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{{examples|Examples (Pot holes lead to pages of the films being copied unless the copy itself has an article):}}
== Film - Animation ==
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** ''[[Ratatoing|Rata]][[Ratatouille|toing]]'' (pictured)
** ''[[Bee Movie|Little Bee]]''
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* ''[[Kung Fu Panda|Chop Kick Panda]]'' from Gaiam/Good Times studios.
* ''[[Brave|Kiara the Brave]]'' from Phase 4 Films
== Film - Live Action ==
* ''Battle of Los Angeles'' - obviously referencing ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]''.
** This one was even on [[Syfy]], thus fully cementing it within the same realm as the other examples of this trope.
* [[The Asylum]] is a company that only makes mockbusters and bad "Christian" movies, and are quite cynical about it. in fact, there's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130822162213/http://www.theasylum.cc/blog/2009/06/were-moving/ news article] in their website that states (and these are the ''actual words they use'') "We've decided to use some of the billions of dollars we've made ripping people off..." The majority of the examples on this page are Asylum productions.
** Even better, from a blog entry advertising a sale on their films: "You'd have to illegally download to get a better deal than that... but then you'd just be stooping to our level..."
** Their DVD covers have quotes from uncredited sources, which is illegal.
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** ''[[Jaws]] 5 ( Fourteen More to Go)'', ripping it off almost word for word
** ''Hell Of The Living Dead'', not content with trying to shoe horn this movie into Romero lore, Bruno Mattei lifted most of the soundtrack from ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' to score this.
* And now - ''[[Titanic]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150707034102/http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=174 2]! That's not a sequel to ''Titanic'', though, but a ''new'' film about a ''totally different'' ship called the ''[[Tempting Fate|Titanic 2]]''!
* [[High School Musical|High School Musical: Sunday School]], which is also a blatant rip-off of Sunday School Musical.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' ([[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes (Asylum film)|Asylum, again]]), which can use the name since he's a [[Public Domain Character]]. [[Hey, It's That Guy!|With]] Gareth David-Lloyd who played Ianto in ''[[Torchwood]]'' as Dr. Watson. [[Cool vs. Awesome|Holmes investigates a case with tentacle monsters, androids, dinosaurs, and robot dragons setting fire to Parliament.]] Attempts [[Rule of Cool]] to the twenty-third power.
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* This was a big problem in Italy during the [[Spaghetti Western]] craze of the Sixties. The relaxed copyright law in Italy at the time meant as soon as a character got popular, knockoff movies would appear seeming to star that character. Django, Sabata and Sartana were famous for having their names recycled in knockoffs. (They couldn't do this to the most popular [[Spaghetti Western]] character ever, for [[No Name Given|reasons which are]] quite obvious if you think about it a little, but it didn't stop one film claiming to be "The Return of Clint the Stranger".)
** Actually, the so-called "Man With No Name" is named in each film, only it's different each time (Joe, Manco and Blondie, in order).
* While [[Curse Of The Ring|Curse of the]] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/ Ring] doesn't have anything to do with the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies, and is in fact originally called ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen|Ring of the Nibelungs]]'' - the plot being based off of the Sigfried/Brunhilde/Fafnir saga - the movie's marketing and even logo font really, REALLY tries hard to be mistaken for a Lord of the Rings movie.
* [[2012|2012: Doomsday]]
* ''[[The Exterminator 2]]'' and ''The Executioner Part 2''—no ''Executioner Part 1''.
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* Since the source novel is in the public domain, musical versions of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' ran rampant in the 1990s (regional tours, community theaters, etc.) to cash in on [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s adaptation—enough so that [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] did [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977856,00.html a whole article] on the phenomenon. But not ''all'' of them qualified as this trope: Ken Hill's version was the one that inspired Lloyd Webber to take his own stab at the story in the first place, and Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's ''Phantom'' was actually written around the same time as Lloyd Webber's but couldn't get produced until afterwards due to the competition. One of the mockbusters was videotaped and later released on DVD, and the Phantom Reviewer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MwZiSrx4M took it on].
* Similarly, a few stage musical versions of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' appeared around 1996, perhaps hoping to compete with a [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of the Disney movie, which was considered likely in the wake of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. Disney's version had a successful [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] in Germany in 1999 but has not been staged elsewhere.
* [http://www.cirqueproductions.com Cirque Productions] and [
* If a popular fairy or folk tale gets adapted into a [[Disney Animated Canon]] film, expect a knockoff stage version to tour the children's theater/school group circuit soon after, and perhaps be available to community theaters after that. ''[http://www.pioneerdrama.com/searchdetail.asp?pc=ENCHANTMEN The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast]'' is a good example.
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