Hacker News with Generative AI: Cinema

The Substance: Pre-Release Piracy Made People More Eager to Visit the Cinema (torrentfreak.com)
The major Hollywood studios are unshakeable when it comes to the damage caused by pre-release piracy, let alone when a leaked movie appears online in unusually high quality. Yet when The Substance leaked online under precisely those conditions, online piracy triggered the opposite effect.
How encryption for Cinema Movies works (serverless.industries)
The Cinema Industry is using its own standards for creating and distributing movies in a secure way. The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specification defines everything from file formats and encryption to the projection systems itself.
Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary (theguardian.com)
The mayor of Miami Beach is attempting to evict an independent cinema from city-owned property after it screened No Other Land, the film about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank that just won the Oscar for best documentary.
As more local cinemas close, residents are forming nonprofits to buy them (nytimes.com)
As more local movie houses close, residents in smaller towns are forming nonprofits to buy and operate them.
Italian Mannerism, David Lynch, and Lars von Trier (scottsumner.substack.com)
How Pulp Fiction Revolutionized Cinema (youtube.com)
Sony Pictures Acquires Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (hollywoodreporter.com)
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure (tonsky.me)