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SharkToast
Since: Mar, 2013
MetaFour
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(Old Master)
2024-05-30 16:47:07
We have Overshadowed by Awesome for characters and things in-story, but I don't think we have a specific trope for movies or other media getting Overshadowed IRL. We do have a few articles adjacent to the concept:
- Screwed by the Network: Any case where Executive Meddling hurts a work artistically or financially. Scheduling a movie to release at the same time as the latest entry in an already popular franchise is a great way to screw it over.
- Dueling Works: Works that came out about the same time and competed with each other (either because they were made by rival creators, or because plot and genre similarities led audiences to see them as competitors).
- No-Hoper Repeat: A TV-specific variation. When a major event is happening on one channel (like the Superbowl), other channels know they can't hope to compete with it, so they just fill that airtime with the cheapest programming they can spare.

I want to know if we have a trope where two or more films are released in theaters at around the same time, and one of them suffers at the box office because of the competition.
Examples: Disney's Oliver and Company being released at the same time as and being beaten at the box office by Don Bluth's The Land Before Time in 1988.
Or, Winnie The Pooh (2011) bombing at the box office because it was released the same day as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Edited by HistoryFan1865