“Dangerous Liasons” and “Valmont,” less than a year apart, both based on the same novel.
Little known fact: Stephen Frears and Milos Foreman were both finishing these movies at the same editing studio at the same time. Desperate for the first release date, they’d solder eachother’s film cans shut, slip ex-lax into the other’s coffee, sneak a cow into the other’s office, etc. All true!
One’s a movie about geeks who accidentally create the perfect woman using their computer. The other’s about teenage geniuses at a special university. Amazingly similiar!
One’s an epic about the destruction of a powerful magical ring. The other’s about kids at wizard school. Amazingly similiar!
‘Snatch’ and ‘Shaft’ opened the same week in Western Australia.
Different stories, but an interesting combination of titles (if you’re into pathetic sexual innuendo)
Brokedown Palace and Return to Paradise came out, not in the same year, but close enough. Both about Westerners getting caught up in the legal systems of two Asian countries.
Cite?
Slithy Tove: “whoosh”
ArchiveGuy “Ha! My ‘cite?’ was the woosh!”
We’re through the whooshing glass here, people.
As was My Science Project.
Well some of these movies hardly have the same plot.
But as Cartman would say,‘What’s the big fucking deal, bitch?’
Movies are products. They are made by competing companies. Have you noticed how Pepsi now comes with lime just like coke? Or how everybody sells hiphugger jeans now. Plus, every product a hollywood studio makes is well know to the public. They are never a secret like the Segway. Even in the early development stages. If studio A hears that Studio B is going to make a “Giant Space Object threatens the Earth” movie they will consider making their own. Oh, and BTW that is about all Deep Impact and Armageddeon have in common with each other. Finding Nemo and Shark Tale? They were both in the ocean and had fish.
1492 and Columbus both came out in 1992. Gee, I wonder why they were made to come out that year?
No, you did not, sir. You named the principal acors. Actors and principles do not mix.
How 'bout two big-budget Hollywood movies about WW II that were out at roughly the same time? Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line .
Broadcast News and Switching Channels were released within a few months of each other – perhaps too far apart to satisfy the conditions of the OP, but I remember full-page ads for Channels the same week News was released, as if to say, “HEY! Forget that James L. Brooks masterpiece, wait a few months and watch our crappy knockoff instead!!”
1984 was released in October, 1984…a few weeks later, Ronald Reagan was re-elected. Coincidence?
Ed TV and the Truman Show were released relatively close to each other. Both were about a regular guy who’s life is televised.
Dark City and The Matrix even used some of the same sets, IIRC (waste not want not, I suppose)
Oh, and while I don’t think they had much in common, lots of folks seemed to think that Wing Commander was ripping off The Phantom Menace :rolleyes:
Antz and **A Bug’s Life ** in 1998.
Babe and Gordy in 1995.
:smack: I knew I read it somewhere.
Ummm, yeah…
Maybe those people just think that all Sci-fi movies are copies of each other if set in space, because I can’t figure out what they mean.
TNT aired its Patrick Bergin-Randy Quaid version of FRANKENSTEIN a few months
before the Coppola-Branaugh-DeNiro movie.
There was talk about another DRACULA at the same time as Coppola’s.
Also, same time as THE MESSENGER, I think Randall Wallace was trying to do a Joan of Arc pic, possibly with Mira Sorvino.
While the movies have nothing else in common, both Sexy Beast (2000) and Donnie Darko (2001) have the main characters visited by the apparition of a scary-looking, man-sized bunny rabbit.
Although one was about a guy who lived his entire life on TV unwittingly, while (IIRC) Ed TV was about an adult volunteering to be on TV.