dvd re-naming
Presumably, in the same way that Star Wars, suddenly became Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope to allow for the sudden appearance I-would-rather-shit-my-bollocks-out-through-my-eyes prequels, they renamed "Mean Machine" to "The Longest Yard" in the UK DVD releases to stop people buying the old movie by mistake (or to prevent cynical shop owners ripping people off), or there was a disagreement over royalties/rights when the new film was released that using the US market name (Longest Yard) got round...or it made printing the cases cheaper as they didn't need to do two versions...although they'd still need to localised the text and whether it's PAL, NTSC, etc... could be a mix of all of the above, or none of them. In short, I don't know, but I got that far and didn't want to seem implausible!
(Chad, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 16:22, Reply)