{"id":6363,"date":"2009-12-09T22:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2018-11-20T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:03:36","slug":"smiths-couple-of-dicks-gets-new-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/smiths-couple-of-dicks-gets-new-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith&#8217;s COUPLE OF DICKS Gets New Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4076\" title=\"acoupleofdicks1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"acoupleofdicks1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1-550x371.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, it was bound to happen. Kevin Smith&#8217;s upcoming buddy cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan <strong>A Couple Of Dicks<\/strong> has been forced to changed its name. That&#8217;s not really surprising, though. While the dicks in the title can refer to the fact that Willis and Tracy are detectives, certain people won&#8217;t catch the pun and will just knee-jerk react to the dirtier connotation of the title.<\/p>\n<p>Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\/status\/6444366708\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\/status\/6444375943\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\/status\/6444381767\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> that &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>The Movie Formerly Known as A COUPLE OF DICKS has finally settled on a (network-policy-dictated) replacement title! While <\/span><\/span><span><span>we&#8217;ll always have DICKS in our hearts, the title we just now locked makes me smile on a bunch of different levels &#8211; including this 1: <\/span><\/span><span><span>we can now advertise our movie properly (&amp; ironically). And said marketing begins&#8230; on every print of SHERLOCK HOLMES, Christmas Day!<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>Well that&#8217;s a nice little Christmas gift to Smith fans, isn&#8217;t it? Smith also <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatKevinSmith\/status\/6444548230\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that Warner Brothers should announce the film&#8217;s new title in a couple of days.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, it was bound to happen. Kevin Smith&#8217;s upcoming buddy cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan A Couple Of Dicks has been forced to changed its name. That&#8217;s not really surprising, though. While <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/smiths-couple-of-dicks-gets-new-title\/\" title=\"Smith&#8217;s COUPLE OF DICKS Gets New Title\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1682,1250,3,7883,50,1683],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-a-couple-of-dicks","8":"tag-bruce-willis","9":"tag-coming-soon","10":"tag-controversy","11":"tag-kevin-smith","12":"tag-tracy-morgan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}