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Should the Zack and Miri Title Change For Wal-Mart?
Yay: The Zack and Miri Make a Porno DVD will hit shelves next Tuesday, Feb. 3! But on Wal-Mart's shelves the title may look a little bit different.
Weekend Reading: The History of Sundance
This year marks the 25th anniversary for the Sundance Film Festival, which is about as long as some of us have been alive. It's easy to take for granted the fact that this festival held in a snowy little Utah town wasn't always the influential mega-event it is today. Recently the LA Times had an interesting retrospective about the festival's origins and the way it revolutionized independent film.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Shockingly. . . Sweet
Don't get me wrong: Zack and Miri Make a Porno is extremely disgusting at times. But I expected that. I didn't expect it to be quite so sweet or touching (in the emotional way, gutter mind).
Watch, Pass, TiVo or Rent: Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Kevin Smith's upcoming movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno has seen its fair share of controversy. First, Smith had to fight for an R-rating instead of NC-17, and then the movie poster was changed to stick figures after the original one was deemed too racy.
But all this controversy is probably a good thing for this comedy starring Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks as friends who try their hand at adult filmmaking when money gets tight.
Do Red-Band Trailers Make a Movie More Appealing?
I'll admit that I can be susceptible to the appeal of a red-band trailer (a trailer made for mature audiences, often including profanity or racy content) when it comes to certain movies. For instance, when I saw that Kevin Smith's upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno had a red-band trailer, I was super excited. It's not so much about shock value as it is the chance to see what this movie, in all its raunchy Smith glory, is truly going to be like.
New Zack and Miri Make a Porno Trailer: So Wrong It's Right!
So here it is: the "red-band" — aka "super inappropriate for work, especially if the sound is on" — version of the trailer for Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, one of the 13 movies I'm most excited to see this Fall. There's actually not too much in there all of us adults haven't heard before in a Rogen flick (you know, a lot of f-bombs and explicit language used to describe both male and female genitalia). And since Smith fought hard for and won the right to give this movie an R rating instead of NC-17, we know the movie will never get all that crass.
Buzz News Roundup, 8/6
- Mark Ruffalo will make his directorial debut on the film Sympathy for Delicious, which will also star James Franco, writes ComingSoon.
- The novel The Dogs of Babel will be adapted for the big screen, Variety reports.
- A new Parents Television Council study has found that TV portrays sex between married people as boring, TV Week reports.
- AMC is developing a new political thriller TV series about a "secret society that controls the world's political stage," TV Guide reports.
- According to E! Online, Kevin Smith has won his appeal to get an R rating (rather than NC-17) for his raunchy comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
- Hollywood Reporter has the news that the spoof book Drink, Play, F@#K will be made into a movie.
- Variety writes that DreamWorks has taken down the Tropic Thunder promotional website simplejackmovie.com for being offensive to the mentally challenged.
- Eli Roth, director of the Hostel movies, will star in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, reports Zap2It.
EW's Filmmakers Panel With Smith, Apatow, Snyder and Miller
Entertainment Weekly held a few "Visionaries" panels at Comic-Con that brought together some of the greats in the TV, movies and comic book worlds. At the filmmakers panel, it was mostly a kick to see Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Zack Snyder and Frank Miller all at one table. It turned into the Smith-Apatow comedy hour, but that seemed to suit the audience members (myself included) just fine.
Lucy Lawless Tells Kevin Smith What's What at Comic-Con
I would have wanted to attend a panel on women in the sci-fi, horror, and comic book genres anyway, but the fact that it was moderated by Kevin Smith just sealed the deal. And I didn't realize I was in for such a comedy show. Smith was, as one might expect, hilariously droll, sarcastic, kinda bitter but not quite hostile.
First Look: Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Kevin Smith is not exactly known for good, clean fun and the trailer for his next film Zack & Miri Make a Porno is no different. Because of the pornographic, uh, nature of the film, the crass dialogue in this trailer is like a regular Smith script on crack.
I'd like to reenact for you my reactions while watching this:
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