Sharknado. A simple “portmanteau” – two words combined together to make one. The two words in this case were most likely “shark” and “tornado,” which make-up two of mother nature’s deadliest weapons in her arsenal of terrors, thrown together to spawn an idea for an incredibly creative original film. A film that could only be produced by The Asylum, of course. If you’re not familiar with the The Asylum, they’re the studio behind some of the most of the popular low-budget creature-features of recent times: 2-Headed Shark Attack, Mega Shark vs. Gatoroid and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus… you’re beginning to see a pattern emerge, right?
But The Asylum doesn’t exclusively make movies using the formula “shark plus other thing equals arggggh!” Like any other studio, The Asylum has to make movies with mainstream appeal to finance their artsy, more personal films like Sharknado. And that...
But The Asylum doesn’t exclusively make movies using the formula “shark plus other thing equals arggggh!” Like any other studio, The Asylum has to make movies with mainstream appeal to finance their artsy, more personal films like Sharknado. And that...
- 11/13/2013
- by David Bailey
- Obsessed with Film
British The X Factor Union J member Jaymi Hensley has come out as gay on the advice of mentor Louis Walsh. “I spoke to Louis about this and he said, ‘put it this way, both of my big boybands had a gay member in them.’ So he said it fits the formula quite well! Every boyband has got to have a gay one! And Louis just said ‘do it’.” For the record, he's taken, with a boyfriend of three years.
The Mayor of Reykjavik, Jón Gnarr, who has always been a huge supporter of equality, felt the need to comment on anti-marriage protesters in France with the blunt, yet true statement “Homophobia is not a phobia. They are not scared. They are just a bunch of assholes.”
Not only is David Geffen getting his American Masters special on PBS this week, he just dropped $55.4 million on a $12,000 square foot coop apartment in New York.
The Mayor of Reykjavik, Jón Gnarr, who has always been a huge supporter of equality, felt the need to comment on anti-marriage protesters in France with the blunt, yet true statement “Homophobia is not a phobia. They are not scared. They are just a bunch of assholes.”
Not only is David Geffen getting his American Masters special on PBS this week, he just dropped $55.4 million on a $12,000 square foot coop apartment in New York.
- 11/19/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Just yesterday we finally got to read the plot synopsis for next summer’s Guillermo del Toro-directed giant monsters vs. giant robots blockbuster Pacific Rim. Today we find out that The Asylum is ready to strike back!
Get ready for their latest mockbuster, Atlantic Rim!
Undead Backbrain got the early word on the 2013 Asylum mockbuster Atlantic Rim, including the artwork that looks more appropriate for a movie titled Attack of the 500-Foot Megatron. That artwork will no doubt change once we begin seeing posters for Pacific Rim.
As for the plot:
When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the Us Government is forced to trust A.I. robots to defend the country.
See, totally different from Pacific Rim. These aliens are attacking on the Atlantic side, and the giant robots defending the human race are controlled by A.I. rather than being piloted by people.
Get ready for their latest mockbuster, Atlantic Rim!
Undead Backbrain got the early word on the 2013 Asylum mockbuster Atlantic Rim, including the artwork that looks more appropriate for a movie titled Attack of the 500-Foot Megatron. That artwork will no doubt change once we begin seeing posters for Pacific Rim.
As for the plot:
When giant monsters crawl out of the Atlantic Ocean and attack the Eastern Seaboard, the Us Government is forced to trust A.I. robots to defend the country.
See, totally different from Pacific Rim. These aliens are attacking on the Atlantic side, and the giant robots defending the human race are controlled by A.I. rather than being piloted by people.
- 5/24/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Well this is somewhat unexpected, and yet it's also been a long time coming. By now most movie fans are familiar with The Asylum, a low budget production company that has made a name for themselves by putting out direct-to-video rip-offs of popular Hollywood blockbusters (often referred to as "mockbusters"). Some of their not-so-acclaimed films include Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, Paranormal Entity and Battle of Los Angeles, and they are usually released just prior to the Hollywood equivalent, creating confusion at video rental stores and on Netflix. Up until now, most studios have not really paid much attention to these atrocities, assuming that most consumers are smart enough to be able to tell them apart. This week, however, Universal Pictures has finally taken up arms against them, slapping them with a lawsuit over their upcoming Battleship clone, entitled American Battleship. According to TMZ, Universal has filed a lawsuit claiming...
