"Фильм Жұмағы" ("Film Jumağı")

Comedic team

The Film Crew was a comedy team which succeeded Mystery Science Theater 3000 that launched in 2004. The Film Crew comprised former MST3K cast members Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy. The team produced segments for television, radio, and home video. They hosted Legend Films' colorized Three Stooges DVD release, which packaged the four Stooge shorts that have fallen into the public domain: Disorder in the Court (1936), Malice in the Palace (1949), Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Brideless Groom (both 1947). The Film Crew also maintained a website with humor columns and other content geared toward its fans, and contributed comedy segments to NPR.

The Film Crew, stuck in the confines of their work basement, lay down commentary tracks to whatever obscure movie dished to them by their boss, Bob Honcho. As part of their job, each of the three wears a matching "working class" uniform and an unwieldy headset while riffing. Each release contained a short "Lunch Break" sketch, in which they would act out a humorous sketch.

The Film Crew occasionally hosted segments between movies on American Movie Classics, Sundance Channel, and the Starz/Encore cable channels in the United States. In August 2005, during Encore's "Midnight Movies" schedule, The Film Crew provided introductions for the documentary on the subject Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream and for the cult classics The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Reefer Madness, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, and Pink Flamingos.

The Film Crew created a pilot for a comedic radio program called 3 Men & The Movies for NPR which was well received but ultimately not picked up. Despite this, the troupe went on to contribute a few comedic, movie related segments for NPR's All Things Considered program in the fall of 2004, including a review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow as well as an examination of film score cliches.

The Film Crew hosted a now defunct website that featured original content including comedic essays. The tone and format was somewhat evocative of Timmy Big Hands, a short lived "webzine" involving several of the same entertainers.

During the delay when there was no DVD distributor, the sets were destroyed and the cast moved on to the similar project RiffTrax, complicating any possible future Film Crew episodes. Murphy indicated that "We haven’t gotten any new orders from Shout Factory – the new home of MST by the way – and since RiffTrax is becoming so much fun, I think you may have seen the last of The Film Crew." As of July 2008, The Film Crew's former website, filmcrewonline. com, is defunct. Shortly thereafter, Shout Factory put three Film Crew movies on Hulu. On April 5, 2009, all four riffs became available on YouTube. In February 2016, RiffTrax began selling the Film Crew episodes, either via download or streaming, starting with Killers from Space.