- We’ve received confirmation that Kevin will be appearing at the New York Comicon and will be doing a Q&A on Saturday, February 24th. However, he is NOT scheduled for any formal signing appearances at the show. We’ll let you know more as it comes in.
- The Red Bank, NJ film festival is open for entries again this year — They are accepting early submissions at a rate of $ 25.00 for shorts and $ 45.00 for features until February 28, 2007. Starting March 1, 2007 the regular fee is $30.00 (US) for shorts under 45 minutes and $50.00 (US) for anything over 45 minutes. The deadline for the film festival is May 15, 2007. There’s prizes to be had for the winners, plus the fun of knowing you entered a fest in the original hometown of View Askew! See their site for full details.
- The numbers are in — It’s looking like a 4th place finish for “Catch and Release†this weekend, though an easy 3rd with the per-screen average as the flick opened on just around 1,600 screens. The flick took in a total of $8 million by estimates today. We read that the audience was 75% female, as well — Any of you guys who missed it, get out there and catch the flick this week or over the weekend, we’re sure it will be around a while. It’s a fun comedy and still the best date movie option out there.
Entertainment Weekly does a cool little “Reviewing the Reviews†feature, where they summarize critical response to new flicks with their own commentary. The “Catch and Release†edition is now up, and contains this snippet we loved reading:
- DVDTOWN gives the new Clerks II HD-DVD a 10/10! Read the full review which goes into quite a bit of detail for the reviewer’s love of the film as well as the plentiful extras to be had on this release.
- And finally today, this one somehow got buried in a pile of email, but we didn’t want to miss it — The great JoBlo website concluded its exclusive interview coverage with Kevin last week, which we of course recommend you checking out, with a LOT of chatter about his thoughts on the horror project, Clerks II, and working with Bruce Willis. Here’s just a small taste:
Nah, it’s all in my head. I haven’t sat down and started tapping away yet.
What are you looking at? What are the types of films that…
You ever see RACE WITH THE DEVIL?
Oh, of course.
Like that. So it’s not… like I had a bunch of people today be like, so zombies? No. It’s so weird that whenever somebody asks me zombies I’m like, ‘Is that what a horror movie is to people?’ Like just zombies? It’s such a wide genre, wide open. Like there’s so many… in a world where 28 DAYS LATER is a horror movie and THE SHINING is a horror movie, those are two very disparate films. Where… not even that, like NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and THE SHINING. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is almost like a parody of horror at this point. But THE SHINING isn’t like that [kind of] horror… It’s a wide open genre and very tough to pin down. It’s so odd to me when people immediately assume you’re talking about a zombie or a monster.
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