Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy

Take a ride into the Sharknado frenzy with a film geared to entertain while exploring how a Syfy creature feature become a unimaginable franchise and surprise phenomenon capturing the zeitgeist. With such a ridiculous name and premise, the low-budget movie about a shark-filled tornado destroying Los Angeles, Sharknado, was considered career suicide. However, when the Sharknado film finally premiered on Syfy, a social media conversation exploded, and news outlets ran with it. As a result, the film, cast and filmmakers were catapulted into the pop culture stratosphere! Why? How? Can filmmakers create lightning in a bottle again and again? 

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Take a ride into the Sharknado frenzy with a film geared to entertain while exploring how a Syfy creature feature become a unimaginable franchise and surprise phenomenon capturing the zeitgeist. With such a ridiculous name and premise, the low-budget movie about a shark-filled tornado destroying Los Angeles, Sharknado, was considered career suicide. However, when the Sharknado film finally premiered on Syfy, a social media conversation exploded, and news outlets ran with it. As a result, the film, cast and filmmakers were catapulted into the pop culture stratosphere! Why? How? Can filmmakers create lightning in a bottle again and again? 

Subject ID: 186772

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