Home
search
more | tips

Film Articles

Iger: Disney's Controversies Are "Behind Us"
'Snakes on a Plane': The Cult
Russian Historian Says He Thought Up 'The Da Vinci Code'
Video Dealers and Game Merchants To Combine
'Ice Age' Melts the Competition in Britain

TV Articles

'Idol' Running on Mercury
Ratings Dribble Down for NCAA Basketball Contest
Producers Court Emmy Early for 'Everybody Hates Chris'
More Ethical Than Thou?
Fired CBS News Producer Charges Racism
Disney's Iger Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Music Business

Related Pages

Previous Day
Next Day
2009 archive


Movie/TV News

Studio Briefing

12 April 2006

'Snakes on a Plane': The Cult

New Line's Snakes on a Plane, due to open on Aug. 18, has already produced an avid cult, "the first cult following created entirely by a movie's title," according to Canada's Maclean's magazine. According to the magazine, an uproar among the cultists ensued when studio executives decided to change the title to Pacific Air Flight 121. Even star Samuel L. Jackson joined in the ruckus, saying, according to Maclean's: "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title." The magazine said that in the end, not only did the producers restore the original name but that they "recently returned to Vancouver to film new scenes with profanity and gore, bringing the final product closer to the kind of garish B movie its name suggests."

Previous Article | Next Article

Articles Copyright Studio Briefing All Rights Reserved.