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Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

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

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date With Exclusive Films
Letterboxd Video Store is launching Dec. 10 with films available to rent in 23 countries, including some exclusive indie titles.

Don't buy the movies "#F1" or "#Greenland" on #4KUHD if you're not bought into Apple TV.
Unlike EVERY other publisher, the discs for these movies come bundled with digital m…

An older video essay from the great #PatrickHWillems about trains in movies. Why is it such an essential vehicle in so many movies since the brothers Lumière? It restricts space and moves the plot forwards - and both things are great for propelling the plot and forcing the scriptwriters to get creative. And have you noticed that the conductor is often invisible? It's the train who is …

No. It’s for guitar picks. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115519178697717162

Stacked Regression using Off-the-shelf, Stimulus-tuned and Fine-tuned Neural Networks for Predicting fMRI Brain Responses to Movies (Algonauts 2025 Report)
Robert Scholz, Kunal Bagga, Christine Ahrends, Carlo Alberto Barbano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06235

Stacked Regression using Off-the-shelf, Stimulus-tuned and Fine-tuned Neural Networks for Predicting fMRI Brain Responses to Movies (Algonauts 2025 Report)
We present our submission to the Algonauts 2025 Challenge, where the goal is to predict fMRI brain responses to movie stimuli. Our approach integrates multimodal representations from large language models, video encoders, audio models, and vision-language models, combining both off-the-shelf and fine-tuned variants. To improve performance, we enhanced textual inputs with detailed transcripts and summaries, and we explored stimulus-tuning and fine-tuning strategies for language and vision models…

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date With Exclusive Films
Letterboxd Video Store is launching Dec. 10 with films available to rent in 23 countries, including some exclusive indie titles.

This weekend, I drove out to Mayfair to watch Fackham Hall because it wasn't showing anywhere closer. Meanwhile, Marcus is playing a bunch of "Retro" movies out of desperation.

I'm listening to the music track of the yet to be released Netflix "Train Dreams" by Dessner. (He also did the interesting music for the "Manhunt" series.)
It seems to me that some of the better compositions and performances are in sound tracks and credits of movies and series.
(Such as the "Strange Game" tune by Mick Jagger in the Slow Horses series. But perhaps the greatest are some older things, like the B. Hermann music from Hitchock's …

Baudrillard (the author of Simulation and Simulacra in 1981, the inspiration for The Matrix movies) predicted Internet bubbles and the influence of algorithms and AI 30 years ago.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-fr

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT
Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.

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 43 nodes and 113 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Netflix “Expects” to Keep Releasing Warner Bros. Films Theatrically
Now that that’s settled...

📽️ Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
#movies

Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
Movie studios face unique challenges in managing their operations. The success of a film relies not only on its artistic merits, but also on studios' operational decisions, particularly those related to a movie's initial box office release. A critical concern for the industry is how to manage movie piracy, a form of digital counterfeiting that undermines legal box-office sales.

If you haven't re-watched your 720p pirated copy from 2016 of The Matrix lately, do it now, if only for the showy dialogue at the beginning. So full of hope and righteousness, pure 90s bullet-time fuck-the-establishment attitude.
#Movies #SciFi

Dan Harmon on movies:
> Eddington: masterpiece. Weapons: masterpiece. Companion: masterpiece. Can’t wait to see One Battle. Might have to go to a theatre? Movies are good again?
I can vouch for Companion since I consider it the best film of the year so far. Icelandic cinemas seem to have decided to skip Eddington.
I think it has been a good year for cinema and we haven't even entered the awards-bait season (which translates to January to March in Iceland).

NO DANTE, NO DEAL
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/warners-gremlins-3-steven-spielberg-chris-columbus-1236419932/

Warners Making ‘Gremlins 3’ With Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus Returning
Warners Bros. is reviving the franchise after decades on the shelf for a 2027 release.

Heck yeah... one of my FAVORITE MOVIES. So glad The Perfect Mix reacted to this...
If you're a fan of magic, you gotta see Now You See Me 1 & 2!
▶️ We Finally Watched **NOW YOU SEE ME** - The Perfect Mix
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTTiMKwHk5U&si=U4Lyu…

Atropia Trailer #1 (2025)
#movies #trailer…

Kylie won't get to movies week with that performance. #totp.

