverse chronological order, here are my…
RE: https://mograph.social/@compfu/115685779599943923
Because of this video essay about trains in movies I've just watched the 2010 movie "Unstoppable". I really enjoyed it. It has Michael Bay-style camera moves with non-stop parallax motion so…
Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada.
Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver?
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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
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Belle and Sebastian:
🎵 Like Dylan in the Movies
#BelleandSebastian
https://bugwoof.bandcamp.com/track/like-dylan-in-the-movies-belle-sebastian
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqS4pS1eVQbsJGbJKVwQb
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…
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…
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
Notice that there’s been a sudden rise in Western (esp. North American) media that features and romanticizes Russia and Russians? (Anora, Heated Rivalry, Pony, Vladimir)
As a Ukrainian, I’m uncomfortable, given Russia is still actively waging an active invasion of my home country. But if you want to hear a proper analysis, from Ukrainians! This video is great (with English subtitles):
#ukraine #russia #media #movies #tv #film
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.
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
Tired: Errant water bottle in a movie shot.
Wired: Errant watermark in a movie "shot".
#entertainment #movies #bloopers #chatbots #editing
lol. whoops. apparently the first movie isn't "Jason Bourne" but instead "Bourne Identity" only 10 minutes in and I didn't know but I tried to look up an actor on imdb and saw I was on the wrong movie.
#movies
For the last few days i was avoiding the online as much as i could on a suicidal episode, self isolating from the noise of the world. Yet paradoxically to some, the best thing to happen during this time and the main reason im back so soon was listening to almost nothing but cassettes from the NOISE-ARCH archive. tap in.
https://archive.org…
Movies watched in December, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
- Listy z Wilczej (Letters from Wolf Street)
- In the Mood for Love 🌏🔁
- Yi Yi 🌏
- Sentimental Value
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
- L.A. Confidential 🕵
- Brick
- The Lady from Shanghai 🕵
- The Secret Agent
- Anemone
- The Addams Family 🩸
- Chronicle
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🕵 — Boulevard Noir
🌏 — in the mood…<…
After seeing American Beauty in the cinema I clearly remember trying to convince myself that I was too cynical and that the movie wasn't actually pretentious.
#movies
#AmericanBeauty
The Jim Henson Studios lot is a cultural landmark, built by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1910s as his first film studio
— and it’s where he built sets and shot many of his most recognizable movies.
It’s also home to the Henson Recording Studios, formerly owned by A&M Records, where stars like Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have recorded albums.
That’s why speculation swirled around what might happen to the history-steeped lot when the Henson family announ…
Just rewatched Jurassic Park (33 years old now!) and it totally holds up.
There's maybe some obvious CGI in a few scenes but it's all so well constructed and comes together so amazingly that it honestly didn't distract at all.
Definitely in the top 5 most perfectly executed movies for me.
What I want to know is: That's the "motherfucker index" before and after being sober.
Tell us the important stuff, people, come on!
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115810550802374948
Imagine treating movies like products that must be adjusted to meet the customers' demands 🫠
@…
https://chaos.social/@frumble/115912713690598697
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
View public domain films for free. No ads, no login, no algorithms, just movies. Maintained by wikimedia folks.
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/27/wikiflix-is-like-netflix-for-public-domain-films-with-no-ads-n…
BFI: 2025 spending on UK film production hit a £2.8B record high, of which 91% came from non-domestic films; UK cinema admissions fell 30% compared to 2019 (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/british-movie-spend-hit-record-h…
I know we’ve all memorized the AMC Nicole Kidman monologue and the entirety of the movies Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror Picture Show but how in the HELL are we making a meme out of
1/2
Brigitte Bardot, Movie Idol Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 (Anita Gates/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/movies/brigitte-bardot-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFA.bGAf.wfSOT8SpY1xy&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p35#a251228p35
“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
I remember a time where you had to pick a competitor in an industry based on who you think will still be around in twelve months and who has a product that works on the devices that you own. (Example: Nook vs Kobo vs Kindle for ebooks or iTunes vs Amazon VOD vs Microsoft Movies and TV for streaming movies) I miss the days when it was still that simple.
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
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
Have We Reached Peak Legacy Sequel? by Patrick (H) Willems
#movies
They should measure AI-generated movies by natural resources used and extrapolate to Bambis consumed per second
"...some 2/3rds of the crewmembers who worked on the film in New York had requested not to have their names formally credited on the film."
☑️ Embarrassed 'Melania' crew members ask to stay uncredited, hope documentary 'flops'
https://www.
These were my favorite movies of 2025. Pretty much all horror, sci-fi, comedy. There's still a couple I need to see from this year (Cold Storage!) but these are all my favorites as of now.
#2025Films
Short documentary about the evolution of car chase scenes in movies. I didn't know that "The French Connection" shows an actual traffic accident with a civilian car that wasn't involved in the shoot! The film team hadn't even acquired a permission to film their chase scenes.
The video mentions CGI for set extensions but unfortunately it doesn't cover the full CG cars and environments that we're seeing nowadays.
Google returns as a partner service for Movies Anywhere, after leaving the service during a feud with Disney in October and November (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/18/google-youtube-return-movies-anywhere-how-to-re-…
Some people (mostly in movies) would rather return to prison because "free" boarding and lodging, but a student not clearing the first year of a 4-year university course and staying put for free boarding and lodging on campus?
#Genius. 🤓
#life #strategy #economics
Fom Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses - Chris Nashawaty
> JOHN SAYLES: “Roger [Corman] hired more female directors than anybody else. It wasn’t because he was a dyed-in-the-wool feminist. It was just if they had talent and they were cheap, let’s try ’em!”
#Movies
#JohnSayles
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…
Three Scene Heroes
Join Alaisdair, Carlo and Adam to talk movies...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
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…
The Biggest Mistake in the History of Hollywood by Slidebean
#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…
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
The year is 2065 and a new trend has started among teens where they watch old video over 90 minutes long that used to be called movies.
"I'm concerned what this long format video is doing to their brains" a local parent complains.
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
New Boots Riley flick I Love Boosters comes out May 22, and of course it looks great. Demi Moore as the villain 😂💯
#movies
Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain (Duke University School of Law)
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
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 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
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-…
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
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…
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 40 nodes and 100 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
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…
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
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
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 20 nodes and 30 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
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…
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
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…
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…
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 67 nodes and 186 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/zootopi…
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…
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.…
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 26 nodes and 45 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
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…
dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network
A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 157184 nodes and 281396 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
https://network…
With 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…
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 28 nodes and 75 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted