However, the film's ambitious scope and its extensive effects work forced Campbell, Raimi and producer Rob Tapert to put up $ 1 million of their collective salaries to shoot a new ending and not film a scene where a possessed woman pushes down some giant pillars.

Castle invented the Cabbie character and came up with the film's ending.

One of the most controversial scenes was the film's ending: Brian's crucifixion.

In 1991 Scott's notes were used by Warner Brothers to create a rushed director's cut which removed the voiceovers originally added at the request of worried executives before the film's release, and made a number of other small changes, including to the ending.

In an interview decades later, Roberta Findlay said that the film's distributor Allan Shackleton had read about snuff films being imported from South America and retitled the film to Snuff to exploit the idea ; he also added a new ending that depicted an actress being murdered on a film set.

Roger Ebert has written of the film's ending:

On the Laserdisc audio commentary, Scorsese acknowledged several critics ' interpretation on the film's ending being Bickle's dying dream.

Industry insiders said that the release delay was because nervous executives ordered the film's ending completely re-shot.

The film's ending begins the 1995 comic series Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny, which moves forward to depict Indiana and his father searching for the Holy Lance in Ireland in 1945.

Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.

Test audience reaction to Spock's death and the film's ending ( the tone of which was dark and final ) was poor, so Bennett made it more uplifting by adding a final scene revealing Spock's casket on the Genesis planet.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

The draft that Allen presented to the film's editor, Ralph Rosenblum, concluded with the words, " ending to be shot.

At this point, the story proceeds to one of three endings: A, B, or C. In the film's initial theatrical run, some theaters announced which ending the viewer would see.

The gang looks at their dead boss and with both the Screwface's dead are presumed to be arrested at the film's ending.

Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words " The End " over the burning house.

The film's ending also became iconic as " one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history ".

Other music includes incidental music in the scene at the Ritz and an arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby during the beginning and ending credits by the film's musical director Roy Webb.

While the Internet Movie Database states that the film's original ending had been reinstated for a re-release in 1979, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique magazine claims that the film is still being released with its additional footage, including a screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, honouring director Don Siegel.

The original ending also appeared on a special edition VHS and Laserdisc release by Paramount in 1992, and was included on the film's DVD release a decade later.

On 25 July 2003, cinemas started showing the alternative ending after the film's credits.

On the DVD commentary, Boyle and Garland explain that this was the original ending of the film's first cut, which was tested with preview audiences.

Criticism was also drawn from the film's ending, claiming following Stallone's last minute decision not to kill Rocky, the film's build-up and narrative was lost.

Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, making a sudden entrance late in the film as the serial killer John Doe, after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers ", which plays over the film's closing credits.

" Beyond the Sea " was featured over the credits of the film Finding Nemo in 2003 and was also released on the film's soundtrack CD.

The film's title credits, animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, feature their Inspector character from the series of short cartoons under that name.

By waiver, the title of the short story was not included in the film's credits.

Clifton was also annoyed at the decision to remove from the film's credits the names of all the people who had worked on editing, make up and effects.

The film's credits include " special thanks " to CDC.

His theme song " Sweepin ' the Clouds Away " from the film Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ) was one of its theme songs and was played in the end credits of the film's second part.

Stanley Kubrick won his only Oscar ever, in this category, in 1969, for 2001: A Space Odyssey ( The film's credits list four effects contributors, including Douglas Trumbull.

Though this was a jokey pseudonym, its appearance in the film's end credits contributed to the urban legend that this was his real name.

Following the opening credits, the epigraph states that the film's story is non-factual.

Malick, a protégé of Arthur Penn ( whom he thanked in the film's end credits ), began work on Badlands after his second year as a student at the American Film Institute.

For Lean's final film, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), he chose to both direct and edit, and the two roles were given precisely equal status in the film's credits.

Carney has posted three video clips from Shadows I for viewing on his website to verify the film's condition and indicate the presence of a complete credits sequence, which demonstrates that the version he possesses is a final version, not a rough assembly.

Only the principal, " above the line " editor ( s ) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award ; additional editors, supervising editors, etc.

The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.

In the film adaptation, his last name was never actually stated on-screen, but it is given in the film's credits as " Prefect.

The song is played over the end credits of the film and appears on the film's soundtrack album.

From the Jimmy Durante's Way of Life album, came the gravelly interpretations of " As Time Goes By " which accompanied the opening credits of the romantic comedy hit, Sleepless in Seattle, while his version of " Make Someone Happy " launched the film's closing credits.

He also performed the Ron Goodwin title song to the 1968 comedy-adventure Monte Carlo or Bust sung over the film's animated opening credits.