Kevin Smith's Dicks gets an official name-change

He's the consummate tease, is that Mr Smith. Only he could hit the headlines by announcing that his latest movie has a brand new title... without actually telling us what it is.

Smith's drably-named buddy cop movie A Couple of Cops has been boring people with its moniker for a while now, while Smith, understandably, has been desperate to call the it the far-catchier A Couple of Dicks .

Thanks to general prudishness and difficulty promoting a film with such a name, however, Dicks had to go.

"The Movie Formerly Known as A Couple of Dicks has finally settled on a (network-policy-dictated) replacement title!" Smith announced yesterday on his Twitter .

"While we’ll always have Dicks in our hearts, the title we just now locked makes me smile on a bunch of different levels - including this: (1) we can now advertise our movie properly (and ironically). And said marketing begins… on every print of Sherlock Holmes , Christmas Day!"

When one of Smith's Twitter followers queried the fact he can't reveal the title, Smith replied, "That kinda thing's above my pay-grade, sir. WB will announce in a day or two."