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Author Topic: "Vatican Detective"....ohh man that is funny Chris Medley Expert Film Handler Posts: 180 From: McKinney, TX, USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-05-2004 09:42 PM                        I got that fax today and I started to roll on the ground laughing....Van Helsing is being shipped under the name "Vatican Detective"..."From death till Glory" was good....but this takes the cake. I wonder if these guys actually pay someone to come up with these names or if they just draw them out of a hat??  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 05-05-2004 10:23 PM                     I thought the general understanding was to not discuss technicolor code names.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-05-2004 11:15 PM                        yes, that is the rule but since it will be in the theatres tomorrow it's probably not worth worrying about. "Vatican Detective" sounds like a good title for a real movie, actually.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 05-05-2004 11:17 PM                     I don't know about that, from what I have heard most piracy takes place in the back of the airborne trucks.  |  IP: Logged Dominique Replogle Film Handler Posts: 61 From: Highland Utah Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-05-2004 11:39 PM                        The title sounds like something about a guy out to put a stop to naughty papal shenanigans. Someone call pee wee Herman and tell him there is a role available.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 05-06-2004 12:32 AM                    If you think the decoy title is funny wait til you see the ten trailers that it ships with. Ten.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-06-2004 01:29 AM                     At least there was no attached trailer. Seriously though, these fake names on the cans are a friggin' joke. They aren't stopping any real bootlegger. Hmmmm, let's see...here's these film cans labeled "Vatican Detective - Universal Studios" that are on Airborne trucks the day or two before the Universal movie Van Helsing is released. Nah, that couldn't POSSIBLY be Van Helsing! durp!  |  IP: Logged Chris Medley Expert Film Handler Posts: 180 From: McKinney, TX, USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-06-2004 07:03 AM                        Brad....my thoughts exactly  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 05-06-2004 07:12 AM                        Last year, DKP 70mm sent us two movies with the titles Project Silver and Project Silver II, both for IMAX ... hmmm, one was mid-May, and the other one at the beginning of November. Funny ... you think those were the "projects" that Joel Silver worked on? Nah!  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-06-2004 09:07 AM                     The studio print that I ran last week one can was labeled "Van Helsing" and the other was labeled "Vatican Detective". So when it was picked up by a courier service, the courier said I gave him a wrong can.  |  IP: Logged

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