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| ''[[The Green Hornet (film)|The Green Hornet]]'' || ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]''<br /><br />''[[Green Arrow]]'' (on hold) || Green-themed superheroes.<br /><br />It isn't easy being green for [[Development Hell|would-be]] third contender, ''Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max''. ||One is based on a long-running second-tier ''[[Internet Backdraft|(perhaps)]]'' DC icon, one is based on a [[The Green Hornet|cult TV show]]. Both had to correct for [[Weaksauce Weakness|silly weaknesses]] (yellow and [[Sidekick Ex Machina|reliance on]] [[Bruce Lee]], respectively). ||''[[Cracked.com]]'' made [http://www.cracked.com/article_19015_green-lantern-vs.-green-hornet-telling-them-apart-5Bchart5D.html a chart] pointing out how similar the two movies were. In the end, ''Lantern'' got thrashed by critics and is proving to be a total disaster at the box office for [[Warner Bros]]., who were marketing it as their big movie for the summer of 2011. By contrast, ''Hornet'' got mixed reviews but made back its budget nearly twice over, so it looks to be the winner.
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| ''[[Antz]]'' || ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' ||The first example of Pixar and Dreamworks really dueling. Featuring ants as their main protagonists, the ant worker hero, who wants to stand out among the millions of other ants, falls for the ant princess, who seems an almost unattainable love interest. The ant hero goes on a long journey to a bug city, which is actually a pile of human garbage. And then he returns and gets the girl. ||Apart from the ants being protagonists, almost nothing else about the films was the same. [[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]] had a very cartoonish design, while [[Antz]] had a more realistic design of the insects. Antz had dark humor, dialogue and themes all around, while [[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]] was aimed at children. Just the same, thanks to the ants, they were ''both'' considered to be ripping ''each other'' off. (Fact is, Jeffery Katzenberg, though responsible for getting ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' greenlit, had just been booted from Disney, was furious at them, and knew about the next Pixar project; the competition was intentional.)|| Both films were a success with both audiences and critics, as well as financially, but ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' won by bringing in $200,000,000 more than ''Antz'' thanks to appealing more to kids and better promotion.
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| ''[[Pitch Black]]'' || ''[[Supernova]]'' ||Space movies featuring a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] -type crew that must survive a hostile environment and an [[Ax Crazy]] serial killer. Most of the crew are killed. ||''PB'' was made in Australia and on a budget that the Aussies considered huge, but in America was only middlin'. It featured Vin Diesel and Claudia Black(who was shooting her first scenes in a [[Sarcasm Mode|little-known]] [[Farscape|space show with Muppets at the same time]]). ''Supernova'', meanwhile, had a HUGE budget and bigger stars like James Spader. ||''Pitch Black'' did more with it's little than ''Supernova'' did with its lot with a tight storyline and more interesting characters that did not lean on [[Eye Candy]]. It eventually spawned a pretty fat franchise with a sequel, an animated tie-in, a video game, etc. ''Supernova'' was usually graded as "it supersucks!"
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| ''[[Tombstone]]'' || ''Wyatt Earp'' ||Historical westerns about . . . [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Wyatt Earp]]. ''Tombstone'' starred Kurt Russell, while ''Wyatt Earp'' starred Kevin Costner.||Costner was originally involved with ''Tombstone'' but left over disagreements regarding the script, deciding to make his own Earp pic. He even put pressure on studios to refuse distribution of ''Tombstone'', but guess which one made more money in the end... ||''Tombstone'' proved to be a hit and earned the better reviews, while ''Wyatt Earp'' flopped at the box office and got nominated for five Razzies.
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|''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) ||''[[Dungeons
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|''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) ||''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' (2001)|| First installments of high-budget film adaptations of popular and beloved fantasy series, with an overlapping viewer demographic, released within a month's difference of each other. || || A tie, or, better said, both films win. Both LOTR and HP were incredible box-office hits, grossing about $900 mln each, successfully launching their respective film franchises, [[Visual Effects of Awesome|revolutionizing the use of CGI in movies]] and [[Genre Turning Point|greatly raising the prestige of the fantasy genre]].
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| ''[[The Film of the Book|Inkheart]]'' || ''[[Parental Substitute|Bedtime Stories]]'' ||Some kid brings stories to life. ||Only superficially similar. ''Inkheart'' is a modern-fantasy adventure tale centered around a young teen while ''Bedtime Stories'' is a more lighthearted [[Adam Sandler]] vehicle involving much younger children. The "stories come to life" is played for tension and action in the former while it is played for laughs and poignancy in the latter. ||Neither film was well-liked by critics, but ''Bedtime Stories'' pulled in over $100 million in the US alone (and $200 million worldwide), while ''Inkheart'' was a flop, earning only $17 million domestically (its worldwide gross of $70 million was barely enough to recoup its budget).
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| ''[[U2]] 3D'' ||''[[Hannah Montana|Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert]]''||3-D concert films from early 2008. ||The U2 concert was shown at IMAX, while the ''Hannah Montana'' concert was shown in digital 3-D only. And one year later came the cheaper [[The Jonas Brothers|Jonas Brothers]] 3-D concert, which was also shown at IMAX. ||''Hannah Montana'' had a much bigger box office, but ''U2 3D'' was better received by critics.
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| ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' || ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]'' || A group of elementary school kids save the world with a 2001 release date || ''Recess: School's Out'' was based [[Recess|on the Disney TV show]] and focused on the main six trying to stop a madman from getting rid of summer vacation, while ''Jimmy Neutron'' served as a pilot to it's Nickelodeon TV series and focused on Jimmy and the rest of the kids in town to save their parents from being killed by aliens. Also, ''Neutron'' was in CGI, while ''Recess'' had traditional animation. And while ''Recess'' didn't have much competition, ''Neutron'' was competing with ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]''. || Both movies were loved by critics and did well in the box office, though ''Neutron'' had a somewhat larger gross and was nominated for an Oscar (As it wasn't based on a TV show like ''Recess''). ''Neutron'' followed with a TV series, while ''Recess'' followed with it's show being [[Uncancelled]] (as the movie was going to serve as the finale) and gaining two sequels (released [[Direct to Video]])
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| ''[[Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter]]'' || ''Lincoln'' || Films about [[Abraham Lincoln]], opening six months apart. || One of them is slightly more historically accurate than the other (hint: it's the one directed by [[Steven Spielberg]] and starring [[Daniel Day
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| ''[[The Cabin in the Woods]]'' || ''Detention'' || [[Post Modernism|Post-modern]], [[Genre Busting]] takes on the [[Horror]] genre that were released the same weekend. || ''Detention'' was made by Joseph Kahn,<ref>Maker of the [[Cult Classic]] action film ''[[Torque]]'', a [[Stealth Parody]] of ''[[The Fast and the Furious]]''</ref> opened in limited release, and is chiefly a satire of modern teenage life. ''Cabin'' was made by the team of [[Joss Whedon]] and [[Cloverfield|Drew]] [[Lost|Goddard]], got a wide release after spending years [[Development Hell|sitting on the shelf]] due to MGM crashing and burning, and is a [[Deconstructor Fleet]] for horror movies. || ''Cabin'' got near-universal praise, made much more money and is already being revered as one of the greats in the genre, while ''Detention'' [[Love It or Hate It|split critics]] and is likely to wind up a [[Cult Classic]].
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