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\u201cMockbuster,\u201d an upcoming Australian documentary that dives into the \u201ceccentric, fast-and-loose filmmaking world\u201d of The Asylum<\/a>, the B-movie studio best known for the \u201cSharknado<\/a>\u201d franchise and numerous low-budget Hollywood copycat films, has been acquired by Giant Pictures<\/a> for worldwide distribution.<\/p>\n

The film is set to have its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on Oct. 24th followed by a North American festival run and a U.S. theatrical release late spring 2026. Umbrella<\/a> will distribute the film in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cMockbuster\u201d marks the \u2014 double \u2014 feature directorial debut of Anthony Frith<\/a>. With a once-promising film career flattened to corporate video gigs, the Australian decided to pitch himself to The Asylum<\/a> to direct a lost-world dinosaur epic.<\/p>\n

As per the doc\u2019s description, \u201cAgainst all reason, the studio famous for its guilty-pleasure exploitation films, says yes. What follows is a madcap production of \u2018The Land That Time Forgot<\/a>\u2019 in suburban Adelaide,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMockbuster,\u201d an upcoming Australian documentary that dives into the \u201ceccentric, fast-and-loose filmmaking world\u201d of The Asylum, the B-movie studio best known for the \u201cSharknado\u201d franchise and numerous low-budget Hollywood copycat films, has been acquired by Giant Pictures for worldwide distribution. The film is set to have its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2110370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2110369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Mockbuster-Documentary-About-Director-Drawn-Into-\u2018Gloriously-Chaotic-B-Movie-Orbit.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110371,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110369\/revisions\/2110371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}