https://www.slashfilm.com/1992s-two-columbus-movies-head-to-head/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen Lost City Of Z yet buy I can't even fathom how it might be similar to Embrace Of The Serpent
― imago, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
Only in subject matter really, they’re quite different otherwise
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link
Embrace of the serpent (2015) = HerzogLost city of z (2016) = David Lean
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
Tuomas, have you seen The Thirteenth Floor? Also 1999 and even closer to The Matrix in subject matter.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
I was quite enjoying embrace of the serpent until the derivative death cult bit, which I felt brought the movie down to predictable-netflix-type-bollox standards.
― calzino, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Christine (2016)Kate Plays Christine (2016)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
Already submitted upthread
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
Operation Dunkirk (2017)Dunkirk (2017)
probably for another thread where Asylum rush out hilarious z-movies that turn out to better than the ones they rip off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah mockbusters deserves to be (or already is) a separate thread, think I might have said so before itt
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
The Mercy (2017)Crowhurst (2017)
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
dark city/matrix
― lie back and think of englund (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
What’s that, the sixth time some combo of dark city matrix gattaca existenz has been mentioned itt
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/4f52d14e7e6387fce38cd44163aed8f3/tumblr_mmsvus5N1U1sp0gj9o1_500.gif
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
Deep Star Six (1989)Leviathan (1989)
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, March 26, 2016 2:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and The Abyss the same year! these are the kind that i really find fascinating... you can imagine at least one being a rush job based on rumor that the bigger studio is doing a deep-sea alien movie...but with three in play you have to figure out what was in the water (yuk yuk) that led to this. see my remarks upthread on how you can imagine two screenwriters both reading a mid-90s article on what would happen if an asteroid hit the earth, and cooking up substantively different takes on how that could be made into a movie. there's also just a perennial problem with hollywood buying into deep-sea sci-fi movies, which never seem to quite connect with the public the way they expect. sphere (1998), deep blue sea (1999) and virus (1999) also reflect this impulse i think.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Different media but leftovers and left behind (both 2014) definitely counts Btw wow @ a quiet place/the silence, that one seems like a case of the aqp writers ripping off the source material for the silence wholesale
― coetzee.cx (wins), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
So thankful that the producers of God's Not Dead rushed out an adaptation of Little Women for us this year so we don't have to wait for that slowpoke Greta Gerwig to finish her own adaptation.
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
Shazaam (1995)Kazaam (1996)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Sorry
(This is where I initiate my plan to further promote confusion by insisting to all and sundry that both films were total rip-offs of the 1994 Sherman Hemsley tv movie entitled Abracadabra.)
― a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
New World Pictures tried to make an Ant-Man movie in the late 80s because they knew Disney was making Honey I Shrunk the Kids. There's a story in "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story" about Stan Lee always pitching an Ant-Man movie and everyone else pointing out that Ant-Man can go through keyholes and that's it.
― adam the (abanana), Sunday, 11 November 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
RBG (2018)On the Basis of Sex (2018)Everyone cites Ghoulies (1985) and Critters (1986) as examples of the spate of Gremlins (1984) ripoffs but it seems there is an argument for their inclusion in the magician movie canon Although widely believed to have been made to cash in on the success of the similarly themed Gremlins (which is also owned by Warner Bros.),[1][2][3] director Stephen Herek has refuted this in interviews, pointing out that the first Critters script was written by Domonic Muir long before Gremlins went into production and subsequently underwent rewrites to reduce the apparent similarities between the two filmsand Ghoulies is often considered a cash-in on the success of Gremlins, as was Critters. Was that movie an influence in any way and how did you feel about these comparisons?The truth is, we were in production at the same time. We were curious about them, and they were curious about us. They were so curious about us, in fact, that Warner Bros. briefly sued to stop us from using the name – they lost. Part of the reason that Gremlins came out first, is that Charlie Band ran out of money halfway through shooting, so a few months went by as we all scrambled for the money, allowing Gremlins to open first. Strategically, I think Charlie positioned the release that way, as well.
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 29 June 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
At some point we are going to have to reckon with what exactly went on wrtThe Sopranos (1999, pilot shot in 1997)Analyze This (1999)National Lampoon’s The Don’s Analyst (1997)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 29 June 2019 07:23 (four years ago) link
I still don’t understand how/why Octopussy and Never Say Never Again came out the same year
― brimstead, Saturday, 29 June 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I saw both at the cinema as a wee nipper, didn't realise it was same year. Heady times.
― calzino, Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
weird james bonds rights issues - this guy who cowrote Thunderball essentially had the right to remake Thunderball, using any elements that already appeared in Thunderball, as many times as he wanted. clearly he found some money/producers who realized this, along with connery's enduring popularity, could be leveraged into a hit. and probably that, versus putting it out in a bond off-year, it would do better if marketed as a clear choice: connery vs moore, c'mon, who do you really wanna see folks?
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
this year: two movies involving a british minority group member and classic rock -- yesterday and the springsteen movie with a boring titletwo movies where the manson murders get rewritten -- OUATIHBBQ and The Haunting of Sharon Tate
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
two movies about superheroes maybe? can’t remember the timing
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
Two John Z. DeLorean movies out this year: Driven (Lee Pace as JZD) and Framing John DeLorean (Alec Baldwin as JZD).
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 August 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
Two Fox News/Roger Ailes things this year: The Loudest Voice miniseries on Showtime, and theatrical film Bombshell w/Theron, Kidman, Robbie etc.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned the dueling Fyre Fest docs?
There were the 2 JT LeRoy documentaries too, but I think they might have been a year apart
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
The David Crosby movie and Echo In The Canyon.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
one time there were two Yeti cartoons
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 October 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
three, counting Smallfoot (2018) as well as this year's Missing Link and Abominable
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 October 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
i guess Missing Link was a bigfoot movie but still
oh I wasn't sure which was which I just knew there seemed to be a lot of Yeti cartoons
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
I mean more than there really needs to be probably
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
i assume the two CG yeti ones reflect schemes to make bank in china, the new one especially. missing link, being stop-motion, must have taken a LOT longer to develop and doesn't seem motivated by much of anything. story had that problem also but at least it was stunningly gorgeous to look at about a third of the time.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah I think the latest one was co-produced by a Chinese studio
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 October 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
just wanted to amend my earlier comments as i just remembered that the climax of Missing Link takes place in a lost city of yetis, high in the Himalayas. So truly, one time there were three Yeti cartoons.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
There were almost two Ferrari-related films out now, but Ford vs. Ferrari stands alone, as the Enzo Ferrari biopic is still in development.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
this year there was a dc captain marvel movie and a marvel captain marvel movie
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 26 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Two Roy Cohn docs this year: the theatrical release Where's My Roy Cohn, and HBO's Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 November 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
https://thewhisp.mommyish.com/entertainment/movies/twin-films-movies-with-same-plot-same-year/38/
― kinder, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
great listicling
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 2 December 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Paid by the exclamation point!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 December 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
If made-for-television films are acceptable ITT, I would like to offer:
Amy Fisher: My Story (December 28, 1992)The Amy Fisher Story (January 3, 1993)Casualties of Love: The 'Long Island Lolita' Story (January 3, 1993)
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 December 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
That one time there were two Chicago-based hospital dramas on tv:ERChicago Hope
― Sam Weller, Monday, 2 December 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Last we had a feature film from Clint Eastwood about Richard Jewell, and now CBS has picked up a cable mini-series about him which they premiered tonight.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
Last Year...