- 5/2/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Just how worried are the execs at Universal that their mega budget Battleship movie might sink at the box office? Apparently they’re worried enough that they’ve actually filed a lawsuit against The Asylum over its American Battleship mockbuster.
I remember writing an article years ago after The Asylum announced their When a Killer Calls mockbuster, stunned they weren’t being sued into oblivion since the film was damn near the exact same movie as the remake of When a Stranger Calls with only a single word in the title changed. I also remember being stunned that producing movies titled Universal Soldiers and The Terminators didn’t result in major lawsuits. I believe the producers of the big screen movies mockbusted by The Asylum via Snakes on a Train and The Day the Earth Stopped flirted with similar lawsuits, and there have been other rumblings of possible legal action over the years,...
I remember writing an article years ago after The Asylum announced their When a Killer Calls mockbuster, stunned they weren’t being sued into oblivion since the film was damn near the exact same movie as the remake of When a Stranger Calls with only a single word in the title changed. I also remember being stunned that producing movies titled Universal Soldiers and The Terminators didn’t result in major lawsuits. I believe the producers of the big screen movies mockbusted by The Asylum via Snakes on a Train and The Day the Earth Stopped flirted with similar lawsuits, and there have been other rumblings of possible legal action over the years,...
- 4/27/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Here is your early warning that The Asylum will be trying to capitalize on another blockbuster release. This time Darren Lynn Bousman's 11-11-11 is being clearly copied to swindle wayward buyers out of their hard earned dollars. The Asylum's doppelganger this time is 11/11/11 and unbelievably, they have another title copying Bousman's film called 11/1/11. Notice the removal of one digit here folks. All three films involve themes of a spiritual apocalypse, with The Asylum's version much lower budgeted.
This reviewer would love to interview someone at The Asylum to find out how well these copies perform financially. Apparently they are successful as this film production and distribution company has created dozens of films that copy blockbustes. To test your film knowledge, try to identify the films copied in the following titles: Battle of Los Angeles, Paranormal Entity, Transmorphers, Titanic II, The Terminators and The Day the Earth Stopped. How well did yo do?...
This reviewer would love to interview someone at The Asylum to find out how well these copies perform financially. Apparently they are successful as this film production and distribution company has created dozens of films that copy blockbustes. To test your film knowledge, try to identify the films copied in the following titles: Battle of Los Angeles, Paranormal Entity, Transmorphers, Titanic II, The Terminators and The Day the Earth Stopped. How well did yo do?...
- 9/20/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Directed by: Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray
Written by: Erik Estenberg
Cast: Cody Deal, Richard Grieco, Patricia Velásquez, Kevin Nash
The God of Thunder had quite a busy weekend. Last Friday, he showed up in multiplexes around the country, courtesy of Marvel/Paramount's blockbuster Thor. Then on Saturday night, thanks to those lunatics running The Asylum, he materialized on television in a made-for-Syfy mockbuster called Almighty Thor.
If nothing else, this weekend proved there definitely is a Thor for every budget — Marvel's version cost about $150 million, and I'm willing to bet The Asylum made their film for an amount equal to the catering costs on Marvel's flick. Actually, what these two films really prove is that you get what you pay for.
Let's play contrast and compare. Marvel's film is filled with fine award-winning actors; is loaded with jaw-dropping special effects; and was directed by Kenneth Branagh, noted interpreter of Shakespeare. Almighty Thor...
Written by: Erik Estenberg
Cast: Cody Deal, Richard Grieco, Patricia Velásquez, Kevin Nash
The God of Thunder had quite a busy weekend. Last Friday, he showed up in multiplexes around the country, courtesy of Marvel/Paramount's blockbuster Thor. Then on Saturday night, thanks to those lunatics running The Asylum, he materialized on television in a made-for-Syfy mockbuster called Almighty Thor.
If nothing else, this weekend proved there definitely is a Thor for every budget — Marvel's version cost about $150 million, and I'm willing to bet The Asylum made their film for an amount equal to the catering costs on Marvel's flick. Actually, what these two films really prove is that you get what you pay for.
Let's play contrast and compare. Marvel's film is filled with fine award-winning actors; is loaded with jaw-dropping special effects; and was directed by Kenneth Branagh, noted interpreter of Shakespeare. Almighty Thor...
