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Diagonal Billing
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Also known as "staggered" or "staggered but equal" billing. When two stars of equal prominence star in a movie together, in posters and credits billing, the two names may be staggered next to each other on the same title card — with the one on the left being lower, the one on the right being higher. This way, reading left to right gives one actor prominence, and reading top to bottom will give the other prominence. "Staggered but equal billing" serves to avoid causing tension between the two A-list lead actors over who is more important. Often, they will receive the same payment for their roles as well. In Film Posters, another result of a billing conflict could be a Misplaced-Names Poster. If it happens when their roles aren't equally important, it could be a case of Billing Displacement. Diagonal billing became popular when it was used in The Towering Inferno, with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. They also received the same salary and the same number of lines (at McQueen's insistence). The idea was originally proposed when it was thought that Newman and McQueen would star in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but dropped when Robert Redford was cast instead of McQueen. A variation of staggered billing can be seen on some TV series. Instead of two leads sharing the same title card, they alternate who is billed first from episode to episode. |
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The billing of The Likely Lads stars Rodney Bewes and James Bolam alternated every episode; the order would also be swapped between the opening and closing credits of a given episode. | |
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All six rangers in the second season of Power Rangers Dino Fury. They appear two at a time - red and pink, then blue and green, and finally black and gold. In the first season their credits appeared on screen one at a time. | |
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Hiroshima Mon Amour does this in the opening titles for leads Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada, who together have approximately 99% of the spoken dialogue in the movie. (Posters invariably give Riva either top billing or sole billing.) | |
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In the 2002 film of Chicago, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. | |
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Ghosts (US): Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar share top billing, with McIver's name lower and to the left and Ambudkar's name higher and to the right. | |
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Poker Face: Episode 5 credited S. Epatha Merkerson and Judith Light like this in the opening credits, episode 6 does the same for Ellen Barkin and Tim Meadows, and episode 8 does it for Nick Nolte and Cherry Jones. | |
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The opening credits for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days put Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey on the same card with Hudson in the upper right corner while McConaughey gets the lower left. | |
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The Sprouse Brothers on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. | |
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The original playbill for Wicked credits Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth like this. | |
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The poster for Inside Man manages to do something similar with three actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster. Washington's picture is furthest to the left while Owen's is nearest the top, while their names are angled in such a way that Foster's name is furthest to the left and Washington's is nearest the top. | |
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In Wandavision, Elizabeth Olsen is billed first on odd-numbered episodes, while Paul Bettany is billed first on even-numbered episodes. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road doesn't feature this on the poster (where Supporting Protagonist Tom Hardy is billed before Charlize Theron), but does in the actual opening credits. Nicholas Hoult and Hugh Keays-Byrne are listed this way during the end credits, as are Zoë Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe does this for some of its live-action series: In Wandavision, Elizabeth Olsen is billed first on odd-numbered episodes, while Paul Bettany is billed first on even-numbered episodes. In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sebastian Stan is billed first on odd-numbered episodes, while Anthony Mackie is billed first on even-numbered episodes. |
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The Fast and the Furious (2001) end credits for Paul Walker and Vin Diesel (here◊). | |
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Drake & Josh alternated Drake Bell's and Josh Peck's billing from episode to episode. | |
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Will & Grace: Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, who played the titular duo, were credited this way and their positions switched each episode. | |
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Scenes from a Marriage (2021) credits Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain equally and diagonally. | |
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All Grown Up!, one of the rare animated series to feature billing in its intro, had this for twins Phil and Lil DeVille. | |
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After an argument between Steptoe and Son stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett over who should receive top billing ahead of the first series, the BBC alternated which one was billed first every episode, and whichever was billed second in the opening credits would be billed first in the closing credits. | |
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Futurama, starting with its 2023 reboot, has a three-episode cycle in which Billy West, Katey Sagal, and John DiMaggio alternate being first billed. | |
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The opening credits of Don't Look Up have Leonardo DiCaprio in the lower left and Jennifer Lawrence in the upper right. The closing cast list gives Lawrence the top billing. | |
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Outrageous Fortune had an unusual variation to ensure equal billing for its stars: Shelley Long got top billing west of the Mississippi, and Bette Midler got it on the east side. | |
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Jaws has a three-man variant of this, with Roy Scheider at lower left, Robert Shaw at center top, both receiving top billing. Richard Dreyfuss's name is then featured at lower right. | |
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On What Not to Wear, Stacy and Clinton have diagonal billing first as host and then as stylist on the first and second frames of the closing credits. | |
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In Love Crazy, William Powell and Myrna Loy, who were starring in their tenth film together (eventually they made 14), were billed this way. | |
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The credits for the first season of Good Omens (2019) use a variant in order to give Michael Sheen and David Tennant equal billing: Sheen's name fades in first, followed by "& David Tennant." Their names appear together for a moment (at the same level), and then "Michael Sheen &" fades out leaving Tennant alone for a few seconds. The second season gives them the traditional diagonal arrangement with Michael Sheen at top right and David Tennant at bottom left. | |
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The China Syndrome also has a three-person variant, with Jack Lemmon at lower left, Jane Fonda at center top, and Michael Douglas at lower right. | |
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In Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow get diagonal billing, while Angelina Jolie gets the honored And Starring position on the same card. See it here at 00:18. | |
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In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sebastian Stan is billed first on odd-numbered episodes, while Anthony Mackie is billed first on even-numbered episodes. | |
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The short-lived Nightmare Cafe featured this—a case where the diagonally set names (Jack Coleman and Lindsay Frost) were quite not as well known as the And Starring that follows (Robert Englund) and, for that matter, the created by credit (Wes Craven). | |
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Boeing Boeing (1965) had the names of Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis criss-crossed. | |
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As detailed above, The Towering Inferno, starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, is the Trope Maker in film. McQueen's role as the fire chief was expanded from a smaller role at his insistence so as to equal Newman's character. | |
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The Walking Dead Television Universe: Chad L. Coleman and Emily Kinney in the fifth season of The Walking Dead. The final season, which adds almost a dozen of the cast to the opening credits, has the newest additions - Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko), Lauren Ridloff (Connie), Cailey Fleming (Judith), Nadia Hilker (Magna), Cassady McClincy (Lydia), Angel Theory (Kelly), Paola Lázaro (Princess), Michael James Shaw (Mercer), Josh Hamilton (Lance), and Laila Robins (Pamela) - listed this way. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan on The Walking Dead: Dead City. |
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Television projects featuring The Muppets, starting with The Muppets (2015) and continuing in The Muppets Mayhem, started a variation of this to give all of the Muppet performers equal billing: the first episode credits them in alphabetical order, then each episode moves the one who was first-billed in the previous episode to the end of the list, so that each puppeteer gets their turn at being top-billed. | |
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