# Changed Star Billing on a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679 "2009-03-25T01:04:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679/21 "2012-04-29T01:03:37Z")
_L’Auberge espagnole_ (The Spanish Apartment) was promoted in the US as an Audrey Tautou vehicle after the success of _Amélie_, but her part is pretty small. Similar story with Matthew McConaughey and _Lone Star_. He only appears in a couple of scenes, all flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679/22 "2012-04-29T01:14:05Z")
The original poster of Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Demetrius_and_the_Gladiators_poster.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Demetrius_and_the_Gladiators_poster.jpg) Prominently mentioned: Victor Mature and Susan Hayward. After the movie Gladiator (2000) became a hit I noticed the DVD re-release of the 1954 movie just a few months later, gone were the star names and it had just the images of the gladiators and the coliseum, the cover had on top: DEMETRIUS and the [CENTER]\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ GLADIATORS \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_[/CENTER] > **[Amazon.com: Demetrius and the Gladiators : Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael...](https://www.amazon.com/Demetrius-Gladiators-Victor-Mature/dp/B000056AXZ)** > > Amazon.com: Demetrius and the Gladiators : Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Jay Robinson, Barry Jones, William Marshall, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Evans, Douglas Brooks, Delmer Daves, Lloyd C.... ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679/23 "2012-04-29T01:37:09Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > Suddenly because Hoffman’s career has rocketed and despite only being part of the supporting cast he’s now getting top billing? 😛 > > Found it very interesting. And in this case a little misleading. If someone had never seen Twister and thought I’ll check this out if Hoffman is the star would be a bit dissapointed. Even though he was a nobody at the time, Hoffman still got pretty high billing for Twister. And aside from Hunt and Paxton, he has more screen time than everyone, including the third-billed Cary Elwes. So this one isn’t quite the leap some are. > [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > The posters from the film Rounders show this phenomenon perfectly. > 1st [poster](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2794359296/tt0128442): Look, it’s a movie starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton and Gretchen Moll. > 2nd [poster](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1668914176/tt0128442): Hey look, it’s a movie starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton. Also, Gretchen Moll is in it too. > 3rd [poster](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm730635520/tt0128442): Check it out, it’s a movie starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton. To be far, _I_ have as much screen time as Gretchen Mol did in Rounders and I wasn’t even in the movie! 😉 Seriously though, she’s in what, five minutes at the most? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679/24 "2012-04-29T02:32:49Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > He’s quite prominent as the the old man in **Up**. That post was from March 2009 and Up came out in May 2009. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679/25 "2012-04-29T02:56:29Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > That post was from March 2009 and Up came out in May 2009. Good grief, I had no idea this was an old thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-star-billing-on-a-movie/490679.md?page=1)