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Just started The Good Nurse and Jessica Chastain comes first on the left but Eddie Redmayne's is higher on the right.
In the Clooney/Roberts ads it is the same thing with her name being slightly higher.
Also smacks of ego to me of the person on the right.
We read right to left here so that person really has top billing.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 14, 2022 9:55 AM |
Hun, this has been going on for decades.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 14, 2022 6:00 AM |
Name some other cases.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 14, 2022 6:07 AM |
Steve McQueen started it with "The Towering Inferno". Steve insisted on first billed and Fox came up with this.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 14, 2022 6:10 AM |
It also happens in Halloween II with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance.
The most creative one was Feud: Bette and Joan with the two marionettes duking it out and Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange trade off top billing every week.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 14, 2022 6:12 AM |
[quote]We read right to left here so that person really has top billing.
I read left to right. Always have. Top billing on the same line has always started on the left. That's why the name on the right gets elevated in these aforementioned situations.
You should go on a walk and get some fresh air, OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 14, 2022 6:14 AM |
Diagonal Billing, or “Laverne & Shirley” Billing’ goes back all the way to Vaudeville.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 14, 2022 6:14 AM |
I made a mistake r5.
Don't be such a bitch.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 14, 2022 6:23 AM |
TV shows have been doing this since the beginning of time.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 14, 2022 6:55 AM |
The Chastain/Redmayne one is odd. She's clearly the lead of the film and a bigger star.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 14, 2022 7:03 AM |
R9, that's why I think it just artist affect, nothing more. The same with Clooney and Roberts. It's clearly having them share equal billing if the names appear at the same time.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 14, 2022 7:10 AM |
Artistic affect*
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 14, 2022 7:10 AM |
Aldo OP are you from Mars. I don't think there is anywhere on this planet where people read right to left.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 14, 2022 7:11 AM |
It is like that in the credits for MY MAN GODFREY, 1936.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 14, 2022 7:20 AM |
Who is Aldo r12?
See people make mistakes. You included.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 14, 2022 7:28 AM |
Are you on the spectrum, OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 14, 2022 7:30 AM |
No film buffs here, tale as old as time.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 14, 2022 7:45 AM |
Redmayne is even campaigning for Supporting Actor.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 14, 2022 8:12 AM |
" I don't think there is anywhere on this planet where people read right to left."
Here is a list of the main languages that use right to left scripts:
Arabic.
Aramaic.
Azeri.
Dhivehi/Maldivian.
Hebrew.
Kurdish (Sorani)
Persian/Farsi.
Urdu.
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