one time there were two magician movies

I had never heard the phrase Gunpowder Milkshake before the film though

The Diana & Charles season of The Crown, and upcoming theatrical film Spencer w/Kristen Stewart as Diana.

...and there's also a Netflix film of the impending Diana Broadway musical due October 1st.

what a time to be alive

the entire musical occurs during the car crash

I remember really clearly this happening a lot on TV. The one that springs to mind most readily (aside from Chicago Hope / ER, already mentioned) was Steven Bochco launching two separate and nearly-identical legal series' in 1995 (Murder One on NBC, Murder In The First on TNT)

(Sorry, Murder One was on ABC)

When this phenomenon was first identified, I think I was told that it was a way of competing studios trying of fuck with each other, but it seems more likely to me now that there's a natural spill-over in passive cross-promotion

The time is ripe for at least two more simultaneous Steve Prefontaine movies.

wish they'd get to Postfontaine already

wish he’d Post Ma-LESS!

kids in the hall: brain candy (1996)
austin powers: international man of mystery (1997)

one time there were two movies with colons in the titles in which the canadian sketch actors (who had worked under lorne michaels) portraying the antagonists were just doing their lorne michaels impressions. mckinney over myers for style points but myers just really went there, didn't he?

i need to rewatch the ice storm to see if it was the other teen girl on a swing thing. i thought i checked it out after tuomas' imput and it wasn't it but now i don't remember. tv tropes has a category labelled trauma swing, and its inverse, swing low, sweet harriet, but those aren't the same thing. the first is bad things happening and the latter is joyous remembrance but the tammy metzler from election i'm thinking of is lachrymose and introspective, yet forward-looking. transitional, people, i'm not a girl, not yet a woman (britney reference). i only bring this up because i feel i introduced the concept of minor detail that links two otherwise unconnected movies as a sub-category to the original thread concept of nearly identical movies and if i can't support my assertion in that instance thn that appelation is invalid and i prefer teen girl on a swing over elle woods/ bridget jones goes to party in a playboy bunny outfit because she mistakenly assumed the shindig was a costume party.

there was a time when i had hollywood video and blockbuster video memberships and i was just renting everything that looked necessary and relevant and burning all of it and then watching random movies in succession after i'd compiled so many because you kinda have to or why are you doing this and that sort of jungian synchronicity where there was a really specific intersection popped up often enough but probably of course it would. it's still fun when it happens.

Girls5eva and Queens: TV shows about fictional 90s Girl Groups getting back together.

in the span of 18 months the man was in two entirely different movies about the zodiac killer, one a masterpiece and the other a piece of junk, because that's just what our great character actors did goddamn it https://t.co/CThWB4CSI6

— Jess Harvell (@cheaptrickrules) June 13, 2022

Vietnam-era movies about stateside Navy lifers dealing with the vagaries and unfairness of "The System": Cinderella Liberty and The Last Detail (1973):

There was a wave (get it?) of penguin movies in the mid 00s

March of the Penguins - 2005
Madagascar - 2005
Happy Feet - 2006
Surf's Up - 2007

Do songs count?

Space feat. Cerys Matthews - The Ballad of Tom Jones (1998)

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Love Unlimited (1998)

Ode to the life-and-marriage-saving properties of a disco era crooner in novelty single form

Also, The Munsters and The Addams Family to thread.

(both 1964)

Two movies about the Bling Ring thieves: a Lifetime TV movie (2011), and a theatrical film directed by Sophia Coppola (2013), both entitled The Bling Ring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_films

Producer Bingham Ray recalls a conversation where the screenwriter of the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous phoned to announce that his script had been finished. Ray said "I know, I've got it on my desk!" before realizing that he actually had the screenplay to Capote, a biopic by a different writer.[5]

forgot abt this one

Christine 2016 Kate Plays Christine

Kerouac adaptations: On The Road (2012) and Big Sur (2013)

...and then there was also Howl (2010), which is part adaptation of the Ginsberg work and part dramatization of the obscenity trial, with all the Beat legends present and accounted for.

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
The Thing (2011)

To Sir with Love (released June 14, 1967)
Up the Down Staircase (released June 28, 1967)

Citizens Band (1977)
Convoy (1978)

Empress Elisabeth of Austria:

The Empress (TV series) (2022)
Corsage (Film) (2022)

This was one of two films about Wilde released in 1960, the other being The Trials of Oscar Wilde. They were both released in the last week of May 1960.

possibly connected to this among other things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenden_report

This is a little less concrete, but A Face in the Crowd came out May 28, 1957, followed by Sweet Smell of Success on June 27, 1957: both meditations on celebrity, phony patriotism, and Joe McCarthy.

there’s a third current Empress Elisabeth of Austria thing going on too - a tv series called Sisi.

Loose adaptations of the Russian novel The Twelve Chairs: 12+1, 1969 (Sharon Tate's last film), and The Twelve Chairs, 1970 (the second film by Mel Brooks).

candy (2022) hulu
love & death (2023) hbo

both about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Montgomery

I think this basically fits: Air and BlackBerry (Canadian) both opening right now. They're separated by 15-20 years on a timeline, but, based on seeing the trailers and what I already know about the products, there would seem to be a lot of overlap.

There's also the Taron Egerton movie Tetris on Apple plus.

The new inspirational movies are about how moguls starting making bank. Assume the bezos one is coming soon. Maybe an "irreverent" one about musk in a decade or so.

Just back from BlackBerry--definitely lots of overlap with Air, starting with a note to myself to take a break from films where people shout at each other for two hours (BlackBerry the much more egregious offender on that count).

Also that there's a Mario movie, a Tetris movie, a DnD movie and a Barbie movie all out at the same time. Not exactly the same, but seeing them all up there on the cinema board was like a list of "Christmas most wanted list 1988"

I have no idea what this Blackberry movie is going to entail, but I'm just imagining someone looking up with a mad look in their eyes during a boardroom brainstorming session saying: "Wait a minute, I've got it. Let's include ALL the letters"

I'll have to figure out a thread for posting about it, but it really wore me down before long.

Lol dog Latin

After the great cultural achievement that is Minecraft: The Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

I am just gonna hold out for Candy Crush III: the Crushening

Minecraft, Minesweeper, whatever

Frogger 2: The Froggening was pretty good tho

That Minesweeper thing is great

Remember: Mine is money.

In the tradition of "Air" and "Blackberry," I just saw a trailer for "Flamin' Hot," a movie about Cheetos.

Can’t tell if serious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7sNRloq-A

when there's a movie about Flamin' Hot Monster Munch, I'll allow it in this thread