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For a lot of people, Kevin Smith's first film Clerks was groundbreaking A simple film that took place mostly in a convenience store, shot in black and white and paid for with credit cards It's still celebrated to this day But a lot of the cast went on to live normal, non-acting lives Lisa Spoonauer was[...]

Sent to us by Bleeding Cool Contributor Ian Melton In the latest episode of Hollywood Babble-On (Episode #276, recorded on 4/28/2017), Director, Writer, and Geek Sage Kevin Smith shocked absolutely no one by admitting out loud that he has a lot of plates spinning The podcast, which he co-hosts with comedian, actor, and radio host Ralph Garman, segued[...]

Kevin Smith has announced the passing of actor Michael Parks at the age of 77 Smith refers to Parks as his cinematic muse Parks has played a diverse array of characters over his career that go back to the early sixties where he appeared on Gunsmoke, the Untouchables and the Detectives He appeared in the[...]

Last week I ran a story about the latest Humble Bundle featuring books by Kevin Smith and his friends It includes a lot of cool digital comics and part of the proceeds go to a charity I'm used to seeing either the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund or Hero Initiative as the charity of choice…[...]

The new bundle is with Dynamite Entertainment and focuses on the comic work of writer/director Kevin Smith and his friends The details of the deal, which includes 70 digital comics, can be found at: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/kevin-smith-comics Smith's first-ever Dynamite series, Green Hornet, introduced a modern incarnation of Britt Reid's masked alter-ego, fighting crime undercover side-by-side with a[...]

After plans to make a third Clerks movie failed due to one of the four leads opting out, and the Mallrats sequel turned into a TV show which no one picked up, Kevin Smith recently announced that he would make a sequel to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back instead However, Smith hasn't given up[...]

This move doesn't come as a huge surprise, with our own Jude Terror having been on the case over the past few months as we watched Affleck waffle (check some of those pieces out here and here). Armchair quarterbacks have come out of the woodwork with a range of ideas as to the reasons behind the[...]

Not because of anything that was supposed to happen in it, but because it was being directed by Kevin Smith and the title, Supergirl Lives, was a tip of the hat to the infamous Superman Lives script Smith wrote a long time ago Smith talked about his time writing the Superman script in his An[...]

In an episode called Supergirl Lives directed by Kevin Smith, we see the return of season 1 villain Livewire and Mon-El chooses to be a hero like Kara James Olsen is becoming more accustomed to being Guardian and we get a look at a pair of aliens and one of them is a Dominator. Supergirl returns[...]

Following successful stops on his comic book related TV show episode direction tour at both The Flash and Supergirl, Clerks director Kevin Smith will be bringing his talents to ABC sitcom The Goldbergs Smith's stop at the 80s nostalgia-based TV show has been known since November, but what we didn't know was what the episode[...]

This episode is directed by Kevin Smith and called Supergirl Lives… I wonder if there will be a giant spider in the third act? https://youtu.be/O91JzoGp73M The first trailer for Supergirl's return this January shows us a lot of different things: Roulette returns, something happens to Winn Schott in the field, and Supergirl goes through a portal[...]

And it was going to be written by Kevin Smith and drawn by Phil Hester… and I wasn't happy. They had already killed him and now my favorite DC character was going to be in the hands of the guy who did Clerks and Dogma I wondered how many penis jokes he could get into a[...]

This also leads to the death of Oliver Queen. The fourth section of the book is Return of the Archer and starts up with works by Kevin Smith and Phil Hester and then Brad Meltzer who took over for Smith It has part of the Green Arrow: Year One series by Andy Diggle and Jock and[...]

Kevin Smith has exited the Amazon tv series project in the wake of the November 23 copyright lawsuit filing by MGM against Buckaroo Bonzai film director W.D Richter. Pity Smith is perfect for the project, now that I think about it  Ah well. If it ain't one thing, it's another, but the future still does begin tomorrow. There[...]

The film also starred Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd. The property came back into the public eye when MGM got Kevin Smith on board a television remake slated for Amazon in 2017 Smith said he was contacted by MGM after he directed an episode of The Flash last season. The conflict,[...]