- 5/10/2011
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
Los Angeles isn't just a great place to live, it's home to the movie industry. So why, asks John Patterson, do so many film-makers keep blowing it up?
Does any city on the planet suffer from a more debilitating case of municipal self-loathing than Los Angeles?
I only ask because La, the city I live in and love beyond all reason, is, by some considerable measure, the world-class megalopolis most often destroyed, nuked, alien-invaded, bombed-flat, depopulated, dystopianised or demonised in the movies. When film-makers set out to do in their own metropolis, and expend on the task such degrees of wild-eyed, palm-rubbing glee, you have to wonder why they ever bothered to move here in the first place.
They're at it again this week, with three movies: all of which are at heart exactly the same. The flagship of the trio is Battle: Los Angeles, which means it's the one with the biggest budget.
Does any city on the planet suffer from a more debilitating case of municipal self-loathing than Los Angeles?
I only ask because La, the city I live in and love beyond all reason, is, by some considerable measure, the world-class megalopolis most often destroyed, nuked, alien-invaded, bombed-flat, depopulated, dystopianised or demonised in the movies. When film-makers set out to do in their own metropolis, and expend on the task such degrees of wild-eyed, palm-rubbing glee, you have to wonder why they ever bothered to move here in the first place.
They're at it again this week, with three movies: all of which are at heart exactly the same. The flagship of the trio is Battle: Los Angeles, which means it's the one with the biggest budget.
- 3/5/2011
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
It looks like Ponyboy Curtis himself, C. Thomas Howell, is joining the cast of Marc Webb’s “Spider-Man” reboot. He updated his Facebook page with the news that he will join the cast, including Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, and others, in Los Angeles on January 25th, where filming is already underway. As of this moment there is no word on what role Howell will play. While Howell’s “The Outsiders”/“Red Dawn”/“The Hitcher” heyday may have passed, he has certainly kept himself busy. He recently had a guest spot on an episode of USA Network’s “Psych”, and has even become a bit of a director. He’s taken the helm of low-budget sci-fi films like “The Day the Earth Stopped” (not to be confused with “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, those were two different days), and “War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave...
- 1/11/2011
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Oh, The Asylum, how did you become the greatest thing ever in the history of evers? Probably by thinking of ideas...um...somebody else also thought of, only dumber. Yes, you wouldn't think that would work, but for The Asylum, it has led to such classics as Snakes on a Train and Transmorphers.
The latest magnum opus from these top flight schlocksters is Titanic 2, the film James Cameron was afraid to make. It is, as you would expect, a sequel of sorts to Titanic, with a new boat charting the same course on the centennial anniversary of the tragic first voyage. Something tells me in real life, they wouldn't sell a bunch of cabins. Why risk it, you know?
Well, risk is exactly what The Asylum is about. How else do you stumble onto goldmines like DaVinci's Treasure, The Day the Earth Stopped, and Death Racers? Trailer me:...
The latest magnum opus from these top flight schlocksters is Titanic 2, the film James Cameron was afraid to make. It is, as you would expect, a sequel of sorts to Titanic, with a new boat charting the same course on the centennial anniversary of the tragic first voyage. Something tells me in real life, they wouldn't sell a bunch of cabins. Why risk it, you know?
Well, risk is exactly what The Asylum is about. How else do you stumble onto goldmines like DaVinci's Treasure, The Day the Earth Stopped, and Death Racers? Trailer me:...
- 7/29/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
The Asylum are the purveyors of some ‘quality’ exploitative features. The makers of The 18-Year Old Virgin, The Day the Earth Stopped, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, The Terminators, Snakes on a Train, Mega Piranha and the forthcoming Titantic 2, to name just a few, The Asylum are set to release a new film that focuses on the trials and tribulations of a group of cheerleaders.
Okay, so I don’t think it’s really going to seriously focus much on that but who knows? With the tagline “Grab Your Spirit Sticks!” and a cheerleading group called The Beavers I suspect The Asylum may be focusing more on a sleazy view of cheerleaders.
The offical synopis: A pair of horny guys get summer jobs at a college cheerleading camp and end up helping a team of misfit mascots make it to the State championship.
Check out the trailer below. Warning: the trailer is kind of Nsfw.
Okay, so I don’t think it’s really going to seriously focus much on that but who knows? With the tagline “Grab Your Spirit Sticks!” and a cheerleading group called The Beavers I suspect The Asylum may be focusing more on a sleazy view of cheerleaders.
