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A mockbuster (sometimes also called a knockbuster or a drafting opportunity) is a film created with the intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major film with a similar title or theme. Mockbusters are often made with a low budget. These films are usually released direct-to-video at the same time as the mainstream film reaches theaters or video outlets. It is possible to use these kinds of movies to intentionally deceive consumers into mistakenly purchasing the derivative title (e.g., someone thinks they are buying a copy of ''Transformers'', but they are actually getting ''Transmorphers''), but another possibility is to offer legitimate add-on buying opportunity in the marketplace (e.g., customer enjoyed Will Ferrell's ''Land of the Lost'' and wants more in the same subgenre, and buys or rents C. Thomas Howell's ''The Land That Time Forgot''). ==History== Mockbusters have a long history in Hollywood and elsewhere. For example, the 1959 Vanwick film ''The Monster of Piedras Blancas'' was a clear derivative of ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'', complete with a creature suit by the same designer, Jack Kevan. ''Attack of the 50 Foot Woman'' spawned ''Village of the Giants''; ''The Land That Time Forgot'' spun ''Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds''; ''Star Wars'' gave derivative birth to a jumble of imitations — ''Starcrash'' and ''Battle Beyond the Stars'' among others. The success of Steven Spielberg's 1982 family-film ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' spawned the infamous 1988 film ''Mac and Me'', which was critically panned for capitalizing on E.T.'s popularity and for its extensive use of product placement. The 1984 film ''Gremlins'' and its ensuing popularity inspired the creation of the notoriously bad 1988 ripoff ''Hobgoblins''. ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' spawned a number of adventure films and TV series taking place in the 1930s and 1940s, including ''King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)'', ''High Road to China'', "Tales of the Gold Monkey'', and ''Bring 'Em Back Alive''. Such films tend to fit the classic B movie model, produced on a small budget and derivative of the target film and other similar projects. The reduced costs made available by using modern video and computer graphics equipment, and the tie-in to the mainstream film's advertising, has allowed the mockbuster to find a profitable niche in the home video market. Blockbuster, at one time one of the largest DVD and video-game rental chains, gave implied support to the concept by buying 100,000 copies of The Asylum's version of ''War of the Worlds'' in time to coincide with the theatrical opening week of Steven Spielberg's film based on the same novel starring Tom Cruise.〔 Most mockbusters capitalize on the popularity of theatrically released movies, but some are derivative of a TV series or other popular form of media. The 1979 film ''Angel's Revenge'' bore many superficial similarities to the popular TV series ''Charlie's Angels''; its promotional materials even resembled ''Charlie's Angels graphic style. This same principle can also work in reverse: ''Mister Ed'', a television series about a talking horse, debuted after the popular film series ''Francis the Talking Mule''. GoodTimes Entertainment was notorious for making animated "mockbuster" counterparts to popular Disney films in the 1990s, although the stories that the movies were based on are public domain. Similarly, Vídeo Brinquedo is a Brazilian CGI animation studio that in 2006 began to produce low-budget direct-to-video films that are for the most part blatant and poorly made knockoffs of movies from Pixar, Disney, and DreamWorks. Their titles and the films they are considered to be derivative of include ''Little & Big Monsters'' (DreamWorks' ''Monsters vs. Aliens''), ''The Little Cars'' series of cartoons (Pixar's ''Cars'' series), ''Ratatoing'' (Pixar's ''Ratatouille''), ''Tiny Robots'' (Blue Sky's ''Robots''), ''What's Up?: Balloon to the Rescue!'' (Pixar's ''Up''), and ''The Frog Prince'' (Disney's ''The Princess and the Frog''). In every case Vídeo Brinquedo's knockoff has been released suspiciously close to the release date of the more professional, higher-budgeted film that inspired it. Dingo Pictures, a German animation company, also created traditionally-animated cartoons based on fairy tales and concepts similar to those used by Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks. These cartoons are characterized by low-budget animation, small voice casts, and character designs that are very similar to equivalent characters in more high-profile movies. The cartoons have also been dubbed into Scandinavian languages, notably Swedish, and all of them have been released direct-to-video in Germany in their original languages. A company called Phoenix Games collaborated with Dingo Pictures in the early 2000s to produce interactive video game versions of some of their films for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. These games included the film as well as a small collection of mini games. Phoenix Games went out of business soon after its founding. The 2011 film ''Aliens vs Avatars'' was named to market it as a crossover to ''Alien'' and ''Avatar'', even though it has no connection with the two films. The film follows the intergalactic battle between a quarrelsome alien race and shape-shifting extraterrestrials, while six college friends find themselves in the middle of the interstellar war. A 1993 science fiction horror film titled ''Carnosaur'', produced by Roger Corman and starring Diane Ladd as a mad scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity, is loosely based on the 1984 novel ''of the same name'' by John Brosnan, but the two have little in common. It was released two weeks before the blockbuster ''Jurassic Park''. ''Carnosaur'' may be considered a mockbuster.〔Brian Raftery. "(Now Playing: Cheap-and-Schlocky Blockbuster Ripoffs )", ''Wired'', 21 December 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2011.〕 Diane Ladd's daughter Laura Dern starred in ''Jurassic Park''. In some cases, the knockoff film may bear little or no resemblance to the original. In 2012, ''Super K – The Movie'', an Indian fantasy/science-fiction animated film about an artificially created boy named "Super Kloud" with superpowers, was released direct-to-video in the United States as ''Kiara the Brave''. Its title and cover art focused on an incidental female character with red hair (i.e. Mérida), in an obvious try to evoke the redheaded female protagonist of ''Brave'', a Disney/Pixar movie set in medieval Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「mockbuster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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