A list of sci-fi movies ordered by the year they were set in (not when they were made). Those years that are now in the past are marked in blue!
#SciFi https://rheinneckar.social/@splitmind/

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…

In the press release announcing the deal, Netflix says it "expects to maintain Warner Bros.' current operations..., including theatrical releases for films" (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Netflix “Expects” to Keep Releasing Warner Bros. Films Theatrically
Now that that’s settled...

Attended a mountain film festival yesterday which was real fun. 3 of the 4 movies shown were really cool and impressive.

It’s the beginning of October and that bearded man is already on tv? What’s next? Easter bunny in December!!
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@bestlife/115

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…

How many Linux ISOs are sitting on your hard drive pretending to be open-source software?
🏴‍☠️ #Linux

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

old school movie time!
#tron #movies

The Mr. Scorsese documentary on Apple TV is amazing.
I have new found respect for him and his movies, some of which I haven’t enjoyed, but now I understand.
#movies #scorcese

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 69 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Wait, there's also an "Accountant Squared" movie? 😲
Please, no more. I beg you. 🥺
#movies #posters #entertainment

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) was a great concept but the execution (the acting and dialogue) weren't the greatest - and this is coming from me, who watches and doesn't mind a lot of B movies. This one could really do with a modern remake. Simulation etc type stuff. I can just imagine this remade now, but so much better 😂
https://boxd.it/294Y<…

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

Sailing the high sea.... 🏴‍☠️
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs....
While piracy gives you better quality, offline availability, zero ads or tracking. Go piracy..
https://www.theverge.com/news/834655/netfl

Potato sourdough crumpets, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Probably Christmas movies for the Senator Meow Christmas challenge tonight. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZGe78A7QhtCbYSyc7

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Celebrating Puccini
Opera goes to the movies, and movie music comes to life, as the BBC Concert Orchestra and a glittering array of soloists salute the genius of Puccini.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253pn

How many characters do you recognize from this massive animation of comics, cartoons, tv-series, movies, etc?
#animation
https://floor796.com/

Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups

What You See is What You Ask: Evaluating Audio Descriptions
Divy Kala, Eshika Khandelwal, Makarand Tapaswi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00808 https://arxiv.o…

What You See is What You Ask: Evaluating Audio Descriptions
Audio descriptions (ADs) narrate important visual details in movies, enabling Blind and Low Vision (BLV) users to understand narratives and appreciate visual details. Existing works in automatic AD generation mostly focus on few-second trimmed clips, and evaluate them by comparing against a single ground-truth reference AD. However, writing ADs is inherently subjective. Through alignment and analysis of two independent AD tracks for the same movies, we quantify the subjectivity in when and whet…

MPAA reveals the why of movie ratings.
This makes it easier for people to chose what rating to aim for when re-writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/movies/movie-ratings-sex-violence-drugs.html

How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?
The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.

All hail Epic Games! Looking forward to not being forced to use Google Play to purchase audio books, movies, ebooks & apps on Android.
✅ The Supreme Court didn’t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/793610/googl

The Supreme Court didn’t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking
The US Supreme Court has denied Google’s request for a partial stay in Epic v. Google, meaning the permanent injunction is still in effect and coming up fast.

Trisected Rainbows and Braids
Rom\'an Aranda, Scott Carter, Julia Courtney, Puttipong Pongtanapaisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04248 https://arxiv.org…

Trisected Rainbows and Braids
New explicit procedures for passing among triplane diagrams, braid movies, and braid charts for knotted surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$ are presented. To this end, rainbow diagrams, which lie between braid charts and triplanes, are introduced. Inequalities relating the braid index and the bridge index of 2-knots are obtained via these procedures. Another consequence is a 4-dimensional version of the classical result that ``the minimal number of Seifert circles equals the braid index of a link'' due …

How many activities are you regularly engaged in? (sport, movies, reading, 3D print, woodworking...)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-1980s-teen-movies-took-place-today

Wake up sheeple.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheFacebook

Next movie A nightmare before Christmas. 🎃 🎄
One of my favorite movies from halloween season 😍
#halloween #film

Akira is such an incredible movie! The first time I've seen it was about 25 years ago, and it was one of my first anime movies. I've watched it a 2nd time now and it is still great.
Some animation is slightly jerky for today's standards but the detail is incredible. It also keeps up its high animation quality level right until the end. While anime sometimes starts to get lazy towards the end, Akira has detailed explosions and billowing smoke until the very end (and gross bod…

I was ripping movies with makemkv and decided to try handbreak to h265 and it produced a movie about the size of 1.5gb instead of the raw 4.4gb size from makemkv. I actually think handbreak movie looks better anyway.

