{"id":6420,"date":"2009-12-14T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T04:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2015-07-11T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:41:21","slug":"is-new-kevin-smith-film-title-a-cop-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/14\/is-new-kevin-smith-film-title-a-cop-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Is New Kevin Smith Film Title A COP OUT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/acoupleofdicks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4076 alignright\" 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>While there has been no official announcement yet, it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/is-cop-out-the-title-of-kevin-smiths-newest-film-also-a-new-inception-trailer-for-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slash Film<\/a> has solved the mystery of what the new title of Kevin Smith&#8217;s buddy cop comedy formerly known as <strong>A Couple of Dicks<\/strong> starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan will be- <strong>Cop Out<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is as follows-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/smiths-couple-of-dicks-gets-new-title\/\" target=\"_blank\">has described<\/a> the new title as &#8220;ironic.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110716235610\/http:\/\/thefilmstage.com\/2009\/12\/12\/exclusive-smiths-a-couple-of-dicks-new-title-revealed-inception-trailer-for-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Film Stage <\/a>reports that Warner Brother&#8217;s exhibitor&#8217;s site is noting a trailer for a film called <strong>Cop Out<\/strong> should be placed in front of <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> opening Christmas Day.<\/li>\n<li>Smith has stated the promotion for his film will begin with the debut of a trailer in front of <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There is no IMDB listing for a 2009 film titled <strong>Cop Out<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems pretty slam dunk to me.<\/p>\n<p>Although I hate the idea that Smith was forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/smiths-couple-of-dicks-gets-new-title\/\" target=\"_blank\">change the title of the film<\/a> just because of its double entendre, I do like that the new title is a slam back at the ridiculousness that forced him to change it. It&#8217;s probably the best re-titling of the film since the MPAA forced Matt Stone and Trey Parker to change the title of <strong>South Park Goes To Hell<\/strong>, and the pair came up with and got approved the uncircumcised penis joke <strong>South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the release of this year&#8217;s Black List <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/12\/the-2009-black-list-is-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">last Friday<\/a>, one commenter had noted that a sure way to get your script onto the List was to have a provocative title, preferably with swear words in it. <strong>Cop Out<\/strong>\/ <strong>A Pair Of Dicks<\/strong> made the cut for last year&#8217;s Black List, sharing space with such scripts as <strong>Fuckbuddies <\/strong>and <strong>I Want To Fuck Your Sister<\/strong>. Makes you wonder what title changes will be in store for <strong>The Hand Job<\/strong> from this year&#8217;s List gets a greenlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">While there has been no official announcement yet, it seems that Slash Film has solved the mystery of what the new title of Kevin Smith&#8217;s buddy cop comedy formerly known as A Couple of Dicks <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/14\/is-new-kevin-smith-film-title-a-cop-out\/\" title=\"Is New Kevin Smith Film Title A COP OUT?\">[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":[1682,1149,1250,2291,50,1683],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-a-couple-of-dicks","8":"tag-black-list","9":"tag-bruce-willis","10":"tag-cop-out","11":"tag-kevin-smith","12":"tag-tracy-morgan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","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=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}