The offical synopis: A pair of horny guys get summer jobs at a college cheerleading camp and end up helping a team of misfit mascots make it to the State championship.
Check out the trailer below. Warning: the trailer is kind of Nsfw.
- 6/20/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
8.00pm Human Target (Syfy)
Chance is hired by a mother to rescue her daughter, Jessica, a doctor on a remote Alaskan island who the local company wants dead, but the security expert is soon on the run. Season One, episode 10.
9.00pm The Sadist (The Unexplained Channel)
Three friends driving into Los Angeles for a baseball game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his girlfriend. Classic 60s psycho-thriller.
10.00pm Rage (Horror Channel +1)
Splatter-filled horror from the effects team behind Hostel. A crazy scientist creates a virus that induces uncontrollable violent rage, and when his test subjects escape all hell breaks loose!
10.40pm The Day the Earth Stopped...
8.00pm Human Target (Syfy)
Chance is hired by a mother to rescue her daughter, Jessica, a doctor on a remote Alaskan island who the local company wants dead, but the security expert is soon on the run. Season One, episode 10.
9.00pm The Sadist (The Unexplained Channel)
Three friends driving into Los Angeles for a baseball game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his girlfriend. Classic 60s psycho-thriller.
10.00pm Rage (Horror Channel +1)
Splatter-filled horror from the effects team behind Hostel. A crazy scientist creates a virus that induces uncontrollable violent rage, and when his test subjects escape all hell breaks loose!
10.40pm The Day the Earth Stopped...
- 6/13/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Overall, it's a pretty forgettable batch of new releases in stores today, but there is always the chance to catch up on something you missed in theatres whether it be Clint Eastwood's Invictus, all-star rom-com Valentine's Day, or The Spy Next Door starring Jackie Chan. Harrison Ford works around the clock in Extraordinary Measures and Kevin Costner moves into a haunted house in the direct-to-dvd horror movie The New Daughter, but my pick of the week would be Oscar-nominated indie drama The Messenger starring Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster. Also out this week is the Criterion release of Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout, Carlito's Way on Blu-ray, and the complete series of Morgan Spurlock's FX reality show 30 Days. Will you be buying or renting anything this week? Invictus [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) Extraordinary Measures [3] (+ Blu-ray [4]) Valentine's Day [5] (+ Blu-ray [6]) The Spy Next Door [7] (+ Blu-ray [8]) The Messenger [9] (+ Blu-ray [10]) The Girl on the Train [11] Southern...
- 5/18/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
8.00pm V (SyFy)
The aliens are formally granted entry to the United States, but Anna exposes a potential problem as the leader of the anti-Visitors movement receives a lot of public support. Elsewhere, Erica is assigned to protect the extraterrestrials after they receive assassination threats. Season One, episode 3.
9.00pm The Day the Earth Stopped (Horror Channel)
Futuristic tale of dread starring C. Thomas Howell. Intergalactic robots threaten to destroy the Earth unless they are shown the value of humanity. Can anyone restore order before the planet is blasted to smithereens?
10.00pm The Chaos Factor (Movies4Men +1)
An army security agent accidentally discovers the skeletal remains of three American soldiers uncovering a web of conspiracy and injustice that had been hidden for years.
8.00pm V (SyFy)
The aliens are formally granted entry to the United States, but Anna exposes a potential problem as the leader of the anti-Visitors movement receives a lot of public support. Elsewhere, Erica is assigned to protect the extraterrestrials after they receive assassination threats. Season One, episode 3.
9.00pm The Day the Earth Stopped (Horror Channel)
Futuristic tale of dread starring C. Thomas Howell. Intergalactic robots threaten to destroy the Earth unless they are shown the value of humanity. Can anyone restore order before the planet is blasted to smithereens?
10.00pm The Chaos Factor (Movies4Men +1)
An army security agent accidentally discovers the skeletal remains of three American soldiers uncovering a web of conspiracy and injustice that had been hidden for years.
- 4/24/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
So all aliens are likely to be humanoid, says an academic? What a pity for all those fantastic creatures of film and literature
Here we are swimming three-dimensionally through the blue dream of Avatar when some spoil-sport astro-biologist called Simon Conway Morris snatches off our glasses to tell us that, when the third encounter happens, aliens will be "very like us". Who needs body snatching? Carbon-based bipeds must, according to the laws of evolution, be roughly the same throughout the universe's 250bn galaxies. Boringly humanoid.
