March 4th @ 1:46 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Jeremy Wein
- Don’t forget, GREEN HORNET #1 is out today! To find comic book stores near you: 888-Comic-Book or comicshoplocator.com. Get in on the ground floor for this landmark series.
- Rare “Mallrats” big screen chance — The Enzian Theater in Orlando, Florida will screen the classic on March 9th. Our scooper sent in a shot of the marquee, but no details on where to get tix. If you’re in the area, you can probably figure that out, though. “Mallrats” screenings always draw a great audience and are a blast. Be there if ya can.
February 28th @ 2:56 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Movidude74
There’s some great quotes in this recent Wired interview with Kevin regarding his love of Twitter:
“Oh, I’m online all the time now. I’m not an outdoorsy type. Everything I do that’s not related to filmmaking or child-rearing or trying to fuck my wife is online. The medium of Twitter is built for me. I recently did a 24-hour tweetathon, and people asked me how I did it. I said, “The only difference between this and my normal regimen is that I let you know I was doing it.” I have 1.6 million followers—this army of people who think like me. There aren’t enough of us to invade a whole country, but we could probably take Quebec.”
This smaller piece is followed up with a much larger interview with Wired that again takes a tech slant, but covers the span of his career. It uses some of the same material from the previous interview but is a lot more detailed. That’s the one we’d recommend if you’re choosing:
“…If nobody gave me another dollar to make I movie, I’d probably finance it myself if I were passionate. But I’ve done it enough. So long, and thanks for all the fish. Zack and Miri really took box office away from me. If A Couple Of Dicks came out and made $30 million I wouldn’t care. I can’t tell you how miserable it was to be the guy who made Mallrats. But now there are kids who come up to me that are 15 who tell me how much they loved Mallrats. He was some bastard’s dirty urge when the film came out, and now he’s watching my flicks and relating to them.
My entire career I owe to the Internet. I owe Harvey Weinstein for the money to make Clerks and Universal for Mallrats. After that, I had to rebuild everything that I had. The rest I owe to the good fucking people of the Internet.”
February 28th @ 2:55 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Jasmina, Greg Trawinski, Josh Tafoya, Pat, Kat
- The German premiere of “Cop Out” happens in April, and the official trailer in the German language is now available. It’s a fun watch. We hear that the Willis voiceover is the same dude who always provides his voice in German language versions, though Tracy Morgan’s voice seems a little…well, it’s an odd choice, anyway. Definitely worth a click over to see what the Germans will hear in April — The voice dubbing never gets old to us.
- If only parents would have taught this kid to fear and respect that escalator . Sad story, though — The kid wanted to be a hockey player. Bummer. Keep your kids safe on those escalators, folks. Listen to Brodie.
- If anyone’s got audio from Kevin’s call-in to Friday’s Opie & Anthony radio show, drop us a line — The call caught us off guard and we didn’t get to hear it. He was calling in to promote “Cop Out”.
- We enjoyed scooper Kat’s defacing of the dollar bill and wanted to share her work with you. Nice job, Kat.
- Update’s over, time for you to go out and see “Cop Out”! Go go go…
February 3rd @ 9:37 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Laura Shannon, Dan Z
- In other Canada-centric news (it’s just that kinda week), Kevin will appear on “The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos” tomorrow – Thursday, February 4th. You can watch The Hour on television weeknights at 11 p.m. on CBC (Canada only, sorry non-canucks). It is also on the CBC Newsworld channel in Canada at various times. Once a streaming version is available to others, we’ll let ya know, of course.
- An interesting “Mallrats” mention comes to us by way of Joystiq, where it reveals that the great Michael Rooker (the immortal Mr. Svenning) will play a major role in an upcoming “Days of Thunder” videogame (and rightfully so, as he did play a major role in that very film).
January 3rd @ 11:25 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Robb J, Chuck K
December 1st @ 10:17 pm | 1 Comment » | Scooped by Christian Silva, Sebastian, Riss Wiebe, Jeremy Carlson, Dylan John Mazziotti
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- Will you be one of the lucky ones to see the first cut of Kevin Smith’s “A Couple of Dicks”? Kevin reports that he’s been burning the midnight oils on getting the film in fighting shape for a test screening NEXT WEEK! If you see it, we’d love to hear from you. If you know the regular haunts that test flicks in your area, it might be a good time to hit them up for some seats. Good luck!
