Warner Bros/The Asylum
Last week Twitter went crazy over a SyFy Channel made-for-TV movie called "Sharknado."
The film was made by a small studio known as The Asylum.
Known for making extremely campy science-fiction and horror films involving monsters and aliens, the studio also makes knock-offs of blockbuster films, or "mockbusters," for companies like Redbox and Netflix.
Due to the way movies are released after they're in theaters, Redbox and Netflix aren't able to add them to their selections right away. To capitalize on the release of blockbusters while they're still fresh in the public's minds, the companies will order one of Asylum's similar-sounding movies in the hopes that people will be fooled.
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