The collected Harry Potter smods are a verifiably better experience than the films themselves. Smith has directed 3 episodes of The Flash ("The Runaway Dinosaur," "Killer Frost," and "Null and Annoyed"),[109] 4 episodes of Supergirl ("Supergirl Lives",[110] "Distant Sun", "Damage" and "Bunker Hill") and 3 episodes of The Goldbergs ("The Dynamic Duo", "Graduation Day" and "Our Perfect Strangers"). Before it aired, Smith watched the show's first season and raved about it in his "online diary", calling it one of the best shows in the history of television.[142]. With the exception of Mallrats, all of Smith's films until 2008 were financed and/or distributed by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, via their companies Miramax, Dimension Films, and The Weinstein Company. Host Sarah Koenig is so wonderfully flawed in her objectivity that it further sends the listener on their own slaloming path down the rabbit hole that is the murder of Hae Min Lee. Seeking out advice, Smith spoke to a priest, who analogized faith to liquid filling a shot glass, and explained that the glass grows in size as a person grows older, and thus the same knowledge that satisfies a person as a child can be insufficient as an adult. 2. That's my understanding. Sounded like they get along but aren't tight and Mosier thought Smith was holding him back all these years. Clerks is a movie series by View Askew Production and Miramax. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While making Dogma, Mosier worked with Laura Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. And you two are hooking up again with Yoga Hosers, starring Johnny and each of your daughters? I know times change but Ill take them when they come. Did Bobby ever confirm the exact year he got clean? Custom boutique photography for newborns, children, families, seniors, and weddings 1999 Oddly, we get anunexpected insight into Scheer and June Diane Raphaels marriage when they discuss what kind of response a wife should expect from her husband when she gets catcalled by groups of unsavory men on the street. In 2004, Smith wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation of The Green Hornet, and announced that he intended to direct it. Smith appears with Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee in Marvel Then & Now: An Evening With Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith. This is the premise behind the stunt on this weeks show: When someone takes Breckmans cash, a remote speaker hook-up will allow him to protect it by letting him yell at the taker. Find similar artists to Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier and discover new music. Scott had put his directorial dreams on the back burner to produce with Kevin for decades. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. Rogen said: It's a really filthy movie. Smith cited Miramax not seeing Lee's box-office appeal (in an Entertainment Weekly article covering the delays, Smith claimed Harvey Weinstein continually refused it personally or suggested he focus more on the disguises of the character in a matter similar to Austin Powers, Smith admitting incredulity that Harvey refused even after Lee was frequently seen in billboards and posters in the city at the time, to promote his new show My Name is Earl, but admitting that Harvey's vision for the film clearly didn't include Lee) as a reason for its abandonment. Five of the segments were also included on the Jersey Girl DVD. It was released on October 31, 2008, and ran into many conflicts getting an "R" rating. In the 80s, there were a bunch of action movies that were all similar and they were basically superheroes, too. He has produced most of Smiths early films. Smith and Mewes reappeared in two episodes the following season, in which they returned to Degrassi for the Toronto premiere of the movie. 451: Clerks Too, Ep. [47] The film, shot from June to August 2009, involves a pair of veteran cops tracking down a stolen vintage baseball card,[48] and was released on February 26, 2010, to poor reviews; it was the first film Smith directed but did not write. At the end of that sequence, Johnny was joking around and said, We should just put them to work and retire. Im cutting that scene and watching it over and over, and I asked my wife why I loved the scene so much, and she said, Kevin, its two people behind the fuckin counter at a convenience store. And now I fuckin' ruined that. 2 days later it was published to YouTube. In particular I . Mosier had a comparatively larger budget to work with on the film Jersey Girl, at $35 million. Isn't that weird? 13 K-State beats No. How did you two hook up? Smith played the role of Paul, a cynical divorced man, in a Showtime television series pilot, "Manchild", filmed in December 2006. His father grew to despise his job, which greatly influenced Smith, who remembers his father finding it difficult on some days to get up and go to work. I thought it was Apatow country and was gonna be a big hit, and it wasnt. [59]Red State was a box office bomb, earning just $1,104,682, and opened to poor reviews; the critical consensus (according to Rotten Tomatoes) was "Red State is an audacious and brash affair that ultimately fails to provide competent scares or thrills. Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, the brains behind the View Askew movies Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II, have banded together once again to share their thoughts and ideas in Podcast (or SModcast) form. It was the last time Smith worked with a major studio, leading him to return to his independent film roots. The series was initially planned as 12 issues, with a long break planned between issues six and seven. Affleck and Damon appear as themselves filming a mock sequel to Good Will Hunting. Download Free PDF. Give him a fuckin hairpiece and hes fuckin ready to rock. That looks amazing. In the early '00s, Smith was said to be writing Fletch Won, a prequel to the Chevy Chase film Fletch, and was set to direct with Jason Lee in the lead role, but the plans ultimately came to nothing. Nearly three . You have to save your energy for that time, because that is when a lot of the final, final decisions are made.. Mike Hanford and Dave Ferguson are two members of The Birthday Boys, the seven-strong sketch group in which Bob Odenkirk took a special interest and helped land them their own show on IFC. this ["Vulgar"] back-to-back. A couple of years back, on his comedy podcast SModcast, Smith and pal Scott Mosier discussed an ad for a man renting out a room in his house gratison the condition that the tenant dresses up like a walrus for a few hours a day. Though Smith still regularly attended Mass as late as 1998,[5] he stated on "Back to the Well", a feature on the Clerks II documentary, that now he only goes to Mass on the day before he starts production of a film, and the day before it premieres. Scott Mosier is a Canadian-American film producer, holding dual citizenship. And I just saw him as I was leaving and gave him the thumbs-up and he mouthed, Thank you, and that was it. On the 1999 film Dogma, Mosier worked with Greenlee again; the editing of the film lasted nearly a year. I had read that it had something to do with some issues with getting paid from Clerks 2 and that some of the actors even had issues with that but did Kevin ever speak about it or confirm a reason? While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the "View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. [44] Due to controversy surrounding the original title, it was changed to A Couple of Cops,[45] then reverted to its original title due to negative reaction,[46] before finally settling on the title Cop Out. And similarities with human culture are so vast that we may have to rethink whether theres anything special about what we do at all. Smith, observing as a third party, was fascinated by what he calls Mosier's "fruitless endeavour" with Turner and was intrigued by the comedic and dramatic possibilities of a handsome straight man falling in love with a lesbian, so much so that he told Mosier, "If you don't write it, I will." Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in Tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe. I had to pace myself for animation. (Burton's attempt was later abandoned as well.) [81] Soon after allegations of rape and sexual assault by Weinstein publicly surfaced in October 2017, Smith said on Twitter that he was "ashamed" of his relationship with Weinstein. Digging deeper into the details surrounding the discovery gives several red herrings, none bigger than the soft-spoken maintenance man who stumbles upon the body while looking for a place to pee. Excessive speed listed as cause of fatal UGa wreck, Johnson scores 24 as No. I knew Meeting Kevin Smith next month! [164] They live in the Hollywood Hills[120] in a house Smith purchased from his longtime friend Ben Affleck in 2003. They had a field day with it, disassembling and reassembling it, until they landed on an idea: What if it was a horror film about a demented elderly seafarer who posts a misleading ad, lures a man to his cabin in the woods, and then attempts to transform him into a walrus. Unlike them, Smith left halfway through the course, figuring he knew enough to proceed and wanting to save money for his first film. He finally wanted to go after his dreams again, which ended up with him directing The Grinch in 2018 and doing other projects. Russell. I was like, 'I'm a dead man. On the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mosier worked with a budget of $20 million. She left her broken home at age 11, choosing to enter the sex work industry at a disturbingly young age and finding camaraderie within the drag queen community. "[60][61] In April 2011, Smith said that Red State had made its budget back by making $1 million on the first leg of the tour, $1.5 million from a handful of foreign sales and $3 million from a domestic distribution deal for VOD. It includes a color reprinting of the story from Oni Double Feature No. So stupid. Scott Mosier is a Canadian-American film producer, holding dual citizenship. This dude was on a roll