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Update: Cinematic Titanic Pre-Show Press

Further update: Lynn Venhaus of the Belleville News Democrat (home of the triplets?) interviews Joel.

Update: Joel got interviewed on a St. Louis morning show and attempted humor on the part of the hosts ensued:

 

More here.

Also, here’s an Q&A with Joel.

The press has started in advance of the Cinematic Titanic show this weekend.

There’s this from the Riverfront Times…

…and there’s a brief mention at the end of this piece.

Reminder: Cinematic Titanic Panel at St. Louis Int’l Film Festival

If anybody goes to this, please report back…

The night before their show at the Family Arena in St, Louis next weekend, the entire Cinematic Titanic team will be part of panel discussion as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Says their Web site:

Joel Hodgson, creator and host of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” and the original cast of the cult-classic TV show – Trace Beaulieu (“Crow”), J. Elvis Weinstein (“Tom Servo”), Mary Jo Pehl (“Pearl Forrester”) and Frank Conniff (“TV’s Frank”) – discuss the development of “MST3K,” the art of “movie riffing” and their new movie-riffing project, “Cinematic Titanic Live”. Moderated by Dave (“Gruber”) Allen, the program will include video clips, an audience Q&A and a signing by the cast immediately following.

It’s at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd. Admission is $10.

Now Available from RiffTrax…

Download it here. Free sample here.

RiffTrax and “Twilight”

In a piece pegged to the arrival of the new “Twilight” movie, Jeremiah Magan at the Cal State Fullerton Daily Titan discovers how RiffTrax takes the pain of “Twilight” away. Or lessens it, anyway.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Ideas for Future Shout Factory Sets

Alert reader David Finn writes:

Last weekends topic of the Russo-Finnish films generated a universally loved idea for a DVD box set of the 4 films. This got me thinking about other ideal groupings of MST episodes. Granted this is mere wishful thinking as neither Shout nor Rhino have used common themes to organize previous sets. But we can fantasize…
A few to start us off… juvenile delinquents, hypnotism, made-for-TV, Corman, Lippert, kaiju…

All good ideas! Let hear some more!