Satellite News, possibly the most active news site ever built around a cancelled series, has arguably the biggest MST3K scoop since its cancellation. Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo), Bill Corbett (post-Comedy Central Crow), and Mike Nelson (uh...Mike Nelson) will release the first in a series of new DVDs on July 10. The Film Crew series will follow three men who are forced to record a commentary track for every movie ever made, thanks to their slave-driver boss Bob Honcho, who keeps their noses to the grindstone in a deep, dark basement while he tracks their progress via speakerphone. Sound ridiculously familiar? Of course it does. Does anyone care? Not really. The Shout! Factory, the wonderful independent DVD archivists responsible for bringing SCTV, Home Movies, and the upcoming Upright Citizens Brigade live discs to the masses, will first drop 1968's Hollywood After Dark on the aforementioned release date, followed later this year by Killers from Space, Giant of Marathon, and The Wild Women of Wongo.
The Film Crew got started recording commentaries for obscure Three Stooges releases in order to increase fan interest, and Mike has spent the last year or so steadily recording MP3-downloadable commentaries for all sort of new and classic films at Rifftrax. Corbett recently sold his script for the major Eddie Murphy vehicle Starship Dave. Volume 11 in Rhino's long-running and messy attempt to release Mystery Science on DVD will hit stores on June 26.
UPDATED: torgosPizza informed us that the Film Crew discs are actually three years old, and are hold-overs from an aborted project with Rhino. All future riffage will be under the Rifftrax umbrella. Thanks Torgo!
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To clarify, the Film Crew DVDs were recorded almost three years ago, before RiffTrax. The movies were originally to be released by Rhino, but for legal reasons they couldn't, and so the rights were obtained by Shout! Factory. Not sure why it took them this long to find release dates for them, though.
The Film Crew will no longer be producing DVDs under that name, but instead will be working with Legend Films and RiffTrax. Sorry for any confusion - I hope this helps clear things up.
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