I saw a few feature films on the Playboy channel that I was interested in. They were titled "My Tasty Asset" and "Cougar Chronicles". I wanted to find out who the actresses were but doing a search online resulted in no hits. I know for sure that "My Tasty Asset" is released by Vivid but even their site doesn't yield any recognition. Obviously Playboy has edited these original works. Does that mean that the titles have also changed? How do I go about finding any info on those particular titles. Thanks
For the most part, no, and for obvious reasons you alluded to. The only instances in which titles have been changed is when they allude to or include some taboo word or references. Because of that, many titles of 70s films which had he words "young" "girl" "baby" "teeny" etc in them where changed or altered to avoid the kiddieporn refferences they could be said to have had. That's about it.
Movies titles are often changed for TV, usually because they have profanity that cable companies won't allow you to list in their guides. Occasionally titles are also changed because they don't make sense out of their box cover context and need something clearer for cable use. If you contact whichever channel you're watching, they can tell you if they've changed a title. Hope that helps.
Movie titles are changed a lot. If you sell the rights to your movie to another territory most of the time they will change the title and boxcover. Very annoying. I think it was Orgazmik who told the story that they bought the same movie for their shop three times: the German version, the French version and the Italian version. Jacco
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Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 7:47PM
Vivid and other large outfits have occasionally changed the movie titles. Sometimes you may not even actually see the name of Vivid on their product and they use another name. Video Marc Dorcel does the same (for their distributor name). Vivid and other outfits make different versions and edits of their movies depending where their product is sold/distributed to: they may have a hard-R, X-rated, and uncut (sometimes an anal scene or DP scene, or cum shots may be removed depending where the product is being aired). Sometimes certain scenes may be bunched together (specific compilations) and aired under a name which you will not find in IAFD or movie distributor. With regards to foreign movies, they may be known and circulate under a number of names, and even an older hc movie may have beemn distributed under a totally (less innocuous) name (i.e. a lot of french movies in the 1970's and 1980's). I recall years ago Playboy channel used to air so-called "amateur" sex movies/scenes, but in fact they were scenes taken from other hc movies with well-known adult perfomers. But what are you going to do, when you spot this kind of behavior, ask for a "refund"?
Another reason titles get changed are because of being censored by the distributors. For example, I have a film series called "Forced Feedings" that appears correctly on some sites, and on others, it's listed as "Make Me Swallow", because the use of the word 'Forced' isn't allowed. - Marie
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Posted - Sep 26 2008 : 8:46AM
Marie, I deal with that in my post I think. Sometimes the original title is a bit "vulgar", and depending where that particular movie is being marketed a more "pleasing" and less offensive title is inserted. This was true of a lot of the French hc titles of the 1970's and 1980's, which were frequently marketed (in other territories) with less "offensive" titles. If you look at the EGAFD database you will get an idea of what I am talking about. This may not necessarily mean that Vivid and Playboy do this for this reason, as Vivid movie titles are usually not of the "I Fucked you and your Mamma in the Ass" variety. A lot of other marketing reasons may come into play, of which we are ignorant and which may not be revealed even if you ask them...
Yeah..depending on where it is shown. My movie "I just fucked a black guy" was changed to "I just loved a black guy" for pay per view. And yes,the scene is sold and the title/box cover changes then. My "dirty 30's and squirting" movie is also sold under "my squirting aunt",which is kind of disturbing to me because I didnt sign up to be in an "incest" film....
^You can't delete. You can go back and edit it by clicking on the little icon above the message with the pencil on it. Then just erase all the text and type something like "oops. double post." and everyone will get the idea. But since I'm here now, and in a good mood, I'll delete the extras for you. But just this once! :)
Another problem, which I believe is even more annoying, is when the same movie, with the same title, is re-released in multiple versions. Some issues are: different running lengths, same scenes edited, scenes deleted, scenes added... This is one of the most difficult things to address on the IAFD, where people keep submitting "corrections" based on the version they have seen. The older the movie, the more of an issue this becomes. For example, the original theatrical film may have been edited to fit onto the various VHS limitations (i.e. two hours at SP was not always the upper limit) at the time the transfer occurred. Then, many videos were sometimes re-released by companies who were not the original studios. Later, in the transfer to DVD, many movies got edited again to fit onto cheaper single-sided 4.7 GB disks (often chopping them up again in order to fit trailers and phone-sex ads on as well). To make matters worse, many of these re-released versions are often based on the previously re-released and edited versions, as the original theatrical film masters and/or prints no longer exist, and/or are not available to the company re-releasing the title. [o\|]
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Len801 Deactivated User
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Posted - Sep 27 2008 : 3:10PM
While this has little to do with movie title change, wasn't the re-editing/shortening of movies Vivid was re-releasing some years back subject of much controversy, when whole scenes were dropped?? A lot of exploitation movies (whether american or foreign made) have been released at one time (theatrical, VHS, DVD, in US, UK, etc) or other under a number of different names.
It has nothing to do with "movie title change." Rather, it is "Another problem" which is related to the topic at hand (i.e. changing movies from their original versions). I think you will also find re-titled movies are, frequently, edited as well.
I have no idea.
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Posted - Sep 27 2008 : 4:57PM
[Sorry, the link is too long - 250 characters max] (Sorry, can't seem to make this RAME post clickable) -- edited to make link clickable WTF? I corrected the hyperlink url marks, and it won't work for me either? Cut & paste the following should work: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.erotica/browse_thread/thread/e1d2870e179b53d2/1ade305767e9076f?lnk=st&q=missing+scenes+in+vivid+dvd+releases+group%3Arec.arts.movies.erotica&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.arts.movies.erotica%2Fbrowse_thread%2Fthread%2Fe1d2870e179b53d2%2F1ade305767e9076f%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3Dmissing%2Bscenes%2Bin%2Bvivid%2Bdvd%2Breleases%2Bgroup%253Arec.arts.movies.erotica Edited by - BigBobxxx on 9/27/2008 6:26:36 PM