@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetter: WGAE withdrew its sponsorship of NY film festival Urbanworld after it unveiled a new programming section for directors using generative AI in their work (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/movies/urbanworld-writers-guild-ai.htm…
@stefan@gardenstate.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026 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…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI collected some home movies on my family reunion trip last week. #genealogy #familyhistory
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.c…
@sherold@mastodon.online"Doesn't surprise me much that the most impressive examples of AI cinema lately revolved around memes coming to life."
Credits: Alex Patrascu, @maxescu on X.com.
https://x.com/maxescu/status/2092666875201163720
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza#ElonMusk strikes me as the type of person who watches #RaidersoftheLostArk and thinks it's a downer ending when the faces start melting.
#movies
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbtropes_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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re
@Defiance@sfba.socialAli G is back??
#film #movies #comedy
https://www.…
@cheryanne@aus.socialMeDIDa
A podcast analysing all sorts of media about multiplicity and dissociative identity disorder. Books, movies, television, gaming, and beyond...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/medida/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldHome Movies
Check out a home movie from 1967.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/home-movies/
@Adam@social.lein.usI hope you didn't "buy" any of these movies on Playstation: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaFinally got around to moving from Trakt to SIMKL as Trakt just keeps firing shotgun at their own feet at every turn. I hope SIMKL doesn’t end up the same way :-S #movies
@andrs@social.linux.pizzahttps://youtu.be/eBZmaUGofJg
Pasted.sh advertisement for your consumption, I submitted this to the @… film festival ad reel to be played before the movies, hopefully it gets onto it B…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI love how in early movies when someone got an email the computer makes a loud noise since it was a special occasion. With the amount of emails nowadays that would get irritating.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA 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
@jake4480@c.imFinal trailer for Coyote vs. Acme: #CoyoteVsAcme #movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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 46 nodes and 191 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialA ladle is rarely counted among a witch's famous implements, but how else are they going to dole out potions from a steaming hot cauldron?
Plus, you can whack a goblin with it if they try to get rowdy.
Demand better from your books, movies, and video games. Demand equippable magic ladles.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI haven’t seen the Odyssey movie yet, but this is an interesting commentary on it and the zeitgeist were in.
#movies
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialWhen I am halfway depressed (no, I'm not trivializing the term), there are three movies that help: Alien, Aliens and The Thing.
So I'm shutting down news feeds, comms and reality itself. I'll be relaxing in cold, hostile places with terrifying monsters, thank you very much.
#depression #movies #coping
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
@crell@phpc.social
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe 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
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaI think pairing Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as a double feature with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert might make people less friendly towards that latter.
#Movies
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaDo you know what happens when a fan to movies and series like me comes back from vacation without having seen a single episode of my favorite shows or any cool new releases in the last three weeks?
Well, it's time for Netflix, HBO, Disney Channel… Ha! Just kidding. P2P. Fuck them and their rules about when I can watch all this stuff and at what (ever-changing) price.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Weyes Blood:
🎵 Movies
#WeyesBlood
https://weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/movies
https://open.spotify.com/track/6f4itfvWzS59Qu7JWorhxn
@roland@devdilettante.comomg i love hong kong "art house" movies: go see chungking express https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Express if you do too!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix 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…
@jake4480@c.imI Love Boosters is badass, Boots Riley is a genius, dammit, he did it again. More movies like this, less of everything else. 😂
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza @netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilmLA: on-location shooting of shows and movies in Los Angeles fell 12% YoY in Q2, falling to 4,711 shoot days, down from 5,394 in Q2 2025 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/filmla-production-decline-q2-2026/
@lpryszcz@genomic.social
@anneroth@systemli.social @djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTim Curry, Star of 'Rocky Horror' and Much More, Dies at 80 (Bruce Weber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/movies/tim-curry-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.RyBP.5GtI7giCEUNO&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260826/p112#a260826p112
@mlncn@social.coopBoots Riley must believe good movies have the same metric as bad code – WTFs per minute, https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/ – and i gotta say it really works for him.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itStop naming your movies "Brick", we already have enough of those. Thank you.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSenator Mark Kelly, former astronaut, explains his top 3 space movies.
Do they overlap with your favorites?
