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Fans of schlock sci-fi have some­thing to look for­ward to on the DVD release sched­ule because Shout Factory will soon be unleash­ing a pair of sci-fi action flicks on DVD soon.  Crash & Burn and Robot Wars both come from Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment sta­ble and they will be paired into one dou­ble fea­ture from Shout Factory on June 14th.  B-movie stal­warts like Bill Moseley and Barbara Crampton pop up in their casts and both films place an accent on high-tech action with deadly robots.  Read on for all the fight­ing kill­bot details…

The Weapons Of The Future Are Alive …

SHOUT! FACTORY IN ASSOCIATION WITH FULL MOON ENTERTAINMENT

PRESENT

GIANT ROBOT ACTION PACK


CRASH AND BURN

A Film by Charles Band

Starring Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Bill Moseley,

Eva La Rue, Jack McGee and Ralph Waite

&

ROBOT WARS

A Film by Albert Band

Starring Ron Michael Paul, Barbara Crampton, James Staley and Lisa Rinna

DOUBLE FEATURE DVD AVAILABLE IN STORES

NATIONWIDE ON JUNE 14, 2011 FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

Buckle-up for dou­ble dose of sci­ence fic­tion adven­tures filled with heart-stopping action and sus­pense as Shout! Factory brings CRASH AND BURN and ROBOT WARS in a GIANT ROBOT ACTION PACK double-feature DVD this June 14, 2011. A must-have for fans of sci-fi clas­sics and film col­lec­tors, own two of lat­est sci-fi clas­sic at an attrac­tive price of $14.97.

CRASH AND BURN (1990)

It’s the year 2030, and man’s worst night­mares have become an oppres­sive real­ity in Crash And Burn. Big Brother has come to life in the form of Unicom, an all-powerful con­glom­er­ate that emerged in the wake of a dev­as­tat­ing global eco­nomic col­lapse. A group of dis­senters has sur­faced to fight Unicom’s autoc­racy and stop the mur­der­ous Synthoid—a human­like robot pro­grammed to kill all those who pose a threat to the organization.Starring Paul Ganus, Megan Ward (Dark Skies), Bill Moseley and Ralph Waite (Cliffhanger), and directed by Charles Band.

FULL MOON ENTERTAINMENT presents CRASH AND BURN Starring PAUL GANUS,  MEGAN WARD,

BILL MOSELEY,  EVA LA RUE, JACK McGEE and RALPH WAITE  Director of Photogaphy MAC AHLBERG

Special Makeup Effects by GREG CANNOM  Special Visual Effects by DAVID ALLEN

Music Composed by RICHARD BAND  Executive Producers CHARLES BAND & DEBRA DION

Written by J.S. CARDONE  Produced by DAVID DeCOTEAU & JOHN SCHOUWEILER

Directed by CHARLES BAND

ROBOT WARS (1993)

The ulti­mate bat­tle between metal­lic giants begins in Robot Wars when a mali­cious for­eign dig­ni­tary hijacks the last mega-robot on Earth, the MRAS-2, and threat­ens to unleash its crush­ing pow­ers against the peo­ple of the Eastern Alliance . There’s only one force mag­nif­i­cent enough to stop the MRAS-2 — a MEGA-1 robot hid­den under the city. It’s up to a rene­gade pilot, his engi­neer and a bril­liant archae­ol­o­gist to revive the MEGA-1 and reestab­lish world peace. Starring Don Michael Paul (writer/director, Half Past Dead), Barbara Crampton (Re-animator) and Lisa Rinna (Melrose Place)

FULL MOON ENTERTAINMENT presents ROBOT WARS

Starring DON MICHAEL PAUL, BARBARA CRAMPTON, JAMES STALEY, LISA RINNA,  DANNY KAMEKONA,  YUJI OKUMOTO, J. DOWNING and PETER HASKELL as Rooney  Based on the orig­i­nal idea by CHARLES BAND  Production Designer MILO Director of Photography ADOLFO BARTOLI, A.I.C.  Music by DAVID ARKENSTONE  Line Producer KEITH PAYSON Edited by MARGERET-ANNE SMITH  Visual Effects by DAVID ALLEN PRODUCTIONS  Produced by CHARLES BAND Casting by MacDONALD/BULLINGTON CASTING  Screenplay by JACKSON BARR  Directed by ALBERT BAND

Crash and Burn, 85 min./Rated R

Robot Wars, 80 min./Rated PG

Crash And Burn / Robot Wars [Double Feature]

Crash And Burn / Robot Wars [Double Feature]

It’s the year 2030, and man’s worst night­mares have become an oppres­sive real­ity in Crash And Burn. Big Brother has come to life in the form of Unicom, an all-powerful con­glom­er­ate that emerged in the wake of a dev­as­tat­ing global eco­nomic col­lapse. A group of dis­senters has sur­faced to fight Unicom’s autoc­racy and stop the mur­der­ous Synthoid — a human­like robot pro­grammed to kill all those who pose a threat to the orga­ni­za­tion. Starring Paul Ganus, Megan Ward (Dark Skies), Bill Moseley and Ralph Waite (Cliffhanger), and directed by Charles Band.The ulti­mate bat­tle between metal­lic giants begins in Robot Wars when a mali­cious for­eign dig­ni­tary hijacks the last mega-robot on Earth, the MRAS-2, and threat­ens to unleash its crush­ing pow­ers against the peo­ple of the Eastern Alliance. There’s only one force mag­nif­i­cent enough to stop the MRAS-2 — a MEGA-1 robot hid­den under the city. It’s up to a rene­gade pilot, his engi­neer and a bril­liant archae­ol­o­gist to revive the MEGA-1 and reestab­lish world peace. Starring Don Michael Paul (writer/director Half Past Dead), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Lisa Rinna (Melrose Place).