- MTV.com reports:
- Jersey Girl’s Raquel Castro has been cast in an upcoming epsiode of the popular NBC drama “Law and Order: SVU”. Filming starts tomorrow. She’s the main character in a heavy duty storyline, and will get second billing as guest star for the episode. We hear she’ll don a wig for the role.
- Kevin is featured (and quoted!) in this Jam! article discussing the popularity of comics in Hollywood these days. Some clippage ahead:
“I turned in the script and this executive went ‘What (the hell) is this? It reads like a comic book! I didn’t approve this!’ I always took that as a real compliment,” Smith says now of the 1996 incident, which he also blames on an executive-level shuffle.
“I said, ‘You think it really reads like a comic book? Because that’s what I was going for.’ But back then it was a pejorative.”
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Smith — who has written Daredevil and Spider-Man comics in recent years — recently turned down the chance to write and direct a film version of The Green Hornet.
Smith says he bowed out of helming the production when he realized that “it wouldn’t belong to me because they’re not my characters … and you’re at the behest of the studios. You don’t have to make exactly what they want, but they’re looking for the most palatable movie possible … So you’re essentially making a product where people go and sit there and eat popcorn and don’t think about it.
The article features quite the list of films on the way with comic influences at its tail end. Check ‘er out at the Canoe site.
- Two small tidbits from movie supersite Dark Horizons today. First off, a small rehash of the “Catch and Release” news from Kevin (nothing new there). The site also reveals that Affleck’s looking for 2 actors to cast in “Gone Baby Gone”, his upcoming directorial debut.
- Cinematical ran a small promo for our big Mallrats screening later this month. Yes, it’s going to have a huge cast reunion. If you don’t have a seat yet, click the link at the top of this page. You can’t miss this one. It only happens once.
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