Why do tv show titles tell us the creator (“created by ______”), while movies don’t?
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Because the person who comes up with an idea for a TV show and pitches it to the network isn’t necessarily the person who actually writes the script and stuff.
Bob came up with The Show and The Characters, but Susan is the one who actually “writes” the show.
Cause the titles work differently due to the different workflows between TV and film. The film equivalent of *created by* is usually *story by*.
Some movies do … either those based of a TV series ( Trek / Mission Impossible ) but also some movies like Dirty Harry or Lethal Weapon will state it’s based on characters created by …
The creator won’t always be the writer or even the showrunner. Erik Kripke, for example, was the creator of Supernatural but he’s left by Season 6 and Gamble became the showrunner. While she’s the new head honcho of the show, she’s still not the creator of it so Kripke still gets the ‘created by’ credit even if he’s no longer involved in the show.
A movie is a single thing. How exactly you want to define “created by” and who fits that definition may vary from film to film (sometimes it would be the writer (possibly of some earlier source material), sometimes a director, sometimes a producer, etc.), but you can be pretty confident that the person responsible for creating the movie is going to get some major credit on it.
A TV show is a series of smaller things. It may last a long time or have multiple episodes in simultaneous production. It’s quite likely that the person who created the show will not work on every episode. For this reason, it’s more common for each episode to have a “created by” credit to acknowledge that initial contribution.
A film is singular. A show is a larger effort and just has different nomenclature as it may not be the same direct etc
Who would get the “created by” credit on a movie? If you’re a screenwriter and you sell a film script to a studio, it’s very common for other writers to be hired to touch up that script or write entirely new drafts of it. By the time the movie gets made there might not be much left of your original draft.
It does get used in movies sometimes. James Bond is one example where the opening credits will stylize as Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.
Others will hide it in the end credits which means a lot of people miss it.
On top of what other people have said, the various Hollywood guilds have very strict rules about how credits work. It affects how much people have to be paid in royalties so it’s strictly enforced.
That’s why you see so many different ways of introducing actors in opening credits. Even for the same show. Staring, featuring, guest star, etc.
I think it depends on whats been created,
Im not sure but I’d bet that all the batman films cite Bob Kane in their opening credits.
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