If Dr Conway Morris is right, it will be a sad day for sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Ever since the Grendel family rose out of the primeval marsh to take on Beowulf in the first work of English literature, we have pictured aliens as the ineffable "other". Fictional aliens come in all colours, shapes and dispositions. These are my top 10:
1. Nicest alien Skye, that...
Here we are swimming three-dimensionally through the blue dream of Avatar when some spoil-sport astro-biologist called Simon Conway Morris snatches off our glasses to tell us that, when the third encounter happens, aliens will be "very like us". Who needs body snatching? Carbon-based bipeds must, according to the laws of evolution, be roughly the same throughout the universe's 250bn galaxies. Boringly humanoid.
If Dr Conway Morris is right, it will be a sad day for sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Ever since the Grendel family rose out of the primeval marsh to take on Beowulf in the first work of English literature, we have pictured aliens as the ineffable "other". Fictional aliens come in all colours, shapes and dispositions. These are my top 10:
1. Nicest alien Skye, that...
- 1/26/2010
- by John Sutherland
- The Guardian - Film News
From Horror Squad
I love Paranormal Activity. It's one of my favorite horror films (for a variety of reasons), yet its absolutely insane success has proven to be a double-edged sword for horror fans. On the one hand, it gives a level of legitimacy not often seen within the horror genre outside of the throngs of fans who live for it. Conversely, it gives The Asylum an opportunity to make another movie.
In the wake of the film Walking Distance changing its name to Experimental Activity, which much like the very existence of The Asylum is nothing more than a shameless attempt to capitalize on the success of others, it would seem the company behind stellar films such as The Day the Earth Stopped and Transmorphers (which may or may not be better than the film it's emulating) has decided to make their own adaptation of Oren Peli's smash hit,...
I love Paranormal Activity. It's one of my favorite horror films (for a variety of reasons), yet its absolutely insane success has proven to be a double-edged sword for horror fans. On the one hand, it gives a level of legitimacy not often seen within the horror genre outside of the throngs of fans who live for it. Conversely, it gives The Asylum an opportunity to make another movie.
In the wake of the film Walking Distance changing its name to Experimental Activity, which much like the very existence of The Asylum is nothing more than a shameless attempt to capitalize on the success of others, it would seem the company behind stellar films such as The Day the Earth Stopped and Transmorphers (which may or may not be better than the film it's emulating) has decided to make their own adaptation of Oren Peli's smash hit,...
- 11/24/2009
- by Cinematical staff
- Cinematical
I think we kind of knew this would happen, but The Asylum, makers of fine products like Transmorphers and The Day the Earth Stopped, has aimed its direct-to-dvd business model at Paranormal Activity. Worst Previews writes that Paranormal Entity will be in stores on December 29th. That's right: Paranormal (Insert Word that ends in "ty").
Now, in most cases, The Asylum, the company that brought us the mockbusters Snakes on a Train and The Da Vinci Treasure, releases its films days before the mainstream release that it's ripping off. It usually shows up in video stores the prior Tuesday.
So because Paranormal Activity has basically run its course in theaters, you might be wondering what the rush is to get Paranormal Entity on DVD before the end of the year. Simple: It's coming out in stores the same day as Activity.
Now, in most cases, The Asylum, the company that brought us the mockbusters Snakes on a Train and The Da Vinci Treasure, releases its films days before the mainstream release that it's ripping off. It usually shows up in video stores the prior Tuesday.
So because Paranormal Activity has basically run its course in theaters, you might be wondering what the rush is to get Paranormal Entity on DVD before the end of the year. Simple: It's coming out in stores the same day as Activity.
- 11/21/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
I have to admit, I am a big C. Thomas Howell fan…at least based on one movie. The Hitcher, from 1986 starring good old C. Thomas and perennial psychopath Rutger Hauer, was a classic horror/thriller film with two actors doing brilliant work, and will always be embedded in my subconscious as a wild ride and featuring one of the most maniacal performances of all time from Mr. Hauer. The years after The Hitcher, unfortunately, have not been kind to co-star C. Thomas Howell, who has starred in one low budget disaster after another (The Day The Earth Stopped, anyone?), doing movies just for the sake of paying the mortgage. I do, however, see the appeal of starring in The Jailhouse. For the first time since The Hitcher, C. Thomas Howell is fun again, channeling his own Rutger Hauer and relishing the role of a sociopathic deputy. Too bad the...
