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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

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

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

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…

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

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.

Ihr kennt natürlich alle die Greatful Dead Collection im Internet Archive. Nicht?
Dann nehmt euch ein bisschen Zeit, es gibt da knapp 18000 Aufnahmen von diversen Konzerten.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?tab=collection

The White House compares deadly conflict with video games and movies in memeified videos to win support for Iran war (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-iran-war-social-media-videos-video-games-football-baseball-rcna263194
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p115#a260312p115

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+

I had a delightfully relaxed day with a friend today.
We grazed on smoked cheese, prosciutto, and quince paste. And finished off with some Maltesers for dessert. All accompanied with a couple of bottles of Moscato.
We also watched 3 movies:
The Emu War (Brollie)
Shaun of the Dead (ITV)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (hard drive)
#Suburbia

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.

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.

If cows didn't like mustard, there would be no movies.
#cinema
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/805480293661278208?source=share

I never saw Godzilla (1998), but #monsterdon watched it tonight. I *still* haven't seen it (I was putting kids to bed at 9pm), but that movie soundtrack included an incredible song by Rage Against The Machine that called out movies like Godzilla for being part of American imperialism.
🎶 Coca-cola is back in the veins of Saigon. And Rambo, too, he [or we?] got a dope pair 'a …

“Spider-Noir” – Authentic Black & White Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
#trailer

I'm trying to watch some legendary 80s movies that I have forgotten about (or never seen before). Recently, I've picked up "Stand By Me": a group of friends set out to find a dead body. I don't know which bits were just 1950s nostalgia (as seen from the 80s). But it sure has a unique flair. And a lot of strange bits: kids walking a whole summer day with raw meat in their backpack to enjoy meatballs at an evening camp fire! A side story about barfing up blueberry pie.

One of the GREAT original movies created around the "Halo" universe from Microsoft Studios, now FREE to view - all 1hr 31min.
▶️ Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn | FULL MOVIE | Video Game Sci-Fi Action Adventure Microsoft
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZj3Is6Upng&…

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

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.

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…

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

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”.

For some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime visualizations (and/or visual ways of browsing) to aid exploration & expose patterns/relationships, the use of layered/spatial layouts, capable of customization/personalization, programmability (of so…

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"). 

Because @…’s Flipboard site won’t scroll for me (?!?), here’s the paragraph with the punch:
❝It’s worth noting that over the decades, Pixar has explored topics such as, but [not*] limited to: becoming a widower, suddenly becoming a single or adoptive parent, environmental collapse, existential dread, motherhood, and job burnout. The first Incredibles has a subplot where Elastigirl thinks Mr. Incredible is having an affair, Toy Story 3 has the toys accept death by furnace, and Elemental is about interracial relationships. The last two movies Docter directed were Soul, which is about a Black man finding joy in his life again, and Inside Out—maybe the most therapy-ass movie (and series) in the studio’s entire 40-year tenure—is about messy preteen emotions that lead to its main character running away from home.❞
* The word “not” is missing in the original, surely an editorial mistake?
https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1hz/-/a-M010weUPTnu1lZIfiOE3oQ:a:1876139665-/0

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

All tv shows and movies are about time travel but usually only in one constant direction.
#tv #movies

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.

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…

‘War Is Not a Movie’: Ben Stiller Claps Back at White House Propaganda Video
Ben Stiller has sounded off about a White House propaganda video about the war against Iran using a clip from 'Tropic Thunder.

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."

#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…

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.

Me burning a CD in 2000: I'm gonna be wild and put short #movie quotes between songs.
The CD after playing Space's Female of the Species: "You're wild." - Baby
#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…

Good Morning #Canada
Canadian inventors have vastly improved every day life. Consider the innovations that global citizens are now thankful for: the telephone, basketball, snowmobiles, Imax movies, hockey, canoes, bras, insulin, zippers, paint rollers, athletic support, and poutine. Sorry we're so awesome.
Now an invention by a Dartmouth emergency physician in 2022 has made it easier for emergency rooms to safely remove rings from fingers. Previously doctors and nurses would have relied on tools from hardware stores with all the scary moments a patient could experience. "You might want to look away while I do this...". A serendipitous meeting at a medical tradeshow will likely give the invention an added boost.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianInventions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246

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…

A ★★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025)
Pretty much what I expected after watching the trailer: A very stressful, yet extremely well-made movie with an important message. Guess this won't be for everyone (and especially: not every mood), but for what it [i]wants[/i] to be, it's absolutely perfect! At first, I was a bit worried about it being too black-and-white when absolutely everybody seemed angry, hostile and impatient. But in the end, the script turned out a lot more nuanced than I thought (most evident in the "lost watch" subplo…

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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Boris (@bmann.ca)
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? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

One of my all-time favorite movies.
▶️ Night Assault on Fort Wagner | The Ending of "Glory" (1989) First Time Watching Movie Reactions
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6WRHTL726PA&si=R8kGM5TWarU2splS

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…

🔊 #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

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝑁𝑒 𝑍ℎ𝑎 2 (2025) the highest grossing animated film of all time based on Xu Zhonglin's 16th-century novel 𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑑𝑠 (封神榜)
#movies #culture #china

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.

Universal says it is shifting to five weekends of exclusive theatrical runs, up from three, and will move to a minimum of seven weekends in January 2027 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/business/universal-…

Universal Will Give Movies Longer Exclusive Runs in Theaters
Theaters will get a minimum of five weekends of exclusive play and then, starting next year, seven. A pandemic-era policy was guaranteeing only three.

🇺🇦 #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

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.

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.

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

2023 in #AI4LAM terms feels a very long time ago! It's not easy to find the videos from Fantastic Futures 2023 so for findability... https://…

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

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.

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: Apple TV set a monthly engagement record in December, with total hours viewed up 36% YoY (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.

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.

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…

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.

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 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

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.

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/

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…

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

'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

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.

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…

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Favorite films of 2025
A list of 18 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Toxic Avenger (2023), Wolf Man (2025), Freaky Tales (2024), The Running Man (2025) and Bugonia (2025).

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

Have We Reached Peak Legacy Sequel? by Patrick (H) Willems
#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 23 nodes and 68 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

They should measure AI-generated movies by natural resources used and extrapolate to Bambis consumed per second

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.

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-…

Google and YouTube return to Movies Anywhere, here’s how to re-link your account
As promised, both Google Play and YouTube have returned to Movies Anywhere, here's how to restore your account link.

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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…

British Movie Spend Hit Record High Of $3.8B In 2025
Spend on movies in the UK hit a record high in 2025 including on 'Wuthering Heights', 'Supergirl' and 'The Beatles' film.

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

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
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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.

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…

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.

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.

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/

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.