In the grand tradition of someone making the same movies at the same time:

Armageddon | Deep Impact – 1998
The Prestige | The Illusionist – 2006
Volcano | Dante's Peak – 1997
Turner & Hooch | K-9 – 1989
Olympus Has Fallen | White House Down – 2013
Babe | Gordy – 1995
Chasing Liberty | First Daughter – 2004
Antz | A Bug’s Life – 1998
Red Planet | Mission to Mars – 2000
Abyss | Leviathan – 1989
Tombstone | Wyatt Earp – 1994
Robin Hood I Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - 1991

etc . . . .

comes the latest two in 2018

Squadron 303 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5475734/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrmwDyZMcZo

and Hurricane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_(2018_film)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgvQiy1Ol0w

looking forward to each ...but I doubt either will get shown in cinemas here

That 2 similar movies at the same time formula is just bizarre. I never realized. But then again I pay very little attention to Hollywood. 85% of the stuff they pump out is crap.
I will go to a theater to see Hurricane, if it comes to Canada.

Rare, yes. But not unprecedented. Weren't there recently two movies in the same year that portrayed Dunkirk? And about 25 years ago we had "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp" very close to each other. I'm sure there are many other examples, but those two sprung to mind.

It’s been common knowledge for a long time that Hollywood execs from different studios often discuss film scripts over dinner or other social events. Ultimately one exec will think “hey! that’s an awesome idea for a movie. I should make one as well based on that same idea!”

I recently watched '303 Squadron' hoping that, being made by Poles it would be better than 'Hurricane'.......it wasn't.

The CGI in Hurricane looks sooooo bad, it;'s laughable, at least in 303 squadron it looks "slightly" better. These studios seriously would've been better off just using RC aircraft

Just watching those teasers I am not sure if I will purchase either one. It looks like WWII "Flyboys" to me. I cannot bear to watch Flyboys anymore. Watched Red Tails one time and really lost my appetite for Hollywood war movies.

S!Blade<><

For the most part, Hollywood war movies have been crap since the end of the 90’s. They really are just overly-simplified action movies. Long gone is the golden age (roughly 1960’s though 1980’s) where we got so many classics like Tora, Tora, Tora, Patton, A Bridge Too Far, Apocalypse Now and Glory.

I really wanted these movies to be good, but the trailers and reviews just turn me off from watching them. I'd rather re-watch Dark Blue World than waste time on a bad movie.

Wizard

You and me both, Wizard. Just wish they would have released DBW on blu-ray.

You mentioning DBW,I was going to find my DVD and re-watch it but then I remembered I gave it to a charity shop because I thought I would never watch it again

That film did have a bit of dodgy CGI in it but it didn't matter as overall it was a fine film.

There was some skillful flying by the Hannas I believe Chucky. Some pre-production footage of the train attack here:



And much footage was borrowed from 'Battle of Britain'.

'Piece of Cake' is well worth a revisit if one can get over the inaccuracies of Spits in France and the later marks used.

Best telling of the 303 story is the 'Bloody Foreigners' docudrama in my opinion

Do you have "Fathom Events" in Canada? That's a company that does special one day or two day release events at movie theaters for niche films. The most recent example I can think of is the WWI documentary that was made by Peter Jackson. It was shown in certain select movie theaters in the US for a limited time by Fathom Events.