I woke up this morning to 101X discussing the pending lawsuit between Best Brains Inc. (aka Mystery Science Theater 3000) and Alamo Drafthouse/Mr. Sinus. (statesman reg. required, avoid reg with bugmenot). Notables include:

• the lawsuit concerns the format of their show as much as or more than simply the name similarity
• the vulgarity and nudity at Mr. Sinus shows is particularly targeted as degrading the MST3K brand name
• Alamo was actually approached by Best Brains to screen old MST3K episodes (which would have been AWESOME), but they claim Alamo said no and then turned around and hired out the Mr. Sinus gang to rip the idea off
• Best Brains says they denied them a "license" to the idea and told them to knock it off and change the name, but they didn't
• Alamo's corporate entity is listed as Alamo South Lamar, LP which is both weird and lends evidence to the hearsay that the downtown drafthouse will soon be re-located to the old site of Fiesta groceries on S. Lamar (I first overheard that many months ago).

posted by natedogg in Something at 02:54AM CST on Aug 31 [trackback] (2 comments total)