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Reminder (as if you needed one): Shout! Presents: A Web Version of Turkey DayShout!Factory will present a web version of Turkey Day hosted by Joel Hodgson today starting at noon Eastern, 11 a.m. Mountain, 10 a.m. Central, 9 a.m. Pacific. There will be six eps, selected by Joel based on your tweets to him over the last week.
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I thought Joel maintained his rights as well. As creator he gets some of the revenue I thought. He walked away from the creative aspect of the show but I didn’t think he gave up his rights to the show as well?
@100 From the bits I’ve gathered, Mallon doesn’t have sole rights, Joel does maintain some rights. But I’m not sure how much.
An old number given out by an MST fanzine in the 90’s, so take it with a grain of salt, had the numbers at 45-45 split between Joel and Jim with Trace and Kevin each with ~5% each. But how those numbers shake out now, if Trace and Joel gave away some of their rights when they left the show, is unknown besides that Joel does maintain a decent share of the rights.
And why would they need to leave anyone out? They’re all writers. If they weren’t performing on the show, they were writing behind the scenes. It wouldn’t be EASY to have two sets of riffers, especially since there’s only one Tom and Crow to go around, but with the right combination of sharing and putting aside egos, it would be doable.
And, as far as cost goes, Joel stated in a recent interview that the cost per episode (~1993) was cheap at $30-$40K. In today’s money that’s ~$47.7-$63.6K. Which really isn’t that bad. Especially considering when Joel was there, there were 8 writers, 2 contributing writers, plus ~11 crew. So I think if the money was good to go around for ~20 people back then, it’d be worthwhile for them nowadays, assuming they’d get paid roughly the same amount.
Its worth it. Its doable. It needs to be done.
Yeah, Joel’s said repeatedly that he and Mallon have an equal share of the rights. It just seems that Joel would like to do something with the property, whereas Jim doesn’t, not without major input (which is his right, to be fair).
Perhaps the fact that so many of the show’s creative people still live in the Midwest (Mike, Kevin, Bill, Trace) could spur something like what @100 (Jason) suggests. We would all go see an MST3k Live! show that was given the Fathom treatment, right?
@97: I ran into Joel at a vegan restaurant in Concord, NH right before the Cinematic Titanic show there. He said he has been experimenting with veganism/vegatarianism lately.
Weekend Discussion Topic: Favorite Moments Of Turkey Day 2013!
Black Friday Santa:Thanks for the youtube link!I had only managed to see about half of the new Joel introductions-Hope they leave it up so everybody can see the nice ending with Joel and the Bots one more time-