Even 20 years later, the aborted Kevin Smith penned Superman Lives film continues to be the stuff of fandom legend In one of Smith's recent Facebook Q&A sessions, he was asked what he would think of the idea of bringing his script to life in an animated feature form: Oh like based on my script, based[...]

Kevin Smith was wrapping his last day on the episode of Supergirl he was directing and live-streamed the crew filming Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) flying Like with the behind the scenes footage from his directing on the Flash, we can see that Smith keeps the set light-hearted and fun. Kevin Smith was wrapping his last day[...]

Tonight (September 11th) at Midnight on AMC's Geeking Out, Kevin Smith takes a tour of DC Collectibles The episode offers a sneak peak at new action figures, statues and collectible items coming out in the next few months From action figures that were never produced, to fan favorite lines such as Batman: The Animated Series and[...]

From a recent episode of his new AMC series Geeking Out, Kevin Smith did some behind the scenes filming while he directed an episode of The Flash In this clip he talks with Grant Gustin about how the actor is more extroverted when in costume and he talks with Candice Patton about playing the Earth[...]

This clip from Kevin Smith's film Yoga Hosers has an interesting feel to it The scene of two girls working at a convenience store and dealing with annoying customers is very reminiscent of Smith's first film, Clerks The film stars Lily-Rose Depp and Harley Quinn Smith and goes very different places from there as the[...]

In this sneak peek for the next episode of AMC's Geeking Out, Kevin Smith and Greg Grunberg talk with Deadpool co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick as they explain how they convinced Bill Murray to be in Zombieland. https://youtu.be/ta4gkua91uQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Geeking Out: 'Bill Murray' Official Sneak Peek Episode 104 (https://youtu.be/ta4gkua91uQ) [...]

Kevin Smith and Greg Grunberg's new AMC series Geeking Out  is a lot of fun and they're getting some amazing guests In the scene below, the two hosts talk with director J.J Abrams about getting into the film industry and how he is connected to Steven Spielberg. Geeking Out airs Sundays at Midnight on AMC. https://youtu.be/6HALHb_OY0MVideo can't[...]

We learned earlier this week that Kevin Smith would be directing an episode of Supergirl this season Today Smith told us that the tile of the episode is very special to him. "Andrew Kreisberg told me that the name of the episode is 'Supergirl Lives,'" Smith said "I'm gonna cry talking about this The name of[...]

This story reminds me of that during a time when the news is filled with terrorism, hate and vitriol. We post news stories about Kevin Smith all the time Whether its about his writing / directing projects or his reviews of films, etc The main is part of the pop culture world in a big way[...]

It seems Kevin Smith enjoy his directing stint on the Flash enough that now he wants his own TV series… and Deadline is reporting that the Clerks director/writer and MGM may be close to a deal with Amazon to bring back Buckaroo Banzai. This is still in the development stage, but if the deal can be[...]

Kevin Smith has been talking about wanting to write for Arrow for a while now, specifically bringing the villain he created, Onomatopoeia, to the small screen He talked to Den of Geek about it and just how he would do the characters signature style. First, on whether or not it's going to happen: Oh my god, I[...]

The tone here is probably the closest to the television series as Oliver turns vigilante to hunt down a serial killer. This also made the character popular enough to get his own solo series that ran for ten years with eighty of those issue being done by Grell. #2 – Green Arrow: Quiver by Kevin Smith and Phil[...]

The creator of the villain and former Green Arrow comic writer Kevin Smith told Variety that he would like to write an episode or two of Arrow and introduce his quirky killer. I would love to jump in for a one or two episode arc just to bring that Onomatopoeia character to life That would be[...]

Tonight is the Flash episode The Runaway Dinosaur directed by Kevin Smith In the clip below we see how the team deals with the moments after Barry Allen has disappeared and they discover that Wally West and Jesse Wells were effected by the blast We know that Barry is now inside the speed force… but[...]

The CW has released the synopses for the Kevin Smith directed episode of The Flash, the return of the Calculator on Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow episode entitled Destiny. The Flash (5/10) – The Runaway Dinosaur KEVIN SMITH DIRECTS – With Barry (Grant Gustin) gone, the team must figure out a way to handle the return of[...]