I remember back in 1992 there where 3 films about Christopher Columbus

Does Bollywood movies count? :D There could be more than 10k movies

_Dangerous_ _Liaisons_ and _Valmont_ both based on the same 18th century novel. The former was released first in 1989 and was a big success. The second came months later and flopped big in the box office but was the better movie IMHO.

The Prestige, and The Illusionist, both about the Golden age of magic, both released in 2006.

this was a collection of anecdotes without any insight. its better to not release filler content.

I was LITERALLY just thinking this! Beat me to it, dang

@@djisar-official Dont you mean Marry Poppins and Guardians of the Galaxy?

@@UltimateDurzan You know what, it might have actually been Shrek 2 and its twin movie O.J. Simpson: Made in America

The similarities are endless.

i love those two, it always made me cry when mary went down the lava with a thumbs up, and i always love arnold flying away in an umbrella saying he'll be back

Cheddar wind

All these click farms are the same.

Will both be dead before long lol

Twin Channels

I rather watch the videos from Great Big Story. They talk about the culture in the world and leave political stuff aside.

I thought it was the other way around.

I can't tell which is which

Hahaha that's exactly what I said! I saw WHD recently and I was shook.

When I watched "London Has Fallen" I thought the movie was a sequel to White House Down because I didn't knew about the existance of Olympus Has Fallen until I started watching it and I started wondering where were Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, soon I realised I was watching the wrong movie all along

So Mr.Pr.Obama care turning to Mr.Pr.Obama Whitecare

Clark Potter this just made me fucking die of laughter dude thought I was the only one thinking this... what a fucking stupid video concept / execution lmfao.... “twin films happen because of reasons”.... lmfaoooooo

@@tristenbell6929 What's so funny about that? The title asks a question that people might wonder and then it answers it. I don't understand what is bad about the video concept.

@@amark57 one day you will understand, hang in there.

thank you for articulating what i was thinking

@@amark57 Because it doesn't really give a satisfying answer, does it? The question was "Why Are Identical Movies Released at the Same Time?" And the answer given was practically "Well, we don't really know for sure. Sometimes it's a coincidence and sometimes it's a stolen idea" I'm pretty sure everyone had already suspected that. That's like answering "why does a towel absorb water" with "well, because water 🙃"

HitzCritz it's called capitalism

isn't that what happend with Tac & Aladdin ?

HitzCritz sounds depressing

@Ravathiel That's more of a case of plagiarism... "The Thief & The Cobbler" - Richard Williams' obsessive passion project - was in production for years before Aladdin, which, one could say was a total rip-off of the former.

* * what??

Man I loved that movie but idk why it’s called captain marvel, especially since the kid always says Shazam 🤔

FightOn2002 The original name of the character was captain Marvel but then Stan Lee copirighted that name for his comic company and they had to change it to Shazam

Wait what

@@caytlin100 shazams original name was captain marvel

Gabe Merritt damn it

What would the sequel be about? I don't think the ending would have allowed for that. Prequels would have been possible though.

Honestly I think a TV show would be fun little slice of life hero stuff

Megamind was enjoyed more by adults, but a children's movie does not succeed by that.

Tbh the first movie would lose it's magic, so no sequel

I LOVE Megamind, but I don't think it needed a sequel. It was good enough on its own

*Matthew Noneya* and now they’re married with kids!

Funny cause Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher and Justin Timberlake have all had relations with Mila Kunis in a movie.

Lots of strings attached, and no benefits...

Tbh when the movies came out, I thought they were the same film starring both Ashton Kutsher and Mila Kunis 😂😂

@@ShinyHunterkt really? Natalie Portman? I need movie title/Redtube link.

Just release it really quickly and it will be perfectly on theme.

@@cheddar hahahaha good point!

Just make it anyway and use this as another example of twins.

HAHA Good one!

Don't worry DK just make a detailed one for yours

Easy to miss cause The Wild was on nobody's radar...

@@AsellusPrimus the Wild was underrated though, it's plot wasn't bad, it dealt with more serious topics than Madagascar 1 too

Also, The Book of Life and Coco.

@@elijahmikhail4566 Book of Life and Coco came out 3 years apart so I'm not sure if they count.

wtf is the wild

the first is 10x better

well said

You're a man of culture.

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Well, when _Antz_ came out, my grandmother didn't realize it wasn't _A Bug's Life_ and I got it for Christmas as a kid.... Which is odd, all things considered. Looking back, not exactly super appropriate for someone under 10, if memory serves. Severed heads and whatnot. A slightly uncomfortable watch at that age.

@@skuzzyj haha I thought you were going to say your aunt got it for you.

@@anchorbait6662 oh.... She totally would have. I think there was coordination there

The producer read the same draft. And they just come up with same movie. It not asylum film which just make money from more expensive movie.(cheaper cost of marketing.)

