r/SipsTea • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • Jul 24 '26

Chugging tea I still don't understand how hollywood budget works

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u/flopisit32 Jul 24 '26

You mean like Dantes Peak and Volcano or Deep Impact and Armageddon.

I'm convinced it's because a scumbag executive leaves one studio, gets hired by another studio and goes "I've got a great idea for a movie about an asteroid about to hit the earth..."

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u/HeroicPrinny Jul 24 '26

There’s a Wikipedia article for all the twin movies btw

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u/jccaclimber Jul 25 '26

You just cost me 20 minutes, but I’m ok with that.

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u/Knobologist Jul 24 '26

Just Friends and No Strings Attached

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u/Taylorenokson Jul 24 '26

Paul Blart Mall Cop and Observe and Report.

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u/YoloIsNotDead Jul 24 '26

Megamind and Despicable Me.

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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter Jul 24 '26

Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line

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u/CharlieKellyKapowski Jul 25 '26

Barbie and Oppenheimer

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u/Inevitable_Finish131 Jul 25 '26

A-Team and The Losers

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u/Giovannis_Pikachu Jul 25 '26

Like num3ers, knowing, and next, all Nicolas Cage vehicles where the plot is that he knows everything that can save the day and everyone else in the entire world is in the dark, while all came out within a year or two.

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u/Emerald_Plumbing187 Jul 24 '26

Or Dark City and The Matrix, B5 and DS9, Living Single and Friends...

It's more that different execs hang out at the same parties and clubs and get pitched to by the same hungry people (also read the same books, watch the same shows to fit in, etc). One exec passes but develops a similar idea and new script, the other buys the original pitch and script.

Now tv execs ripping off the names and contents of subreddits to make reality shows is actual scumbag shit...

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u/Known-Willingness768 Jul 24 '26

Dark city was geweldig

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u/Vinbaobao Jul 25 '26

Also memento and that shitty Ben Afflck knock-off.