David Duchovny sued Fox because Fox sold "The X-Files" reruns to Fox-owned stations in a sweetheart deal (rather than on the open market), scamming him and other participants out of millions of dollars (they settled out of court). Studios will try to get away with everything.
Shows like Friends, M*A*S*H and Seinfeld were shot on film and presented on TV in 4:3 aspect ratio.
For streaming, unused portions of the film negative are used to create a 16:9 widescreen image—if the reframe is sloppy, the audience sees more than was intended. "Friends" s10e01
There is no reason these shows can't be presented in their original aspect ratio of 4:3. Streamers claim audiences will be confused by pillarboxing (black bands on the sides of frame). It's actually MORE WORK for the studio to reframe every single shot for 16:9!
How "M*A*S*H" s11e04 looked like as originally broadcast vs. today on Hulu. Previously unseen portions of the neg are restored l and r & top and bottom are cropped.
You can't even see the shoe that Hawkeye is trying to pick up (that BJ nailed to the floor) in the 16:9 version.
(if you ask something mega-vanilla I’m going to assume it’s one of the bot-generated questions, so add “vfxqanda” to your vanilla question so I know it’s genuine)
“Favorite Marvel project you worked on?”
I’m really proud of our work creating Stark Expo for “Iron Man 2”.
can someone please chart the evolution of the excuses given since the search warrant was executed because hoo boy the goalposts are moving really quickly
I've seen this movie A LOT and I don't think I ever fully grasped that the entire bottom half of the shot of our heroes standing on the log is synthetic.