Check out Cheddar! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3auNH64624 If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Simon's voice on your GPS and the ever requested Simon Whistler whistling package: https://www.patreon.com/TodayIFoundOut This video is sponsored by Cheddar. →Some of our favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0XuDegDqP10d4vrztQ0fVzNnTiQBEAA →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: “Twin films” is the term used to describe a peculiar Hollywood phenomenon that just about every year sees different major studios releasing movies with almost identical plots and themes to their competitors current offerings. Popular examples of twin films include Deep Impact and Armageddon, two films released within weeks of one another that centred around saving the world from a giant meteor. Other popular examples include A Bug’s Life and Antz – animated films about ants rebelling against their hive. Then there’s Dante’s Inferno and Volcano – both of which are disaster films about volcanic eruptions. (As an idea of how common this is in Hollywood, all of these films were released between 1997 and 1998.) Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/10/bizarre-hollywood-phenomenon-twin-films/ Sources: http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Damn_Near_Identical_Movies_That_Were_Released_at_the_Same_Time https://www.empireonline.com/movies/towering-inferno/review/ http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/twin-films-two-similar-movies-same-time http://www.hollywood.com/movies/pairs-of-movies-that-are-the-exact-same-movie-60492892/#/ms-22588/1 http://www.npr.org/2017/03/15/520281259/movie-twins-weirdly-simila