"Heckboy"
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"Heckboy"
Maybe I'm late to all this, but at our theater here in town, "Hellboy" is spelled "Heckboy" on the marquee (both sides).
How stupid.
How stupid.
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I'm fairly certain that that's against some MPAA to Director's Guild rules. You can't just go changing the name on marquees. Abbreviating for length is one thing, but changing it lke that is another. Whats to stop them from posting 'Scooby Doo 2' as 'X Men 3'. Or 'Pitch Black' as 'Pitch African Americans'.
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where the hell do you live, in the freakin' middle east?
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Re: "Heckboy"
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Maybe I'm late to all this, but at our theater here in town, "Hellboy" is spelled "Heckboy" on the marquee (both sides).
Maybe I'm late to all this, but at our theater here in town, "Hellboy" is spelled "Heckboy" on the marquee (both sides).
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You gotta get a pic of that.
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I do the marquees for my theater here. I abbreviate stuff like I put Scooby Doo 2, Lord of the Rings 3. It's all depending on how I feel at that time but I would never put something like Heckboy. If I was that theater I'd be pretty embarrassed.
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I know the manager at one of my local theaters which is in a mall, and he told me that when they had Jackass the property manager of the mall came to the theater to make absolutely sure that that was the title and that it wasn't some kind of practical joke or subversive prank against the management. He didn't want it up there because he didn't want to run the risk of offending other shoppers at the mall, but since it was verified that Jackass really was the title then even he admitted there was nothing he could do about it.
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Originally posted by RKillgore
Sounds like the antithesis of this theatre:
Sounds like the antithesis of this theatre: