| Does the movie make the title or does the title make the movie? | | Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:48:34 PM by Alex Molin |  Some say the title of a movie is as important as the movie itself and can sometimes make him a box office hit, and sometimes help the movie fail.
There are many internet sites dedicated to movies and there are even some dedicated especially to movie titles. One of these recommended sites is the Steven Hill’s page.
If you are a truly movie title fan, this is the site for you. Here you can search for any movie title you want, browse and admire title and logo designs, find movies that have completely different titles in different release prints, find multiple releases of the same movie title, you can even check the widescreen.
A very nice feature is that you can use the logo when designing a web page for your favorite movie, you can include the title screens in your video database and many other options and possibilities.
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| | | Chinese movie-goers see more home-made films in Oct | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:07:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | China's Ministry of Culture has movie-goers seeing red this month, after launching a campaign to promote home-made films celebrating China's revolutionary past and heroic figures at the expense of Hollywood movies. The "October Golden Autumn Excellent Domestic Film Exhibition Month," a campaign launched by several state-backed film organisations showcasing 10 local films, has delayed releases of blockbuster "Miami Vice" and Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," local media reported. "Miami Vice," starring Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and Chinese actress Gong Li, would be pushed back to November 1, while "World Trade Center" would not screen before November 11, Web portal Sina.com reported. "These 10 movies variously involve weighty revolutionary and historical material, modern city life, heroic figures and children's themes," Tong Gang, director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, told the Beijing Times.... | |
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| | | 'Superman' Blu-ray, HD DVD Specs Revealed | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:13:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the full specs for a trio of the most eagerly-awaited Blu-ray and HD DVD releases of the holiday season. Though information has been trickling in over the past couple of weeks since Warner Home Video announced the November 28 arrival of the Superman films to both next-gen formats, the studio has at last issued full details on all the releases. .... | |
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| | | Too cute, `Boynton Beach' is stranded | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:20:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cute. This movie is cute. Not in the way that, say, little Dakota Fanning is cute, or the cats on the Web site www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com are cute. More like the way Mickey Rooney is cute (now), or tiny white dogs in sweaters are cute, or tuna casserole is cute, or the way Adam Sandler thinks he's cute, or the song Papa Loves Mambo (used over the opening titles) is cute, or... enough cute? Yeah -- me too. Boynton Beach Club is an indie teen sex comedy of the sort with which director Susan Seidelman (Smithereens, Desperately Seeking Susan) began her career. The characters still worry about dating and learning to drive, buying condoms and getting naked, only now the teens are in their 60s and 70s, live in Florida instead of SoHo or the East Village, and use the Internet rather than newspapers to place their personals ads.... | |
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| | | Guba.com Slashes Video Download Prices | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:02:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Usenet archived turned commecial-video-service Guba.com raised eyebrows with recent high profiles deals with Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures to offer current-release, DRM-protected movies and television programming for purchase via download. Now—no doubt in anticipation of Apple Computer entering the digital movie market—Guba.com is trying to draw all the eyeballs it can, hoping people will try, like, and get emotionally attached to Guba's service before more players mount the stage. To that end, Guba.com is slashing prices on its downloadable movie and television programming. For a limited time, Guba.com users in the U.S. will be able to download movies for just $9.99 on the same day the films are released to retailers on DVD; 24-hour rentals of some movie titles can be had for as little as $0.99.... | |
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| | | 'Snakes' alive, and other great titles | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 11:08:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | ``Snakes on a Plane" might be a terrible movie. It could be brilliant. But what's inarguable is that it has the best title ever: It simultaneously mocks Hollywood's lack of ingenuity and jabs audiences for being silly enough to pay, all without being smug. Here are some other brilliant movie titles, some less transparent than others. --WESLEY MORRIS ``Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" (1971): The movie never lives up the title, but there are at least two good moments between suicidal songwriter Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Harris. ``Mother, Jugs & Speed" (1976): No, it's not an Oedipal XXX drug flick. Instead, it's Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, and Harvey Keitel as the eponymous ambulance drivers. ``The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (1979): An astrologer (Stockard Channing) helps a struggling basketball franchise draft an astrologically compatible team! The roster includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dr.... | |
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| | | Vintage Image of the Day: Mad Max | | Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:47:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | I don't have to tell you that Mel Gibson has been in the news lately. I have noticed that he photos people are using in the news stories are terribly unflattering. Everyone seems to like using the photos of Gibson with the scary long beard. So I thought I would take a moment to bring us back to an earlier time -- say, the late 1970s -- when Gibson was this good-looking Australian actor who starred in some gritty, cool post-apocalyptic movies: Mad Max (shown above) and its sequel The Road Warrior. (Please, spare me your attempts at humor linking the titles of these movies with Gibson's recent unpleasantness.)Mad Max, directed by George Miller, is set in Australia in a grim future. Gibson plays a cop out for revenge on a nasty motorcycle gang. I haven't seen the original film, but I saw The Road Warrior in college in 1988 and enjoyed it.... | |
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| | | BT Vision launches movie download service | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:01:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | BT has signed digital distribution agreements that will see the UK telecoms giant offering movie and TV downloads via its new BT Vision brand. Following deals with US media company NBC Universal and its Universal Pictures arm, a range of television shows and Hollywood movies such as Inside Man, Jarhead and King Kong will be available for both rental as video-on-demand and purchase as download-to-own. Content will be available for viewing on PCs and portable devices from the BT Vision store—a new film and TV download service to be launched on 31 July—and from the forthcoming BT Vision hybrid digital terrestrial and broadband-delivered TV service, which is expected to make its debut in the autumn. The number of available Universal film titles is expected to build to 150 by the end of the year, and all be will be offered from the day of their release on retail DVD.... | |
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| | | It's official: We've run out of adequate movie titles | | Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:10:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | A movie theater's best moments come before the feature presentation even begins. It's when the lights are still on, the surrounding yappers border obnoxious levels and you're still considering a plunge into the world of movie theater hot dogs which, of course, could later result in a head-first plunge into the world of movie theater toilets. This is a time of petty bickering over candy portions, chair adjustments and, for men, appropriate buffer zones between seats. All these unavoidable amusements were thrown to the wayside Tuesday afternoon as I sat through previews leading up to "Click," Adam Sandler's new flick. The fifth of maybe nine movie previews consisted of three quick shots, totaling no more than 10 seconds. First, Samuel L. Jackson's mug flashes on the big screen; second, a snake falls from an airplane's overhead compartment; lastly, the screen turns blank and the movie's title, "Snakes on a Plane," appears.... | |
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| | | EGTV: Video round-up ( News ) | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 11:02:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Friday afternoon? Time for another week of Internet movie highlights, hand-picked and packaged for your viewing pleasure from Eurogamer's tumescent TV archives. Having neither expired, ceased to be, met its maker, nor kicked the bucket, Guitaroo Man is alive and well on PSP. "For the right price it's one of the most endearing and unique handheld titles around," said Eurogamer supreme lord chancellor Kristan of this seven out of ten rated title. Catch the trailer on EGTV. Superhero fans disappointed by the uber-camp, chick-flick makeover Superman has undergone and looking for something a bit more chest-beating, could do worse than viewing Activision's latest teaser for next-gen 'hero fest Marvel Ultimate Alliance - which looks nasty enough to kidnap Lois Lane, use her remorselessly, then beat her up before giving her back.... | |
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