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SLIPPERY SEAL

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It’s got a high-concept premise (first female Navy Seal), $10-million star Demi Moore to fill out the uniform and “Thelma & Louise” director Ridley Scott at the helm.

The only thing the big-budget release from Disney’s Hollywood Pictures, now planned to reach theaters this fall, hasn’t got is a name.

What once marched to the tune of “G.I. Jane” (touted as such by Moore when plugging “Striptease”) has since changed formation into “A Matter of Honor”. . . then later, “In Pursuit of Honor.”

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Not to mention two earlier marquee candidates: “Undisclosed” and “Navy Cross.”

No one at Hollywood Pictures is commenting on the mystery of the moving title. We can say this isn’t the first time a Demi Moore film has undergone a name switch during production: Remember 1986’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago”--which was neutered into “About Last Night”?

The name game seems to run in the family. The latest film from Moore’s husband, Bruce Willis, began life with the working titles “Jericho” and “Gundown,” then found its legs as “Last Man Standing.” (The film tanked anyway.)

Whatever the ultimate title for Moore and Scott’s upcoming teaming, filmmakers will have a chance to change their minds once again for the film’s foreign release. Take, for instance, Moore’s 1995 period romance, released in some countries as “The Lovers in the New World.”

American audiences know it by a name more misleading about what viewers were going to see: “The Scarlet Letter.”

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