Cinematic Titanic

[BEERxTaco]

Were you guys aware of this? It was a bolt out of the blue for me...

http://cinematictitanic.com/

For those who don't want to click:

Greetings friends,
It's been just amazing the last few years: what with MST3K being honored as a top 25 science fiction show and top 25 "cult" show by TV Guide, and, most notably, in September being listed as one of the "Top One Hundred TV Shows Ever" by TIME – whew! Never saw it coming. Even mo-better are the really nice people that I've met who've had, and still have, great experiences watching horrendously great movies along with me and my funny friends. Thanks for mentioning it, thanks for keeping the dream alive, and thanks for buying the DVDs. It's all been strange and mysterious and lovely, and it makes me want to do it all over again. And now, almost 20 years later, I am. I've decided, in collaboration with the other bold souls who "started it all," to do a new project that is strong enough for our diehard audience, and also gentle and easy to swallow for those that are new to movie riffing. Wait for it....wait for it.... meet Cinematic Titanic!

It's going to be powered by the original cast of MST3K! Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein and yours truly, along with some friends who came along later to make the show great: the beloved Frank Conniff and the scathingly brilliant Mary Jo Pehl.

We're very busy writing and doing preproduction right now – so the website is tiny, but the big thing right now is to sign up for the newsletter so we can keep you informed about the fine movie riffing we've got planned for you. We've licensed our first title and are working at a brisk pace to get it delivered in time for Christmas! So you can give it as a gift to one of your sly friends or a loved one. Or you yourself can watch over the holidays to fight off that strange malaise that always seems to happen. Our first release is at this time a total secret, however – I'm willing to say it makes "Manos the Hands of Fate" look like "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" in a car wreck with "Eegah!" with notes of peach.

Also, in the news: I've just been interviewed by Lucasfilm online, in anticipation of Cinematic Titanic's first live show and world premiere in San Francisco in December. We will link to that story as soon as it is released. Sorry, but this special live show is a closed event for I.L.M/Lucasfilm employees and guests only. As of this writing we are still negotiating some of the fine points, however I am pleased to mention that they've granted us the rights to offer this event to you, the friends of Cinematic Titanic, remotely and slightly after the fact - stay tuned.

Check in often as we intend to get the entire cast giving you their distinct takes on constructing this "lean, mean, movie-riffing machine" we call Cinematic Titanic in words, pictures and of course the moving image. For now, you can check out some of my design passes for the logo and such.

Happy Halloween,
Joel Hodgson

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» Posted by: Joel

[jetjaguar15]

I posted this in the announcements forum, then saw your post. I deleted mine out of deference (and not being sure how the Rifftrax crew will respond to this news)

[MarkAndrew]

Ironically, Cinematic Titanic is not riffing Titanic....ok well, I found it ironic.

I'm very, very glad to hear Joel and Trace are working together again.

[jetjaguar15]

It is exciting, but I'm very curious how they'll be doing this - downloadable commentaries, or dvd's a-la-film-crew?  Joel's comments about licensing a movie make me think DVD, but you never know.

[Raven]

Hopefully this won't decrease the chances of having Mary Jo and other mst3k cast and crew join Mike for a riff once in a while.  Glad to see Joel, and Frank has always been one of my favorites.  I'm sure I'll be picking this up when it comes out.  On a sad note, now the where is Joel questions probably have to stop.  

[BEERxTaco]

Let's not forget Josh... I always enjoyed his work on the KTMAs and Season One.

[Raven]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Josh as well, but he was there for such a short time that I hadn't seen any of his episodes until I bought copies online in the last 2 years.  On a side note do we need to start up the whole Joel vs. Mike thing again? 

[David]

Okay, this has got to be Trace and Josh's "other project." Joel and Frank and Mary Jo too... I'm overwhelmed!
And curious about what Mike/Kevin/Bill think.

[MontyServo]

Let me be the first to say CinematicTitanic is NOT Rifftrax 2.0!   

Wow!   When it rains it pours!  First a great new guest riffer this week on Rifftrax, then the announcement of the new Bots toon from Best Brains, and now a new riffing project from Joel, Trace, Josh and friends!  It's a good time to be a fan.

This Riff War has begun!!!!!

(or maybe not.)

[Rude]

...

I see this conversation in my future:
"Hello? Friends who work for Lucasfilm? Yeah, this is your old buddy Rude. Think you can do me a huge favor?..."

-Rude

[Bairman]

I'm intrigued by the tagline... "CinemaTitanic: The 500 film movie riff project"

Five hundred?!?

[David]

I'm intrigued by the tagline... "CinemaTitanic: The 500 film movie riff project"

Five hundred?!?

Mike's about a tenth of the way there. And MST3K got up to what, 200?
I'm gonna need some bigger shelves.

[jetjaguar15]

Tagline? What are you referring to?

[Bairman]

Tagline? What are you referring to?

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[BEERxTaco]

That graphic looks like a representation of some kind of Deep 13-ish place and Gizmonics Institute-ish place...