Before you head to the theater this weekend to see Kristen Stewart do battle with Evil Queen Charlize Theron in "Snow White and the Huntsman" (aka the dark, PG-13-rated version of "Mirror Mirror"), check out this slideshow featuring other pairs of shockingly similar movies released during the same year.

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"Snow White and the Huntsman" (June 1, 2012)

Synopsis: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the Evil Queen, who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with the huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 46%
U.S. box office: TBD

"Mirror Mirror" (March 30, 2012)

Synopsis: Snow White is a princess in exile, and the Evil Queen rules her captured kingdom. Seven courageous rebel dwarfs join forces with Snow White as she fights to reclaim her birthright and win her Prince.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 50%
U.S. box office: $63m

"Dante's Peak" (February 7, 1997)

Synopsis: USGS volcanologist Harry Dalton travels to the small Pacific Northwest town of Dante's Peak to investigate recent seismic episodes in the area. Expecting to find little other than the routine rumblings common to this region, Dalton becomes alarmed by what he sees as evidence of the kind of activity that precedes a catastrophic eruption.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 27%
U.S. box office: $67m

"Volcano" (April 25, 1997)

Synopsis: A vent in the earth's crust has unleashed an incredible force of nature. The literally earth-shattering product: an erupting Volcano... and ground zero is L.A.'s famed La Brea Tar Pits. An unprepared Los Angeles is facing its worst nightmare as an endless stream of fiery, deadly lava insidiously creeps across traffic-choked streets while wreaking havoc below ground in the labyrinth of man-made natural tunnels.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 44%
U.S. box office: $50m

"No Strings Attached" (January 21, 2011)

Synopsis: Emma and Adam are lifelong friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached."
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 49%
U.S. box office: $71m

"Friends with Benefits" (July 22, 2011)

Synopsis: Dylan and Jamie think it's going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood romantic comedies would have them believe. They soon discover however that getting really does always lead to complications.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
U.S. box office: $56m

"Mission to Mars" (March 10, 2000)

Synopsis: The year is 2020 and NASA has made another giant leap for mankind- successfully landing a team of astronauts on Mars. However, shortly after their arrival on the Martian surface, Mission Commander Luke Graham and his colleagues encounter something bizarre, shocking and chilling that brings about a catastrophic and mysterious disaster which decimates the crew.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 25%
U.S. box office: $61m

"Red Planet" (November 10, 2000)

Synopsis: In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage, the crew must depend on one another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 14%
U.S. box office: $17m

"Turner & Hooch" (July 28, 1989)

Synopsis: Scott Turner, a compulsively neat detective whose tidy world goes to the dogs when he's forced to team up with the only witness to a crime -- a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch. Not exactly man's best friend, Hooch turns Turner's life upside down, wrecking Turner's home, career, and budding romance.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
U.S. box office: $71m

"K-9" (April 28, 1989)

Synopsis: Comedy about a cop and his German sheperd partner who break up a drug ring.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 22%
U.S. box office: $43m

"Chasing Liberty" (January 9, 2004)

Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Anna Foster wants the American dream: life and liberty to pursue happiness. But as the only child of the President of the United States, every detail of Anna's life is constantly monitored by the media, the public and her very protective parents--who are backed up by a battalion of Secret Service agents that safeguard Anna from any danger, including the perils of first dates.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 18%
U.S. box office: $12m

"First Daughter" (September 24, 2004)

Synopsis: Samantha Mackenzie has fame and glamor, but she just wants what every college freshman wants: the opportunity to experience the world away from home and, most importantly, away from her parents. She just wants to be treated like anyone else. But it's not going to be easy, because Sam's home address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and her dad is John Mackenzie, the President of the United States.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 8%
U.S. box office: $9m

"Deep Impact" (May 8, 1998)

Synopsis: After it's discovered that a comet is heading toward Earth, a U.S. spaceship is launched to blow it up. The plan fails, splitting the comet into two pieces, both hurtling towards different parts of North America. One is expected to trigger catastrophic tidal waves on the eastern seaboard and the other to create dense clouds of dust that could wipe out all life.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 47%
U.S. box office: $140m

"Armageddon" (July 1, 1998)

Synopsis: An oil driller and his crew are hired to rocket out to a gigantic asteroid and blow it up before it slams into the Earth.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 40%
U.S. box office: $202m

"Antz" (October 2, 1998)

Synopsis: Z-4195 is just a worker ant--one in a billion--and his odds of landing the beautiful princess Bala, the spoiled daughter of the queen--are about the same. A Central Park inhabitant who's undaunted by the colony's unyielding caste system, Z enlists the aid of his best friend, a soldier ant named Weaver, to get to the Princess on whom he has his sights.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
U.S. box office: $91m

"A Bug's Life" (November 25, 1998)

Synopsis: A colony of ants is threatened by a gang of grass hoppers led by the evil Hopper. Flik, a common ant and a misfit, has an uncommon vision when he tries to rise to heroic proportions by enlisting a band of circus fleas to help him defend his colony from the grasshoppers.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
U.S. box office: $163m

"Iron Eagle" (January 17, 1986)

Synopsis: Doug is the teenage son of a U.S. Air Force pilot who was shot down over a Middle Eastern country and is being held hostage. Frustrated by the government's inability to secure his father's release, Doug gets some of his school friends to help him with his personal plan to save his father. The boys manage to get the use of two Air Force jets and Doug persuades a veteran pilot to fly one while he flies the other.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: N/A
U.S. box office: $24m

"Top Gun" (May 16, 1986)

Synopsis: A young recruit aspires to become the top fighter pilot in the prestigious naval training school he attends.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 49%
U.S. box office: $177m

"The Prestige" (October 20, 2006)

Synopsis: It all begins in rapidly changing, turn-of-the-century London. At a time when magicians are idols and celebrities of the highest order, two young magicians set out to carve their own paths to fame. The flashy, sophisticated Robert Angier is a consummate entertainer, while the rough-edged purist Alfred Borden is a creative genius who lacks the panache to showcase his magical ideas. They start out as admiring friends and partners. But when their biggest trick goes terribly awry, they become enemies for life--each intent on outdoing and upending the other.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
U.S. box office: $53m

"The Illusionist" (August 18, 2006)

Synopsis: Eisenheim is a stage magician who amazes the audiences of turn-of-the-century Vienna, drawing the attention of Crown Prince Leopold. When the Prince's intended, Sophie von Teschen, assists the magician onstage, Eisenheim and Sophie recognize each other from their childhoods -- and a dormant love affair is rekindled. As the clandestine romance continues, Chief Inspector Uhl is charged by Leopold to expose Eisenheim, and Eisenheim prepares to execute his greatest illusion yet..
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 74%
U.S. box office: $40m

"Saving Private Ryan" (July 24, 1998)

Synopsis: James Ryan, who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. Government policy dictates that he should return home lest his family be deprived of all its male offspring. A team of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller and fresh from the beaches of Normandy, is assembled to find and save Private Ryan.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
U.S. box office: $216m

"The Thin Red Line" (December 25, 1998)

Synopsis: A World War II tale which focuses on a squad of American troops battling against the Japanese during the hellish battle of Guadalcanal Island. Witt has gone AWOL and considers the contrast between the peace of the islanders and the chaos brought by war. Meanwhile, the troops are led by two men: Tall, who is eager for the danger of battle, and Staros, who is more concerned with protecting his men.
Score on Rotten Tomatoes: 78%
U.S. box office: $36m