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Post #1037163

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Papai2013
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OPEN MATTE - Master List
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Date created
21-Jan-2017, 11:15 AM

Forgot to add ‘Jurassic World.’

The film is shown open-matte on Cable broadcasts. Most of the film was shot on super 35, 4-perf, so the 1.78:1 aspect ratio includes more headroom. Its especially noticeable in the VFX shots including the dinosaurs. However, a limited number of scenes were shot using the Panavision super 70 camera and lenses which lends a 2.20:1 (roughly) frame. These were slightly cropped to achieve the 2.00:1 ratio of the film. Those shots are cropped to 1.78:1 at the sides but the crop is barely noticeable.

JW really gains from the open-matte as lots of dinosaur scenes (almost all of them) like the Raptor squad scenes, The Mosasaurus and T-Rex scenes as well as the Indominus, have that IMAX-like expansion due to more vertical information that were cropped in the 2.00:1 version.

HBO NOW and HBO GO did show JW in OM for a month until it was pulled off from its website. Canal+ and various other HD broadcasts are also open matte. It looks good!