movie trivia buffs... need your help!

Executive Steve

Would anybody know if there is such a thing as a definitive list of films from the last 20 odd years that were released with different titles in the USA and the UK?

Anybody to supply me with such a list - or even to name a decent few - will get my undying gratitude as well as multiple virgins in the afterlife

Karl Hungus

Hmm, can't say I know of any such list, but www.imdb.com gives the names that films were released under in different countries, including working titles.

MementoMori

Off the top of my head

Adventures in Babysitting = A night on the Town
Leon = The Professional

And in the Google is your friend category check out

http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/alternate/


Hope that helps

Executive Steve

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Hmm, can't say I know of any such list, but www.imdb.com gives the names that films were released under in different countries, including working titles.

Thanks - I've been trawling through imdb.com but I was looking for something a little more user friendly than searching each title manually!

MementoMori wrote: »

Off the top of my head

Adventures in Babysitting = A night on the Town
Leon = The Professional

And in the Google is your friend category check out

http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/alternate/


Hope that helps

Brilliant, that's more like the sort of thing I've been looking for; thanks!

AnonoBoy

Hostile Hostages starring Dennis Leary was known as The Ref in the States.

Basq

Also, Mamma Mia is also known as "Awful mind-numbing shite".

It also went under the working title "Aural and visual sodomy of the highest calibre"

Busi_Girl08

Inside I'm Dancing (UK+ROI)- Rory O'Shea Was Here (US)

Executive Steve

basquille wrote: »

Also, Mamma Mia is also known as "Awful mind-numbing shite".

It also went under the working title "Aural and visual sodomy of the highest calibre"

Harsh but fair!

johnny_ultimate

Recently Hallem Foe became Mister Foe for the American release. That kids' film Grounded released here last Christmas is called Unaccompanied Minors in America - I film I've never seen but is noteworthy for the fact that its depressing to see Paul Feig - co-creator of Freaks & Geeks - making that kind of generic crap while Judd Apatow rakes it in.

kelator

Few here http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/149738/50_movie_titles_that_got_lost_in_translation.html

ixoy

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (US) vs Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK)

Formula 51 (US) vs The 51st State (UK)

You open up a whole new world if you look at the English translation of the titles of many US movies released in Europe.

quickbeam

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (US) - Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies (UK)

Ed D.

basquille wrote: »

Also, Mamma Mia is also known as "Awful mind-numbing shite".

It also went under the working title "Aural and visual sodomy of the highest calibre"

Watched that last weekend with my wife. She loved it. I poked my eyes out with a pencil and bit my own ears off. [Here she comes.] "Really good flick! Romantic and ... peppy!"

kraggy

PT Anderson's Hard Eight, as we know it, was called Sydney in the US.

The reason is as follows:



"Paul Thomas Anderson's original title for this film was "Sydney". Since it was his first film, and he had basically no control over it (much less final cut, like he's had on his other features since), the studio, Rysher Entertainment, re-cut the film and retitled it "Hard Eight". This obviously enraged Anderson, and through many talks and deals, he convinced the studio to let him release his cut, but with the new title "Hard Eight". Anderson later said this experience taught him that doing your best to make the best possible movie was only "half the job" when being a director. The other half was dealing with all the egos involved."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119256/trivia

(But there's a misprint there as you can see; they meant to say that it was released by the studio as Sydney, but that PTA released his own version as Hard Eight)

evil-monkey

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Inside I'm Dancing (UK+ROI)- Rory O'Shea Was Here (US)

you've gota be f*cking sh*ting me!! "Rory O'Shea Was Here"

you know what...that's the best I've ever heard...