Cheddar.com: Why Are Identical Movies Released at the Same Time?

[satam55]

Twin films have been happening since the beginning of Hollywood and Cheddar Explains why this copycat film phenomenon exists.

 

[Emoryal]

White house down and olympus has fallen

 

[Jay Kast]

A Bugs Life did better at the box office but Antz was a much better movie.

 

[Guvnor]

They did have that Girls Trip film and the white version which was called Rough Night.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Been wondering about this and there are a TON of these going back to the late 90s at least:

Armaggedon and Deep Impact
The Messenger and Joan of Arc (TV miniseries I think)
Volcano and Dante's Peak

Not counting the B movie copies that cable networks churn out to eat off a mainstream release.

Saving for later

 

[invincible1914]

Low key the two La Bamba films have the goat backstory. The documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films isn’t on Netflix any more. This is the best I can find on YouTube

 

[Bryan Danielson]

My favs are the blockbusters and the SyFy channel shyt

I remember every time a transformers movie was dropping.... SyFy would air Transmorphers

 

[The God Poster]

This is hilarious as I was about to make this same thread last week but forgot

 

[The God Poster]

I been noticing with every kids movie it been happening

 

[Cuban Pete]

I thought I was tripping when I seen Netflix have the jungle book and then @Mowgli

 

[Mowgli]

I thought I was tripping when I seen Netflix have the jungle book and then @Mowgli

It's a popular brand. The wild child who became king of the beasts.

But now that markets are going more international these execs are trying to recash in on rehashes and I guess it works and it serves as good propaganda