@@skuzzyj Why it's not appropriate? I didn't Watch any of them but they both seem kid friendly

mustard roshi Hahahaha! you win this round.

What is brazzers? Is it where i buy vbucks?

@Raider 2747 rip hentai haven

Casting couch?

mustard roshi bazzers is better.

Wow, that's an interesting tidbit that I didn't know.

It's also a market fixation - if two movies are similar, then they naturally compete each other with sinergetic marketing being created. If two are completely different, whoever chose a bad theme for the season loses completely. When hundreds of millions of dollars are at the stake, the investors can't gamble so they choose a safer bet.

Yea but cheddar isn’t always shoving politics down your throat.

@@crunch9876 I don't even know what you're referencing but you sound conservative lol

Wait. This isn't Vox?

Vox kills your brain cells any time they try to cover politics or guns.

Agree

facts are facts.

Incoming call..........ollo?

You are a genius.

Megamind did not have any cancer causing yellow tic tacs that grandmas post on Facebook. Despicable Me had the Minions.

Shark tale and Book of life is better

debaditya bhowmik lol coco is wwaaaaaaaayy better

i forgot about the book of life

Book of Life and Coco came out three years apart... Doesn't count buddy. Same with the other two, they're a year apart. You didn't understand the premise of the video at all lmao! 😂😂😂

@@SylasTheGreat , within a couple years probably is close enough. If you decide not to watch one because you _recently_ saw the other, then it counts.

"Star Trek Deep Space Night has nothing to do with Babylon 5".....Even though they are both on a space station..... One of the races on the station recently invaded another, one of the races had colonized and made slaves of another....and the main characters are the people who run the station itself, with the leader of security playing a big role......

@@Seth9809 Deep Space *_Night???_*

​@@MilescoIt's supposed to be _Deep Space Nine._

I have a copy of The Illusionist, probably because I bought a lot of pre-used DVDs from Blockbuster when they closed. But I don't think I've watched that copy once. Alternatively I've seen The Prestige many times and also have a copy of it. It's funny because my spouse keeps thinking plot points of The Prestige are actually from The Illusionist and I keep telling him that no everything you remember is from The Prestige. You don't remember The Illusionist. The Illusionist was not memorable enough. It's just a romance where an upper class lady sneaks off with her magician lover, right?

Those are my favorite twin films

We need someone to make an epic mashup edit of the two movies.

The illusionist was realistic but pretty boring. Jessica biel and Edward Norton The prestige is not realistic but still very good. I’d say higher production value than illusionist. Superstar cast: Christian bale Hugh jackman michal Caine Scarlett Johannson David Bowie

They are both period pieces about a magician. That's pretty much where the similarities end entirely.

You tried

Spongebob: *SHUT UP YOU CRUSTACEOUS CHEAPSKATE*

Yup. Dignity not needed.

-What inspired you to make a second Krusty Krab restaurant ? -Money !

Too similar for my taste. Surprised Disney didn't sue Warner Bros. for plagiarism.

Interestingly enough, I recently learned the Rugrats Movie broke a billion. Do what you will with that information

@@MixMasterLar I really don't think it did...

@@buttermilkpancake1554 Oh hey, you are absolutely correct. It was 1 million. Soooooooooooo well damn Jungle Book was f*cking making that dough.

I had noticed twin films before, but this was the first time it actually felt weird. Maybe cause of their specific plots, but White House Down just felt like a copycat movie.

I still don’t know which movie is which. That’s how twinish they are 😂

@@Andrea-qx9vg I think of it like this: Olympus has Fallen is the serious one and White House Down is the comedy

Muffin The Fennigon They’re totally different.

They're different but both still terrible

@@EmptyHand49 The emoji movie is terrible, Wreck it ralph 2 is ok

@@gavinthecrafter Agree

"Cars" has the same plot as "Doc Hollywood", but that's more of a lift than a twinning (kind of like the way that "A Bug's Life" is one of the many, many movies that are fundamentally "The Seven Samurai").

Yeah, how often do NASCAR movies come out? That was weird.

Lmao it's actually quite true

Tarzan's serious. George... not so serious lol

@@jaykay3512 it was a joke lol

@@jaykay3512 *series, but yeah

@@justahuman9273 nah I meant serious lol buh wutevah ;p

Although they were likely conceived as being complementary, they are both Disney. One must be careful to distinguish similar films produced by the same company from films produced by different companies, as the one parent company has more direct control over the timing of the films, and the economics can differ substantially from the economics of typical twin films.

because the majority of the people like listening garbage ;)

I'm laughing a lot. It caught me off guard.

All songs are written by the same duo. Also they all revolve around the same themes. Thought2 has a video named why all music is bad.

