Film forum off topic/random chat thread

Someone upscaled "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" to 4k and 60fps, for no good reason except that they could. Obviously not a lot to see here beyond the HD upscaling, but IMO is still fascinating to watch such a big moment in cinema history:

Rick Moranis is due to come out of his self imposed retirement, to star in a Honey I Shrunk the Kids sequel. He'll be playing the dad once more, to Josh Gads grown up son.

Those deepfakes, they just keep getting better and better...

Shared on the Mandolorian thread, but IMO this may have knock on effects in Film: greenscreen could become a thing of the past, as turns out Mando shot a lot of its apparently FX heavy scenes surrounded by 360 LED screens, pumping out realtime rendering via Epic Games' Unreal Engine. Could make a big difference in future.

That's truly impressive stuff and must have made it so much easier for the crew and actors, having "real" locations to riff off. For instance, I never would have guessed that space station hanger was a big screen, not a post-production effect.

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That is really cool.

Now when are Aldi going to have those 360 LED TV on special?

I was thinking on this further, and it could have huge ramifications for the FX industry; a pretty sizeable part of filmmaking now consists of post-production, via all these sweatshop / pop-up FX houses that float from state to state (for the tax breaks). If filmmakers can suddenly render the backdrops & vistas "live" and to a significant level of detail or fidelity, that industry will surely shrink in favour of on-set Game Engine artists working during production itself.

Wow, Fox has aged quite dramatically, he looks quite ill. I mean, we know that he is, but seems to have caught up with him a tad