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JOY Drive

23 Nov 2025

Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Whys of Lookalike Film and TV Productions

Literature, Popular Culture, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Whys of Lookalike Film and TV Productions

Why does Hollywood keep releasing two versions of the same movie, sometimes weeks apart? Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne unpacks her new book ‘The Twin Film Phenomenon: The Whys of Lookalike Film and TV Productions’, revealing the mix of rivalry, zeitgeist and industry chaos behind cinema’s most uncanny doubles.

Guest: Lauren Rosewarne, Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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