Conference bookie::movies

    
    	All I saw was the title "Ghost".  I guess I didn't notice that
    	there was more to the title.
    
    	And there are movies with the same titles, although I can't
    	think of any right at the moment.
    

    
>>    	And there are movies with the same titles, although I can't
>>    	think of any right at the moment.

    "The Other".  There - there's one.  ;>
    

    .5
    
    there are several "Fair Game"'s i believe
    
    ric

    
    	"Poison Ivy" [2]
    	"Paper Marriage" [2]
    	"Paradise" [2]
    	"Next of Kin" [3]
    	"Fear" [3]
    	"Madhouse" [3]
    

    
    Dressed to Kill -2
    How can they do that???????????
    
    
    
    
    

    There are also two different movies with the title: Blown Away.
    The reason I know this is I mistakenly taped the wrong one when
    I thought it was the Jeff Bridges and Tommi Lee Jones Blown Away.
    
    
    anna
    

I don't beleive film or book titles are normally copyrighted. There are many
novels with the same titles and a number of films as well (there have been
three _Riff Raff_'s, none of them having anything to do with the other and
from different studios).


Randy

The studios do have some kind of title registry; I know some money changed
hands to allow Warner's to use "Bad Boys" on the movie being released tomorrow
(not to be confused with the 1983 movie starring Sean Penn and directed by
Rick Rosenthal, who is now looking for another way to tell himself apart from
the "other" Rick Rosenthal).

> Rick Rosenthal, who is now looking for another way to tell himself apart from
> the "other" Rick Rosenthal).

On a related note, Actor's Equity (or another actor's union?) maintains
a registry of actor's names - you can't join the union and work under a name
that's already registered to another member.
I guess directors don't have the same philosophy.

- tom]

    Two of my all-time Favorite Movies are "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" starring
    Robert Montgomery, and "Heaven Can Wait" starring Don Ameche.
    
    "Heaven Can Wait" is a story about a man who has just recently died,
    who is telling his life story to the devil to explain why he should be
    in Hell instead of Heaven.
    
    "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" is about a man whose soul is taken from his
    body prematurely, and his quest to find another body capable of giving
    him the life he'd worked for.
    
    When "Mr. Jordan" was remade several decades later, the (poorer, in my
    opinion) remake was named after the play version.  It was called
    "Heaven Can Wait" and starred Warren Beatty.
    
    
    re: 789.9
    
>>On a related note, Actor's Equity (or another actor's union?) maintains
>>a registry of actor's names - you can't join the union and work under a name
>>that's already registered to another member.
    
    In Los Angeles we have one exception I know of to that rule (but he
    spent a lot of money for the exception).
    
    The name: after the formfeed.
    
    
    Michael Jackson.  For several decades we have had a talk-show host (who
    recently has become one of the main replacement hosts for Larry King
    Live) by that name.  When the alleged entertainer by that name went to
    register, he had to get the rules waived, once again showing what the
    gloved-one's money can buy him out of.
    
    

    I remember when the movie "Renaissance man" came out. The one with
    Danny DeVito. That movie was released twice. But the second time they
    changed the title. Now, I've heard of movies with the same title, but
    the same movie with two different titles? I do not recall what the
    name of the second one was, but I recognized the movie clips.
    
    -Joe
    

    
    	Sometimes they do change the title, for whatever reason [although
    	sometimes it's just a matter of a different title when it gets
    	released overseas].
    
    	I forget the name of the movie, but [coincidentally] there was a
    	Danny Devito movie, co-starring Rhea Perlman, that was re-released
    	a couple years later with a different title.  Something about
    	money, I think.
    

    re .12  "Other People's Money", perhaps?
    
    
    
    kim

    
    	Nope, before that.
    

    I think the movie was "War of the Roses"  Which, incidentally was a
    pretty good movie.
    
    -Joe
    

    
    	Nope, not that one either.
    
    	Jon, if you can get an Internet extract before me, wanna post
    	it?  Thanks.
    

    
    	"The Ratings Game" was the one, but I don't remember the other
    	title that was used.