one time there were two magician movies

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.

Christine (2016)
Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Already submitted upthread

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.

Oh yeah mockbusters deserves to be (or already is) a separate thread, think I might have said so before itt

The Mercy (2017)
Crowhurst (2017)

dark city/matrix

What’s that, the sixth time some combo of dark city matrix gattaca existenz has been mentioned itt

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Deep Star Six (1989)
Leviathan (1989)

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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.

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

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.

Shazaam (1995)
Kazaam (1996)

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.)

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.

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 films

and

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.

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what exactly went on wrt

The Sopranos (1999, pilot shot in 1997)
Analyze This (1999)
National Lampoon’s The Don’s Analyst (1997)

I still don’t understand how/why Octopussy and Never Say Never Again came out the same year

I saw both at the cinema as a wee nipper, didn't realise it was same year. Heady times.

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?

this year:
two movies involving a british minority group member and classic rock -- yesterday and the springsteen movie with a boring title
two movies where the manson murders get rewritten -- OUATIHBBQ and The Haunting of Sharon Tate

two movies about superheroes maybe? can’t remember the timing

Two John Z. DeLorean movies out this year: Driven (Lee Pace as JZD) and Framing John DeLorean (Alec Baldwin as JZD).

Two Fox News/Roger Ailes things this year: The Loudest Voice miniseries on Showtime, and theatrical film Bombshell w/Theron, Kidman, Robbie etc.

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

The David Crosby movie and Echo In The Canyon.

one time there were two Yeti cartoons

three, counting Smallfoot (2018) as well as this year's Missing Link and Abominable

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

I mean more than there really needs to be probably

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.

Yeah I think the latest one was co-produced by a Chinese studio

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.

There were almost two Ferrari-related films out now, but Ford vs. Ferrari stands alone, as the Enzo Ferrari biopic is still in development.

this year there was a dc captain marvel movie and a marvel captain marvel movie

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.

https://thewhisp.mommyish.com/entertainment/movies/twin-films-movies-with-same-plot-same-year/38/

great listicling

Paid by the exclamation point!

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)

That one time there were two Chicago-based hospital dramas on tv:
ER
Chicago Hope

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.

Last Year...

There is something rich and strange and generous in Matteo Garrone’s new live-action version of the Pinocchio story ... his father-creator Geppetto is played by the exuberant Roberto Benigni, who himself directed a Pinocchio film in 2002 ... Next year, Guillermo del Toro is due to bring out his own version of Pinocchio and it is inevitably rumoured to be “darker”, while Robert Zemeckis has his own adaptation in mind with Tom Hanks as Geppetto

not the same year (or decade for the benigni version) but wtf

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/14/pinocchio-review-matteo-garrone-live-action

there are always like three Pinocchio projects on the Hollywood back burner, oddly

https://i.ibb.co/KmcZrcV/MV5-BNGY4-MGJl-Zjgt-Nj-Rh-NC00-MDlm-LThi-MDct-Zj-Mx-Ym-I1-ZGU1-Zj-Fj-Xk-Ey-Xk-Fqc-Gde-QXVy-MTQx-Nz-M.jpg

If I was doing a Pinocchio film and then I heard Del Toro was doing one as well I probably wouldn't bother with mine.