In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It

"Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Bram Stoker's Wes Craven's Tim Burton's The Beast of Yucca Flats. A Francis Ford Coppola film."

— Tom Servo, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Many films, works of literature and other works are referred to not just by title but by author/ director/ etc., e.g. "William Shakespeare's Hamlet." There are several permutations:

• Original Author's X — Putting the author of the original work before the title of the adaptation in order to differentiate it from other adaptations and add a stamp of authenticity. If the writer is still alive then this is intended to suggest the author did more than just sign the rights away and be done with it; if not, it's intended to suggest the creators are trying to be true to (their understanding of) the original work (especially if it's out-of-copyright — anyone can make a Dracula film).
• Celebrity Sponsor's X — Attaching the name of a popular (living or dead) author or celebrity onto a game into which he probably had little input, in order to improve the branding and attract passing trade. This is similar to the George Foreman Grill, in that nobody is under the illusion that John Madden sat down and coded an entire video game in his spare time – although he did have more influence than most of these cases.
  • Then there's the double sponsor version: The (Sponsor #1) (event or game) sponsored by (Sponsor #2) or (Sponsor #1) Presents (Sponsor #2) (event). One (real) example of a golf game: "The Coca-Cola Invitational, sponsored by Safeway."
• Executive's X — Putting the name of a producer or other executive with big-name power on the posters for much the same reason as above, but this is worse because these people are usually directors or writers themselves. There's an implicit suggestion that the named person had something to do with it creatively when he most likely just gave it some money (or, at most, came up with a plot outline and a few characters). Sometimes rendered as Steven Spielberg Presents: Animaniacs. Many people still labour under the impression that Tim Burton directed invoked The Nightmare Before Christmas (it was really Henry Selick; Tim Burton came up with the original story but didn't write the screenplay).
• New Interpreter's X — A variation used to show that this adaptation is a bold new vision distinct from the original author's version. A relatively honest variation, in that the name at the front of the title actually does belong to the person who created the work.
• Actual Creator's X — where the creator actually did create the work, no qualifiers needed.
• Company's X — A variation with the company instead of a single person. Often this is done for trademark reasons, especially when the simple name X can't be reliably trademarked, or to emphasize the company for association.
• Star's or Host's X — Another variation on #5 with the star or host instead of the creator. Occasionally used on Australian and British game shows.

Not to be confused with Author Catchphrase or Signature Style. Compare Self-Titled Album. See also Advertising by Association, where a previous work from the creator(s) is namedropped in a similar manner, and Billed Above the Title. For when the creator is frequently mentioned, though not necessarily in the title, see Copiously Credited Creator.

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TV Tropes' Examples:

