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Revision as of 13:16, 10 February 2008
This page lists works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States. US titles will usually also be used in Canada; UK titles will also be used in the Republic of Ireland and often in Commonwealth countries excluding Canada. Not listed are minor changes due to American and British English spelling differences (for example, Rumor Has It... was titled Rumour Has It... in the UK). An asterisk* indicates which country the work originated in.
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Album | Security | Peter Gabriel (1982 album)* | This was the fourth album released by Peter Gabriel with the name Peter Gabriel. |
Autobiography | All Will Be Well | Memoir (John McGahern Book)* | |
Book | Holy Blood, Holy Grail | The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail* | |
Cartoon | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles | Violent "ninja" considered inappropriate for children. |
Collection of short stories | The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | The Great Automatic Grammatizator* | By Roald Dahl |
Collection of short stories | Young Archimedes | Little Mexican* | By Aldous Huxley |
Comic strip | U.S. Acres* | Orson's Farm | |
Film | American Wedding* | American Pie: The Wedding | Third movie in the American Pie series. Also American Pie 3 in some markets. |
Film | Dennis the Menace* | Dennis | Avoid confusion with unrelated British character Dennis the Menace |
Film | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle* | Harold and Kumar get the Munchies | White Castle restaurants unknown in the UK |
Film | Highlander: The Final Dimension | Highlander 3: The Sorcerer* | Also Highlander 3: The Final Conflict in some markets. |
Film | Howard the Duck* | Howard: A New Breed of Hero | Based on the comic Howard the Duck |
Film | Live Free or Die Hard* | Die Hard 4.0 | "Live Free or Die", the state motto of New Hampshire, is little known in the UK. |
Film | Madonna: Truth or Dare* | In Bed With Madonna | |
Film | Out of the Past* | Build My Gallows High | |
Film | Stairway to Heaven | A Matter of Life and Death* | |
Film | The Concorde ... Airport '79* | Airport '80: The Concorde | Title matches year of initial release in each country |
Film | The Conqueror Worm | Witchfinder General* | Lead Vincent Price had starred in several Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. This film has almost no connection to Poe's The Conqueror Worm. |
Film | The Great Train Robbery* | The First Great Train Robbery | Based on The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, unconnected to the 1963 heist known by that name in the UK. |
Film | Victory | Escape to Victory | |
Film | Waking Ned Devine | Waking Ned | |
Film | xXx: State of the Union* | xXx 2: The Next Level | Non-Americans would be less familiar with the State of the Union Address |
Film | Young Man with a Horn* | Young Man of Music | Avoid association "horn" = "erection" |
Film | Zentropa | Europa | Name changed to avoid confusion with Europa Europa |
Folk tale | Chicken Little | Chicken Licken | Usual names for The Sky Is Falling (fable) |
Games console | Sega Genesis | Sega Mega Drive | Japanses company Sega could not get permission to use "Mega Drive" in the US due to a copyright dispute |
Mock history | There'll Always be a Drayneflete | Drayneflete Revealed | U.S. title echoes There'll Always Be an England |
Novel | A House Called Awful End | Awful End | Original German title Schlimmes Ende |
Novel | Babe The Gallant Pig | The Sheep-Pig* | The corresponding film was titled Babe. |
Novel and film | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* | US editor felt that "Philosopher's Stone" conveyed an incorrect idea of the subject matter |
Novel | His Majesty's Dragon* | Temeraire | |
Novel | Little Women, Part II* | Good Wives | |
Novel | Outlander* | Cross Stitch | |
Novel | Pigs Might Fly | Daggie Dogfoot* | |
Novel | Red Alert | Two Hours to Doom* | |
Novel | Rosie Dunne | Where Rainbows End* | |
Novel | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Titles of distinct translations of Danish Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. Filmed as Smilla's Sense of Snow |
Novel | The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle | The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea* | U.S. publisher objected to "nigger" |
Novel | The Golden Compass | Northern Lights* | US publishers changed title due to vague resemblance of alethiometer on cover to a compass. The film version was titled The Golden Compass in all markets. |
Novel | The Time Travelers | Gideon the Cutpurse* | |
Novel | The Unsleeping Eye* | The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe | Filmed as Death Watch |
Novel | The War of Dreams | The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman* | |
Song | Morning Train (Nine to Five) | 9 to 5* (Sheena Easton song) | Avoid confusion with 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song) |
TV series | Brilliant | The Fast Show* | Avoid confusion with unrelated US series The Fast Show |
TV series | The Office (US)* | The Office: An American Workplace | Avoid confusion with original The Office (UK) |
TV series | MI-5 | Spooks * | |
TV series | Robin Hood | Robin of Sherwood* |