The trivia section states the following:
The film's "Changeling" title was used again in 2008 with Clint Eastwood's unrelated picture Changeling (2008) which dropped the "The" of the title. The last two digits of the years the two films were made are the reverse of each other.
To me at least, the date of this film's release is a topic of debate. Some sources say 1979, others say 1980. I personally choose to believe it's the latter year because of a newspaper article I saw that was advertising show times for the film when it hit theatres and the date on it was March, 1980.
1979 was probably put in the opening credits because that was the year the film was physically completed. But for whatever reason it wasn't released until the following spring and I have no idea why. My only guess is that they must have run into some technical problems while editing and couldn't get it out in time for it's initial release (probably the summer of 1979) so it got pushed back to the spring of the following year. Regardless, most sources do say TC was released in 1979 but I blame this on the poor media coverage this film got when it was being distributed. Thus why people are still confused 35 years after it's release.
It was absolutely released in March, 1980, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Thus, that is the release date. Whether the comment in question was something that needed to be in the trivia section is another story entirely.
1979 was probably put in the opening credits because that was the year the film was physically completed. But for whatever reason it wasn't released until the following spring and I have no idea why. My only guess is that they must have run into some technical problems while editing and couldn't get it out in time for it's initial release (probably the summer of 1979) so it got pushed back to the spring of the following year.
It was produced in 1979 and released in 1980.
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