Original Author's X

• Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina
• Peter Benchley's Creature was originally titled White Shark but was eventually renamed to fit the TV movie adaptation.
• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
• Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, a series who adapts a few stories of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
• This is how Cirque du Soleil's Jukebox Musical variants are titled, owing to the fact that they are direct collaborations with, respectively, Apple Corps Ltd and the estate of Michael Jackson. The shows are able to use the original recordings of the artists in question rather than covers, and titling them in this way also marks them as officially sanctioned productions, as numerous non-sanctioned tribute shows/acts to these performers exist.
  • The Beatles LOVE
  • Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour
  • Michael Jackson: ONE
• Paula Danziger's Amber Brown for the titles authored by Bruce Coville and Elizabeth Levy after Danziger Died During Production.
• Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Going by The Other Wiki, Dick's name was first attached in the wake of his stroke when he could no longer host it himself. (If it did show up before that, it would have been Actual Creator's X and Host's X.)
• The Mockbuster version of Sherlock Holmes was credited in some places as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. This is a particularly bare-faced example.
• Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, a comic book series adapting Ellison's works, and Ellison's cleverly titled film criticism column, "Harlan Ellison's Watching."
• Federico Fellini's Satyricon, an adaptation of Roman novel The Satyricon, was actually titled Fellini Satyricon because there was a completely different adaptation of The Satyricon, titled Satyricon, which was also released that same year (1969).
• "Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in..." Not part of the title itself, but often included in the title sequence, possibly because the James Bond franchise is a bit unusual in its lack of an arching franchise-title.
  • Early installments had the order reversed, i.e., "James Bond 007 in Ian Fleming's...." The changeover happened with The Spy Who Loved Me, which was by Fleming's request an In Name Only adaptation, although some of the previous movies were significantly different from Ian Fleming's books, as they kept only the title of the book and the name of some characters.
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also has Ian Fleming's name above the title in the opening credits.
  • The Bond films' production company, Eon Productions, also does this to honor its late founder Albert R. Broccoli, leading to
    "Albert R. Broccoli's Eon Productions Ltd. Presents Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Skyfall" (Spectre and No Time to Die followed suit)
• Goethe's Faust
• The 80s cartoons based on Jim Henson's television series, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters, and Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock.
  • Jim Henson's Doozers, the 2010s cartoon.
  • Bear in the Big Blue House's two music albums were "Songs from Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House" and "More Songs from Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House."
  • Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a 2019 prequel to the 1982 film.
• Frank Herbert's Dune and its sequel Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
• Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
• Stephen King, despite being an archetypal example of Billed Above the Title for his own novels, isn't a prominent example of this trope. Certainly, he has had several adaptations of his novels preceded by his name, but usually not the really famous ones. The interesting case here is that he actually sued to have his name taken off the movie version of The Lawnmower Man. He also remade The Shining, because he hated the Stanley Kubrick version (to the point where he was legally forced to stop talking about it) and called the TV mini-series Stephen King's The Shining.
  • The mini-series of IT also does this, most likely because the title is so generic.
• Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942) and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), both rather loose live-action adaptations of The Jungle Book.
• The opening credits of the 1989 non-musical ''Phantom of the Opera'' film present the film as Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera after the guy who wrote the original novel.
• "H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House", an episode of the TV Show Masters of Horror.
• Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy by Eric Lustbader
• Isaac Newton's Gravity. Something tells me Sir Isaac Newton had nothing to do with the creation of the game.
• Pink Floyd – The Wall, the film showcasing music from the album of the same name.
• Paranoia Scape is occasionally released as Screaming Mad George's ParanoiaScape.
• Plato's The Republic
  • This one is generally because most people hearing just the title are going to be scratching their heads thinking "that seems familiar, but I can't quite place what it's about.... oh, Plato's Republic, yes, of course" (especially true since no one's read it, but everyone's heard of it).
• Robert Rodriguez's film version of Sin City is credited as Frank Miller's Sin City; Rodriguez's intention was to acknowledge Miller as the primary creative force behind the film. As he originally said to Miller in his first pitch: "I don't want to make Robert Rodriguez's Sin City. I want to make Frank Miller's Sin City."
  • He went so far as to quit the Directors' Guild of America when they wouldn't agree to let them share director credit. Awww.
• The Animated Adaptations of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music opened with a logo saying Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The recent Sky1 Films of the Books are called Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic and Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. (As humourously ambiguous as that last one may be, it's not a patch on the possibility that they might one day make a big-budget adaptation called Terry Pratchett's Making Money...)
• Mario Puzo's The Godfather — done at the insistence of Francis Ford Coppola, who felt Puzo deserved most of the credit. Since that movie got his career started, Coppola has gone on to do the same for most of his directorial endeavors that were adapted from a novel.
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, among many others
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (like Bram Stoker's Dracula, partially to distinguish from the Universal's Frankenstein)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, perhaps given that title to emphasize the Lemony Narrator.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (though this was also to distinguish it from Universal's Dracula)
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest
  • Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats
  • Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, based off of The Jewel of Seven Stars.
  • Bram Stoker's Shadowbuilder
  • Bram Stoker's Way of the Vampire
• J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ralph Bakshi's Animated Adaptation.
• H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, a 1950s TV series about an invisible man (who wasn't the one from Wells's novel, nor did the series bear any other similarities).
• Tabletop Games like Dungeons & Dragons tend to use it In-Universe for various Vancian Magic spells: Evard's Black Tentacles, Bigby's Grasping Hand, Mordenkainen's Disjunction...)
  • Gaia also uses it with spells such as Vaal's Manifold Dispersion, Llyra's Wave Warp, and Lilith's Black Marble.
• An updated staging called The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess drew criticism from some people who pointed out (correctly) that DuBose Heyward wrote at least as much of the book and lyrics as Ira Gershwin did.
• The special Arthur's Perfect Christmas is titled as Marc Brown's Arthur's Perfect Christmas in the title display seen towards the beginning of it.
• Bébé's Kids, based on a stand-up act by comedian Robin Harris, was released on home media as Robin Harris' Bebe's Kids.
• Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, an adaptation of a pilot written in the 1970s. His widow, Majel Barrett, produced, credited as Majel Roddenberry. Likewise with Earth: Final Conflict.
• Little Bear was often listed as Maurice Sendak's Little Bear in reference to the animated television series, but this is an oddball case. Maurice Sendak only illustrated the original Little Bear books, which were written by Else Holmelund Minarik. This even resulted in Recursive Adaptation titles that were illustrated by someone other than Sendak still carrying a Maurice Sendak's Little Bear logo. It's not entirely surprising though given that the Little Bear name has avoided the One-Mario Limit, with several other picture book and picture book series out there with a character called "Little Bear."
• Since the death of Anna Dewdney, author and illustrator of the Llama Llama books, who was also quite involved in the creation of the Animated Adaptation of the series, the series has started being referred to promotionally as Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama. Also, some of the new books released afterwards state on the cover that they are "An Anna Dewdney Book."
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
• The full title of King Kong 360 at Universal Studios Hollywood's Studio Tour is King Kong 360 3-D Created by Peter Jackson.
• Isaac Asimov: Isaac Asimov's Robots: The title reminds potential customers that Isaac Asimov is the original creator behind this game, despite him having little involvement in the actual production.
• Foundation - The Psychohistorians: The cover page prefaces the title with Isaac Asimov's name, explicitly crediting the original author before the adaptation author/artist.
• Turkey Hollow is based on a story created by Jim Henson in the 60s. The full title is "Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow''.
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles: The full title is H. G. Wells' The Man Who Could Work Miracles.
• The original volume of ''Wonder Woman had "by Charles Moulton" prominently on the cover long after William Moulton Marston's death even though the other user of the pen name stopped using it and writing comics once he died.
• Sherlock Holmes (1932)'s alternative title is Conan Doyle's Master Detective Sherlock Holmes.
• On the posters, Twice-Told Tales is identified as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales.
• The title screen of The Peanuts Movie reads The Peanuts Movie by Schulz. The production worked closely with Charles Schulz' family while creating the movie.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: Although this mockbuster from The Asylum bears no resemblance to anything Sir Arthur Conan Doyle actually wrote.
• The full onscreen title of The Prince of Thieves is Alexandre Dumas' The Prince of Thieves.
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn
• The 1958-61 color series Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat, acknowledging the co-creator of the original black-and-white silents.

