Competing projects, or the "Twin Films" phenomenon," is nothing new for Hollywood. Whether we're talking about Armageddon vs. Deep Impact, Volcano vs. Dante's Peak or the time there were two Lambada movies or dueling Prefontaine films, the mechanisms of showbiz sometimes line up to produce movies with similar plots released in close proximity to one another.
Now we're experiencing it in the world of streaming, with competing documentaries about the Fyre Festival fiasco of 2017. Netflix had been touting their exposé, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, which is set to premiere January 18, for a few months now. This past Monday, Hulu dropped its own Fyre Festival documentary, titled Fyre Fraud, seemingly out of nowhere, as a passive aggressive ploy to kick up some dirt and fire a shot across Netflix's bow.
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Now we're experiencing it in the world of streaming, with competing documentaries about the Fyre Festival fiasco of 2017. Netflix had been touting their exposé, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, which is set to premiere January 18, for a few months now. This past Monday, Hulu dropped its own Fyre Festival documentary, titled Fyre Fraud, seemingly out of nowhere, as a passive aggressive ploy to kick up some dirt and fire a shot across Netflix's bow.
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