Movies with symbols replacing letters in their logos?

August 6, 2008 1:17 PM

I'm looking to find or generate a list of movies whose logo/font includes at least one symbol replacing a letter. For instance, Night Shift replaces the "i"s with footprints, and more famously Ghostbusters replaces the O with the "no ghosts" icon. Bonus points if the symbol is a dollar sign.

I've already trolled through boxofficereport.com's logo archive, but unfortunately it only goes back about 10 years and didn't yield much.

posted by Zair TL to media & arts (23 comments total)

John Carpenter's Vampire$ springs to mind.
posted by tinatiga at 1:23 PM on August 6, 2008

Se7en.
posted by chez shoes at 1:23 PM on August 6, 2008

Arli$$: Two bonus points for me! except it's a TV show
posted by puritycontrol at 1:24 PM on August 6, 2008

I wanted to win all the bonus points, but it turns out that if you search titles on IMDB for "$" you get a bunch.

Now I don't have a satisfaction of completing a list of obscure trivia, because the internet did it for me.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 1:28 PM on August 6, 2008

Just looking at the spines on my shelf, I see:

Best in Show (replaces the O with a blue ribbon)
Scary Movie (replaces the A with a Blair-Witch thingie)
Eurotrip (replaces the O with a London Underground-type symbol)
Born Rich (the eye is dotted with a diamond)

... um, the last 3 are my husband's. Not mine.
posted by nkknkk at 1:39 PM on August 6, 2008

The Simpson's Movie
posted by B(oYo)BIES at 1:42 PM on August 6, 2008

ROdney Dangerfield's EA$Y MONEY.
posted by rocket88 at 1:49 PM on August 6, 2008

Aliens (vertical eye-slit thing for 'I')
A Christmas Story (holly wreath for 'o')
Dogma (celtic cross/medicine wheel for 'o')
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 1:50 PM on August 6, 2008

There is a Warren Beatty movie titled $.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 1:51 PM on August 6, 2008

Simone (1 for 'i', slashed zero for 'o').
Platoon (dog-tags for 'o's)
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 1:58 PM on August 6, 2008

Thir13en Ghosts (baaad movie)
posted by changeling at 2:04 PM on August 6, 2008

AI
posted by saintsguy at 2:08 PM on August 6, 2008

Why isn't it Brewster'$ Million$?! Consarnit!
posted by ND¢ at 2:09 PM on August 6, 2008

DOGMA
posted by cgg at 2:22 PM on August 6, 2008

Manhattan
posted by JimN2TAW at 2:30 PM on August 6, 2008

Lucky Number Sleven replaces the l in Sleven with an upside-down seven.

Whenever I see a title like this, I always like to pronounce the symbol as part of the word. In this case: "Lucky Number Slupsidedownseveneven."
posted by SpiffyRob at 2:36 PM on August 6, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Ri¢hie Ri¢h
posted by clearly at 3:09 PM on August 6, 2008

The Hei$t
posted by clearly at 3:12 PM on August 6, 2008

This is unrelated, but *I* got a kick out of it.

I bought a DVD storage rack online the other day, and apparently they're not licensed to use "real" DVD/VHS box art in the product photo. So the DVDs in the product photo approximated their real-life counterparts in every other aspect: font, color, etc.

It had "Balloon" in place of Platoon (Plat "double-dog-tags" n);
"Albert Flowers" for Austin Powers;
"The Lizard of Ahz," well, no stretch on that one,
... and others that don't immediately spring to mind, except for:

"BOY Story" (Toy Story font). I'm thinking about recreating this cover and sneaking it into the DVD collection. We'll see if my visitors still exclaim, "Hey, you have great taste in movies!"
posted by Perplexer at 4:11 PM on August 6, 2008

The upcoming Tron sequel is being titled "TR2N", which is pretty terrible in my opinion, although I'm still excited to see the movie. I've never heard of "THE NINeS", but in looking for examples, I noticed that they use a mirrored 9 to stand for the e (at least a backwards 9 looks like a lowercase e).

This is more of a font style thing than a name thing, but often, movies will replace letters with Greek or Cyrillic letters that look like the Latin letters they're replacing. Replacing A's with capital lambdas is one of my silly pet peeves. I see "ΛTLΛNTIS" and instead of "Atlantis", I want to read it as "Ltllntis". The same goes for "THE DΛVINCI CODE" and similar.

(Incidentally, Perplexer, the practice of altering logos to remove trademarks is called "greeking". I love when I spot that sort of thing, though I often don't.)
posted by ErWenn at 4:48 PM on August 6, 2008

Hu$tle, although that's a show.
'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' has a dog-tag (with a scorpion on it) for the last O.
posted by cobaltnine at 5:55 PM on August 6, 2008

A correction on those who would nominate Dogma: the "cross" "O" is actually a feature of the typeface: Exocet by Jonathan Barnbrook, released by Emigre. It's technically not a modification.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 7:55 PM on August 6, 2008

ErWenn beat me to it, but Tr2n, and Faux Cyrillic.
posted by Who_Am_I at 7:29 AM on August 7, 2008