Celebrity Sponsor's X

• Isaac Asimov:
  • Asimovs Science Fiction: Originally titled Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Dr Asimov wrote the editorials (and provide responses for the Letters column) for the first decade and a half or so. However, he arranged from the very beginning to be under the control of another editor. George Scithers was the first one in charge, and it went through three other editors before Dr Asimov's death.
  • Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine: This magazine folded after only four issues, using Dr Asimov's name to advertise itself, and under the control of George Scithers. Launched in 1978, it closed in favour of the more popular sister magazine.
  • The Great SF Stories: Dr Asimov's name is used to sell twenty-five volumes of this Genre Anthology, providing a bit of commentary as a preface to each story. He left story selection and anthology introduction to the other editor, Martin H. Greenberg.
• Clive Barker:
  • Despite the below-mentioned parody, Clive Barker's Jericho is actually a case of this... to a degree. Clive Barker didn't actually write the code or anything, but he collaborated on development and is listed as "creator" in the credits.
  • Clive Barker's Undying. Clive Barker was brought in partway through development for a rewrite of the story, and he also ended up doing a character's voice. His name was attached to it because Electronic Arts thought it would sell. Unfortunately, despite being a very good game, it didn't — due in no small part to the sum total of EA's marketing campaign for the game being slapping "Clive Barker's" in front of the title.
• Tom Clancy lent his name to various series of books and games, but his involvement is limited to laying out the general concept for the respective series, while others do the actual writing. The Video Game publisher Ubisoft currently owns the intellectual property rights to Clancy's name for their games (Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, H.A.W.X., EndWar, and others) and any related works. Clancy wrote some stories for the early Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six games. Later ones are Celebrity Sponsor's X (above).
• Arthur C. Clarke:
  • Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, a documentary series; Clarke introduced each episode but was otherwise uninvolved (even the narration for the bulk of each episode was done by somebody else)
  • Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime is another example. While the novels are all based on short stories by Clarke (and in fact include those short stories in the text), most of the writing was actually done by Paul Preuss.
• Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Also a number of anthologies of short stories for children (one centered on spies, one on horror, one on mysteries, etc.) were published as Alfred Hitchcock's X. The Three Investigators series was also "presented" and introduced by Hitchcock. Hitchcock had nothing to do with any of these, other than licensing his name out to them.
• Madden NFL
  • Somewhat misleading, as John Madden did much more than to lend his name and sponsorship to the game. The game was not initially conceived as a realistic football simulation, but Madden refused to put his name on it unless it were one. The game as it exists is very much his concept instead of the developers', so it's fitting that it's named after him.
• The Jon Pertwee Book of Monsters and Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters, short story anthologies trading on the stars of Doctor Who. Apparently, Davison actually chose the stories in "his" book, while Pertwee only provided introductions to stories selected by another; this may explain why only Davison gets the 's.
• The Forgotten Realms series R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen. Each book in the series was written by a different author, and while Salvatore did oversee the project and write a prologue for each book, his name is basically a selling point for these novels by lesser-known authors.
• The Adventure Island games are titled Takahashi-Meijin no Bouken Jima (Master Takahashi's Adventure Island) in Japan, after Hudson Soft's spokesman who is barely recognizable as his in-game likeness. The first game was actually titled Hudson's Adventure Island outside Japan, though it was originally Wonder Boy and not a Hudson Soft game at all.
• Quentin Tarantino presents The Protector and Quentin Tarantino presents Hostel. Interestingly, this is done by Tarantino himself to promote films that would otherwise be ignored, not by the studios.
  • In the case of Zang Yimou's Hero (2002), at least, this was the only way the Weinsteins agreed to distribute it without editing or dubbing.
• Tekno Comics, a short-lived comics company in the Nineties had all their titles like this: Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice, Isaac Asimov's I-Bots, Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger, Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, Tad Williams' Mirrorworld and so on.
• Both Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula had alternate titles: Andy Warhold's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula. Paul Morrissey wrote and directed the movies and was a frequent collaborator with Andy Warhol, as was the two films' star, Joe Dellesandro. Because of this, they asked Warhol if they could use his name as a producer for publicity purposes. Morrissey did not expect the alternate titles and was angered when people believed the movies were made by Warhol.
• Common in video games, usually including the likenesses (and sometimes voices) of the athlete named:
  • Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
  • Brian Lara Cricket
  • Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
  • Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
  • Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road
  • Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
  • John Elway's Team Quarterback
  • Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
  • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (though in that game, Mike Tyson was the final opponent)
  • Shaun White Snowboarding and Shaun White Skateboarding
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour
  • Early in the lifespan of the Sega Genesis, Sega's American division sought to cash in on recent championships for their sports games by adding famous figures to otherwise unrelated games, with Tommy Lasorda Baseball^note formerly Super League and Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf^note formerly Naomichi Ozaki Super Masters, making it a different celebrity endorsement in Japan in 1989 (along with the Sega Master System-exclusive Walter Payton Football^note formerly American Pro Football); James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing,^note A Take That! against the aforementioned Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, as Douglas' claim to fame was defeating Tyson; formerly Final Blow Joe Montana Football and Pat Riley Basketball^note formerly Super Real Basketball in 1990, and Mario Lemieux Hockey in 1991.
    • A case with the parent Japanese arm (with help from Brazilian distributor Tec Toy) was Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II in 1992, where the Formula One champion's input was more than Celebrity Endorsement, even having a mode with tracks designed by him.
    • Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing, developed by ACME Interactive for the Sega Genesis as a successor to the Buster Douglas game, would receive a bit of a marketing blow when Holyfield lost the title to Riddick Bowe just one month after the game was released. ACME (renamed Malibu Interactive) ported the game to the Super NES as Riddick Bowe Boxing, but they weren't able to release the game before Bowe lost the title back to Holyfield.
    • The Sega Genesis port of Pigskin: 621 AD was retitled Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl, despite the game featuring a fictional Blood Sport that makes no pretense of following the rules of American Football.
    • Similarly, the Amiga game Future Basketball was retitled Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball when it was ported to the SNES. An Excuse Plot was added to explain the futuristic setting and changes in rules to remove fouls and the addition of weapons, in that Laimbeer became the commissioner of an American basketball league in 2031 and fired all the referees.
  • Earl Weaver Basketball
  • Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
  • Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker (which was followed up by the oddly-titled sequel Jimmy White's 2: Cueball in 1999)
  • Nigel Mansell's World Championship

