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Cirque du Freak Takes a New Title

Source:Universal Pictures
July 14, 2009


Was the title Cirque du Freak (set visit preview) too, er, exotic for audiences? Or is Universal merely trying to tap into the latest bloodsucker pop culture craze?

The studio has re-titled its adaptation of Darren Shan's novel to The Vampire's Assitant. Not only that, but it's now hitting theaters on October 23.

By placing the key word "vampire" in the title, we presume Universal is looking to attract that Twilight and True Blood crowd. But are they going to alienate the readership standing behind Shan's line of teenage novels? Probably not. "The Vampire's Assistant" is the moniker for book number two in the series.

Also opening on the 23rd, Lionsgate's Saw 6.

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Posted by: Octopus Pie on July 14, 2009 at 13:09:59

Well... it's not really a title change because that is the title of the first book in the series & I think they want to differentiate between the different films & not just rely on calling them "Cirque du Freak 1" & so on.

You know, similar to how other book to movie films have named their films after the individual books rather than the whole run of books. Like "The Golden Compass" & the different titles of the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

Of course attatching the term 'vampire' to it will attract people, but it's not really pandering to the masses if you use the original book title, is it?


Posted by: eulogy10 on July 15, 2009 at 05:26:21

For F$cks sake stop puttin True blood and Twilight next to each other the twilight ***** stole her idea from true blood which is 100x better and has been round longer


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