Kevin Smith Won’t Interview for RED STATE

There’s not much you can’t learn about filmmaker Kevin Smith by following him on twitter (@ThatKevinSmith). Smith has now announced that he will not be doing any press — short of a few promotional bits, if needed — for his new film RED STATE.

Rather than repeatedly spewing the same answers to the same monotonous questions tossed at him from one interviewer to the next, Kevin Smith gives just about every answer to every question about RED STATE in an online podcast, which can be found at smodcast.com

In Kevin Smith’s words…

“It’s INSANELY detailed, and by the time we’re done, I’ll have pre-answered all questions about RedState — thus negating the need to speak with me about it…”

He continues…

“From nearly 20 yrs experience, I know this much: folks are gonna write WHATEVER they want, whether I sit down with them or not. So I’ll just furnish all the information I’d normally serve up one at a time to a small, jaded audience that doesn’t really give a s–t unless there’s someone famous in the room, to a much larger, APPRECIATIVE audience that would actually enjoy & benefit from hearing the same information.”

Written and directed by Kevin Smith, RED STATE is a horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America. The movie stars Melissa Leo, Kevin Pollak and John Goodman. RED STATE is currently slated for a March 2011 release date.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Tribeca 2009: Full Festival Recap

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The Tribeca Film Festival has been over for a week, so I thought I would share my highlights and opinions of the festival. I know in my Day 11 Recap I said I would post this in a day or two, so I am sorry for the delay. I am also sorry for the big delay in all my reviews from the festival. But don’t blame me; blame my sham of a college education. Apparently in my 2 weeks off for Tribeca, I was assigned sh*tloads of homework and projects, which I had to do all week long. Why I have to take elective classes that are not related to my major and only assign meaningless busy work is beyond me. I still have 2 papers to start and 3 final exams to study for, but they are for next week so I am taking today to procrastinate. Please forgive my lateness and get ready for a week full of catching up on the Tribeca Film festival†¦ Continue reading Tribeca 2009: Full Festival Recap