Executive's X

• Older Than Steam: Although the thing was built long before, few not present in 1480 know the Sistine Chapel was named after the man who had it restored to glory, The Pope Sixtus IV. Still, he had no real involvement with the artwork which makes the Chapel famous today, so it's not as if we've forgotten a secret genius of Western Art.
• Wes Craven Presents: They, in addition to being a terrible film, is an example of #3.
  • Also Wes Craven's Wishmaster, Wes Craven presents Dracula 2000...
  • The "Wes Craven Presents" series was an attempt to give experience and an opportunity to some up-and-coming young directors. It was hoped that attaching Craven's name would make the films more appealing to distributors and renters. The whole effort has probably done more harm to Craven's name than it has good for anyone else's.
• Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, of which Motown head Berry Gordy was executive producer.
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an anthology television show featuring horror/mystery/crime stories, for which Alfred Hitchcock served as executive producer and host. He also directed some (but not all, or even most) of the episodes.
• Are We There Yet?. the TV show from executive producer Ice Cube (who does do the promos for it).
• Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (if it isn't obvious, The Movie is the one film that was directed by Jackson)
• Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter. Many readers felt shortchanged by this comic, since it was fairly light on Fanservice despite being backed by a porn star.
• Marvel Comics always included a "Stan Lee Presents" before the title of each comic issue for decades. This has led to Lee's reputation getting rather severely inflated among people unfamiliar with comic books.
  • Boom! Studios did the same thing with a trio of titles that Lee was involved in (but not as an actual writer or artist).
• Billy Rose's ...
• Steven Spielberg:
  • All the Warner Bros. TV cartoons that were co-produced with Amblin Entertainment were fully titled Steven Spielberg presents [show title].
  • The miniseries Steven Spielberg Presents Taken. Spielberg neither wrote nor directed the show: he was executive producer alongside Leslie Bohem, who created the show and wrote every episode, and each of the ten episodes had a different director.
  • Although Spielberg has "Story By" credit on 15 episodes of Amazing Stories (including the two he directed) and wrote another one, his name isn't part of the title except in British listings guides (which insisted on calling it Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories).
• Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Purple, the musical adaptation of the 1985 film adaptation of the 1982 novel by Alice Walker.
  • See also the made-for-TV movies among others Oprah Winfrey Presents David And Lisa, Oprah Winfrey Presents The Wedding, and Oprah Winfrey Presents Mitch Albom's For One More Day.
• Walt Disney's movies almost always had "Walt Disney presents..." written in the opening credits, even those originally distributed through RKO Radio Pictures instead of Disney's own distributing company. The posters and home video covers also often read, "Walt Disney's", "Walt Disney Presents...", "Walt Disney's Classic...", or "Walt Disney's Masterpiece..." above the title. Titles used for Walt Disney's anthology show include Walt Disney's Disneyland, Walt Disney Presents, and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
• Likewise, at the Disney Theme Parks, there's Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room and Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, although the "Walt Disney's" bit wasn't added into the titles until several decades after they first opened and after Walt passing away.
• Possible Tomorrows: On the 1971 Pyramid Books cover, the Tagline says "Groff Conklin presents five fabulous novels of tomorrow by Isaac Asimov and four other great science fiction authors", then the title.
• The Pink Panther cartoons were officially billed as Blake Edwards' Pink Panther, as Edwards had commissioned the title sequences for the original films. This extends to the home media releases.
• The opening sequence of The Kids in the Hall begins with the title "Lorne Michaels Presents".
• Similarly, the Season 1 George and Martha titles feature the credit "Maurice Sendak Presents".

New Interpreter's X

• Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. Oddly, part of what made it so different was how closely Branagh, as lead actor and director, chose to follow the exact words of the play (to the point where he added back lines which have been missing for three hundred years).
• John Carpenter's The Thing, to separate it from the much less faithful to the book movie made in the fifties, The Thing from Another World. Although John Carpenter has a knack for doing this with every film he directs. This seems likely to be the real explanation since the original story was entitled Who Goes There? and using that title would have been sufficient if distinguishing it from the earlier movie had been the only goal. On the other hand, they may not have totally wanted to divorce it from Howard Hawks' version.
  • John Carpenter's Vampires
• Monte Cook's World of Darkness
• Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America
• Neil Gaiman's The Eternals, which is significantly updated from the original Jack Kirby comics.
• Napoléon vu par Abel Gance'' – "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance".
• Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
• Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.
• American McGee's Alice, indicating the grim withdrawal-suffering take on Alice in Wonderland. However, American McGee himself didn't want his name on the game, claiming it was the publishers who slapped his name upon it in order to promote it as "the game made by one of the developers of Doom". The sequel is simply Alice: Madness Returns.
• Randy Newman's Faust
• Michael Todd's Around The World in 80 Days. Overlaps with "Executive's X" in that Todd wasn't the director or screenwriter, but played more of a Walt Disney role as the total guiding force for the style and shape of the adaptation.
• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds — a Rock Opera adaption of the Alien Invasion novel by H. G. Wells.
  • It got a bit twisty when Rage Software produced a video game inspired by the novel and the original rock opera. It's not solely a disconnected celebrity endorsement in this case, as Jeff Wayne's compositions were actually featured in the game and he even contributed new arrangements of several of them, but at the same time, he likely didn't have much input into the game at the design end.
• "A Criterion Game" was added to the cover of Criterion Games' Need for Speed: Most Wanted in 2012 to help differentiate itself from the 2005 EA Black Box original. It also appears in the Metacritic entries for their game's PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, and PC versions, with a dash separating the subtitle from the actual name.
• Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals often have their titles written out, Rodgers and Hammerstein's X in publicity materials, starting with the made-for-Hollywood State Fair. The opening credits of musicals either adapted or written for the screen also do this.
• Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. While it's not an official title used by Sony Pictures or Marvel Entertainment, it is a very common Fan Nickname to distinguish this trilogy from all the other cinematic adaptations of the Spider-Man mythos.
• William Shakespeare's Star Wars. Though it's done to indicate that the movies are interpreted In the Style of Shakespeare as opposed to being interpreted by Shakespeare himself.
• Frank Capra's State of the Union.
• Zack Snyder's Justice League, to distinguish it from the theatrical version in which he wasn't involved after his departure from post-production.
• Isaac Asimov's Opus 100: In "Part 4. Physics", Dr Asimov describes how, in his first hundred books, several publishers had decided to include "Asimov's" in the title.
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Notable for being released the same year as two other films based on The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Actual Creator's X

