22 Movies They Made Three Times in One Year

“Twin movies happen a lot,” Redditor Chewie83 recently reminded r/Movies. “Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached. Volcano and Dante’s Peak. A Bug’s Life and Antz. Etc.” This can drag both movies down if they’re so similar that audiences can’t tell the difference, but it can also disproportionately harm one movie if it’s clearly superior (like Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…  in Hollywood versus that dogshit The Haunting of Sharon Tate).

But occasionally, a trio of movies can enter theaters and all fail. “In 1989, the box office performance of The Abyss was famously hurt by two other deep sea movies — bad ones — that came out the same year: Leviathan and Deep Star Six. Has this happened any other time?”

Oh, has it.