Hacker News with Generative AI: Movies

RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative (arstechnica.com)
Back to the Future justly dominated the summer box office in 1985, but it's too bad its massive success overshadowed another nerd-friendly gem, Real Genius, which debuted one month later, on August 9.

Movies, Nostalgia, 1980s, Pop Culture, Film

6 points by LinuxBender 14 hours ago | 5 comments

Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead (semafor.com)
Sorry, cinephiles: The post-Covid rebound of live events is all the more evidence that movie theaters are never coming back, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos told me in an interview at the Paley Center for Media Friday.

Movies, Streaming, Business

24 points by m463 2 days ago | 44 comments

Ketchup Entertainment Acquires 'Coyote vs. Acme' from Warner Bros (rollingstone.com)
Wile E. Coyote’s legal battle with the Acme Corporation, accused of sabotaging his skirmishes with the Road Runner by way of faulty products, is heading to court as Coyote vs. Acme finally heads to movie theaters.

Entertainment, Movies, Acquisitions, Warner Bros

7 points by dannyphantom 3 days ago | 1 comments

Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of 'Coyote vs Acme' (deadline.com)
Warner Bros has completed the sale we told you about a couple weeks ago for their previously shelved Coyote Vs Acme movie.

Movies, Entertainment, Warner Bros, Business

87 points by ChrisArchitect 3 days ago | 24 comments

AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI (engadget.com)
On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English instead.

Artificial Intelligence, Movies, Technology, Entertainment

85 points by bookofjoe 11 days ago | 100 comments

IMDb Shuts Down 'Snow White' User Rating After 2.3/10 Score (worldofreel.com)
People are acting totally normal in reaction to Disney’s live-action “Snow White.” To all the review aggregate sites, I wish you good luck this coming weekend.

Movies, Reviews, Disney, Social Media

15 points by xnhbx 12 days ago | 1 comments

Pets Can't Stop Watching 'Flow,' the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie (nytimes.com)
“Flow,” a dialogue-free animated Latvian film made with open-source software, is keeping our domesticated friends riveted.

Animals, Movies, Animation, Latvia

81 points by ChrisArchitect 23 days ago | 12 comments

Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? (jgeekstudies.org)
In the first act of ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ (ROTJ), the protagonist, Luke Skywalker, infiltrates the palace of the notorious crime lord, Jabba the Hutt, while seeking to free his allies from captivity.

Star Wars, Science Fiction, Weapons, Movies

4 points by sohkamyung 24 days ago | 1 comments

Binocular Shot (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Humor, Criticism

58 points by bookofjoe 25 days ago | 32 comments

A brief meditation on formal systems and lying goblins (ghost.io)
The other day I came across some people on The Internet talking about a certain scene from Labyrinth, which is a movie from the 80s (if you haven't seen it you should - lavish musical numbers, very unsettling Jim Henson puppetry, David Bowie doing contact juggling in spandex, it's really got it all!)

Movies, Philosophy, Humor

64 points by mprast 27 days ago | 29 comments

Binocular Shot: A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Visual Effects, Humor

5 points by gaws 40 days ago | 2 comments

Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner? (bbc.com)
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.

Movies, History, Criticism, Awards

4 points by Tomte 51 days ago | 2 comments

AI dialogue analysis confirms movies have grown more violent over past 70 years (phys.org)
Movies often reflect the predominant societal and cultural values at the time they were shot. These values can be expressed in various elements of a film, including the interactions between characters, their communication styles and their characterizing traits.

AI, Movies, Violence, Society, Culture

11 points by pseudolus 55 days ago | 18 comments

Tech-Noir: How One Scene in 'The Terminator' Changed Science Fiction (2018) (wearethemutants.com)
The Tech-Noir club scene in The Terminator is a masterpiece of action film-making, arguably the most important sequence of the movie, and the club itself—its decor and atmosphere, its customers, its soundtrack, its very name—has had an extraordinary influence on the development of sci-fi and subsequent reimaginings of the 1980s aesthetic.

Science Fiction, Movies, Filmmaking, 1980s

4 points by austinallegro 76 days ago | 0 comments

Lesser-known science fiction movies (exotext.com)
I love science fiction in all forms, and I can't resist watching almost any sci-fi movie. So, I watch a lot of them. It's a bit annoying how "sci-fi and fantasy" became the standard pairing. In my eyes, these genres are exactly opposite. It's like grouping movies about horses with movies about cars.

Science Fiction, Movies, Genre, Recommendations

3 points by freetonik 80 days ago | 0 comments

Did a quick search about John Wick 5.This is the abysmal state of Google in 2025 (reddit.com)
Just watched John Wick 4, did a quick search to see if they are making a 5th one. This is the abysmal state of Google and the internet as we go into 2025.

