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Kevin Goes Global: Edinburgh & Australia Coverage!

August 22nd @ 8:45 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Jon Darren, Ross Maclean, Greg Andrew, Richard Ross


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  • While the excitement over here may be calming down after most of us have had the pleasure of screening Clerks II, we have to remember that the fun is just starting up for our faithful fans in Australia and Scotland. Kevin’s touring that part of the world now, and folks are loving the flick. Here’s a first-hand report of a fan who was lucky enough to attend the premiere screening in Australia last night:
I attended the Premiere of Clerks II at the State Theatre in Australia last night and I was totally blown away by the whole event. Kevin took to the stage before the flick started and welcomed everyone. He was wearing his Silent Bob coat and trademark shorts. He seemed totally relaxed and very happy to be in Australia, raving about how nice it was here, even calling it ‘Toronto Nice.’ After a quick intro, the movie began to massive rapture and applause.

And it didn’t stop there. Every gag was met with a flurry of belly laughter and clapping, so much so that sometimes you had to struggle to catch the next gag. But it didn’t matter, because this was one hell of a movie, probably Kevin’s best. It took you up and down, left and right, made you laugh and stirred your emotions. Just brilliant.

As the flick finished, there was a buzz in the theatre as everyone chatted about it. After a short interval, Kevin took to the stage for the Q&A, and again he received a standing ovation. Then the questions began, and Kevin talked straight for over 2hrs! At no point did the audience ever seem bored. He held the stage and kept everyone laughing with great stores about working on the movie, behind the scenes, Jason Mewes and his new bill of health, his family and the general topics of upcoming projects. I was able to ask Kevin a question myself, regarding the Train wreck videos, especially one where Jeff and Brian played a prank on Kevin as they pretended Jeff had cut his hand. It was an honour to talk to the man, face to face.

It was a fantastic event and I for one will be straight to the movies to see it again come opening day next week. Thanks for making the effort to get to Australia Kevin, come back anytime!

Thanks for that report, Jon.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has photos from Kevin’s time in Edinburgh over the weekend as well. You can view the full slideshows at the links below. We also have select photos right here with this story. Fan Ross says, “It was great to see Kevin at the Fest and gave his Scottish fans a rare opportunity to see him. I’m all the more delighted that photo 7/7 on the Clerks II Premiere gallery is of Kevin writing ‘Fuck Tim Burton’ across my Superman Lives script.”

Clerks II has done really well with audiences at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It’s currently top of the audience rankings http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/articles/standard_life_audience_award_update_day_6.

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August 22nd @ 8:45 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Leigh Webb, Dan Salet, Nathan Peebles, Greg Trawinski, Movidude74, Richard Ross, Greg Sorkin, Brooklyn Roach Multimedia, Colin Glider

  • As Kevin’s doing the Austalian thing this week, we’ll be posting all the latest from that part of the world as we can dig it up – We’ve just gotten word that Australian radio show Tony Martin’s Get this has announced they will have Kevin on Friday morning at 9am, they have been told he will only be there for two segments but will try to get him to stay for the whole show.
  • With the Australian premiere, local website Moviehole runs a new interview with Kevin today. A few select passages:
…Granted, Ben Affleck does have a role in “Clerks II” – but it’s very small, and initially, it was going to be even smaller.

“He wanted to be part of it, so he asked if he could be a background extra, but he wanted to get paid for it. I told him Gigli must have tanked harder than I thought”, Smith, who constantly takes the piss out of his friend Affleck, laughs. “I told him to come on out, but I knew he would want some dialogue. He came out and shot his scene, which was just him reacting in the background and we shot it twice and got it right and then he came up to me and said it felt like he should say something. I said, “Of course you do, here’s a line of dialogue for you.”

Smith, who says Matt Damon was also asked to appear in the film but had to decline the offer to do a role in a De Niro film he was doing, explains that the film would only have made sense if it were again headlined by the original stars, Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson as the slacker cashiers of the original film.

“I thought since Clerks is a story about what it’s like to be in my twenties, why not use Dante and Randall as the way-in again? It’s nice. There is a built-in poignancy of showing those guys 10 years later, especially if you open up your head, why not use the dudes who helped you the first time around, the characters particularly.

  • Seems UK fans will have to wait a bit longer for “Evening Harder”. Sony Pictures has announced a release date of the 15th January 2007 for the UK, which may coincide with Clerks II on DVD there as well.
  • Kevin joins the BBC’s Mark Kermode for his podcast this week. Oddly, Kermode is in Los Angeles this week, though Kevin called in from Edinburgh to conduct the interview.
  • Don’t forget, Kevin makes an appearance as clerk Duane Anders on the outstanding second season of “Veronica Mars” — Out on DVD today. You’ll catch his obviously ad-libbed turn in Episode Two, “Driver Ed”. We can’t recommend this show enough, by the way, especially after the stellar season finale. The show returns on the new CW in the Fall.
  • A new website’s been spotted, designed by web guru Ming Chen, for Zak and Joey, the genius behind the “Train Wreck” series. Check out their new production home on the web, “Chop Shop Entertainment”.
  • With Kevin currently off the project, we’re not following this too much, but it’s interesting to see that Zach Braff has still not officially signed on for the new Fletch flick.
  • This story claims a thief “dressed like Silent Bob” was responsible for the vandalization of a cool billboard for Showtime’s “Weeds” (a decent show, worth checking out, by the way, now just starting up season two).

  • Here’s a good one – A fan who took his new Sidekick 3 and used MyTego to make a Clerks:TAS skin to cover it, complete with Bear who Drive Car. Nice work.
  • And finally today, the “What If Steven Seagal Was In…” series takes on Clerks. Enjoy. We’ll see ya next time!

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