Paired movies

[djkest]

Sometimes similar movies come out at nearly the same time. Generally this almost begs comparison. For example, it's hard not to talk about The Illusionist without also mentioning "The Prestige". Planned or not, duelling studios pit these movies against each other and ultimately consumers determine the "victor". Here's a couple examples I can think of off the top of my head.

The Illusionist (September 2006)
The Prestige (October 2006)
Two movies set in the early 20th century about magicians, deception, and murder.

Also:
Despicable Me (July 2010)
Megamind (November 2010)
Two animated family movies with supervillains as lead characters who have a change of heart.

Can you think of any more?

[Iamspartacus]

Tombstone and Wyatt Earp came out at similar times

[racefreak619]

easy, some not as close to each other as the ones you mentioned, but still all released under 1 year a part of each other

Dante's Peak (February 1997)
Volcano (April 1997)
People running for a volcanic erruption

Armageddon (June 1998)
Deep Impact (May 1998)
Asteroid on collision course with earth

Skyline (November 2010)
Battle L.A. (March 2011)
Alien invasion in LA

Rob Roy (April 1995)
Braveheart (May 1995)
historic Scottish battle movies

edit: thought of some more
Antz (October 1998)
A Bug's Life (November 1998)
animated story's about insects

The Truman Show (June 1998)
Ed TV (march 1999)
reality TV movies

Mission to Mars (March 2000)
Red Planet (November 2000)
missions to mars

[djkest]

Thanks, those are good. Mind if I put them in the OP?

[cinemaphile]

Iron Eagle - 1/17/86
Top Gun - 5/16/86

Madagascar - May 2005
The Wild - April 2006

1492: Conquest of Paradise - 10/9/92
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - 10/21/92

First Daughter - 1/9/04
Chasing Liberty - 9/24/04
* 18 year-old Presidents' daughters want to escape the pressures of the WHite House and find love

The Abyss - 8/9/89
Deep Star Six - 1/13/89
Leviathan - 3/17/89
* deep-sea expeditions turn into survival missions after encountering unknown beings

Gordy - 5/12/95
Babe - 8/4/95
* talking pigs

Capote - 2/3/06
Infamous - 11/16/06
* Truman Capote biopics

Prefontaine - 1/24/97
Without Limits - 9/11/98
* runner Steve Prefontaine biopics

Finding Nemo - 5/30/03
Shark Tale - 10/1/04
* Computer-animated underwater fish adventures

K-9 - 4/28/89
Turner & Hooch - 7/28/89
* cop/dog buddy movies

Like Father, Like Son - 10/2/87
Vice Versa - 3/11/88
* body-switching fathers/sons (both made/released after Big was a hit in 1986)

and sort of:
A-Team - 6/11/10
The Losers - 4/23/10
* framed/disavowed quirky ex-military teams trying to clear their names

(I'm assuming we're not counting the shameless knockoffs that rush into production to air on SyFy or direct-to-dvd to tie into big theatrical movies)

[FrodoBagginz]

House On Haunted Hill (1999)
The Haunting (1999)

Independence Day (1996)
Mars Attacks (1996)

[mediocre]

Very nice thread idea, djkest.

Saving Private Ryan (7/24/98)
The Thin Red Line (12/25/98)

[cinemaphile]

Thought of more!

No Strings Attached - 1/21/11
Friends With Benefits - 7/22/11
* about f*ckbuddies

Kundun - 12/25/97
Seven Years in Tibet - 10/8/97
* young Dalai Lama

Upcoming:
Snow White and the Huntsman (Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth) - 6/1/12
Untitled Snow White movie (Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, and Armie Hammer) - 3/16/12

[Tony5523]

No Strings Attached: 2011
Friends with Benefits: 2011

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Tony5523

No Strings Attached: 2011
Friends with Benefits: 2011

oops! you already posted the same thing while I was editing my post! Great minds...

p.s. this probably belongs in the Movies forum, not Blu-Rays

[Petyr_Baelish]

The matrix reloaded
The matrix revolution

[Iamspartacus]

The Deer Hunter in 1978 and Apocalypse Now in 1979 later Platoon in 1986 and Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill in 1987 all about Vietnam

[Bucky]

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (January 2009)
Observe and Report (April 2009)
Both about security guards at shopping malls


A little more time between these two
The Matrix (March 1999)
Dark City (February 1998)
*I believe they even used some of the same sets.

[4fit?]

The Ledge (5/26/11) (IMDB link)
Man On A Ledge (1/13/12) (IMDB Link)
A dude on a ledge for various reasons.

[remake]

It's scary how many similar films were released so close to each other. Do people just pitch the idea to different movie studios? These all can't be coincidences.

[obscurelabel]

Harlow (1965) and Harlow (1965).

Oscar Wilde (1960) and The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960).

[formula_nebula]

You guys thought of all the good ones. The only other thing that comes to mind is, the super hero movies we got this year.

Thor
X-Men FC
Green Lantern

Same thing next year too, with The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by formula_nebula

You guys thought of all the good ones. The only other thing that comes to mind is, the super hero movies we got this year.

Thor
X-Men FC
Green Lantern

Same thing next year too, with The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

not sure that really qualifies, theres several superhero movies EVERY year

[HD Goofnut]

Think of all the sci-fi films that were released in the 50s. War of the Worlds, This Island Earth, The Thing From Another World, etc.

[formula_nebula]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

not sure that really qualifies, theres several superhero movies EVERY year

I don't think I have seen this many in one year before. I'm not really counting movies like Kick-Ass, or Watchmen either. Just Marvel and DC.