Wednesday, August 6

• Kevin Smith Wins Porno Battle
  

  Director Kevin Smith has won his battle with the Motion Picture Association of America to change the rating on his upcoming Zack and Miri Make a Porno from NC-17 to R. An appeals board overturned the decision on Tuesday.

  Smith seems to have a certain amount of charm with the MPAA, having successfully appealed decisions on three of his movies -- Clerks, Jersey Girl and now Zack and Miri.

  Perhaps Smith should share his secrets with the thousands of poor indie schleps who have been unjustly marked with the dreaded NC-17 by the wildly inconsistent band of housewives and geezers that make up the MPAA.

  Source: Variety

  
  

  Posted 08/06/2008 by Jeff

  Kevin Smith | Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Friday, December 14

• Kevin Smith hunts for actors on MySpace

  Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) is looking for extras for his next project, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and he wants you.

  The writer/director has posted a request for head and body shots for extras on his MySpace blog. The gig only pays minimum wage and if you don't live in the Pittsburgh area (where he's filming) you'll need to provide your own transportation/lodgings should you be chosen. However, if it's your life goal to meet the View Askew crew, now's your chance.

  
  

  Posted 12/14/2007 by Heather

  Kevin Smith | Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Sunday, November 18

• Movie newz: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl & Kristen Stewart

  Seth Rogen is the newest member to join Kevin Smith's fold. The star of Knocked Up and Superbad has been cast as the lead in Smith's upcoming comedy, Zack & Miri Make a Porno, opposite The 40-Year-Old Virgin costar Elizabeth Banks, as two friends who make a porn to alleviate debt and discover they have feelings for each other.

  Rogen's Knocked Up costar Katherine Heigl also has a deal going this week. Heigl has signed to star in The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy about a morning show producer who is tested by her chauvinistic correspondent's theories on love. Robert Luketic (Legally Blond, Monster-in-Law) will direct.

  And finally Kristen Stewart will star in Twilight, a thriller/romance adapted from Stephanie Meyer's novel about a young girl's relationship with a mysterious classmate when she moves to a small town. Catherine Hardwicke (The Nativity Story) will direct.

  Source: Variety. 

  
  

  Posted 11/18/2007 by Heather

  Kevin Smith | Catherine Hardwicke | Robert Luketic | Seth Rogen | Kristen Stewart | Katherine Heigl | The Ugly Truth | Twilight | Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Tuesday, August 7

• Movie newz: Appaloosa and He's Just Not That Into You

  Renee Zellweger has signed on to star in Appaloosa, a Western drama that will be directed by Ed Harris (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). The movie is about "a pair of friends hired to protect a lawless town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher," says Variety.com.

  Harris, who will also be starring in the movie, adapted the script with Robert Knott (with whom he worked in Pollock) from the 2006 novel by Robert B. Parker. Harris will also be re-uniting with his A History of Violence co-star Viggo Mortensen, who also toplines the film which will start filming in New Mexico in October.

  And according to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Connelly (Blood Diamond), Kevin Connolly (Entourage), Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers), Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard) and Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love) are all close to closing casting deals in Ken Kwapis's (License to Wed) film adaptation of He's Just Not That Into You.

  As we reported in June, Drew Barrymore will be producing and starring in the movie, based on the book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

  And finally, MTV.com is reporting that actress Rosario Dawson (Grindhouse, Sin City 2) won't be in Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno after all. Although Smith wrote the role of Miri with Dawson in mind, it appears she is too busy with her other projects (most notably Eagle Eye, which will be directed by D.J. Caruso) to fit it into her schedule. We wonder if Smith will delay shootnig Zack and Miri to get his muse? 

  
  

  Posted 08/07/2007 by Heather

  Bradley Cooper | Ed Harris | Jennifer Connelly | Justin Long | Kevin Smith | Rosario Dawson | Ken Kwapis | Renee Zellweger | Kevin Connolly | Viggo Mortensen | Ginnifer Goodwin | Appaloosa | He's Just Not That Into You | Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Friday, July 20

• What's coming up for Kevin Smith? Horror and porn.

  Kevin Smith has two new projects in the hopper, both of which sound quite interesting.

  The first, a comedy called Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is about two Minnesota friends who decide to start up an amateur porn studio as their high school reunion looms.

  Although no casting is definite yet, Smith told MTV.com that he wrote the role of Miri for Rosario Dawson and would be "flabbergasted" if she didn't do it. Jason Mewes will likely be in it as well, although not as his View Askew character Jay.

  The next project, Red State, is less traditional Smith fare. The writer/director describes it in the horror/thriller vein (he actually said it was more like The Shining than Hostel), with a character inspired by Fred Phelps--the uber conservative right-wing Christian minister who claims that AIDS is a scourge sent by God to punish homosexuals. Sounds scary to us.

  Smith expects to shoot both Red State and Zack and Miri this winter.

  
  

  Posted 07/20/2007 by Heather

  Jason Mewes | Kevin Smith | Rosario Dawson | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Red State