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Ian Parfrey
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posted 03-18-2010 01:54 PM

Repo Man (1984) Harry dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez

Repo Men (2010) Jude Law, Forrest Whittaker

quote: Mike Blakesley
I am amused that the producers of the Twilight films don't think their audience is smart enough to know that "New Moon" and "Eclipse" are part of the series

Go get him, Girls [Big Grin]

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Hillary Charles
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posted 03-18-2010 02:03 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
I am amused that the producers of the Twilight films don't think their audience is smart enough to know that "New Moon" and "Eclipse" are part of the series -- they feel the need to add "The Twilight Saga" to the title.

And it seems they're cranking these out faster than "Bowery Boys" movies! [Wink]

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Jeremy Jorgenson
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posted 03-18-2010 08:07 PM

Well, the opening title for New Moon was in fact just "New Moon" no silly "Twilight Saga" on it ... granted the closing title did say "Twilight Saga New Moon" (without the "the" at the beginning, oddly). But it's true that it's kind of silly to have "The Twilight Saga" tacked on to the front of each of these titles in the promotions... as though the target demographic wouldn't know what it was. People don't seem to have difficulty figuring out that new James Bond films are in fact James Bond films, despite "Bond" or "007" not being tacked on the title.

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John Wilson
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posted 03-18-2010 10:18 PM

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quote: Mike Blakesley
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I am amused that the producers of the Twilight films don't think their audience is smart enough to know that "New Moon" and "Eclipse" are part of the series
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Quote: Ian Parfrey

Go get him, Girls

Yes! That Mike Blakesley is obviously SUCH a total bitch. We all should SO not speak to him.

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Jeremy Jorgenson
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posted 03-22-2010 05:07 PM

Π (1998) (usually written as Pi)
Lullaby for Pi (2010)
Life of Pi (2011)
…and if that long awaited Magnum P.I. big screen version ever gets made. [Razz]

Then there’s Nattevagten (1994), released in the States as Nightwatch and remade as Nightwatch (1997) and has nothing to do with Ночной дозор (2004), released in the States as Night Watch (Nochnoi dozor).

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Jesse Skeen
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posted 03-22-2010 11:48 PM

There was a lawsuit over the porno "Very Dirty Dancing" from Vestron who produced "Dirty Dancing"- they thought people would think it was a sequel to their movie. There's tons of porn take-off titles though.

One more, though they were a few years apart:
Gladiator (1992)
Gladiator (2000)

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Mike Spaeth
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posted 05-19-2010 12:49 AM

How about ...

Drona (Hindi) (2008)
Drona (Telugu) (2009)

Daddy Cool (Hindi) (2009)
Daddy Cool (Malayalam) (2009)

These are distinct movies, not dubs.

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Edward Havens
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posted 05-19-2010 02:50 PM

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, 2010)
A Nightmare in Las Cruces (2010)

I'll be playing both on Friday.

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