On the radio is the only time diversity is our strength.

Limited pool of songwriters, certain genres and production styles falling in and out of favor, and the fact that 2 companies ultimately control what gets mass distribution are big factors

More like a glitch in existenz

The Matrix's twin was The Thirteenth Floor

They're triplets and the wordplay wouldn't of worked had I used the 13th floor.

@@caitlin228 IMO Thirteenth Floor is much better than Matrix.

Soonjai No, but its really good and not talked about enough.

Well this actually has an answer-Robert Downey Jr wanted to be way more involved so it turned into the conflict quickly growing to be more between Iron Man and Captain America than simply divided avengers. Or else it would've felt far less similiar if no one on either side had been drawn into such direct and insane personal battles.

A Quiet Place is way better than Birdbox though.

@@SomethingSomewhereJustOnce birdbox is better.

They all suck tbh

The happening

AQP made me fall asleep it was so darn quiet. Bird Box I watched twice.

Sphere came out 9 years later.

it's actually 6 undersea films, all released in 1989-1990 : The Rift, The Abyss, Leviathan, DeepStar Six, The Evil Below and Lords of the Deep.

The Abyss was abyssmal

The Abyss is an underrated film, and I'm not even a James Cameron fan.

What about Endless Descent? Also an 80s undersea horror

so you went to see the better end of the world film

Wait .. which one with Michael Cera in it?

Simon pegg >

The World's End is definitely better

Cheddar versus Vsauce

Fucking Mysterio again, huh?

I'll upload that meme picture if youtube allow it

A prequel meme? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

We should not have made this bargain!

Yabba dabba doo!

Now*

Damn, you are some sort of prodigy genius

Also, you are what, 16 now?

Frustrating, isn't it?

I had no idea either of those movies existed, and was blown away to see how much money the jungle book made. No wonder companies are so focused on children's media.

Yes! Mowgli was more serious, less 'child-friendly' the part when he was put in that cage and was all grazy cause you know, being raised by wolves, was very hard in particular.

True, although they both had similar box office figures and critics ratings.

Never say never again (1983) is the same as Thunderball (1965). A former writer who had help develop the plot sued and won to be given recognition and the right to produce his own adaptation of the script 10 years later.

I've heard that Sean Connery and Roger Moore met each-other in a bar during the productions of both films and spent the rest of that evening together drinking and comparing how their respective productions went.

Yeah, that was a really unusual case: Octopussy was part of the regular Eon Productions Bond franchise; Never Say Never Again was only possible because of a legal anomaly that allowed somebody else to remake "Thunderball". (Every so often, somebody bats around the idea of making yet another remake of "Thunderball" based on the same loophole.)

yep that was Sean Connerys comeback and last Bond film. he was 52 I believe. Moore was 57 in view to a kill holy moly!

It was $180M and $400M

@@amark57 No, the $230M is from a few seconds later. The problem is he's comparing the winner and loser of two different sets of twins. You know, like a moron.

Sort of. I mean, yeah, they're very different, but they're both about a male ant who struggles to fit in with their colony, gets involved in a type of war, and hooks up with the 'ant princess.'

I remember liking Antz better as a kid because it had the epic 'starship troopers-esque' termite battle. :D

Of course, they'd be in court for years battling each other over plagiarism...

Doesn't count

Same shit bleh zzzz

Yeah, Kevin Feige from Marvel said he made Civil War happen only after he saw DC doing it! The same with Captain Marvel after Wonder Woman!

Captain marvel and Shazam (OG captain marvel)

@Kai McCook Nah, It's because both are movies where an incredibly strong blue boy scout fights a billionaire in a mechanical suit which stemmed from something happening to one of the two's mother. All orchestrated by a convoluted plot of the main villain. Mainly, because said billionaire still has some trouble processing their parent's death. And all of this while introducing a new character, a warrior and heir to a royal family from a secret society. (which doubles as advertising for their solo movies that they had after this.)

Two great documentaries!

I was so confused when they introduced the Vampires.

Alexander SAME, but for many reason I like the vampire hunter more. At first it might appear as a pretty normal sci-fi movie but then you realize it’s more than that. You just need to replace the vampire with “something else” and BOOM you get the real story. Absolutely mad movie

LMAOOO

why? Did Vox upload a similar video?

And your comment is a twin of ClarkPotter's comment from a year earlier.

Wasn't there one with the bees, too?

Yes. In the current day and age its just stealing ideas. There is no "twin films" in the current day. Its a phenomena that it happened during the 1940s and stuff. Yet today it does not make as much sense. Hence I don't like the idea of twin films being talked about too much. Since there was a time where an Ex-Disney employee told the plot of their new film "Newt" to someone at Blue Sky Studios and made the film "RIO" the two films had very similar plots. Newt was supposed to be about 2 blue footed newts who are the last in existence. You can guess why it Newt was cancelled. So is it a "phenomena" in the current age? It just seems like either piggy backing, stealing, or on the very VERY rare occurrence a coincidence.

