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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.
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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

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

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 18 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

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

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116540178337660516
This perspective is debatable in the books, but the movies definitely foreground it.
Good post.

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

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/

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.

Watching that best of all Bond movies. Moonraker

Lets hunt for some DVDs!
just got 4 DVDs in the mail:
The fly
Paterson
Minecraft the movie
Pikachu detective
😎😄
#physicalmediacollection #movies #dvds

Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/tubi-is-the-first-strea…

Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.

Last night, I filled a gap in my basic knowledge by watching 'Titanic' 🙂‍↕️
Good movie 👍🏻
#Titanic #Movies #ShareYourMovies

🕰️ 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

These: Das 80er Revival hat mit dem des Kalten Kriegs zu tun.
#kino #movies #fashion

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.

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

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.

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

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…

Apparently, I am sincerely asking a coworker "Who is Tom Holland?" years old. 👴
#movies

wonderful piece on watching horror movies for comfort #movies

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

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…

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

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

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

I donated to the Internet Archive today.
They do valuable work and are a huge resource for humanity.
https://archive.org/
"The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to rese…

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…

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

I've finished reading Quentin #Tarantino 's "#Cinema Speculation" (yes, he writes books too), and I have to admit it's been a fun read.
A little vulgar for my taste, but definitely an interesting look at the 1970s cinema, made even better by being put alongside personal stories of his childhood. It's a bit of a spoiler for the movies involved, but also gives you some context that may make (re)watching them a different experience.
Added a few movies into my watchlist while reading it, and will probably track down more.
#books #bookstodon

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.

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

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

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

@… ACAB includes buddy cop movies *runs away screaming*

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

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

And this is why #WesAnderson movies are so great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eex-_BztHSE

just came across this 60 Minutes Australia interview with James Cameron on the OceanGate sub disaster.
Probably one of the best and most engaging interviews about engineering, safety, culture, science, hubris, incompetence... that you'll ever find.
Cameron is so incredibly intelligent, but also extremely good and simplifying complex ideas and doing it in an honourable way.
And oh ya, he also makes movies.
#OceanGate #Titanic

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.

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

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

#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

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

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.

1/2 Today and yesterday was the Kalken, Belgium #LEGO exhibit and saw some awesome displays. Most eye catching was the #RAMMSTEIN podium with smoke effects and a huge, in minifig scale, working screen. #Pirates

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

So let me get this straight:
- The next console generation will likely cost 1k
- It will be digital only
- Prolly no good sales for that reason
- They can remove the games however they want like they are already practicing with movies
So buying digital DRM-free on PC is superior, at this point?!
#ConsoleGaming

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is exploring a "super app" that integrates Disney with parks passes, games, merchandise, and cruise and resort apps (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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…

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…

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

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

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.

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…

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

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

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 70 nodes and 299 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

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

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…

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

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

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…