When you sit around and talk with your friends for hours on end, some crazy stories are bound to come out. And if you're Kevin Smith, you turn those stories into screenplays. That's how his next movie, Tusk, came about, and the origin of a potential musical project called Helena Handbag. Now a third story…
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Filled with references to Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back, Clerks, Batman movies and much more, the trailer for Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie is here. It's the hard R-rated (if it was rated) animated return of everyone's favorite New Jersey slackers, which will tour the country Red State-style along with Kevin Smith…
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Considering Kevin Smith's enduring love of comic books, it's a little surprising to realize he's never actually directed a superhero feature. But he's about to make a contribution to the subgenre in another way. Smith's Smodcast Pictures is set to distribute Alter Egos, a low-budget indie about the rift between a man and his own…
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Slashfilm is proud to exclusively debut the trailer for Bindlestiffs, the first film presented by Kevin Smith's Smodcast Pictures. The winner of the Audience Award at at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival, Blindlestiffs follows three high school virgins, fed up with life, who leave school and head to New York to act out The Catcher…
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When Kevin Smith set the Sundance Film Festival on fire in 2011 with his rejection of the Hollywood distribution system, he promised Smodcast Pictures would acquire and tour movies much as he was about to do with Red State. It's taken almost two years but that's about to become a reality as the filmmaker will…
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Not long ago, Kevin Smith and a company called Phase 4 announced a distribution partnership, in which Phase 4 would acquire low-budget films and release them under Kevin Smith's SModcast Pictures banner. The first pickup for the label is the wild high school comedy Bindlestiffs, directed by Andrew Edison, co-written by Luke Loftin and starring…
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Thursday night, Kevin Smith invaded multiplexes with a simulcast of Kevin Smith: Live from Behind. The event featured the Clerks filmmaker and his hetero life mate Jason Mewes doing their podcast, Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, followed by an extended question and answer session. As usual, the Q&A featured Smith revealing all sorts of…
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Kevin Smith made big waves at Sundance last year when he showed up at the fest with his horror film Red State, the distribution rights to which he said he'd sell at auction. But the auction was mostly an act, and Smith sold the Red State distro rights to himself. That left a lot of…
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This evening, Red State premiered in front of more than 1,200 people at the Eccles Theatre at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. As you might have heard, Smith had announced that he would be auctioning the film off following the screening. Not only did that not happen (Smith's producer jokingly auctioned the film off to…
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