Search Engines, Movies, Internet, Technology

13 points by RicoElectrico 89 days ago | 2 comments

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that (nplusonemag.com)
Until recently no Hollywood studio had ever released two movies with the same name at the same time. At most studios, such a strategy would be unthinkable. Audiences might accidentally buy tickets to the wrong film, and the PR fallout would be disastrous: snipes from trade-magazine writers; angry calls from investors questioning the studios’ business acumen; angrier calls from agents demanding to know why their clients’ images were being intentionally sabotaged.

Movies, Entertainment Industry, Hollywood, Marketing, Business

14 points by thunderbong 96 days ago | 11 comments

Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that (nplusonemag.com)
Until recently no Hollywood studio had ever released two movies with the same name at the same time. At most studios, such a strategy would be unthinkable. Audiences might accidentally buy tickets to the wrong film, and the PR fallout would be disastrous: snipes from trade-magazine writers; angry calls from investors questioning the studios’ business acumen; angrier calls from agents demanding to know why their clients’ images were being intentionally sabotaged.

Movies, Entertainment, Media, Business, Hollywood

306 points by exitb 96 days ago | 350 comments

Ask HN: Recommend a sci-fi movie I can watch on the new year's eve (ycombinator.com)
Hi everyone, I'll be spending my New Year's Eve in a foreign tropical country with beers. Please recommend a movie to me. ：） Thanks!

Science Fiction, Movies

13 points by mollywhite 97 days ago | 26 comments

Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon (wsj.com)
James Bond has dodged more than 4,000 bullets. He has jumped from an airplane, skied off a cliff and escaped castration by laser beam.

James Bond, Entertainment, Amazon, Movies

103 points by gnabgib 97 days ago | 216 comments

BFI 50 Best Films of 2024 (bfi.org.uk)
Our round-up of the best movies of the year, as voted by our contributors, finds a dazzling array of cinematic wonders from around the world, from the return of old masters to a rich trove of breakthroughs.

Movies, Film Criticism, Lists, Best Of

11 points by indigodaddy 97 days ago | 2 comments

Moana 2 (yiningkarlli.com)
This fall marked the release of Moana 2, Walt Disney Animation’s 63rd animated feature and the 10th feature film rendered entirely using Disney’s Hyperion Renderer.

Animation, Movies, Walt Disney

7 points by gok 105 days ago | 0 comments

Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight (boydrinksink.com)
Eyes Wide Shut, more than any other movie, gave rise to my interest in cinema as a compelling storytelling medium.

Movies, Filmmaking, Storytelling

128 points by jim-jim-jim 111 days ago | 87 comments

In China, revenue from short video drama (1-2 minute eps) has surpassed movies (twitter.com)

China, Entertainment, Short-Form Video, Movies, Streaming

4 points by mintone 112 days ago | 0 comments

There Was No Sorcerer: Box Office Poison, Hollywood's Story in Century of Flops (literaryreview.co.uk)
There are three rules for avoiding a cinematic flop. Rule one: don’t pick a title that is boring, misleading or hard to pronounce.

Movies, Box Office, Entertainment, Film Industry

13 points by crescit_eundo 118 days ago | 8 comments

There's No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI (theatlantic.com)
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.

Artificial Intelligence, Hollywood, Movies, TV Shows, Training Data

11 points by doener 118 days ago | 6 comments

Y2K (y2k.movie)

Y2K, Movies, Technology

154 points by ChrisArchitect 119 days ago | 82 comments

The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a problem for Hollywood (latimes.com)
It was on a spontaneous trip to the movie theater that James Young took a chance on “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” Same with 2004’s “Garden State.” And the quirky “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

Movies, Hollywood, Film Industry, Audience Behavior

6 points by thunderbong 121 days ago | 3 comments

All Known Movies Featuring Nmap (nmap.org)
For reasons unknown, Hollywood has decided that Nmap is the tool to show whenever hacking scenes are needed. At least it is a lot more realistic than silly 3D animation approach used in many previous movies (e.g. "hacking the Gibson" on Hackers, or the much worse portrayals on Swordfish). We always like to see Nmap in the movies, so we have catalogued known instances here.

Cybersecurity, Movies, Networking Tools

63 points by cyberlurker 125 days ago | 0 comments

Memento Movi (wackyneighbor.com)
Enter your date of birth, your life expectancy, and choose a film to see your progress.

Life Expectancy, Interactive Websites, Movies, Personalization

53 points by wallflower 128 days ago | 16 comments