#RIP Diane Keaton https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/diane-keaton-dead-obituary-1234820629/

Diane Keaton, ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather’ Actress, Dead at 79
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress known for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, has died at the age of 79.

Movies watched in October, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show 🔁
- RoboCop 🤖🔁
- They Live 🤖🔁
- The Craft 🧛
- Sneakers 🔁
- Weapons 🔁
- Night of the Demons 2️⃣🩸
- Night of the Creeps 2️⃣🩸
- Good Boy (2025)🩸
- The Mastermind
- Living in Oblivion
- D(e)AD
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🌏 — in the mood…
🧛 — bis(s) zum Abspann
🤖 — torment n…

Has anyone watched 10 Cloverfield Lane?
What did I just watch…. lol
Recommend.
#movies

It is becoming very clear for everybody around the world that we have a US president with severe mental problems. It is all very funny but at the same time he wields enormous (military) power and nuclear weapons....
#Trump #mentaldisorder

🖤 Diane Keaton
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/diane-keaton-dead-annie-hall-godfather-1236398458/

Watching #IdrisElba portray the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 prime minister and the United States 🇺🇸 president in two movies this year wasn’t in my bingo card. 😮 One movie is a fun watch and is very silly, while the other is sobering and really terrifying.
#films

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…

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: (@volpeon)
> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you ne...

Was hoping to get lots of things done this weekend. Preparing the garden for winter, messing around with some hardware, watching some movies … instead I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that the mild uveitis-sensation doesn’t blossom into the real deal while staying away from light. Sigh. It’s always on weekends when the local apothecary closes early.

“Show us your warrant!”
“Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔
*busts in the door with babies crying*
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lzvqhcbm4k2d

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

Halfway the theatre screening of the #RunningMan, and boy... it's fun. Hoping to see a #StephenKing cameo after the break. #Movies

Ted Sarandos insisted that Netflix has no “opposition to movies in theaters. .... My pushback has been mostly in the fact of the long exclusive windows, which we don’t really think are that consumer friendly, but when we talk about keeping HBO operating, largely as it is, that also includes their output movie deal with Warner Bros., which includes a life cycle that starts in the movie theater, which we’re going to continue to support."
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/netflix-warner-bros-movies-theaters-buying-studio-1236601073/

I never saw #movies #askfedi

My kids won't stop bugging me for an in-ground pool so tonight we're watching the original Poltergeist. #movies

Overall the media consolidation described below is beyond four alarm fire levels.
E. Musk is dangerous to society, but Musk acts like an addled kid who read too much bad Sci-fi. Ellison doesn't have those positive qualities - he is much like the killer car, Christine, in the Steven King novel.
My first experience with Ellison's Oracle was back around 1980 or '81 when Oracle people came to our company and more than asked, they ordered us, to make sure that their produ…

This billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire
Larry and David Ellison’s holdings span movies, TV networks, CBS and soon a stake in TikTok, in a paradigm-shifting portfolio with huge influence.

It's #LetterboxdFriday and these are my #LastFourWatched. Really dug all of these.
#movies #scifi

WBD CEO David Zaslav, criticized for cutting costs, scrapping movies, and laying off thousands, may end up having the last laugh thanks to the Netflix-WBD deal (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/david-zaslav-netflix-warner-deal-8b2…

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…

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Feelings Don’t Matter: How the Ellison Era Is Transforming Paramount 
It’s a brand-new day at the legacy studio, where prestige films are out, testosterone-heavy tentpoles are in and Brett Ratner is back on the call sheet.

