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  • No. You’re doing the math wrong.

    You make 2 movies that cost $80m each, you have spent $160m. One of them gets shelved and makes no money, one of them makes $120m. You are still at a $40m loss. You haven’t made any money to pay tax on at all. You have only lost money.

    You are approaching this with the preconceived notion that is some kind of scam, which it’s not.

    The only benefit to shelving the first movie is if you think it’ll cost more money to finish, market, and release it than money it will bring in. They are cutting their losses, not magically generating money out of thin air.








  • The issues in Stargate were not because they were framing for 4:3, they were just clumsy mistakes.

    Stargate was always framed for widescreen.

    If you watch the HD versions of Atlantis you will also notice lots of focus issues. Not to mention across all 3 series there were plenty of things that ended up on screen by mistake: scripts laying around in a Goa’uld cargo hold, a Snickers wrapper in an alien space station, people holding up plants, and offensive remarks about the French.