The Great Character Actor Michael Parks Has Died
Character actor Michael Parks, known for working with directors like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has passed away.
Read MoreCharacter actor Michael Parks, known for working with directors like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has passed away.
Read MoreKevin Smith narrates an animated Red State Alternate ending that he wants to film, but didn't have the money for. Watch the madness here.
Read MoreHere's our Tusk Review Kevin Smith's latest film. It stars Justin Long and Michael Parks in the twisted tale of a man turning another into a Walrus.
Read MoreNew Tusk Photos are here. Michael Parks, Justin Long, Hayley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez star in the latest film from Kevin Smith.
Read More"I don't want to die in Canada." That's Wallace, (Justin Long), a guy who interviews people to learn their odd stories, but he becomes the subject of one after talking to the wrong Canadian. In Tusk, the new film from writer/director Kevin Smith, we follow Wallace as he finds a new story through an old sailor (Michael…
Read MoreThe Kevin Smith Krampus film is now called Anti-Claus. Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez and Michael Parks star. Filming stars September
Read MoreWednesday, Kevin Smith posted a second guest blog post on The Hollywood Reporter. Like the first one, it primarily concerns his next movie, Tusk, and is filled with new information. The most important piece is, after some financing issues, the film not only got the money it needs, it starts filming November 4 in North…
Read MoreClerks made Kevin Smith, but in order to make Clerks III, Smith will have to make something else. In a new interview, the writer/director/podcaster said his next film, Tusk, will be an "ivory bridge" to Clerks III. A way to make financing the sequel easier and also to work out some of the cobwebs from…
Read MoreUPDATE: Smith took to Twitter to let fans know, this film is actually shooting in September! Here's the tweet, original story follows: https://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/359786487761485824 In what's become a Comic-Con tradition, Kevin Smith took the Hall H at Comic-Con Saturday night and arrived bearing gifts. Gifts in the form of news for his fans. He said the…
Read MoreThe lone secret premiere of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival ended up being Ben Affleck's dramatic thriller Argo. I've never understood the negativity regularly thrown at Ben Affleck. When given the right material, he's delivered some great performances as an actor (Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Boiler Room, Hollywoodland...etc). And in recent years he's made the transition and…
Read More"This is the best bad idea we have, sir, by far." Here's the trailer for Argo, Ben Affleck's third film as director. The film follows the efforts of an operation to rescue six diplomats hiding in Tehran during the Iranian revolution in 1979. The trailer begins in serious political thriller mode before the real plan…
Read MoreWarner Bros has sent out the obligatory press release to announce the commencement of filming on Ben Affleck's third film as director, Argo. We've known most of the cast for a while: Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, and John Goodman, with more recent additions Kyle Chandler, Tate Donovan, Rory Cochrane and Taylor Schilling. Now we've…
Read MoreLove him or hate him, Kevin Smith has can now hang his own "Mission Accomplished" banner. He's taken his tiny little horror film Red State, premiered it at Sundance, decided to self-distribute it, taken it on the road and now, officially, turned a profit without spending a dime on marketing. The film, which cost $5…
Read MoreKevin Smith’s new film Red State is more than just a departure from his trademark comedic style. It’s almost a complete 180. The bright colors and pop culture references have been replaced with blacks, reds and long monologues about scripture. Smith’s still very reliant on the spoken word – almost to a fault – but…
Read MoreKevin Smith has unveiled the final credit card of his upcoming horror film Red State, which promises that "almost this entire cast will return in Hit Somebody." Based on the Warren Zevon song, Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song), the story is about an insanely passionate hockey player named Buddy who gets his chance play professional…
Read MoreHot off the heels of its acceptance to Sundance, the first stills from Kevin Smith's Red State have come online and they look nothing like a Kevin Smith movie. And we mean that in the best possible way. Red State, which is a thriller about "a group of misfits [who] encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle…
Read MoreKevin Smith has premiered the teaser for his film Red State, but not in any traditional manner. The filmmaker showed a rough version of the teaser to an audience of twenty people at his Smodcastle in LA. But the semi-private showing was recorded and released as a podcast, through which you can hear the audio…
Read MoreKevin Smith tweeted the first photo from his new film Red State late Tuesday night. It's a shot from behind the head of lead character Abin Cooper, played by Michael Parks (Kill Bill Volume 2), who is a preacher loosely based on Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. Hit the jump to see the…
Read MoreBriefly: We still don't know very much about Kevin Smith's long-gestating middle-America horror film Red State, other than that Michael Parks is tapped for a lead role and that the film is based in part on sham 'preacher' Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. But now there's a logline for the film, which comes…
Read MoreI'll admit, I didn't like Joe Carnahan's Smokin Aces as much as I was hoping to. Disappointed is probably the appropriate word. That's not to say there isn't things to like about the film... it just wasn't the balls out action film that many were expecting. And the direct-to-dvd sequel, Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball, isn't…
Read MoreSome new photos from Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez' zombie horror segment of the much hyped double feature have turned up online. Check out the images below (after the jump). As always, left click for higher res. The Planet Terror cast includes: Freddy Rodriguez (Poseidon, Six Feet Under), Rose McGowan, Josh Brolin (Into the Blue, Hollow…
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