- If for some reason you’ve been on the fence of catching Kevin live when he comes to town, maybe this San Francisco Chronicle article will tip your scales to the right side of the equation. Here’s a snippet:
The answer was apparent Friday night at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, where the event was like a fantasy camp – except instead of paying $15,000 to play basketball with Michael Jordan or hockey with Wayne Gretzky, fans paid closer to $50 to hang out with Smith for a few hours. Part behind-the-scenes Hollywood tell-all, part stand-up comedy and part Catholic confession, Smith combined storytelling, the Socratic method and moments that bordered on motivational speaking to entertain a grateful crowd.
Smith has had about 50 years worth of career in the past 15 years, starting with “Clerks,” a 1994 art-house hit that Smith made for $27,000. He writes comics, acts sporadically and practically invented the modern bromantic comedy, where the male-female romance takes a back seat to the platonic man love between heterosexual leads. As critics started to say he was irrelevant – director Judd Apatow arguably played Oprah to Smith’s Phil Donahue – Smith connected with his fans more than ever on the Internet. Among his recent experiments: an online marathon where he answered questions on Twitter for 24 hours straight.
The hard-core fans greeted Smith like a hero as he walked on stage in ankle-length jeans shorts (and later, a bathrobe), launching into a 10-minute story about a test screening of the critically panned “Jersey Girl” in San Francisco. After that, he answered questions from the audience for three hours straight, displaying the rare combination of politeness and raunchiness, with a lack of hubris that made him likable even when describing his own excrement in detail. It was a night of many tangents and a few slow parts, but it was always comfortable.
Check out the entire article over at their official site. Then, check the upcoming appearances list over there on your right and get yourself booked for Kevin’s next show in your town.
- Though the hosts for this year’s telecast were just revealed (Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin), Total Film pontificates on who they’d like to see rockin’ the Oscar mic this year, and our favorite director’s got one of their top spots in their feature on “21 Stars Who Should Host the 2010 Oscars”:
Kevin Smith
Past Form: Smith’s had one or two minor hosting gigs in the past, but where he’s really worked is in his live Q&As, where he takes questions from the audience. Rambling and hilarious, he has to be experienced to be believed.
Show Highlights: Like Parker and Stone, he’d need a swear button, but he could bring on some more famous friends – like Ben Affleck – to help out with the wattage of the night.
It would be the first ever Oscars where the host opens the event with a monologue entirely dedicated to A) anal fissures and B) anal sex with his wife. Wait Didn’t David Letterman do that already?
Sample Speech: “That’s why you’ll never see my name next to Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Spike Lee. Scorsese speaks a lot at NYU, and I’m damn skippy no one’s ever been like, ‘I’ll suck your d**k for five bucks!’”
- “Clerks” mini-reunion alert! GameCasa got a hold of stars Brian O’Halloran and Marilyn Ghigloitti at a recent convention, where former MTV “Jackass” star Rake Yohn interviewed them about video games, “Clerks” , and more. Check out the 7 minute video at their site. It’s a little awkward watching them try and fit into the game-themed conversation, but they’re both really good sports about it. You can see how gracious the both of them are. Check it out, and be sure to catch them if they’re in your town — They love meeting the fans.
- Miramax, the label where Kevin Smith and View Askew got their start, and made a bunch of movies together, will soon be shuttered. /Film has a nicely written report. Crazy to read this, knowing how big of an indie force they were in the 90’s. For now, the studio plans to put out 3 pictures a year, though some speculate the end may come soon.
