1/29/2011

Kevin Smith talks Red State editing, future Hit Somebody plans

You might not know this, but we here at Punch Drunk Critics International get around a little bit. Not only are we slaving away on our site here and producing the show on Sundays, but we also appear on a few other shows during the week. On Friday nights we hang out with our homies and occasional show guests, Josh Hylton and Kevin McCarthy on the Kevin and Josh Movie Show. This past week was a stellar episode where we talked about Christopher Nolan's snub at the Oscars and a few other things. The highlight, though, was Kevin Smith calling in to talk about his upcoming horror flick, Red State. We've been trying to get Smith to bring his Red State tour to DC, but for those who think it's a bit pricey to pay $60 for any flick, you might want to check out this excerpt from the interview...


Smith: "I’m gonna be doing Q&A after the movie, first we’re gonna show the movie and then do the Q&A. To me I look at like I was going out on tour anyway, now I’m just bringing a free movie that you can watch, because these are the exact same prices that people are paying to see me Q&A anyway, so at that point I was like “Instead of keeping the money from the Q&A, like I normally do on tour, I’ll just put it back into the budget for the movie so we can pay our investors back.


And then we’ll come out, October 19th, and if people are like “I don’t want to pay $60 to see your dopey movie and Q&A” it’s totally cool, man. October 19th you’ll be able to see it for whatever the multiplex price is, or an arthouse price, we’re going to try to get it into as many screens as possible but you’ll be paying the ten bucks or whatever it is in your area."

It's a pretty meaty listen, where Smith again talks about his decision to self distribute his flicks from here on out, plus what his future plans beyond Red State are, including for what he says will be his final film, the hockey comedy Hit Somebody. He also discusses some last minute editing he wants to do before releasing Red State to the public.

Check out that interview here, and set your calandars to listen to my homies' Kevin and Josh every Friday night on 106.7HD2!