Evaluating Multimodal Narrative Understanding of Popular Hollywood Films

arXiv cs.AIAugust 25, 2026en

arXiv:2608.21430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal language models increasingly show promise for enabling the large-scale computational analysis of film, opening up new avenues for learning about film history and the evolution of narrative techniques. But the creation of stable benchmarks built around Hollywood films is complicated by copyright protections. In this work, we address these concerns directly, by building a new collection of Hollywood films defined by two criteria: box office popularity (where we publish the first large-scale, open collection of weekly box office earnings reported by Variety magazine from 1922-1979); and likely public domain status (by researching copyri

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