Opening Sequence Titles Count

Titles are a legal requirement in films, however some appear more often than others, as well as appearing in a specific order. Below are some of the opening sequences we looked at as examples:

Zombieland:

1.       Columbia Pictures presents

2.       In association with Relativity Media

3.       A Pariah Production

4.       Woody Harrelson

5.       Jesse Eisenberg

6.       Emma Stone

7.       And Abigail Breslin

8.       Zombieland

9.       Casting by

10.   Costume designer

11.   Music By

12.   Edited by

13.   Production Designer

14.   Director of Photography

15.   Executive Producers

16.   Produced by

17.   Written by

18.   Directed by

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:

1.       Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Presents

2.       Production company

3.       A David Fincher film

4.       Daniel Craig

5.       Rooney Mara

6.       The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

7.       Christopher Plummer

8.       Stellan Skarsgard

9.       Steven Berkoff

10.   Robin Wright

11.   Yorick Van Wageningen

12.   Joely Richardson

13.   Geraldine James

14.   Goran Visnjic

15.   Donald Sumpter

16.   Ulf Friberg

17.   Casting By

18.   Costume Designer

19.   Co-Producers

20.   Sound Design By

21.   Music By

22.   Editors

23.   Production Designer

24.   Director of Photography

25.   Executive Producers

26.   Produced By

27.   Based On The Book By – Originally Published By

28.   Screenplay By

29.   Directed By

Sin City:

1.       Sin City

2.       Jessica Alba

3.       Devon Aoki

4.       Alexis Bledel

5.       Powers Boothe

6.       Rosario Dawson

7.       Benicio del Toro

8.       Michael Clarke Duncan

9.       Carla Gugino

10.   Josh Hartnett

11.   Rutger Hauer

12.   Jaime King

13.   Michael Madsen

14.   Brittany Murphy

15.   Clive Owen

16.   Mickey Rourke

17.   Nick Stahl

18.   Bruce Willis

19.   Elijah Wood

20.   Based on the Sin City Graphic Novels

21.   Casting Director

22.   Line Producer

23.   Shot and Cut by

24.   Music

25.   Executive Producer

26.   Produced By

27.   Special Guest Director

28.   Directed By

Charlie's Angels:

1. Columbia pictures presents...

2. In association with...

3. In association with (2nd company)

4.   A film by...

5. Cameron Diaz

6. Drew Barrymore

7. Lucy Liu

8. Bernie Mac

9. Justin Theroux

10. Robert Patrick

11. Demi Moore

12. Other cast members (2nd billing)

13. Casting by...

14. Visual effects

15. Costume designer

16. Music supervision

17. Music by

18. Edited by

19. Produvction designer

20. Director of photography

21. Executive producers

22. Producer

23. Story by

24. Scrrenplay by

25. Director

26. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

We see from all the above that the production and distibution companies came first, followed by cast, then all other crew, and finally producer and directors. Using this basic order, we were able to finalise our own.