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"Indie production company The Asylum has made a name for itself over the past few years backing a slew of low-budget movies riffing on Hollywood&amp;#039;s box office blockbusters. Snakes on a Train, unlike the Samuel L. Jackson movie it apes, actually is a B-movie, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus united warring &amp;#039;80 popstars Tiffany and Debbie Gibson and Titanic II was a sequel too far even for James Cameron. Many of The Asylum&amp;#039;s releases are dubbed &amp;quot;mockbusters&amp;quot;, i.e. Transformers/Transmorphers, Thor/Almighty Thor, Paranormal Activity/Paranormal Entity, with a movie being made a month to turn around a quick profit.  Behind the red carpet glamour of the Cannes Film Festival there&amp;#039;s a simultaneously-running business market called the March\u00E9 du Film, where filmmakers and producers from across the globe come to sell their wares. The Asylum duo David Rimawi and Paul Bales sat down for a chat with DS in France about cutting business deals in Cannes and why The Asylum is like a certain brand of whiskey. Watch our interview with The Asylum&amp;#039;s David Rimawi and Paul Bales below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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