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Author Topic: Films with near identical titles Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 03-05-2010 10:43 PM                     Ok so last year we had... 9 ... 3D animated feature directed by Shane Anker, produced by Tim Burton Nine ......... Musical directed by Rob Marshall. This year we have. 1234 - american indie film 4321 - British indie film from the makers of Adulthood. I've a headace over the last two allready.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-05-2010 11:05 PM                     Not the real name but the fake names on the cans... Valentine's Day = Love Note And then plain old From Paris With Love At first I started tearing the latter onto the reels of the former then noticed that the soundtrack didn't match and I had more empty reels than I did reels on the platter.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-05-2010 11:30 PM                     "Extreme Measures" (1996) and "Extraordinary Measures" (2010)  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 03-06-2010 12:20 AM                     Death at a Funeral(2007) and Death at a Funeral(2010). Oh wait, its the same movie, same script, just with black actors. Good thing I'm not black or I would be insulted by this simple ruse.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 03-06-2010 07:13 AM                        I went to IMDB to count how many "Pride and Prejudices" are out there, when I found a listing for "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", a feature starring Natalie Portman scheduled for 2011, which is based on a novel that really exists at Amazon. Then I lost all interest.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2010 08:23 AM                        These can cause problems in the NetFlix line: "Alien" and "Aliens" (gotta see them in the right order) "Slacker"(Richard Linklater's first feature) and "Slackers" (2002 teen flick) "Crash"(2004 the Academy Award Winner) and "Crash"(1996 the sicko film about cars) "Working Girls" (1986 doc about prostitution) and "Working Girl" (the Melanie Griffith movie) Of course, back in the glory days of porn there were lots of parody titles.  |  IP: Logged Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-06-2010 11:58 AM                        Pfft. Lightweights. Last year, I had a Hindi movie titled Hero and a Telugu movie titled Heroes (and they were totally different films, mind you, not two versions of the same film, as often happens in Indian cinema) open on the same day.  |  IP: Logged Jon Petersen Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Des Moines, IA Registered: Nov 2008 posted 03-06-2010 12:51 PM                        About three years ago, I was playing The Host (Korean Moster movie) and The Hoax (Richard Gere vehicle) at the same time.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2010 04:49 PM                        Years ago we ran Kenneth Branaugh's Henry V followed the next week by Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-06-2010 07:04 PM                     It's more interesting when movies with similar titles come out at the same time. There was "Big" and "Big Business", and the local twin theater showed both at the same time. My first year working at a theater we had "The Doctor" and "Doc Hollywood", and a lot of customers weren't sure which was the movie they really wanted to see.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-06-2010 07:23 PM                        Speed, One, Ransom all those titles have been used many different times (sometimes with an article in front of the word). But those are pretty basic words. Sometimes it's obviously that they are trying to trick the audience, we all know The Evil Dead from 1981, right? There's also a somewhat bizarre Japanese horror film called (in English anyway) Evil Dead Trap from 1988. as for ones at the same time: Live Free or Die (2006) got its limited theatrical release not long before Live Free or Die Hard (2007) did, right? I seem to remember some confusion existed about that. Crazy Heart (2009) Crazy on the Outside (2010) and The Crazies (2010) all came out within about a month or two of each other. A Serious Man and A Single Man are both from 2009, and are both up for Oscars tomorrow (though, for different categories).  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-06-2010 09:13 PM                        2001 2010 2012 AND, I want to see them on a triple bill.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 03-07-2010 07:59 AM                     Not strictly two movies, but I wonder how many people went to see James Cameron's "Avatar", thinking it was based on the TV cartoon of the same name? Another example I can think of is "The Ring" coming out around the same time as the second "Lord of the Rings" movie.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 03-09-2010 08:13 PM                        quote: Thomas Pitt Not strictly two movies, but I wonder how many people went to see James Cameron's "Avatar", thinking it was based on the TV cartoon of the same name? Of course, The Last Airbender is also a movie coming out in July of this year.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-09-2010 08:24 PM                     A Single Man (2009) A Serious Man (2009)  |  IP: Logged

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