Is anyone else aware of the Syfy mini-series The Witches of Oz (2011)? There was also a re-edited, extensively re-worked, one-hour-shorter version called Dorothy and the Witches of Oz that was screened in a handful of American cinemas. The Witches of Oz wasn't produced by The Asylum, but it's director/writer Leigh Scott and producer/co-writer/actress/soundtrack composer Eliza Swenson both started their careers at The Asylum, making and/or starring in several films for the company (another Asylum veteran, Sarah Lieving, also cameos in The Witches of Oz as The Wicked Witch of the East).
In addition, I've seen an on-camera interview (I think it was included in the extras on the mini-series' Blu-ray) in which Leigh Scott says he originally pitched The Witches of Oz to The Asylum, but they said it was too elaborate and expensive a project for them to take on.
So although the mini-series was produced by another company, it still contains a hefty amount of Asylum DNA. Therefore, I like to think that The Witches of Oz - in which various warring inhabitants of a magical and supposedly fictitious realm breakthrough into our world to continue their conflict - is set in the same continuity or universe as The Asylum's Avengers Grimm (fairy tale princesses re-imagined as superpowered heroines and transported from their home dimension to present-day Los Angeles) and it's sequel Sinister Squad (which throws characters from Lewis Carroll's Wonderland novels into the mix).
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