Ever noticed that there are a whole load of films out there that are practically exactly the same?
Deep Impact and Armageddon both feature the Earth under threat from total annihilation courtesy of an asteroid, and both were released in 1998, one from Universal Pictures, one from Twentieth Century Fox.
Dante’s Peak took a whopping $178million at the box office, while its movie twin Volcano took £122million, showing that there was space in 1998 for two lava-filled action movies.
Animated movies Antz and A Bug’s Life are both about hapless ants who cause all kinds of havoc for their colonies.
And Mirror Mirror and Snow White And The Huntsman tackle different angles of the same classic tale, although one enjoyed more success due to a certain… Read the full story