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Two Original Titles?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantWhite Pongo, Jr.
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What should I contribute as "Original Title" of a foreign movie, if the film was originally released under two different titles?

Detention / Learning Curve

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10001743-detention/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1125532-learning_curve/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134613/releaseinfo#akas
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Curve-John-S-Davies/dp/B0000B3FCC
http://www.interfilmes.com/filme_16066_Enjaulados-(Detention.Learning.Curve).html
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From the new rules:

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Use the title from the copyright notice if available, otherwise from the film's credits.
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What does the copyright stuff on the back of the cover say...?

Otherwise, I'd go by the indication that "Learning Curve" was the video release title and the actual original title is "Detention". They probably changed the name for video, because there was another film with the same title made in the same year.
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What does the copyright stuff on the back of the cover say...?


I am afraid there is no Copyright stuff on the back of the cover.

There is a "Copyright 2002 Detention, Ltd." in the end credits, but that looks like the name of a company.

Also see
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808511026/details

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Otherwise, I'd go by the indication that "Learning Curve" was the video release title and the actual original title is "Detention". They probably changed the name for video, because there was another film with the same title made in the same year.


OK, thus the Original Title would just be "Detention", or would you write down both "Detention / Learning Curve", or "Detention (Learning Curve)", in the Original Title field?
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What title has been used at the world premiere? IMO this is the original title.
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There is a "Copyright 2002 Detention, Ltd." in the end credits, but that looks like the name of a company.

It is quite common that they set up a production company just for one film with the name related to the Title.

I would only use "Detention" for Original Title.
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From the new rules:

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Use the title from the copyright notice if available, otherwise from the film's credits.


There is no copyright notice on the back of the cover.

The copyright notice in the end credits just seems to include a company name:
"2002 Copyright Detention, Ltd.".

The screen title is "Learning Curve", but according to some web sites that would be the video release title, while the original theatrical release would be "Detention".

So, would you enter "Learning Curve" as Original Title anyway?
Or "Learning Curve (Detention)"?


From the Rules:

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Foreign Films: The Original Title field will contain the original title for the main feature in the country of origin.
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Quoting ya_shin:
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Quoting EnryWiki:
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There is a "Copyright 2002 Detention, Ltd." in the end credits, but that looks like the name of a company.

It is quite common that they set up a production company just for one film with the name related to the Title.

I would only use "Detention" for Original Title.


I agree with this. This is quite a common practice to do that, this is you're original title. Most of the time the film and the video release have a different name, at last in many of my title (habitually the exploitation genre in general and sometimes it's a pain in the ... )
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For whatever its worth.

The back cover in the poster data area lists "Learning Curve", I can find no record of either Learning Curve or Detention at the US Copyright Office, or at least nothing that appears to match this film.

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Based on the information you provided, and the new rules, the original title would be 'Learning Curve'.

There is no title in the copyright so it defaults to the credits.
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