The 15 Feb 1966 DV announced that the title of Elvis Presley’s next Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film had been changed from Never Say Yes to Spinout. According to the 21 Feb 1966 DV, principal photography began that day in Los Angeles, CA. Army Archerd reported in his 1 Mar 1966 DV column that Presley’s salary was $1 million of the film's $2.2 million budget, and that he was scheduled to sing nine songs. Spinout was Presley’s sixth film with veteran director Norman Taurog, his seventh for MGM, and his third scheduled for a 1966 release.
       A production chart in the 23 Feb 1966 Var noted that actor Woody Woodbury was co-starring in Spinout, but he was not in the final production.
       Filming moved to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles’s Chavez Ravine, where a scene required two hundred extras, twenty-eight supporting actors, fifty automobiles, and twelve custom racing cars, the 11 Mar 1966 DV reported. Radio personality Jay Jasin was hired to be the race announcer.
       According to the 1 Apr 1966 DV, the production had moved that day to the Veteran’s Building in Culver City, CA, to film the last of Elvis Presley’s nine musical numbers. He had completed the recordings two weeks earlier, the 17 Mar 1966 DV noted, including “Spinout” and “All That I Am,” the songs on RCA Victor’s upcoming single from the Spinout soundtrack album.
Filming was completed 7 Apr 1966, the next day’s DV noted.
      MGM announced that it had ordered 500 prints of Spinout, the “largest number for any Elvis Presley film in MGM history, the  6 Oct 1966 DV reported. The film went into general release on 12 Oct 1966, and opened in the Los Angeles, CA, area on 23 Nov 1966. A full-page advertisement in that day’s LAT showed Spinout at the top of a dozen double bills in Southern California, screening with second-run movies The Bounty Killer (1965, see entry), The Liquidator and, in one case, the Beatles’ 1965 British film, Help! The 15 Dec 1966 NYT review of the film mentioned that it had opened in the New York City area the day before on a double bill with a French-Italian film called Marco the Magnificent. LAT critic Kevin Thomas called Spinout “perhaps [Elvis’s] best picture yet,” and lauded the cast as “first-rate.” The NYT review mentioned that the Spinout  double bill “landed heavily,” and deemed the “package…neither a bargain nor a colorful Christmas bauble.”
       A “Big Rental Pictures of 1966” roundup in the 4 Jan 1967 Var listed Spinout as having grossed almost $1.8 million in its first two-and-a-half months of release.