I See A Lawsuit In Your Apocalyptic Future - The Terminators (2009) Discussion

If they won The Day the Earth Stopped case against Fox (The Magnificent Moneygrubbers) this should be nothing.

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"But sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the lawsuit prompted The Asylum to change the name of the movie and alter its marketing materials in advance of the film's release on DVD and VOD. American Warships also aired on Syfy -- the cabel channel owned, ironically, by Universal parent Comcast Corp. -- the day after Battleship was released in theaters."

I don't know why, I think is just a marketing trick for cheep publicity.

But than again there is no such thing as bad publicity.

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[–] DirectorLeighHater 15 years ago

Let me try and explain something. The Assylum, they're like a wolf spider. If you flick one away, it'll scramble back to its feet and run right back to the same place. It knows you hit it, it can probably guess that you're going to hit it again. But the reason the wolf spider and the Assylum does this is quite profound.

They're both really really REALLY stupid.

If you were offended in any way by the preceding post, go make one yourself.

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[–] raspail 15 years ago

They ain't that stupid, pal. They make money or they wouldn't keep putting out their *ahem* movies. Perhaps you should look into therapy, DirectorLeighHater. No one should be as bothered as you are by something that doesn't personally affect them.

"There are no stupid questions, just stupid people."

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[–] Fluffyness 15 years ago

You'd be surprised. All of these titles are straight to dvd releases and they shift a ton of them to rental distributers globally. These titles are always dirt cheap for these distributers to buy rather than the often quite expensive titles released from Fox, Warner and all the rest of the major distributers. Couple that with the low production costs of these movies and Asylum are raking it in.
If they weren't making money from ripping off major titles then they would have probably given up long ago.

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[–] corwin111 15 years ago

They have always made money from the same thing... idiots who go to the store, see a long awaited title on the shelf (5 months early... who the *beep* cares... it's out!!!1!1) and buy it :)

And believe you me... those people do exist... and they number in the hundreds of thousands around the world... so with a budget of approximately 3 dollars and change per film I'd say The Asylum actually turn a tidy profit each time they spawn one of their half-assed creations :)

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[–] valdihj 15 years ago

How stupid of me. I thought only the porn industry made mock-ups of movies.

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[–] GethinVanH 15 years ago

It's the ultimate form of flattery and knock-offs like this only help the franchise achieve more notoriety. I'm sure this movie is awful and I would never download it but it only helps to put out more Terminator-themed material out there.

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[–] artyfilmsareformongs 15 years ago

Too be honest their covers are brilliantly designed, if I was back in the 90`s with no internet and saw one of their movies on the shelf, id buy it just from going by the cover.

My quibble with Asylum isnt the fact they rip off the blockbusters, its the fact they could put much more effot into the movies than they actually do. A perfect example of a low budget production company is Black Camel Productions, their movie Outpost was superb!!! I cant wait to see what they come out with next, Why dont Asylum put a bit more effot into their flicks, less churned out but better quality movies, but going by the comments on the therir website, and they used to respond to people, you can tell its all a big joke with the company, such a shame really.

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[–] Thenewnexus 10 years ago

Mockbusters and spoofs are considered fair use so no lawsuits,well i don't know how the producers of the hobbit won that lawsuit against age of the hobbit

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[–] fastpuppy 10 years ago

eh... it's a film with a bunch of nobodies committing career suicide as a group.

Do you honestly think any of these people will ever work for any studio, production company, director, etc... that even hopes to do business with James Cameron ever again?

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