- 10/16/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Eric Mayo)
- Fangoria
Here are the new MPAA ratings from Bulletin No: 2054. Bodyguard: A New Beginning Rated R For violence including a brief sexual assault, and language. Brothers At War Rated R For language and a brief war image. Cirque du Freak Rated PG-13 For sequences of intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language. Release Date: Tba 2009 The Crimson Wing Rated G The Day The Earth Stopped: Special Edition Rated R For some nudity. The Devil's Tomb Rated R For strong violence/gore, language and brief nudity. Evil Rated R For horror violence/gore, language and some sexual content. Fired Up Rated PG-13 For crude and sexual content throughout, partial nudity, language and some teen partying. Release Date: February 20, 2009 Friday The 13th Rated R For strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material. Release Date: February 13, 2009 Kinta Rated R For martial arts violence. Knowing Rated PG-13 For disaster sequences,...
- 1/28/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
On December 16th, The Asylum is set to release The Day The Earth Stopped, their mockbuster version of Fox's big budget The Day The Earth Stood Still remake starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly opening on December 12th. At least that was the plan. I know from my communications with past Asylum employees that they've raised the ire of Hollywood studios before, but never before has it led to legal action - until now.
Yahoo News has a story about Fox taking issue with The Asylum's The Day The Earth Stopped and firing up their legal department to do something about it. Quoting Yahoo, "This week, the studio quietly took action against the Asylum, firing off a lengthy cease-and-desist letter and hiring attorneys to go after the prolific purveyor of high-end, low-budget knockoffs of Hollywood blockbusters." High-end?
Continuing about the nature of the complaint, "Produce a movie with themes similar to an upcoming blockbuster,...
Yahoo News has a story about Fox taking issue with The Asylum's The Day The Earth Stopped and firing up their legal department to do something about it. Quoting Yahoo, "This week, the studio quietly took action against the Asylum, firing off a lengthy cease-and-desist letter and hiring attorneys to go after the prolific purveyor of high-end, low-budget knockoffs of Hollywood blockbusters." High-end?
Continuing about the nature of the complaint, "Produce a movie with themes similar to an upcoming blockbuster,...
- 11/12/2008
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
In a move that everyone saw coming, one major studio has finally become wise to the knock-off (er, "tie-in") movies released by The Asylum, and activated their horde of legal defense dogs to put an end to it.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news last night that 20th Century Fox has taken "legal action against the Asylum, firing off a cease-and-desist letter and hiring litigation lawyers to go after the prolific purveyor of high-end, low-budget knockoffs of Hollywood blockbusters." Horror fans have known about The Asylum for years, as the one-stop shop for familar-sounding fare like Snakes On A Train, When A Killer Calls, Avh: Alien Vs. Hunter, and Halloween Night. A quick glance at an IMDb talkback for any of their titles reveals many viewers asking "how can they do that?", and obviously Fox doesn't think they can.
With the upcoming release of Fox' The Day The Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves,...
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news last night that 20th Century Fox has taken "legal action against the Asylum, firing off a cease-and-desist letter and hiring litigation lawyers to go after the prolific purveyor of high-end, low-budget knockoffs of Hollywood blockbusters." Horror fans have known about The Asylum for years, as the one-stop shop for familar-sounding fare like Snakes On A Train, When A Killer Calls, Avh: Alien Vs. Hunter, and Halloween Night. A quick glance at an IMDb talkback for any of their titles reveals many viewers asking "how can they do that?", and obviously Fox doesn't think they can.
With the upcoming release of Fox' The Day The Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves,...
- 11/12/2008
- Fangoria
The title says it all, really. The Asylum are the company behind all of those obviously cloned movie titles that you see lining the shelves of your local video shop, they’re entire business model based on cranking out cheap knock offs of major blockbuster titles. And with the release of the Keanu Reeves’ starring remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still just around the corner, The Asylum have jsut released a trailer for their own The Day The Earth Stopped. I’d say that C Thomas Howell and Judd NElson were slumming it in this but it’s not like they’re getting any other work these days.
Check the trailer below the break in the Twitch Player.
Check the trailer below the break in the Twitch Player.
- 10/30/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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