New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

[Ben]

Brand recognition, Bill. Brand recognition…

[Daniel]

Dropping today:

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Doogie Kamealoha M.D.-Episode 9
The Incredible Dr. Pol - Season 19
Photo Ark - Season 2
Storm Rising
The Chicken Squad – New Episodes
Amphibia - 5 Episodes (Season 3)
Dino Ranch - 6 Episodes
Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Jingle All The Way
Jingle All The Way 2
X-Men: First Class
Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Snow Buddies
Space Buddies
Santa Buddies
The Search For Santa Paws

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Last Man Standing - Episode 15 (Season 9)
Reservation Dogs - Episode 5
Y: The Last Man – Episode 9
Mixedish - Episode 12
American Horror Story: Double Feature -Episode 3
The Simpsons - Season 32
Family Guy - Episode 1 (Season 20)
American Dad - Episode 18 (Season 17)
Bless The Harts - Episode 13 (Season 2)
The Great North - Episode 7
The Premise - Episodes 1 & 2
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir - Episode 6 (Season 4)
Vampirina - Episode 21-26 (Season 3)
Big City Greens - Episode 45-60 (Season 2)
Ready For Preschool
Underworld, inc.
Lion Ranger
Africa's Deadliest - Season 4
Riding Britain's Railway
Mayans M.C. - Season 1&2
Illuminations Firework Show Disneyland Paris
Hysterical
Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist
Corky Romano
Deja Vu
Face/Off
The Insider
Home Alone 4
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Robots

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The Simpsons - Episode 2 (Season 33)
Family Guy - Episode 3 (Season 20)
Bob's Burgers - Episode 6 (Season 12)
The Great North - Episode 4 (Season 2)
Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Deadpool 2
JoJo Rabbit

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Grey's Anatomy - Episode 3 (Season 18)
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
The Big Leap – Episode 1
Home Alone 4
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Where the Heart Is
What A Man

[Ben]

Hmmm…pretty big drops all around this week, it seems. But why can’t I still see anything to actually watch!?

[Daniel]

I know, huh. At least Disney+ day looks somewhat promising.

[Randall]

JoJo Rabbit! Curious to see that. And is that a new Prep and Landing?

[Daniel]

Nope, it's a short film sequel to the original, preceding "Naughty vs. Nice". It's cute, but way too short. Highlight is Betty White!

[EricJ]

Yes, there IS a direct video "Jingle All the Way 2". With Larry the Cable Guy.

[Daniel]

Common knowledge, really.

[Ben]

Interested to see what you think of Jojo…our last movie night before Covid closed our little cinema here.

[EricJ]

Common knowledge, really.

...What, from all the people who WATCHED it??

(I'd have thought they confused it with "Tooth Fairy 2".)

[Daniel]

Promotion from when it was released, airing every year during the holidays...

[James]

13 MCU films being released on D+ in IMAX expanded aspect ratio.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/d ... 235105084/

[Daniel]

Pretty cool!

[James]

It seems kind of silly. The point of 2.39:1 was to be able to have more cinematic vistas and wider action. Now we're basically getting 1.85 (I know, close enough though!) and being told... we'll be able to have more cinematic vistas and wider (ok, taller) action!

This basically seems like the widescreen vs fullscreen debate back when tv's were 4:3. "People want their tv screen filled with picture, not black bars." So why not just shoot in 1:85:1 and be done with it?

[Ben]

And more confused is where you have Snyder insisting on a 4:3 open matte framing and saying that THAT is an Imax image!

Clearly here they are just opening up the 2.39 mattes, so there will be more dead space top and bottom, which was never intended to be seen — AS WELL as, in some obvious shots in that promo, some CROPPING where VFX shots were not rendered in anything but 2.39 have been zoomed in, thus LOSING frame info left and right.

This IS exactly the same as pan and scan from widescreen to 4:3, where open matte framing and cropping was the norm. Here, it’s just a 16:9 equivalent, opening mattes and cropping to fill screens and destroying the originally intended widescreen framing.

This is why many newer streaming films have been settling on a 2:1 ratio, which still gives the wider feel but doesn’t have such wide lettboxed borders. But they really shouldn’t start going back and retro-fitting framing on older titles.

The wonderful thing about the 16:9 frame is that every ratio works within in it, so just play everything in OAR and be done with it! Grrr…!