Movies that use different titles overseas
 

The new XXX movie "XXX2: State of the Union", is changing it's name for the overseas release. It'll be "XXX2: The Next Level"

What other movies can you think of that changed their titles for overseas release?

The movie "Joyride" is known as "Roadkill" in Australia.

Leprechaun 2 is known as "Four Funerals and a Wedding" in some countries.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" outside the US.

The Rundown was Welcome To The Jungle overseas...

"Formula 51" was "The 51st State" over in the UK.

Don't know if it's an overseas thing, but Steve Guttenberg's movie "Don't Tell Her It's Me" suddenly became "The Boyfriend School" for the recent DVD release. :hscratch:

Cowboy Bebop movie was Knockin' on Heaven's Door originally. Had to change it for rights in the US

A Matter of Life and Death became Stairway to Heaven. This movie needs an R1 DVD release desperately!

In France, Speed was called "Speed" pronounced with a French accent.

"Army of Darkness" was known in some countries as "Captain Supermarket."

Seems like most movies get an alternate title in at least some country they are released in.

could it be due to shitty translation jobs?

Not so much shitty translation jobs as neccessary translation jobs.

For example, the Ghibli movie Laputa was changed to Castle in the Sky because the phrase "La Puta" means "The Whore" in Spanish.

Other times the altered title is done by the original film's producers. Hong Kong films often have very different English titles than what a literal translation of the Chinese would produce. This is done sometimes because of the oddness a literally translated title would produce.

Sometimes the changes are made due to different cultural or marketing reasons. For example, Stephen Chow's new film "Kung Fu Hustle" is titled in Chinese as just "Kung Fu." This is good enough for Chinese audiences, who know Stephen Chow and his comedic approach, and are also familiar with all the kung fu films that he homages in this film. For English, the word hustle was added possibly to add a hint of comedy to the title and to keep it from sounding too generic.

Sometimes title changes have nothing to do with translation. For example, the film that was released as "Danny the Dog" in the UK is being released in the US as "Unleashed." So sometimes is purely a marketing thing, or because a studio exec preferred a certain title.

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Haw haw haw.

Dead Alive was called Braindead in virtually every country but the US.

Japan changes almost all the Foreign release titles.Have no idea why and who desides all those stupid titles!

Léon was called The Professional in the U.S. However, probably due to the film's following of people familiar with the original title, both titles are on the American DVD releases.

Posters? Cover Art? I want to see that one.

That is because LEON is a different cut than The Professional... This was the comprimise the director made....they cut his film, so he gave it a different name. Same goes with the dvd....all DC's are titles Leon, while the cut version is still titled The Professional

For example, according to the Japanese trailer, The Incredibles was renamed Mr Incredible over there.

Don't forget about Cemetary Man...

:up::up::up: My most anticipated release. Don't understand the holdup.

what? and there's no "Captain Supermarket Edition" of the movie out? I smell a new release coming!

That was the title in Japan. One of my favorite name changes.

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle appears to be called Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies in other places.

Harold and kumar is kalled "high school high" in norway. Now that is a bad title.

laserdisc jacket? right here...

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