Regarding the news, Kevin tweets: “It’s like hearing the house you grew up in has burned to the ground. I’ve now watched Miramax die twice. *sigh*”
- Ah, JoBlo sure thinks up the best stories to cover — This one, on “10 Awkward Movie Blow Jobs”, cites “Mallrats”:
10. Stinky BJ – MALLRATS
The actual awkwardness of this blow-job is left to our imagination as Brodie (Jason Lee) tells TS (Jeremy London) his girlfriend dumped him because he farted while she was going down on him. The epitome of dick & fart jokes
October 8th @ 5:35 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Dave Petro, Patrick, Josh Frydman, Greg Andrew
- The Onion ranks “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” as #26 among their “Best Movies about the Difficulty of Making Movies”:
26. Zack And Miri Make A Porno (2008)
Kevin Smiths underrated 2008 romantic comedy Zack And Miri Make A Porno put a raunchy but sweet spin on the trusty Lets put on a show template that fueled many a Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney musical (and breakdancesploitation cheapie). Only this time the show is a homemade Star Wars-themed porn movie and the plucky young upstarts a pair of down-and-out platonic best friends (Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks) who decide to make the beast with two backs onscreen as a way of getting out of debt. The lusty neophytes struggle to make a porn film with no budget, untested stars, and funky, makeshift locations like a coffee shop, but the trickiest variable aspiring pornographers Rogen and Banks face is their growing romantic attraction to one another.
- Those of you curious about the “Kings Ransom” Gretzky documentary Kevin has been mentioning in tweets occasionally — Check your local listings as ESPN stations have been showing the documentary more frequently lately — Totally free and well worth your time. Look it up. It’s a fantastic hour of television.
- Total Film cites “Mallrats” among their listing of “30 Killer Movie Opening Lines”:
The Film: Mallrats (1995)
The Line: One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck up his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news.
It was embarrassing for my relatives and all, but next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room.
So, I run into him a week later in the mall and he’s buying another cat. And I says to him, Jesus, Walt! What are you doing? You know you’re just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too. Why don’t you knock it off?
And he said to me, Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out? My cousin was a weird guy.
September 9th @ 9:12 pm | 1 Comment » | Scooped by Chuck K, Scott, Christoffer Kullman, Laura Cohohan, Jamie Buckner
- Sure, we know you are planning to buy a copy, but you wanna WIN one, too? ScreenCrave is offering up 3 copies of “Shootin the Sh*t” simply by signing up for their RSS Feed/Twitter and sending them a Kevin-related comment or tweet. Winners will be randomly drawn on September 16th. Good luck!
- SciFi Wire wonders if Kevin will give Batman a new sidekick over the course of “Widening Gyre”. A snippet:
Smith completed the first six issues and will begin writing another batch of six. “We’re breaking it up into a volume 1, volume 2 kind of thing,” Smith continued. “So the first six issues happen, then there’s a break, and then the next six issues happen, but I don’t know. DC’ll probably ultimately wind up going, ‘Why don’t we just make it two separate miniseries? 1-6 is one thing, and call the next one something else.’ So we may do that. I don’t know, but I know we’re going to stop at six for the time being and take a little break. Then whether or not the next issue is 7 or a new number 1 for a volume 2 miniseries remains to be seen.”
- Mallrats’ Shannen Doherty has joined the guest list for Orlando’s Spooky Empire Con which takes place from October 9-11. Tickets are now available at the official site. No definite schedule for appearances has yet been announced, so watch the official site for signing times if you’ve like to meet Shannen or any of the show’s other guests.
- Catch a screening of Malcolm Ingram’s acclaimed doc “Small Town, Gay Bar” in Brooklyn, NY next Tuesday, September 15th at 8:00 PM. Visit the event’s Facebook page for full details. All proceeds will benefit the Brooklyn Community Pride Center. Suggested donation is $10.
- Jay Mewes recently hosted a concert event in Edmonton, called Sonic Boom. The Sun’s got a nice writeup on the event which features a nice Mewes mention:
Keeping the audience entertained between sets was Jason Mewes — famous for playing Jay, a pot dealer in the Jay and Silent Bob flicks.
“It’s a lot of fun. It’s been great,” said Mewes, between signing autographs for a huge lineup of fans. “(There are) a lot of cool bands (and) a lot of cool people here.”
Between acts, Mewes dutifully told the crowd to “drink water, be safe, recycle and Jesus loves you.”
- Buddy Christ pops up in a funny little posting on popular website “Passive Aggessive Notes”.
- Watch for “Chasing Amy”’s Dwight Ewell in a small recurring role on the new “90210″ on the CW. Ewell appeared late in the season as a teacher, and showed up again in Tuesday’s premiere.
