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| Registered: November 24, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,368 |
| | Posted: | | | | Simple question. What is the Original Title for Alien vs. Predator? At the moment, the database has several titles for the film. It should all boil down to one film, but it doesn't right now. Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_(film) - says the following... "Alien vs. Predator (stylized on-screen as AVP: Alien vs. Predator) is a 2004 American science fiction action horror film and the first in the Alien vs. Predator franchise."The opening credits show this... (cropped for size.)  | | | | Last edited: by GreyHulk |
| | Registered: October 22, 2015 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 329 |
| | Posted: | | | | Above screenshot was not indicative of the release title in the film's country of origin (namely, USA). The UK cinema title was "AVP - Alien Vs. Predator". The film was an American production (Davis Entertainment Company, Brandywine Productions) with co-production from [UK, CZECH, CANADA, GERMANY]. The theatrical title used in the United States was "Alien vs. Predator", corroborated as follows: • CARA film rating. • U.S. copyright registration. • IMDB release info for United States. The only countries that used "AVP: Alien vs. Predator" in the cinemas were Australia, Ecuador, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Phillipines, Romania, South Africa and United Kingdom. The original title should be "Alien vs. Predator". |
| | Registered: August 4, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,465 |
| | Posted: | | | | From Rules:
Original Title
The Original Title field serves two general purposes, but in both cases allows for the tracking of the original feature title. For profiles which have an alternate title displayed on the cover, use the title from the film's credits. For titles released outside their country of origin, use the original release title. | | | | Updated List of Accepted Birth Years |
| | Registered: October 22, 2015 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 329 |
| | Posted: | | | | My understanding was the bolded section of the rule you highlighted was for mismatches between the cover title and the credited film title. But what I was discussing was a screenshot of a film title, presumably from a UK release print, should not be used to ascertain the original title when the country of origin was the USA, as per the rules: Original TitleThe Original Title field serves two general purposes, but in both cases allows for the tracking of the original feature title. For profiles which have an alternate title displayed on the cover, use the title from the film's credits. For titles released outside their country of origin, use the original release title.An example would be Marvel's The Avengers from 2012, it was released in the UK as Marvel Avengers Assemble. | | | | Last edited: by ObiKen |
| | Registered: April 4, 2007 |  Posts: 896 |
| | Posted: | | | | At first I was also thinking, sorry, but the rules says use the title from the credits. But you are indeed right, even for english-language releases of US films outside of the US, the US title takes precedence. I would have done it that way locally anyways, but now I know I can actually contribute it  | | | | - Jan |
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