Also Carry On Columbus
But it’s hardly surprising that there would be several films that year.
(Bolding mine.) The fact that there were only 2 Christopher Columbus movies that year is what’s really startling.
three
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned
The Matrix (March 31, 1999) The Matrix (1999) - IMDb
and
The Thirteenth Floor (May 28, 1999) http://imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
There was also an HBO Films production called Sometimes in April. All three (Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs, and Sometimes in April) came out within a year of each other.
November 2005 The Posiedon Adventure. a tv movie based on the Paul gallico novel and film. This one has a terroist bomb capsizes a cruise ship and the survivors must struggle too escape
May 2006 Poseidon. based on the Paul Gallico novel and film, a cruise ship is capsized by a tidal wave and the survivors must struggle to escape in this Wolfgang Peterson film.
Deep Impact, 1998
Armageddon, 1998
One had a hobbit.
The other had a lot of stupid.
They both had big space rocks.
Also eXistenZ
Well, there’s also the fact that Armegeddon is a hopelessly stupid, incredibly boring movie whose director only made one good decision–i.e., not showing Arwen naked; while Deep Impact is much smarter and more engaging movie whose director made only one egregiously bad movie–i.e., not showing Tea Leoni naked.
Dead Man’s Curve
Dead Man On Campus
Both 1998. Same plot, which goes like this: failing college students hear that if your roommate commits suicide, you get a free passing grade. So they decide to murder their roommate, and make it look like suicide.
1991 saw two Robin Hood movies released a month apart, the Fox “Robin Hood” with Uma Thurman as Maid Marian, and Kevin Costner’s “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”. Fox blinked and downgraded their IMHO superior film to a TV release in the US. And Disney decided to cash in by rereleasing their animated version on VHS that summer.
Bet the Disney version was the best of the lot.