• Older Than Steam: This device was not unknown in the 17th century. One of the compositions of Johann Kaspar Kerll bears the title La batal à Casparo Ceerl.
• Writers who are popular enough tend to have their names as large or larger than the title on the covers of their books. Sometimes this reaches ridiculous levels.
• Gerry Anderson's later series featured this, specifically Terrahawks, the unbroadcast pilot GFI, Space Precinct, Lavender Castle, New Captain Scarlet (which could also be seen as "Just in Case You Forgot It Was a Remake"), and the upcoming post-humorous book series Gemini Force 1.
• Rainbow's first album was titled Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, on account of being intended as a one-off solo record for Blackmore. Since the band's reunion in the 2010s, it gets billed by the full title including Blackmore's name.
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
• Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • A (probably intentional) effect of this is that many people by extension think that he directed Coraline as TV spots advertised it as "from the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas" and make no effort to tell you that means Henry Selick. The theatrical trailer included Selick's name.
  • DirecTV's listings took this a step further. "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. Animated. From a Tim Burton story."
  • Few also remember that this was, technically, a Disney film; aside from placing it under their Touchstone logo, Disney didn't want anyone to initially know it was from or associated with them, so adding Burton's name was one more degree away in their eyes.
    • They're happy enough to claim it now, and even redo the Haunted Mansion at the amusement parks part of the year (roughly, between Halloween and Christmas) with a Jack Skellington theme.
  • Though some networks that air the movie are still confused. As in 2013 when the advertisement for the local airing, first aired on YTV the commercial labeled it "Tim Burton's Coraline"
• Kurt Busiek's Astro City. Put in by the author because his editor thought simply Astro City sounded too hokey. His name tends to be in rather smaller print. Then again, Astro City's largest TV station is "KBAC", just in case.
• James Cameron's Avatar, in order to distinguish it from the other Avatar; Cameron did write and direct it.
• John Carpenter is particularly notorious for adding his name to nearly all of his films' titles (such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Body Bags, John Carpenter's Vampires, Escape from New York, and Escape from L.A.). Even TV episodes he directs, such as the Masters of Horror episode "John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns".
• Kira Is Justice was formerly called C0's Death Note, because it was a Working Title. It was changed.
• Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate
• In the 1960s kids' cartoon "Beany and Cecil" (also called "Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil"), creator Bob Clampett shoehorned his name in every episode about six times, including in the opening theme song, which also features a cartoon rendering of him. Every half-hour episode consists of three cartoon shorts, and in the beginning of every one of them, the main characters sang "so here are Beany and Cecil in—a whole half-hour—Bob Clampett cartoo—oon!" The Other Wiki reports that he was known as "a shameless self-promoter." Well...yeah.
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare: Wes Craven attached his name to the title to announce his return to the franchise. The title ties into the story, as it's referenced that Craven's horror films are inspired by his nightmares – meaning this movie is, literally, Wes Craven's new nightmare.
• Lee Daniels' The Butler. Daniels' name is legally required to appear in the title for a reason that borders on the absurd: namely, Warner Bros. owned the copyright to a lost 1916 movie called The Butler, and got into a legal battle with The Weinstein Company over the title, reportedly as payback for TWC attempting to get WB to retitle a film called The Good Lie because it sounded similar to a film of theirs called The Good Life.
• The Inferno by Dante Aligheri is almost always referred to as Dante's Inferno.
• Blake Edwards did this with several of his films' onscreen credits from The Great Race onwards, as he often served as director, writer, and producer. He also named his 1980s production company Blake Edwards Entertainment.
• Lampshaded in a Credits Gag for one episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme; "I myself wrote and starred in the programme, but modesty precludes me from ever telling you my name, save for one cryptic clue hidden deep within the title..."
• Jim Henson's The Storyteller. Fraggle Rock, originally merely credited as "with Jim Henson's Muppets", was re-billed as ''Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock" after the sale of the Muppet trademarks to Disney.
• Tyson Hesse's Diesel
• Movies that Alfred Hitchcock directed in 1942 or later say Alfred Hitchcock's [insert title here] in the opening credits and/or on the poster.
• Michael Jackson's Moonwalker: "Game Concept and Design by Michael Jackson," at least according to the credits.
• Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D: "The Naked Sample."
  • Phantom Pain: Each mission ends with a credits sequence, featuring Kojima near the start of the scroll. In this case, it might also double as a subtle Take That! at the Executive Meddling he experienced from Konami, so it's a tad more excusable.
  • Also with Phantom Pain, part of the Executive Meddling mentioned involved taking Kojima's name off the packaging. Fans responded by turning the credit "A Hideo Kojima game" into a meme.
• Archer Maclean's Mercury
• Syd Mead's Terraforming
• Sid Meier has gained sufficient acclaim for his work that Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is the official title. And Sid Meier's Civilization. And Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon. Sid Meier's been getting less involved in the games of late; although he remains Chief Creative Officer of Firaxis, he doesn't write much code anymore. He apparently does contribute a lot conceptually, though.

• Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. Paul McCartney is both author and executive. He was one of the creators of this work, but he did have a collaborator. Since Paul couldn't read the music he was writing, he was afraid that people would think this piece was ghostwritten if he didn't put his name on it. Carl Davis, his collaborator, did not appreciate this title.
• Not a clean-cut example, considering the title uses Colon Cancer rather than the more classic possessive form. Nevertheless, the opening sequence for Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos certainly drops a hint or two about who created it... taking this trope to drinking game levels.
• Sometimes this is done as a fan reflex more than anything — several works by Katsuhiro Otomo have his name added by fans more than anything. Oddly, the only film that has this as an official alternate title is Memories, which, as an anthology, had numerous people working in the same capacity as Otomo did. Go figure.
• Tyler Perry and anything he releases. The only exception is For Colored Girls.
• One Saturday Morning shows often have their creators' names written next to the title in the intro, but Recess also included the text "Created by Paul and Joe" on The Merch.
• George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
• John Romero's Daikatana. Even the first ad for the game, the infamous "John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch", was more an advertisement for his name than the game.
• Chris Sawyer's Locomotion. A sequel to his earlier Transport Tycoon game, the only reason his name was included on this one was to play up on the popularity of the other game he made in between those two.
• Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd gave its screenwriter an unusually prominent credit, both because adapting one's own short story to the screen was still unusual for the time and the name of Elia Kazan would've otherwise overshadowed him. This is in accordance with what Kazan wrote in his introduction to the published screenplay: "A first-class writer won't do first-class work unless he feels that the picture is his."
• The original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is actually titled "Shakespeare's Sonnets", and repeats the words as a running title on every page. At that time this was a very unusual kind of title; one could almost believe that the editors foresaw the centuries of disputed authorship that were to follow.
• Michael Turner's Fathom is still titled that, even though Turner himself passed away in 2008.
• Gus Van Sant's Last Days, which despite its title is a fictionalized account of Kurt Cobain's last days.
• John Tartaglia's Imaginocean
• Betty White's Off Their Rockers - prank show created by Betty White with occasional segments featuring her in her home, though she doesn't usually get involved in the pranks.
• Magic Adventures of Mumfie was often billed as Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie. That is, when it when it wasn't billed as ''Magical Adventures of Mumphie'' or worse.
• The "Canon in D" by Johann Pachelbel goes by several names but is most commonly known these days as "Pachelbel's Canon".
  • By the same token, "Symphony No. 5" by Ludwig van Beethoven is sometimes called "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony", or even just "Beethoven's Fifth".
• Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Marc Ecko is credited as the executive producer and is also responsible for the story and creative direction.
• Jack Kirby's Fourth World
• Jeff Smith's Bone
• Monty Python's Flying Circus is somewhere in-between this and " Company's X," since Monty Python was a group of comedians who all created the series (though the group only adopted the name after first creating it as a parody of this trope). The same is true with Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
• Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown
• Seth Mac Farlanes Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy
• Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. It's literally part of the title, even on this site, as well as part of the acronym the fans refer to it by. Considering that "Battlegrounds" is not only a very generic-sounding name (not helped by the logo using a very similar font as the Battlefield series), it's not even the name of the original mod it's based on, you might legitimately be unaware that there's any connection otherwise, especially with so many imitators already popping up. Oh, and it's possibly the first mainstream use of this trope with a person's Internet screenname.
• Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, as seen on TV advertisements. (This borders between this and New Interpreter's X, as he is merely the film adaptation's director.)
• S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Only four of eighteen authors are included on the cover. In addition to editor Judith Merril and introduction by Orson Welles, the cover lists Theodore Sturgeon, Steve Allen, Isaac Asimov, and Shirley Jackson as contributing to the Anthology.
• Starting with the 2011 revival series, Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head.
• Mikeburnfire's NPCs and Quests, a Fallout: New Vegas mod.
• Australia has a couple of political parties which fall under this trope:
  • The far-right-wing One Nation Party officially goes by the full name of "Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party" after its founding leader, Pauline Hanson.
  • In a more downplayed example, the more moderate right-wing Katter's Australian Party, named after its own founding leader, Bob Katter; he had actually wanted it to be just called the Australian Party, but was told by the electoral authorities that the name was too generic.

