Writer/director Kevin Smith announced that he'd be retiring last year after he made one last movie. That movie was supposed to be the hockey drama Hit Somebody, but Smith decided to make that two movies before scrapping that idea and announcing today via Twitter that he's turning it into a six-part miniseries. Smith also said on Twitter that, with the Hit Somebody shift, he now has a different movie in mind for his writing/directing swan song: Clerks III. It's kind of perfect that Kevin Smith will be leaving directing with the exact characters and world he started out with when he made his first movie, the [...]
Comedian / writer / actress / producer / musician Sarah Silverman first entered the national spotlight in 1993, when she was hired by Saturday Night Live as a featured player and writer at age 22. Silverman found the show wasn’t to her liking and left after one season, like many talented comedians before (Harry Shearer, Larry David, Ben Stiller) and after her (Chris Elliott, Rob Riggle, Casey Wilson). Despite the unsuccessful debut on SNL, Sarah Silverman kept busy in the decade that followed, balancing supporting roles in crowd-pleasing classics like Seinfeld, There’s Something About Mary, and School of Rock with recurring roles on revered cult comedies like Mr. Show and [...]
Interested to see how Kevin Smith will end his illustrious film career? Does the fact that John Goodman will likely be in it sweeten the deal? Yesterday Smith posted a scene from his final film Hit Sombody, a hockey movie "most likely" starring Goodman and based on a Warren Zevon song of the same name. Based on the available scene, Smith will be exiting on a black comedy note, given that (spoiler alert!) the scene involves a young boy's father dangling dead from a flag pole. "Worst part was nobody knew it right away. So my Dad hung up on that roof ‘til dark. The whole neighborhood just waved [...]
