Disney’s recent trademark lawsuit against Phase 4 Films and their movie Frozen Land has reignited discussion about ‘mockbusters,’ the portmanteau used to describe a genre of home video that is ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 25 years the resourceful genre specialists have carved out a gleefully cheesy Hollywood niche through a savvy mix of extremely low-budget quickies, well-timed ‘mockbusters’ and sharks — lots and ...

When there’s massive hype and anticipation for a major release, sometimes smaller studios try to cash in, piggy-backing off the blockbuster’s success with their own low-budget versions. With the ...

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 ...

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 ...