3 Tips On Naming A Movie Or Screenplay by Blayne Weaver

Film Courage: How do you choose the titles of your films?
Blayne Weaver, Actor/Screenwriter/Producer: Oooh…I’m terrible at titles. I’m terrible at them. That’s not at all what I’m good at. What I’m…I’m giving Paul Osborne way too much credit in this interview. But he named CUT TO THE CHASE. I was looking for a title and he suggested it and I was so mad…it just came…just like that! He didn’t even work on it. He’s like How about CUT TO THE CHASE?
I was looking for something like KISS KISS, BANG BANG [Written/Directed by Shane Black, featuring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan — 2005] which I got stuck in my head. It’s a perfect title for a movie like this and I really liked that movie. So something like that is fun and a throwback to the seventies kind of movies. And he came up with it right off the top of his head.
But yes, again I’m not afraid to use my smart friends for all of their smarts and then put my name on it.
Film Courage: Well like…WEATHER GIRL [written/directed by Blayne Weaver starring Tricia O’Kelley, Patrick J. Adams, Ryan Devlin — 2009]?
Blayne: WEATHER GIRL kind of named itself because it’s a kind of a coming-of-age story. She’s a weather girl and trying to be a woman instead of a girl who is taken care of by this…she’s growing up. And so it was super easy because the weather girl is kind of demeaning you know and she grows up throughout the movie. That one actually…that was me…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

