Hacker News with Generative AI: Movies

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Binocular Shot (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots
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!)
Binocular Shot: A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
In China, revenue from short video drama (1-2 minute eps) has surpassed movies (twitter.com)
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.
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.
Y2K (y2k.movie)
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.”
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.
Memento Movi (wackyneighbor.com)
Enter your date of birth, your life expectancy, and choose a film to see your progress.
New 'Star Wars' trilogy reportedly in the works (ktla.com)
Some fans may have felt a great disturbance in the force this morning.