Tag: Clerks
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‘You’re Next’s Alternate Ending Is Way Darker Than What We Got
Watching an alternate ending to a movie is like taking a peek at a parallel dimension, looking at the different directions, whether vast or small, the plot of a movie could go. Most importantly, it shows the audience how important the right ending is to a movie. While fittingly absurdist and juvenile, a pie fight…
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Tales From The Box Office: 10 Years Ago, The Conjuring Kicked Off The Biggest Non-Marvel Cinematic Universe
(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)Cinematic universes are all the rage now but it’s easy to forget how recent a phenomenon this actually is. The notion of a cinematic universe didn’t really exist…
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Gotham Lays Off Longtime Awards Staff and Cancels Project Market
The Gotham Film and Media Institute laid off two key staffers this week after canceling the Project Market, where seminal indie breakouts from “Clerks” to “Moonlight” have gathered early financial resources, for the first time in its 45-year history. The Project Market, formerly known as the Independent Feature Film Market, was called off after the…
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‘Clerks’ Cast Reassembles in Logic’s Music Video for ‘Highlife,’ Directed by Kevin Smith
In collaboration with “Clerks” mastermind Kevin Smith, Logic’s newest music video for his stoner anthem “Highlife” reunites the film’s cast. The video features Logic as the star at the original New Jersey Quick Stop set.“Clerks” (1994) follows clerks Dante and Randal’s daily debauchery at a New Jersey convenience store. “Clerks II” premiered in 2006 and…
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Clerks TV Sitcom: The History Behind the Unaired Pilot
The 1994 indie classic Clerks from writer and director Kevin Smith is a straightforward flick. A really chill hangout movie, it focuses on Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two 20-something Gen X’ers on a normal work day in retail. The movie doesn’t utilize a standard three-act structure because it doesn’t need to. Instead,…
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Kevin Smith’s ‘Strange Adventures’ Series Scrapped by Warner Bros. Discovery
Kevin Smith’s strange adventure with HBO Max has come to an end.The filmmaker’s “Strange Adventures” DC comic book anthology series has been axed by Warner Bros. Discovery and will not be moving forward at HBO Max, whose representatives confirmed the news to IndieWire.Smith was set to co-write and direct an episode of “Strange Adventures” as…
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Kevin Smith Slams Oscars for ‘Spider-Man’ Best Picture Snub: ‘Show Peter Parker Some F*cking Love’
Kevin Smith is urging the Academy Awards to give people what they want: popular movies nominated for Best Picture.During Smith’s FatMan Beyond podcast, the “Clerks” creator gave “Spider-Man: No Way Home” a special shoutout following the Oscar nominations announcement.“I would just like to congratulate the good folks who made ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ for the…
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22% Of Kevin Smith Fans Think This Is His Best Movie — Here’s Why They’re Right, Mostly
(Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.)It’s survey time again, folks, and this time we asked 588 human beings in the United States of America to pick which Kevin Smith movie they thought…
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Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash Book Candidly Chronicles The Life And Career Of The Clerks Filmmaker
The voice of Kevin Smith is probably more prominently and frequently heard than any other filmmaker working today. Aside from becoming an influential writer/director thanks to his sensational Sundance-selected comedy “Clerks,” the growth of geek culture, the popularity of comic books, and the rise of podcasting as a popular medium paved the way for Smith…
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‘Clerk’: Release Date, Cast, and More
(Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) It’s been thirty years since Clerks writer-director Kevin Smith sat down in a theater and watched Richard Linklater‘s Slackers, inspiring him to create his own movie.…