@@Nitrodino7875 Plain greed and zero dignity.... Hollywood.

You know Disney didn't originate The Jungle Book, right? It's based on a book by Rudyard Kipling. There was a live action adaptation in the 40s, before Disney's animated version, and Disney had even done 2 live action adaptations in the 90s.

Aside for ridiculous 6, which deff was made as pun on the later 2. Hateful 8 and Magnificent 7 seem like a coincidence simply as H8 was supposed to be a sequel to Django and M7 is just a reboot of the original M7, which is just a Spaghetti Western verison of Seven Samurai

Traceur Snow The original M7 was not a spaghetti western but an American production.

I thought Hateful 8 was a sequel to magnificent 7.

Was thinking of those two!

I believe the critical and commercial success of "Detective Pikachu" gave Paramount Pictures the confidence to produce "Sonic the Hedgehog".

@@catsandpiano3072 yeah two video game films, both live action, released within a year of each other (would've been sooner if not for sonic delays). You're right not related at all

Is it?

Never have I ever found any wisdom in making serious "real-life" (non-sci-fi) action movies where a modern U.S. head of state would be in danger for being President. In part, because they run the risk of being seen as campaign material for a future election. Except perhaps "Independence Day" (1996), "Deep Impact", and "Armageddon" (1998), but these are all catastrophe films. Oddly enough, ID4 and "Deep Impact" depict fictional presidents in a very meaningful way. Ironically to all the ne'er-do-gooders, 1/6 (January 6, 2021), when the safety of the Vice President and the U.S. Congress was compromised, came and went, and democracy was saved. "The Day of the Jackal" (1973), set in France, is awesome, though.

Jake Roper's video about teleportation and the Ship of Theseus paradox was almost ready to be released when CGP Grey released a video about the same topic. Jake almost scrapped the video, but Grey encouraged him to release it anyway, citing his own experience with having been scooped on planned videos. The two teleportation videos are very different in approach, but cover the same points because it's an area of philosophy and thought experiment that's centuries old.

Jake Roper's video about teleportation and the Ship of Theseus paradox was almost ready to be released when CGP Grey released a video about the same topic. Jake almost scrapped the video, but Grey encouraged him to release it anyway, citing his own experience with having been scooped on planned videos. The two teleportation videos are very different in approach, but cover the same points because it's an area of philosophy and thought experiment that's centuries old.

50th anniversary of Apollo 11 bro

Money. End of video

it would be a short video

Fun fact: Kubrick was told to push back the release date for DR. STRANGELOVE so audiences could take in FAIL-SAFE first. Knowing 2 films were using the same source material, studio heads compromised. Reasoning that audiences would be better off seeing the dramatic version first, FAIL-SAFE got the 1963 release they hoped for. While STRANGELOVE was pushed back to a 1964 release, there was an unintended impact to Kubrick's masterpiece. As the agreement was set for the 2 films, John F. Kennedy was senselessly killed in late November, 1963. Consequently, one scene mentioning the city of Dallas was redubbed to sound like LAS VEGAS. While the original pie fight finale was cut out for the now infamous bombing finale. In case your wondering, Kubrick's original ending saw the President being taken out by massive pie hits. Eerily, one of the actors utters this line: OUR ILLUSTRIOUS PRESIDENT HAS BEEN CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME. 🇵🇷🇺🇸😎🦂

Disney is infamous for doing that. _The_ _Lion_ _King_ is so much a rip-off of _Kimba_ _The_ _White_ _Lion_ that Matthew Broderick first thought that he was voicing in an American adaptation. Disney sued the company behind Kimba when they later released a Kimba movie with a story close to The Lion King, but lost when presented with the original manga of that story with a publication date that preceded Disney's movie. Look also up the stories around Pirates of the Caribbean (the first movie) - supposedly based on a pitch that Disney didn't take, but stole afterwards, and Zootopia - also supposedly based on a pitch that Disney declined, where the accuser has some concept art eerily similar Disney's characters to back up his claim.

The story goes that the pitch that eventually become Pirates of the Caribbean was a movie adaption of The Secret of Monkey Island.

Findecanor See this is something that happens a LOT. A story gets pitched, studio likes the idea, but says screw the pitch, develops that idea in-house. Pitch gets picked up by a different studio. Twin films.

The Prestige wins by far.

You're right...perhaps they meant critical reception and just got confused with the script. Jobs was complete crap, Steve Jobs was written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. It couldn't have been a bad film, even if they tried to :)