Title credits12/20/2023 But it is the company that sold the movie into theaters, television, DVD, etc. It may or may not have financed the making of the movie. It may be a studio or independent distribution company. When the lights dim and the movie begins, the opening credits will be presented in the following manner: However, over the past two decades an order of listing cast and crew has become widely accepted by Hollywood studio and independent productions. Independent, non-union movies aren’t bound by union rules for opening credits, so anything goes. Today, high-powered talent demand specific types of onscreen billing in their contracts.Īlthough it’s common today for blockbuster movies to open with just the title and no other front credits, it is reported that George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not putting the director’s name (his) in the opening credits. Most movies in the 1930s through 1950s listed lots of cast and crew in the opening credits, often in a sort of Playbill format as if the movie was a filmed stage play. Citizen Kane opens with only the title of the movie, saving all the credits for the end. Many great movies had no opening credits, such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Except for the contractual or union-mandated billing, the rest of the opening credits have no rules. With a hundred years of moviemaking history, there must be a “standard” way of listing people in the opening credits, right? Wrong. Telling the audience who is in the movie, as well as other known talent such as writers, directors and composers, sets the stage for what’s to come. Opening credits are a functional as well as creative part of movies.
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