Company's X

• Video Game company Atari had a variation, naming their first arcade pinball game The Atarians.
• Seen all-too-frequently with Disney movies made after Walt's death.
  • In the case of Disney's The Kid, this was done to differentiate it from other movies titled The Kid, such as the 1921 Charlie Chaplin vehicle.
  • Done with their TV shows too. Curiously, The Other Wiki insists on Adventures of the Gummi Bears and House of Mouse always being referred to with the "Disney's" preface.
    • The Canadian Family Channel, formerly the de facto Disney Channel for Canada, used to do this; since about 80% of their schedule was Disney shows. This meant that practically everything was prefaced by "Disney's". This ended when Corus bought the Canadian broadcast rights to Disney content, which included the launch of an actual Canadian Disney Channel.
    "Coming up next on Family, Disney's Recess, followed by Disney's Kim Possible, and then, Disney's Hannah Montana."
  • Possibly so that Disney has some trademark to fall back on should someone challenge its ownership of a generic term or Public Domain Character's name. For example, they couldn't trademark Cars, so they trademarked "Disney Pixar Cars". Likewise, should someone invalidate Disney's trademark on "Pinocchio," that wouldn't affect a trademark on "Disney's Pinocchio". Certain TV listings may list Recess as Disney's Recess, but not usually.
  • Disney also does this with spinoffs like Disney and Pixar's Turning Red: 4*Town 4*Real: The Manga.
• DreamWorks Animation also does this, due perhaps to the founder of the company being a former Disney executive.
• Blue Sky Studios began doing this, starting with Epic (2013) and until Spies in Disguise when they shut down in 2021.
• Illumination Entertainment began doing this starting with Minions.
• Sony Pictures Animation was going to do this when The Mitchells vs. the Machines was retitled to Connected, but was scrapped when the film went to Netflix and the title was changed back.
• The cartoon Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates.
• Works from The Jim Henson Company released after Jim Henson's death:
  • Jim Henson's Animal Show
  • Jim Henson's Dinosaur Train
  • Jim Henson's Pajanimals
  • Jim Henson's Sid the Science Kid
• Sprout has The Sprout Sharing Show and Sprouts Wiggly Waffle
• Marvel's The Avengers. Home video covers even write "Marvel's" above "The Avengers", and "Marvel" underneath it. This also extends to tie-in products, like the comic collection Road to Marvel's The Avengers. There is some justification to this, however, as it was titled this way to avoid confusion with the British television series of the same name (the film was referred to as Avengers Assemble in the UK for this reason too). The film's sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, drops the "Marvel's" part of the title.
  • In addition, you also have the TV shows Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel's Agent Carter, Marvel's Daredevil, Marvel's Jessica Jones, Marvel's Spider-Man, and so on. It's possible that these examples are done to demonstrate that these shows are done in-house instead of by third-party studios. For example, the MCU reboot "Marvel's Daredevil" adds a sense of authenticity, especially since most people were only familiar with the character due to the Fox movie.
  • Speaking of Marvel, Marvel Studios nearly always does this with their films and TV shows, such as Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame.
  • The animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023), despite being produced by Disney Television Animation, is marketed with the Marvel branding and not the Disney branding. This is largely due to the characters originating from Marvel Comics and the series featuring a number of other characters from the comics. Compare this to Big Hero 6, whose film adaptation and its television spin off were branded under Disney and not Marvel, due to being a Broad Strokes interpretation divorced from Marvel continuity.
• A lot of action figures do this as well, especially for characters whose names are a common word. That's why you can buy a toy of "Marvel's Hawkeye" or "DC Comics Fire."
• Nickelodeon's Rocket Power
• All of Rockstar Games' titles from Red Dead Redemption to Max Payne 3 to Red Dead Redemption II are prefixed with "Rockstar Games Presents" on the box art; in one case^* Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, it was an actual part of the title (presumably because Table Tennis by itself is too generic for a video game).
• Saban's Diabolik, and Power Rangers. Also an example of Screwed by the Network as the Disney years never had Disney's name on it, and they basically admitted shame over having acquired it. Hasbro dropped "Saban's" when they acquired Power Rangers starting with their second series, Power Rangers Dino Fury.
• Tecmo loved this trope before their merger with Koei. See Tecmo Secret of the Stars, Tecmo's Deception, Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Stackers...
• Warner Bros.' Histeria!
• At Universal Studios, The Horror Make-Up Show tends to be billed as Universal Orlando's Horror Make-Up Show.
• Also at Universal, Animal Actors is billed as Universal's Animal Actors at the Hollywood park.
• The 2018 horror film Truth or Dare (2018) was sometimes marketed as "Blumhouse's Truth or Dare", both to highlight the involvement of Blumhouse Productions and possibly to differentiate it from a Syfy Channel Original Movie by the same name from 2017.
• The live-action Pokémon film based on the Spin-Off Nintendo 3DS game Detective Pikachu is titled Pokémon Detective Pikachu. You know, to let viewers know that it is an official Pokémon movie. (Note that the game does not have the Pokémon brand in its title.)
• A few DC Comics-based properties that carry their name:
  • DC's Legends of Tomorrow
  • DC Super Hero Girls (including a television series).
  • DC's Stargirl
• For a time, the intro spiel to American Gladiators name-checked their producers, The Samuel Goldwyn Company (this was dropped in 1993).
• Starting with Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland, all Ubisoft games going forward will carry the 'A Ubisoft Original' tagline.
• Microsoft Flight Simulator

Star's or Host's X

• Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon
• Ant & Dec's Push the Button
• Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
• Bert's Family Feud
• Bruce's Price Is Right
• Burgo's Catchphrase
• Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
• Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza
• Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong
• Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow
• Dale's Supermarket Sweep
• Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
• Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right
• Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
• The 1922 version of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks is actually titled Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood.
• George A. Romero Presents Deadtime Stories: Volume 1
• Richard Osman's House of Games
• Hiroshi Sekiguchi's Tokyo Friend Park II
• Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town (referred to these days as simply The Ed Sullivan Show)
• Tarby's Frame Game
• Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender
• Michael Jackson's Halloween. Made years after his death mind you, but it features his music and was done with the collaboration of his estate; and he "appears" by virtue that it's animated and can use archival recordings for the voicework.
• RuPaul's Drag Race and some of its spin-offs - e.g. RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under and RuPaul's Drag Race UK. As a rule, this happens to any series in the Drag Race franchise that Ru hosts and judges. Shows where Ru doesn't directly appear (e.g. Canada's Drag Race) don't get the prefix.
• William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy Read Four Science Fiction Classics: The revised title starts by naming the narrators of this adaptation (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy), who were even more famous than they were in 1975 when they first recorded it.
• Every Peanuts special released on Apple TV+ begins their titles with "Snoopy Presents".
• Banjun Drama started using this format when it changed its name to Banjun Theater — the corner would be presented as (actor who plays the lead role)'s Banjun Theater, e.g. Danny Ahn's Banjun Theater in his episodes.

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References and parodies:

Fan Works

• ItsJustSomeRandomGuy, parodying the future Spider-Man film reboot: "Sony presents Sony's Spider-Man, by Sony!"

