Archive for the ‘Kevin Smith’ Category
DC Entertainment has released a sneak peek of this week’s Batman: The Widening Gyre installment from Kevin Smith.
Don’t know how I missed this bit from Kevin Smith at the San Diego Comic Con. It’s Not Safe For Work (Bryan), but it is incredibly funny in a Kevin Smith sort of way.
Dynamite Entertainment is bringing the Green Hornet back to comics, and Kevin Smith will be at the helm. According to Smith, he already has the story done.
“It’s the Hornet movie I’d make if I was making it today. And there’s no better time to do that than before Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry’s version defines the character for the mainstream. We haven’t picked an interior artist yet, but we’ve got some stellar cover talent on board already: Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Jae Lee, and David Finch.”
I wasn’t overly impressed with Smith’s Cacophony story, and he is in the middle of a new Batman story, but I do like Smith enough to give anything he’s working on a chance.
What say you, Major Spoilerites? Are you on board with Kevin Smith and the Green Hornet Comic?
Press Release
Filmmaker Kevin Smith takes center stage at the illustrious Carnegie Hall Wednesday, June 17th where he’ll “perform” his unique, uncensored brand of storytelling and interact with an audience often as familiar with his unusual life as he is. Smith, best known for writing and directing such feature films as “Clerks,” “Dogma” and most recently “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” regularly appears live at major venues across the country and in Canada, but is appearing for the first time at the venerated New York City venue.
Says Smith, “This country must truly be in a desperate financial crisis. How else to explain Carnegie Hall allowing someone with so little talent onto their hallowed stage.”
Veteran producers David J. Foster and Jared Geller are producing.
Appearing for one night only, Smith’s colorful and unchecked stage “performance,” entitled Silent Bob Speaks: An Evening with Kevin Smith, will provide an up close and personal look into the irreverent mind of the talented filmmaker and pop culture connoisseur. During his three hour show Smith will engage in an unreserved audience Q&A, a feature of his appearances which have gained cult status among his fans.
Tickets go on-sale Monday, April 20th at 11:00AM EST and can be purchased at www.carnegiehall.org or by phone at (212) 247-7800. Tickets are also available in person at the Carnegie Hall box office (57th Street at Seventh Avenue) Monday – Saturday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Sunday 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Wordy much?
The announcement that Kevin Smith was returning to DC Comics with a new series caused ripples around the comic community. Many still feel betrayed by Smith’s previous attempts at writing a complete arc that suffered from excessive delays, while others got their geek-gasm on over the return of Onomatopoeia – a character created by Smith during his run on Green Arrow. One thing you can be sure of finding in Cacophony #1 is a lot of Kevin Smith.
You’ve probably seen it before, but after my previous post about Superman: Flyby, I thought it would be a good idea to share this incarnation of Superman with everyone.
Here’s another rapid-fire roundup of items from the DC Nation Panel, that includes interesting information about Kevin Smith.
Kevin Smith has announced his west coast comic shop will be closing its doors October 1st. The reason? It isn’t the big money earner in Smith’s empire, and there was a firm offer from an Internet Cafe that wants to take over the space.
And while Stash West was always a nice little earner, it’s never been anything close to the earner that the Red Bank Stash is. The east coast Stash sits in the cradle of the View Askewniverse – Monmouth County, New Jersey – so it’s always been the more popular of the two stores. You can visit it en route to see the Quick Stop, or Jack’s Music Shop (from “Chasing Amy”), or any of the other locations we’ve shot the flicks at back home. Westwood Stash never had that going for it. Sure, it had a shitload of props from the flicks on display (like Stash East); but at the Jersey store, you can really immerse yourself in View Askew by taking a five minute ride and buying Gatorade in the actual Quick Stop. If the store was earning twice what the Red Bank store earned, I’d start manning the counter myself. But while Stash West turns a nice profit (albeit a small one: the Westwood rent is double the Red Bank rent), it’s just not worth the effort if one of the key figures in our operation’s not gonna run it anymore.
The good news? If you get to the store on the 1st, you’ll still be able to get Smith to autograph a copy of My Boring-Ass Life, plus you’ll be able to get a bunch of stuff 50% off.
As big a fan as Smith is of comics, it is a shame that the store has to close. It was the one place I was hoping to visit the next time I get back to Hell-A, so now there is one less thing on my list of musts that I don’t have to worry about. And if Kevin Smith can’t keep a store open, is this a foreshadow for all the other mom and pop stores trying to push the product to the young-uns and the middle aged?
Laugh out loud, roll on the floor funny. This is why Kevin Smith rocks – even if his comics are late.
By the way – foul language ahead.
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In an interview with Coming Soon, director/actor/writer Kevin Smith said he wasn’t up to direct an episode of Mark Steven Johnson’s upcoming HBO Preacher series.
“Yeah, he asked me if I wanted to direct an episode of ‘Preacher’; which I thought was pretty kind of him; but, I don’t know if I’m up to that. I love that book so much, and being able to translate one of those books to the screen, I don’t think that’s me. ‘Cause you don’t want to be the guy who f**ks it up, and so I was like, ‘Well, I don’t know, we’ll see.’ But I’m certainly not committed to do it, only as much of I don’t want to drop the ball ’cause I like it so much. But if it was some show I didn’t like; I mean, I’ve never really directed TV anyway, so it’s kind of difficult getting my head around it, but since it’s an hour-long drama, presumably, I’d be more keen to directing a movie rather than TV – I don’t know, maybe, maybe. The thing that would keep me from doing that would be I’d be afraid of ruining what I like so much about ‘Preacher’ – so we’ll see if that happens.”
Is HBO really considered TV? There certainly aren’t the restraints on say CBS and without commercial breaks, I see shows like Deadwood, Entourage, and Weeds as mini-movies instead of “TV”. Regardless, I would really be interested in seeing what Smith could do with a television series, Preacher, and HBO.
With the vast area to play with, Preacher could be the best show on HBO or “television”, period.
via Coming Soon (link)
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