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I'll take Unicus over you any day of the week, Tim.

By all means: have a long and happy life together!     

As wil I, Unicus, as will I.

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I'd have to agree with Unicus as well.  I have seen a number of vanity producer credits on foreign films - credits that I don't think are the kind of credits Unicus is talking about.  These are credits where you have a US producer who is like 'I think this movie's cool, let's bring it over' and then he is credited in the US release as 'X presents.'  Quentin Tarantino has done a couple of these, like The Protector and Hero.  If I'm right on how I understand these, he's not part of the production crew for the actual film, he's just bringing it over/lending his name to the company bringing it over.

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I do find it funny that you asked for documentation but did not provide any, to back up your statement that my experience is incorrect, other than "IMO". 

Fact is, there is a credit in the opening credits. You're claiming that this credit is not a real credit but only a "vanity" credit. I don't believe you. Who should bring the documentation for your claim?

On what basis have you decided that I am wrong?  If you have no basis, other than "IMHO", why should I give your opinion any consideration?  I'm not trying to be an arse, I gave my reasons for why I am confident in my knowledge.  You don't have to believe or agree with me, but don't tell me I am wrong unless you have something to back it up with.

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As I said, and nobody has to believe me, this is a common producer credit that comes in many forms.  I just saw one recently, “A Burg/Koules/Hoffman production," that is simply every producers last name.  Are you really telling me, the general 'you', that I have to enter that as a studio? 

It can be, sure. Maybe not often, but as I said on the previous page: we really can't rule that out based just on formatting.

Since you brought up "A Burg/Koules/Hoffman production", I'll show a seemingly similar example I stumbled upon recently: "The 'Burbs". The credits say: "Imagine Entertainment Presents a Rollins-Morra-Brezner Production". Now, I gather you'd immediately dismiss the latter as a "vanity credit"? But then how would you explain the fact that of those three names, only Mr. Brezner actually gets a real "produced by" credit a bit further on? There's no sign of Mr. Rollins or Mr. Morra. Since they're not listed as producers, nor in any other capacity, I have no reason to believe that "Rollins-Morra-Brezner Productions" isn't a production company - on the contrary.

So again: I have no doubt that there are many cases in which you're absolutely right, but there are also plenty of examples where such credits do refer to actual production companies.

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when it comes to studio data, I dismiss nothing.

Good! Me neither.

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I guess you missed my post, the second from the top on this page, where I said "There are exceptions to every rule but, in the vast majority of cases, a credit such as I described is a vanity credit."  So, yes, there are cases where it is a production company, but it isn't the 'norm' so people shouldn't automatically assume that it is.  The safer assumption is that it isn't.

Oh, and you gather incorrectly.  I am a studio buff, have been for a long time...30 years or so...when it comes to studio data, I dismiss nothing.

I fully accept you know far more than me about such things and will even accept that usually it's a vanity credit. But in this case all the evidence I could find albeit quickly was that it wasn't so I was hoping for some evidence to justify the changes.
In this case as I said early on it appears there is a production company by this name and it was the comapny that distributed the early release advertising posters so had at least some part in the distribution. Could this be another one of the exceptions?