Films — Live-Action

• Parodied by the film Jane Austen's Mafia!!, which has nothing at all to do with Jane Austen.
  • At the time, there were a lot of film and TV adaptations of Austen, the Bronte sisters, and their contemporaries that were using the formula (e.g., Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice), so it was a topical parody.
• In the Hot Fuzz writers' commentary, it is stated that the film's Romeo and Juliet parody was initially going to be referred to as Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
• Parodied in Mr. Bean's Holiday: "CARSON CLAY PICTURES present -- CARSON CLAY -- in a CARSON CLAY production -- of a CARSON CLAY film" — PLAYBACK TIME
• Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire, one can only guess that is title is for cases where you forgot, for cares to forget that the cinematic motion picture (feature-length) is adapted from a long-form narrative prose (fiction-American, written in English) work of a different name written by an author under a pseudonym.
  • The adaptation was originally called Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, but retitled to avoid confusion with the 2009 sci-fi film Push.
  • NBC's The Office parodies this trope when Michael, taking Erin out to lunch, pops in a book-on-tape "novelization" of Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire.

Live-Action TV

• Garth Marenghis Darkplace
• Also satirized in The Colbert Report with Stephen's still unpublished Doorstopper Sci-Fi epic, Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure
  • And the animated shorts: Stephen Colbert Presents: Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad Seven: Tek Jansen in Operation: Heart of The Phoenix -- Dead or Alive: A Tek Jansen Adventure.
• Parrot Sketch Not Included, a 20th-anniversary compilation of sketches (not including the dead parrot one, obviously) from Monty Python's Flying Circus, featured a filmed intro and outro from comedian Steve Martin. The actual title for the piece was 'Steve Martin is Steve Martin in Steve Martin's Parrot Sketch Not Included (A Steve Martin production)'.
• On 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick got the chance to direct Romeo and Juliet. This is how he responded:
  Dick: I can see it now on the marquee... Dick Solomon Presents A Dick Solomon Production of Dick Solomon's Romeo and Juliet.
• Married... with Children: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Larry Storch players present: A Larry Storch production of Larry Storch's The Phantom of the Opera, coming to you in Surround Storch. Starring Larry Storch ..."
• In an episode of Growing Pains where Ben makes a movie for class, Ben gives himself top billing for everything, writing, directing, producing and starring. He does give the rest of the cast credit, in tiny writing squeezed onto one title card.
• Frasier: In the episode "Ham Radio", Frasier is put in charge of directing a Whodunit live Radio Drama and rewriting it to shorten the play time. After that rewrite alone, he has already titled it "Frasier Crane's Nightmare Inn".
• The Red Green Show: Ranger Gord presents - Ranger Gord in: Ranger Gord's Educational Films. Written, drawn, animated, and voiced by: Ranger Gord. Starring Ranger Gord!
• Monty Python's Flying Circus was originally just a Word Salad Title invoking this trope, but then the name Monty Python began to be used to refer collectively to the people involved, and it stuck.
• In Sabrina the Teenage Witch there are several shots of this at the start of Miles's vampire movie, prompting Roxie to ask "Is there a movie here or just two hours of ego-tripping?"

Theatre

• Buffalo Bill toured the world with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

Web Animation

• Parodied by Zero Punctuation in the review of "Clive Barker's 'Clive Barker's Jericho' (by Clive Barker)".
• The Demented Cartoon Movie opens with "Brian Kendall presents... A Brian Kendall production... Of a Brian Kendall film." Complete with a quick drum fanfare between each part. Also, you have to watch it twice before you actually get on with the movie. At one point, he gives up: "Written by Brian Ken-Blah, Blah, Blah".

Web Original

• Parodied by John Solomon of Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad: over time, his references to Robert A. Howard's webcomic review site Tangents have gotten increasingly unwieldy. For example: "Robert A. 'Tangents' Howard of Robert A. Howard's 'Tangents', by Robert A. Howard (featuring Robert A. Howard, of 'Tangents')".
• Old Man Murray was absolutely merciless to American McGee, going so far as to insinuate that he referred to everyday objects in this fashion (i.e. "Have you seen American McGee's my pen?")
• "Abe Vigoda is Abe Vigoda in Abe Vigoda: The Abe Vigoda Story!"
• Caddicarus makes fun of this when talking about Goofy's Fun House during one of his videos, being glad that they called it Disney's Goofy on the spine, rather than A Serbian Film's Goofy.

Webcomics

• Lilformers had "Michael Bay presents: A Michael Bay Movie: Michael Bay's Transformers. (Directed by Michael Bay)". (The movie did have at least one mention of Michael Bay's name in its credits, but Lilformers is Lilformers.)
• "Penny Arcade's award for Best Penny Arcade goes to... Penny Arcade!"

Western Animation

• Family Guy:
  • The show parodies this trope with "Peter Griffin Presents The King and I, a Peter Griffin Production." His new interpretation might as well have been a new play entirely; it was set on the planet Siam and featured partial nudity, kung fu fighting, & Groin Attacks.
  • The marquee also refers to "A Peter Griffin Joint", a parody of Spike Lee's odd director credit (instead of "A Spike Lee Film").
• Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak
• The title of the work is Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, but it was created by Dino Stamatopoulos. While the setting is Dr. Frankenstein's lab in Eastern Europe, the show is a parody of horror genres.
• Garfield and Friends: In "The Cartoon Cat Conspiracy", Garfield created a Show Within a Show titled "Sam the Cat", which was actually a Self-Parody, Garfield overpromoted himself in the opening credits and apologized for not having space to give Odie due credit for animating the story. (Garfield got Odie to do it because he was cheaper than any Korean staff)
• "Virgil Van Cleef Presents BoJack Horseman Presents Newtopia Rising, Book 1: The Search for a New Utopia, A Todd Joint"
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode "Kon Ducki", the Film Within a Show opens with three production companies bearing Plucky Duck's name, then calls it "Plucky Duck's The Voyage of the Kon Ducki", then lists him as the star and entire crew, and finally in very small writing adds that Hampton is in it as well.
  • Another episode, "Animaniacs!", mocked Spielberg as someone who merely put his name on the show.

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