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Question: Movies with symbols replacing letters in their logos?

Zair TL — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:17:28 -0800

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.

By: tinatiga

tinatiga — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:23:26 -0800

John Carpenter's Vampire$ springs to mind.

By: chez shoes

chez shoes — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:23:30 -0800

Se7en.

By: puritycontrol

puritycontrol — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:24:47 -0800

Arli$$: Two bonus points for me! except it's a TV show

By: The Man from Lardfork

The Man from Lardfork — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:28:40 -0800

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.

By: nkknkk

nkknkk — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:39:09 -0800

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.

By: B(oYo)BIES

B(oYo)BIES — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:42:28 -0800

The Simpson's Movie

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:49:20 -0800

ROdney Dangerfield's EA$Y MONEY.

By: le morte de bea arthur

le morte de bea arthur — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:50:44 -0800

Aliens (vertical eye-slit thing for 'I')
A Christmas Story (holly wreath for 'o')
Dogma (celtic cross/medicine wheel for 'o')

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:51:28 -0800

There is a Warren Beatty movie titled $.

By: le morte de bea arthur

le morte de bea arthur — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:58:04 -0800

Simone (1 for 'i', slashed zero for 'o').
Platoon (dog-tags for 'o's)

By: changeling

changeling — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:04:41 -0800

Thir13en Ghosts (baaad movie)

By: saintsguy

saintsguy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:08:14 -0800

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:09:55 -0800

Why isn't it Brewster'$ Million$?! Consarnit!

By: cgg

cgg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:22:14 -0800

DOGMA

By: JimN2TAW

JimN2TAW — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:30:55 -0800

Manhattan

By: SpiffyRob

SpiffyRob — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:36:07 -0800

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."

By: clearly

clearly — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:09:29 -0800

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

By: clearly

clearly — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:12:49 -0800

The Hei$t

By: Perplexer

Perplexer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:11:41 -0800

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!"

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:48:41 -0800

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.)

By: cobaltnine

cobaltnine — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:55:56 -0800

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.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:55:52 -0800

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.

By: Who_Am_I

Who_Am_I — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:29:50 -0800

ErWenn beat me to it, but Tr2n, and Faux Cyrillic.