# From a Mockbuster Version of ‘The Odyssey’ to a ‘Jiu-Jitsu Nun’: How Producers Are Keeping the Low-Budget Film Market Alive Via Streaming and FAST Channels (and Even Lower Budgets)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/from-a-mockbuster-version-of-the-odyssey-to-a-jiu-jitsu-nun-how-producers-are-keeping-the-low-budget-film-market-alive-via-streaming-and-fast-channels-and-even-lo/
- Published: 2026-11-10T16:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T19:56:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/producers-adapt-streaming-fast-channels-mockbusters-1236941543/
- Topics: AI, Entertainment, Film, Horror, Technology, TV

## Key points

- The Asylum is shifting from DVD sales to streaming and FAST channels.
- Its $250,000 “The Odyssey” was timed to benefit from a major studio release.
- Producers increasingly rely on volume and low costs to make films pay.

## Summary

The Asylum, a low-budget film company known for mockbusters and outlandish creature films, is adapting its business to streaming as DVD sales have fallen. Its $250,000 version of “The Odyssey” was released alongside a much more expensive studio film, and the company says it performed well, illustrating how smaller producers can still benefit from audiences’ interest in major releases.

The article describes a market built on making more films for slimmer returns, with ad-supported services such as Tubi, Roku and Pluto TV now central to the Asylum’s model. The company says its earlier “War of the Worlds”, made for $500,000 and released a day before the 2005 Tom Cruise film, sold about 100,000 DVDs. It also makes titles that echo current releases, while producers across the low-budget sector are using streaming, free ad-supported television channels and even lower budgets to stay afloat.

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