On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:29:45 -0600, Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>When they choose a name do they throw darts at a dart board with
>>letters on it to get these names?
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>No. The titles of movies have to go through vetting by entertainment
>lawyers in order to make sure there are no other (recent and/or
>non-iconic) movies or (recent, non-iconic) TV shows with the given
>title.
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>>Do they even look at what the movie is about?
>>Do they even bother to look at the s script?
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>Titles are the domain of the writer, director and producer, so yes,
>the decisions are made by the people most directly involved with the
>making the movie.
Sometime have to wonder if the person making the title has even seen
a description of the movie, seen the movie itself, or has a clue
how to sell the movie.
Advertising the movie and titling the movie should be
part of a comprehensive marketing campaign. "we've got
this movie, how are we going to sell it to the public?"
The title and the advertising should trigger in the
viewer "wow I've got to go see that movie tonight."
The studios seem to have forgotten that their job is
to make the movie and then sell it to people who will
pay money to see it.
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>Give them a break -- new titles are kinda hard to come by because
>pretty much any 1, 2 or 3-word title is either already taken or has
>been used 3-4 times already. Take, for instance, the title "Crash,"
>which is the name of both a car-crash mutilation fetish movie from the
>90's direct by David Cronenberg *and* the Best-Picture winner two
>years ago.
Well maybe crash is a great name to avoid......too overused.
Why only keep it to 1 2 or 3 word titles? Borat had a long
title and it was succsssful.
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