Watching 4 hours and 35 minutes of Kill Bill in one sitting sounds painful.
#QuentinTarantino #KillBill #Movies

This famous exchange in Bond movies.
Bar tender: Would you like some content?
Bond: Video. Standard and not High Def.
#Prime #AmazonPrime #Bond #movies #joke #quotes

Movies watched in September, loosely ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
- One Battle After Another
- La Haine
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day 🔁
- The Crucible 🧛
- Scream 🩸🔁
- Honey Don't!
- Reflection in a Dead Diamond 🩸
- The Toxic Avenger Unrated 🩸
- The Roses
- The Toxic Avenger 🩸🔁
- The Fantastic 4: First Steps
slept through most:
- Future War 📺
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
🧛 — bis(s) zu…

Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/crypto-com-teams-up-for-bets-on-holl…

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…

My bet is that this will turn into a fairly substantial copyright and contract case.
"Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her"
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/kristen-bel…

Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her
Fox's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.

oh criticker.com looks totally different!
#movies #ranking #rating

Character-Centric Understanding of Animated Movies
Zhongrui Gui, Junyu Xie, Tengda Han, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12204 https://

Character-Centric Understanding of Animated Movies
Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the consistent visual patterns detected by conventional face recognition methods, animated characters exhibit extreme diversity in their appearance, motion, and deformation. In this work, we propose an audio-visual pipeline to enable automatic and robust animated character recognition, and thereby enhance character-centric…

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…

PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/wicked-

Hollywood Is Reeling—and PG Movies Have Never Been So Popular
The PG rating has become the king of the box office. The entertainment business now relies on kids dragging their parents to theaters.

time to escape into a classic
#movies #residentevil

Great deconstruction of both Superman movies & why Zack Snyder's Man of Steel feels unrelatable.
▶️ Superman vs Man of Steel: One Scene That Shows Why One Worked - SCENE FI...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=78sapSaT-v8&si=uV04w0Ma9DFyoiFU

As Google's YouTube TV and Disney continue a contract dispute, customers have lost some access to DVR files and digital movie purchases via Movies Anywhere (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream
“This is a hard lesson for us all.”…

Put this at the top of your "movies to watch tonight" list.
Because this is what our "warrior" prez and sect'y of defense want.
Paths of Glory (1957) Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDA60X-f_A

Trump again promises a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US, says the "movie making business has been stolen" from the US (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/trump-movie-tariffs-newsom-1236564814/

Trump Again Promises “100% Tariff” On Movies Made Outside America, Attacks “Weak” Gavin Newsom In Truth Social Tirade
Trump Threatens 100% Movie Tariffs Again On Overseas Production

Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content (Washington Post)

OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix, TikTok and Twitch
Tests by The Washington Post show OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix shows, TikTok clips and movies, suggesting it used versions of the originals.

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…

How Toy Story, released 30 years ago, changed animation, relying on 117 computers running rendering software 24/7, as modern animation now appears artificial (Maya Phillips/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/movies/toy-story-anniversary-animatio…

‘Toy Story’ at 30: Animation Has Never Been the Same
The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.

Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards (Rob Golum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/crypto-com-teams-up-for-bets-on-holl…

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

Parrot Analytics: movies made up ~50% of streaming revenue across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney , and WBD in 2024, up from ~27% in 2022, based on engagement data (Alejandro Rojas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/b…

How Movies Increasingly Drive Streaming Revenue
A Parrot Analytics analysis of thousands of titles across Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, and Max finds that movies deliver disproportionately high engagement relative to the volume of content hours they represent.

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

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…

Ampere: in July, 39% of all TV seasons and movies on US streaming platforms appeared on 2 services, while 21% of titles were on 3 services, up from 9% in 2020 (Erik Gruenwedel/Media Play News)
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/ampere-u-s-streamers-pushing-non-…

Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content - Media Play News
There’s a reason you can stream episodes of “Young Sheldon,” “NCIS” and “Suits” across multiple platforms. U.S. streamers are increasingly sharing content catalogs across third-party services. In July, 39% of domestic titles appeared on two or more services, compared with 13% in the U.K. and 8% in France over the same period, according to new … Continue reading "Ampere: U.S. Streamers Pushing Non-Exclusive Content"

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 33 nodes and 61 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 27 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Wicked: For Good's and Zootopia 2's strong opening sales quieten Hollywood's resurgent pessimism about the movie business, even as US ticket sales decline YoY (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
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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 188 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/openai-training-da…

OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix, TikTok and Twitch
Tests by The Washington Post show OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix shows, TikTok clips and movies, suggesting it used versions of the originals.