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$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/mst3k@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

for a limited four-episode engagement

This is MST3K. It doesn't need a huge budget to churn out like 50 of these. The original show premiered on local access television.

"Tony Stark Joel Hodgson Was Able To Build This In A Cave Minneapolis, With A Box of Scraps!"

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    A lot of the cost is in licencing the movies, as nowadays they try to get a perpetual licence so they don't need to take it down from their site after x years. Many old episodes aren't available any more because of licencing issues, as they were licensed for cable/TV broadcast, and maybe international broadcast, but probably not internet streaming distribution, as that wasn't a thing at the time.

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