Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: "Vatican Detective"....ohh man that is funny

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Posted by Chris Medley (Member # 2145) on 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??

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 05-05-2004, 10:23 PM:

I thought the general understanding was to not discuss technicolor code names.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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.

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 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. [evil]

Posted by Dominique Replogle (Member # 2387) on 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.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 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.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 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! [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Chris Medley (Member # 2145) on 05-06-2004, 07:03 AM:

Brad....my thoughts exactly

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 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!

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 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. [Roll Eyes]