until he got in with the likes of me. In the mid-'90s, writer-director Kevin Smith was riding high. Mosier produced Clerks II in 2006. [26] The film received some criticism from members of the lesbian community, who felt that it reinforced the perception that lesbians merely needed to find the right man. Smith owns Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey, a comic book store which became the setting for the reality television show Comic Book Men (20122018). [73], In June 2017, Smith started shooting KillRoy Was Here, a horror film based on the graffiti phenomenon. Scrobble songs to get recommendations on tracks, albums, and artists you'll love. So the next fucking movie I'm making is 'Mallrats 2.'" in 2012. During the mid-1990s Smith directed and starred in a series of commercials for MTV, alongside Jason Mewes, in which they reprised their roles as Jay and Silent Bob. You were really the first person to give him a juicy leading role, in Chasing Amy. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including Red State (2011) and the "comedy horror films" Tusk (2014) and Yoga Hosers (2016), two in a planned series of three such films set in Canada dubbed the True North trilogy. [120][121] In August 2011 Hit Somebody was announced as a two-part film titled Hit Somebody: Home and Hit Somebody: Away, with part 1 rated PG-13 and part 2 rated R,[122] but later it became one movie again. He wrote and directed the pilot, which starred Smith and Donnell Rawlings, along with Kristin Bauer van Straten, Frankie Shaw, Jason Mewes, Ralph Garman, Adam Brody, Hina Abdullah, Pete Pietrangeliand and Harley Quinn Smith. However he did confess to also being terrified at the prospect, too. Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American film producer, director and editor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, SModcast. He appeared in the second episode of season two of Veronica Mars, playing a store clerk. The first is a collection of filmed appearances at American colleges, while the sequel was shot at two Q&A shows held in Toronto and London. The song, about a hockey player famous for fighting in the rink, was co-written by Mitch Albom, who worked with Smith on the project. Thailand sex operations, Goddess Bunny, and LaRues L.A. drag competition from decades ago serendipitously named Drag Race also get time in the packed conversation. [128] In June 2016, Smith revealed that because Universal owns the rights to the Mallrats title a sequel would not be made; instead, it would be turned into a 10-episode TV series produced by Universal Television. To be named to the President's List, a . FAT MAN BEYOND. In late 2015, Smith and Jason Mewes began the web series "What's in the Box?" I saw the Kevin Smith Clerks III show in Austin tonight. [31] Smith heavily reedited the film to reduce Lopez's role to just a few scenes, but the film did poorly at the box office. Smith had said he would auction off rights to the $4 million film at a controversial event following its debut screening at Sundance but instead kept the rights to the film himself and self-distributed it under the SModcast Pictures banner. [72], Smith wrote and directed one segment, Halloween, of the 2016 horror anthology film Holidays, in which each segment takes place during a different holiday. 2008. Contact Back to Top. [163] He photographed her for a nude pictorial in Playboy that consisted of photographs by various celebrities. He has also written the trade paperback Bluntman and Chronic, published by Image, which purports to be a collection of the three issues of the series done by Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards (of Chasing Amy). Smith, 49, a Red Bank native who grew up in Highlands, shared the news on Instagram, where he shared a photo with Jay Mewes and Anderson. He is also a fan of the Edmonton Oilers. And that was the lookwith the long hair, and suit. Chimps, for instance, do attack and kill each other, but it appears thats not learned behavior so much as biological behavior. [5][16] He decided to set his film, Clerks, at the store, borrowing the a-day-in-the-life structure from the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing. It was not picked up by the network.[139]. Mallrats was more successful in the home video market. [176], Smith is co-founder of 'The Wayne Foundation', a former[clarification needed] charity supporting women affected by human trafficking and exploitation. It was scheduled to be filmed in September 2017,[75] but shooting was postponed to February and March 2019. Mosier was born in Vancouver, Washington. In which our hero deep dives into Chasing Amys Jason Lee, with special guest Chasing Amys Jason Lee.Recorded live at the Moobys Pop-Up Hollywood on 4/20. Episode list Volume One Volume Two Starting at the end of January 2008, there was a several-month gap in podcast releases, as Smith and Mosier were filming Smith's eighth film Zack & Miri Make a Porno. So in 2007, he recorded his first podcast, the award-winning SModcast (with friend and producer Scott Mosier). It'll be a movie about how