  hide menu User avatar #1 - chasis (05/23/2012) [-] They're
called 'Mockbusters'.  Essentially, whenever a popular movie
comes out, some low-rate, B-movie studio (such as 'The Asylum')
brings out an extremely similar title in order to cash in on it.
Some examples include:  Snakes on a Plane -> Snakes on a Train
Alien vs Predator -> Alien vs Hunter Transformers ->
Transmorphers Ratatouille -> Ratatoing E.T. -> Mac and Me #3 to
#1 - anonymous (05/23/2012) [-] Snakes on a Plane - release date
(UK/USA) 18th August, 2006 Snakes on a Train - release date
(UK/USA) 15th August, 2006  Assumption makes you look silly my
friend. User avatar #5 to #3 - flemsdfer ONLINE (05/24/2012) [-]
Oh my god! It was out a whole three days earlier? They must have
totally stole that original idea, and created that whole snakes
on a plane movie in those three days. No way they came up with
the idea first. User avatar #4 to #3 - mads (05/23/2012) [-]
Snakes on a plane was marcketed on the internet for about a year
before it came out. E