• “Live Free or Die Hard” opens in theaters TODAY, giving it almost a full week’s jump on “Transformers” and a couple day’s head start on Pixar’s new rat-toon as well. All 3 films have merit, and should amoung for some big biz at theaters over the coming week, but it’s Die Hard that’s got us the most excited — This is arguably the biggest budgeted film in which Kevin has ever appeared, and a very high profile role (though a much smaller part than last year’s “Catch and Release”). Seeing Kevin share the screen not only with Bruce Willis, but with him in his famous McClane persona, is a true treat. The original “Die Hard” remains a Christmastime fave for these webmasters, and one of those films that you just can’t seem to turn off when you come across it during your channel surfing. Both the sequels have innovative action and are unique films in their own right. Reviews for this installment have been quite positive, especially from the big names like The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. They not only liked the film, but both had very nice things to say about Mr. Smith’s performance:

Congratulations to Kevin on the kudos regarding the role — The clips we’ve seen of the basement scene, as well as the tasty action bits, make this one a must-see and certainly one of the best roller coaster rides of the summer. We’ll see you out there — Enjoy the movie!

• Entertainment Weekly’s article featuring the “Zack and Miri” script page has publicity for the film already underway, before it’s even been cast or had a budget set! Not bad. /film runs the page with their brief comments HERE More speculation over at Cinemablend, where the site’s author says it’s giving him a “Chasing Amy” type of vibe. Cinematical summarizes the most on the project, taking pretty much all the news that we’ve been running so far and condensing it down into 2 paragraphs. As for casting, we certainly hope Rosario likes the script and can make it fit her schedule — Once the female lead is cast, it’ll just be a matter of finding the right Zack with the right chemistry — Assuming of course, the Miri is the Rosario part (we’re betting yes).

• Babe alert! The lovely Missy Peregrym has just joined the cast of “Reaper”, reports bloody-disgusting. Peregrym will play the slacker’s pretty co-worker on whom he has a crush. She replaces Nikki Reed, who played the role in the pilot. Does this mean reshoots? We bet it does. Will Kevin be handling them? Not sure. Either way, this sure will make the original Peregym-less pilot a collectible, if it manages to leak out prior to the reshot stuff.
• DVDTOWN.COM‘s Dean Winkelspecht, a huge fan of Kevin’s work (remember the 10/10 rating he gave to the Clerks II HD-DVD?), recently posted a review of the “Bruce Almighty” HD-DVD on the site. While commenting on Morgan Freeman’s performance, he makes a brief reference to Alanis in Dogma:

We got exciting site news coming in the next few days. You won’t wanna miss it. Tease-tease-tease. Thanks for stopping in today!