a decades-spanning friendship finally confronts the future. But I enjoy making live-action, too, I did it for 20 years. They can spin a first class bit out of a snippet of an idea or a slip of the tongue and sweep even the flattest guests along in their comedic current. My buddy burned me a copy. And they were all viewing the uncut version, toothe one not in theatersbecause of postman Guy. The January 2011 premiere drew protests from a half-dozen members of the church, along with many more who counter-protested Westboro members. Having its studio in Paris, it is predominantly French but theres a group of international people, who bring a flair to it that you can feel resonants in the film., Chris Meledandri and Illumination had already made The Lorax, Chris when he was at Fox had already made Horton. So he had a long standing relationship with Dr Seuss and he really wanted to make The Grinch., So the idea of making the film was already negotiated and ready to go. [Becca James], In those early days with Bob [Odenkirk], I know that you guys were doing sketch comedy with him, and he was also having you pick pockets sometimes.Hayes Davenport to The Birthday Boys, Hollywood Handbook, What happens if you cheat on your husband? Smith maxed out more than a dozen credit cards, and sold his much-treasured comic book collection, to raise $27,575 to make the film, while saving money by casting friends and acquaintances in most roles. smodcast newsletter. I talked to the dude who made the documentary, and he got everybody. I dont know if I could come up with something as good as that at 21. We made Clerks and the reception was so great and we just had so much fun., I didnt put it on hold, but it was just such a great experience and a way to learn. [129][130] He also confirmed that the film's entire cast would reprise their roles in the series. 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At least 12 of these segments were aired, and Smith regularly appeared on the program to introduce the pre-taped pieces. He fell in love with the Guy LaPointe character. Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is a film producer, editor, and cameo actor who has done work in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films. The movie began filming in August 2014, and was released in 2016. His first movie, Clerks (1994), was filmed in the convenience store in which Smith worked. I took all the focus away and some people were like, Well, fuck Kevin and his movie. So, I texted Johnny and said, Look, Im trying to make this flick for Parks to try and make up for the fact that I didnt shine a light on him, and you could really help shine a light on him, and he texted back, I love Michael Parks.. I met him because his daughter, Lily, and my daughter, Harley, are friends. During Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mosier worked with a budget of $20 million. He is particularly known for his long-term association with film director Kevin Smith. [citation needed] In the film, he portrayed Svenning's assistant, Roddy. [92] The trade paperback of Batman: Cacophony became a New York Times Bestseller in their Hardcover Graphic Books section.[93]. is a 1994 American black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Heh. What should an internship resume include? All five have been released on DVD, and the last two were also broadcast on the cable channel Epix. Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, "SModcast No. [117] The project died after the poor box office of Jersey Girl; the screenplay was later turned into a Green Hornet comic book miniseries. Thankfully people around me were like, Woah, slow down., Animation has some intense periods. I remember calling him and being like, Dude, Im writing this script, and Im writing the lead for you, and he said, Get the fuck out of here. I said, Dude, I think you could be a leading man. Same, Im also a bit concerned about how much busier this movie is gonna get with now Dante, Becky, Veronica, Randal, Elias, Jay and Bob. The removal of the hundreds of classic pods really makes me sad. Smith announced a tour to accompany the film.[77]. Later, he amended that statement to say that hell keep making movies, but only ones I would/could ever make. Which brings us to Tusk. Smith then hopped on a plane and did another Q&A at the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake, Illinois, that night. The Mechanical Turk is particularly fascinating, as it was a fake 18th Century chess-playing robot that predates the industrial revolution and was operated by a man hiding under a desk. For Jersey Girl, Scott had a very large budget of $35 million. [112] In January 2020, it was announced that the Howard the Duck series was scrapped. Smith has appeared in five Q&A documentaries: An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002), An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006), Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2007), Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40 (2010) and Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell (2012).