"You can't film in front of a garage and say it's a battleship." Or can you? Giant Pictures has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film called Mockbuster, made by Australian filmmaker Anthony Frith. This is not a mockumentary, it's an actual doc film about the infamous B-movie studio called The Asylum. Formed in 1997, The Asylum is a company that has been creating rip-off B-movie blockbusters for decades (called "mockbusters") and releasing them to fans who want to watch this junk and laugh. Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of a B-grade smash, Sharknado (2013), that is both an unashamed celebration of trash cinema and a clever look at the collision between art & commerce. Frith has an inside scoop as he also made The Land That Time Forgot for The Aslyum (filming for 6 days only in Adelaide). "Throughout the shoot, Frith navigates the gloriously chaotic orbit of Asylum producer Brendan Petrizzo and studio founders David Rimawi, David Latt, and Paul Bales as he attempts to keep a prehistoric adventure afloat amid rubber dinosaurs, last-minute rewrites, and caffeinated panic." Looks like tons of fun. // Continue Reading ›