- While you’re enjoying today’s new SModcast, check this little snippet out from Joe Gross — In the vein of those animated shorts that fans sometimes do to Howard Stern clips, Joe’s animated a hilarious snippet from a recent SModcast where Kevin and Scott discussed Malcolm Ingram’s Canadian political knowledge — Take a look at the fun clip right HERE.
- Variety quotes Kevin in this article about Celebrities using the internet to reach their fan base:
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George Lucas has long cultivated an interactive relationship with the geekerati on all things Lucasfilm, especially “Star Wars.” Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones 4” approach derives from the Lucas DIY ethic. “They’re keeping their fan base happy until the movie comes out,” says web-savvy director Kevin Smith. “‘Indiana Jones is presold, man! That audience is coming.”
Early Internet adopter Smith learned about a group of “Clerks” fan sites back in 1996 when he was depressed after “Mallrats” bombed. Reading the commenters buoyed his spirits. He hired one of the site creators to build his first site. When Smith suggested doing a weekly live Q&A, he was told all he had to do was join the site’s message boards and chat with his fans directly whenever he felt like it. Ever since, Smith spends several hours a week with fans. He’s proud that the site has grown organically, adding merchandise when fans demand it. Smith uses his year-old MySpace page, which boasts more than 172,000 friends, to announce book-signings and public appearances, which promptly sell out. “I don’t organize with the studio at all,” he says. “It’s about letting us do whatever we want.”Listening to your fans can be both good and bad, Smith says. “It’s not Kenneth Turan of the L.A. Times, it’s what the guy who paid for your pic has to say,” says Smith. “You have to keep in perspective that you can’t believe the enthusiastic positive stuff or the shitty horrible soul-crushing stuff. The truth is between the two.”
- Cinematical has picked up on Kevin’s recent praise for Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, “Gone Baby Gone”.
- We ran the text last update, but here’s the actual scan of Entertainment Weekly’s recent mention of Kevin’s blog (with that A-rating)!
- And finally today, just because it’s a SModcast-heavy update, the world’s tallest man, who was discussed at length in the very first SMod, was recently married. Mr Bao Xishun , who stands at 7ft 8.95in tall, tied the knot with Xia Shujian, 29. Later!
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