August 7th @ 11:05 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Patrick Mohan, Owen Humphreys, Tim McMahon, & Alonso Duralde
Recommendations for Kevin’s stuff continue to be high over at Amazon.Com. Clerks The Comic Book collection is currently #1 (at presstime) in the books area, with Mallrats & Dogma topping their DVD list at #1 and #2 respectively. Very impressive numbers for a site that offers so much.
A pretty nice, if not obscure mention of Kevin’s work in the new issue of The Offical U.S. Playstation Magazine. In it, there’s an article about how videogames can be improved. One of the suggestions is make some comedy games in which they say “And if you think the Farrelly brothers are too far-fetched, or too disgusting, why not give Clerks and Chasing Amy writer/director Kevin Smith a chance to plunge feet first into an RPG script? The long winded chatterbox pokes lots of sarcastic, character-driven fun while heralding all the different angles of the human spirit.”
View Askewer Ethan Suplee has joined the cast of New Line’s “John Q”. The pic will be Suplee’s second appearance with Denzel Washington; both will appear this fall in Disney’s football drama “Remember the Titans”. Suplee will next appear in New Line’s Blow”.
And finally today, a small newsbite from the August 2000 edition of Independent Filmmakers (an Australian idie mag):
The establishment is a money drain. Unions, rules, demarcation, budgets, it’s all a lot of bother when you just want to make a movie. When Kevin Smith got sick of selling Twinkies, he applied for $27,000 worth of credit cards and made a movie. Closing the store at night, he used black and white film, a noisy old 16mm camera, no lights, no dollies and a cast filled with family and friends. When his film, ‘Clerks’, screened at the IFFM, only one person attended, but that was enough to start a bidding war, win a Palmes D’Or at Cannes and take $2 million at the box office. Whe Miramax demanded he use David Schwimmer and Drew Barrymore as the leads in his third film, ‘Chasing Amy’, or have his budget slashed from US$6 million to US$250,000, Smith gave Miramax the finger, took the budget cut, and used unknowns Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams. Despite Miramax’s protestations, ‘Chasing Amy’ earned $US$27 million and become Miramax’s most profitable film ever.
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