#Space #MarkKelly #movies
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horseSad to learn about the passing of Sam Neill. Who knows what my life would be like if I wasn't watching Event Horizon on one fateful evening in 2005? Still one of my favorite movies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/sam-neill-ac…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukWould love to see Elliot Page as Achilles!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/news-anchor-slams-elliot-page-the-odyssey-casting-saying-achilles-is-historical-figure/ar-AA23bO0V
@cheryanne@aus.socialChemistry Read
A smart, funny culture podcast unpacking the TV shows, movies, books and documentaries we can't stop thinking about, and what they reveal about relationships, friendship, sex, identity and human behaviour...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/chem…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: 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…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI will be using this insult everywhere now.
#TheOdyssey #meme #movies
@cdarwin@c.imAs the implementation of AI disrupts dozens of industries,
it isn’t surprising that a crop of recent television shows and movies are depicting the villainy of this rapidly changing technology.
After all, screenwriters have been at the forefront of this fight.
“We were on the front lines as both the people who are being stolen from,
and the people whose work is being used to eliminate them,”
Carolyn Lipka, who co-wrote Hacks’ QuikScribbl episode, told The Flytr…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineMy kids wanted to watch a Blink-182 video ("ahaha they run naked") which led me to think about the preponderance of "college" in US culture.
College movies, college music, college as definition of success (even for dropouts) and so many other examples.
In other words, almost our entire world is broadly based on what male twentysomethings find ideal.
And we wonder why everything's going to shit?
@jon@henshaw.social
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deI love, how 'The Odyssey' referenced 'Just a Man' and the beginning of 'Polyphemus' from 'Epic: The Musical', btw 🙂↕️💕
#TheOdyssey #EpicTheMusical #Movies
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot🕰️ 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
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz @djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFocus Features' horror hit Obsession crosses $500M in gross at the global box office, becoming the highest grossing film ever with a budget of less than $1M (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @Defiance@sfba.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/sony-ce
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInternal docs: Paramount plans to launch a free tier for movies and shows in Q3, requiring users to register via email (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/paramount-free-tier-pluto-tv-streaming-youtube-tubi-elliso…
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaThis might be my favorite movie review ever.
> One of the worst films I have a very screen. Terrible writing, acting and terrible dialogue.
#Movies
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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 12 nodes and 42 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: 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…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.com @jake4480@c.imLoved Backrooms. Found it cool as hell. One of the best flicks I've seen in a WHILE. Bizarre, all kinds of unexplained shit-- just everything I love about movies. Highly recommend.
#horror
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMan, I still remember, "Save the cheerleader. Save the World" very vividly. This is so sad.
☑️ Hayden Panettiere dead: Star of 'Heroes,' 'Nashville' was 36 - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI went down a rabbit hole of reading plot synopsis of gay porn movies. Don’t ask me how I got started on that… but I will say they are very creative.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow special-edition popcorn buckets designed for major movies became lucrative; AMC Theatres estimates they will generate $100M in revenue this year (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/bus…
@cheryanne@aus.social2Guys_1Movie
We are just two guys that love to watch movies and talk about them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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 47 nodes and 219 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle's free, ad-supported streamer Google TV Freeplay adds VOD support, letting users choose from over 10,000 shows and movies, and expands its live TV lineup (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978152/google-tv-freeplay-on-demand
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHawaiian Airlines should rename themselves to "Audio Announcement in Progress" because this is the dialog passengers see no fewer than 20 times a flight - interrupting TV/movies, meals, sleep, etc.
And it's rarely safety-related. The mid-flight Hawaiian Air Miles Credit Card pitch is the icing on the cake.
#hawaiianairlines
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI wonder if there is a correlation between the fact I’ve watched more horror movies since I’ve transitioned.
#trans
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUNIC: cinema admissions fell 4.4% YoY to 873.2M in Europe in 2025 and box office revenue fell 1.2% to €6.9B; US movies make up the bulk of the European market (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/cinema-admissions-europe-2025-1236964978/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTheater execs are split on the Paramount-WBD deal, as Paramount offers to guarantee 30 films annually for three years; California's AG wants asset divestitures (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/am…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukWhen the guy in movies won’t turn around so all you see is his juicy butt.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHollywood is having its best year since 2019, with global ticket sales up 15% YoY in the first seven months and five movies crossing $1B in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-hollywood-movies-are-back/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAlamo 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWith the addition of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, four movies in 2026 have earned $1B at the box office globally, the most in one year since the Covid pandemic (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/hollywood-2026-billion-dollar-movies.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Silk White, whose movies and TV shows, which have grossed ~$2M in the year to February, are distributed by Filmhub to online platforms like Tubi (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/sony-ce
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demoviegalaxies: 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demovielens_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
