IF you can’t wait until the much buzzed-about “Snakes on a Plane” slithers into theaters on Aug. 18, you can get a reptile fix two days earlier – just rent the suspiciously similar-sounding “Snakes on ...

Giant Pictures are pitching the award-winning Aussie documentary on the B-movie studio behind 'Sharknado' to buyers at AFM. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Mockbuster, an Australian ...

For the most part, the stuidos' attitude toward these movies has been one of annoyed acceptance. The guys who run The Asylum (David Latt, David Rimawi and Paul Bates) say they get lots of angry ...

While imitation has always been the sincerest form of flattery, at the Asylum it also turns out to be a nice business model. Asylum is in the business of producing “mockbusters,” very low-budget, very ...

They say that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". The first record of that quote is from Charles Caleb Colton's book Lacon: or Many Things in Few Words, published in 1820. People often ...

Michael Bay loves ‘splosions. His first words were probably “I wanna ‘splode;” he’s the Ricky Bobby of blowing shit up. This isn’t blogger hyperbole either. He’ll often say in interviews that as a ...

But movies don’t work that way. If, for example, your heart is set on watching the DreamWorks movie Kung Fu Panda, you’re not likely to find satisfaction with Chop Kick Panda, the 41-minute ...

Last week, Disney’s The Lion King musical announced it has made $6.2 billion worldwide, meaning the Broadway favorite now has the most successful box office of anything in any medium in entertainment ...