- Apparently New Jersey is considering eliminating their film commission in order to balance their state budget. Kevin was quoted on the matter in an Philadelphia Inquirer article:
Fade to black?
It was still early on the West Coast, but Kevin Smith was wide awake when I e-mailed him to get his take.
Smith shot back a wicked response, calling the death threat “insane.”
And he knows insane.
The Red Bank native filmed his hysterically vulgar breakout hit Clerks here a decade ago for $27,575, raised by maxing out credit cards and selling his comic book collection.
Last year, he returned to Paulsboro and Philly to film Jersey Girl, a $35 million big-studio flick starring lovebirds Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Smith has his own subversive ideas on how to save the film commission.
“Why don’t they just institute another rub-off ticket, and break the film commission off a piece of that lottery coin?” he proposed.
Better yet, why not add another traffic jam on the Garden State Parkway?
“You know how much those toll booths clear a day? The annual revenue of just one could more than put the film commission back in black.”
- We’ve got a few one-sheet images from Sony for ya today — First off, the long-awaited Gigli. Yep, Affleck and Lopez on an official poster together for the FIRST time…We expect to see both faces back on the Jersey Girl one sheet this winter, though. The second one up there? Nope, you’re not seeing things…That’s Claire Forlani, action hero! Should be an interesting sight to see when that one shows up.
- Apparently Kevin gets a shout-out in a new song from rap due Twiztid. The song’s entitled “Fat Kidz”. At the end of the tune, Kevin is named (though given all of his Atkins progress lately, we’re not sure if this really qualifies!)
