Films with similar themes released close to each other

degsyhufc · 03/02/14 - 21:34

After the news of PSH last night the news pointed out his OSCAR win for Capote.

I haven't actually seen it but I have seen Infamous which came out a year later with the same theme/plot/basis.

Any others you can think of that were released close to each other?

Eddie Badger · 03/02/14 - 21:38

Tombstone and Wyatt Earp

LM · 03/02/14 - 21:40

Released within three years of one another, Calamity Jane and Annie Get Your Gun are incredibly similar in plot and the lead character. Only difference is the songs.

blueisthecolour · 03/02/14 - 22:17

Obviously White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen.

Also Armageddon and Deep Impact released in the same year (1998).

Actually A Bugs Life and Antz were both released in 1998 as well.

CLL Dodge · 04/02/14 - 05:56

Cleopatra [1963] and Carry on Cleo [1964].

dodrade · 04/02/14 - 06:07

Robin Hood (the Patrick Bergin one), and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Bloody Sunday (the Paul Greengrass one), and Sunday (the Jimmy McGovern one).

UrMyStar · 04/02/14 - 14:18

Mirror Mirror and Snow White & the Huntsman

Takae · 04/02/14 - 18:40

The Lost Boys - Near Dark. Within two months of each other in the UK. Vampires prowl as a pack.
The Truman Show - EdTV. Same year. Reality TV.
The Thomas Crown Affair - Entrapment. Same year. An insurance investigator goes after a thief.

Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich) - Joan of Arc (Leelee Sobieski). Same year. The Sobieski version is a TV film, but it was so heavily marketed that I thought Sobieski was in the Luc Besson film while not realising it was actually Jovovich in the role.

1995 - 1999 was an awful period as I constantly confused similar films with each other. I can't remember the titles, but for a while I thought Jeremy Northam was in Christian Bale's SF film while Bale was in Northam's SF film, both released in the same year with similar themes and settings.

Batmannequin · 04/02/14 - 18:42

Volcano and Dante's Peak
Paul Blart and Observe & Report
Truman Show and EdTV
No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits (bonus points here for using even the same font on the posters)
This Is The End and World's End

Chasing Shadows · 04/02/14 - 18:50

"Exorcist: The Beginning" and "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist" both came out within a year of each other - and both were pretty much the same film, with the same cast, but made by two different directors.

Not a movie - but both "Borgia" and "The Borgias" were released as TV series in 2011. Telling exactly the same story with different directors, different casts and different scripts and screenplays.

Takae · 04/02/14 - 18:52

blueisthecolour wrote: »

Also Armageddon and Deep Impact released in the same year (1998).

Dante's Peak (Pierce Bronsan) and Volcano (Tommy Lee Jones) - released within a month of each other.

Wasn't there a similar film released in the same year as The Core (Aaron Eckhart)?

metanoia · 04/02/14 - 19:16

Well there was that porn film and that other porn and then that other porn film....

dodrade · 04/02/14 - 20:20

The Descent and The Cave.

United 93 and Flight 93.

The Girl and Hitchcock, although the former is set a couple of years later than the latter.

kjhskj75 · 04/02/14 - 21:04

CLL Dodge wrote: »

Cleopatra [1963] and Carry on Cleo [1964].

Carry on Cleo used left over sets and props from Cleopatra.

Explains the high production values compared with other Carry Ons.

kjhskj75 · 04/02/14 - 21:06

"Oscar Wilde" and "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" both in 1960.

Also

"Victory at Entebbe" (1976) and "Raid on Entebbe" (1977)

[Deleted User] · 04/02/14 - 22:08

Small plane crashes in the desert leaving several survivors. Tensions develop among the group, some go mad. - The synopsis of two 1965 films: 'Sands of the Kalahari' and 'Flight of the Phoenix'

Also, the upcoming pair of Old Testament blockbusters: 'Noah' and 'Exodus'.

computermaster · 04/02/14 - 22:13

Bourne Supremacy and X-men 2. Both about experiments gone wrong, with the main characters losing their memories and trying to figure out who they are.

Brian Cox playing a somewhat similar role in both movies was rather amusing.