Films that would have fared better at the Box Office with a better movie title ?

So you cut and ran?

 

Quantum Of Solace

Title could be a prog rock album.

 

C.H.U.D.

 

This wasn't going to be a big hit no matter how it was titled, but it ended up really bombing - combine the title and this photo (a joke almost no one got) and that's hard to entice an audience into a theatre.

 

I liked the book. Didn’t know there was a movie.

 

The book it was adapted from was titled All You Need is Kill, the film’s writer Christopher McQuarrie revealed fairly recently that the studio wouldn’t allow it to be called that because it would inevitably end up being released around the time of a mass shooting, which uh... says a lot about the current state of things.

 

The Shawshank Redemption (didn’t do well in its initial theatrical run)

And two poorly titled not-as-good movies:

The Hudsucker Proxy

The Men Who Stare at Goats

 

Mother, Jugs & Speed.

Keanu Reeves did alright with just plain Speed.

 

It was released during the writers guild strike. JCR couldn't promote it on talk shows when they on reruns for weeks on end.

 

ANNIHILATION and I AM THE CHEESE are based on novels by the same names, though . . .

 

Would not have mattered what it was titled. What a crappy movie!

 

Yes fans were gutted.

 

As stupid as this was I have to admit I liked quite a bit of it.

 

Ironically bad film titles are still good movies.
Just no one has heard of them.

 

My bad. I thought this thread was titled "Novels That Would Have Fared Better With a Different Title".

But movies made from novels often have different titles than their film counterparts. "Moby Dick" and Disney's "That Darned Whale!" comes to mind. Then there's "The Grapes of Wrath" and Preston Sturges' "Hey, Joad". I'm sure there are others.

 

The BFG

Was anyone's first thought that the "F" stood for "Friendly"?

 

Goodbye To Berlin -> I Am A Camera -> Cabaret
The Greatest Gift -> It's A Wonderful Life
Heart Of Darkness -> Apocalypse Now

Of course there's a listicle for this phenomenon:

Book Title vs Movie Title: 25 Films That Changed The Name

 

' Cinderella Man '
Guys didn' t want to see it cause it sounded lightweight. Gals didn' t want to see it cause it was about boxing. A lose-lose situation.

 

I never saw it, but Copland got good reviews, but I always thought it a daft title.

 

Don't know if it's on the list, but the first Harry Potter book, The Philosopher's Stone was retitled The Sorcerer's Stone for the US market and that was the name used in the movie. Presumably because not enough Americans are familiar with medieval alchemy to even know what The Philosopher's Stone was.

 

Sword In The Stone “
guess it had a familiar Walt Disney ring to it.

 

A shame too, as I think it is very funny and obviously a labor of love for all involved.

 

The title implies Johnny Cash but the picture implies Jim Morrison. Is the character more Man In Black or Lizard King?

 

Dewey Cox goes through a Cash phase , a Brian Wilson phase , a Dylan phase and a punk phase but I don' t recall a Lizard King phase.

 

Definitely a contender for worst title, but fixing that wouldn't fix the rest of that mess. No box office bump.