Listen, we all know Kevin Smith is full of shit when he says that it was an "unintended" side-effect of the title of his newest feature that everyone would get all up in arms about it.
From the posters that were banned in America because they featured Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogan with their heads in each other's crotches, to the inflammatory second posters that just featured stick figures as a big "fuck you" to the MPAA and caused MGM to drop out of the distribution deal, to the title of the friggin' film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith seems driven to out-Apatow Apatow and remind him who the original crude boys club with a heart filmmaker is.
Whatever. The problem with Kevin Smith is, we've all been down this road before (Dogma) and we know where it leads us (back to Jersey Girl):
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What is the idiom about those who fly too close to the sun? For Harvey Weinstein, the "sun" in this analogy would be the apex of Hollywood success, the bright shining stardom that the producer and his brother Bob found themselves in the middle of for the last two decades. But lately Harvey has lost his shine: First, MGM dumped all of the movies they were planning on promoting for the brothers back onto Weinstein's lap, then there was the injunction to keep Weinstein from moving Project Runway to Lifetime. And now, Weinstein is paying one million dollars to charity in penance for lying to the New York Post about the producer's relationship with the late Sydney Pollack during the last days of the actor/director's life.
MGM dropped Kevin Smith's controversial (well, it had a controversial poster) feature, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, from their fall lineup and back into the lap of Harvey Weinstein and Co., despite a contract saying that the lion studios would continue distributing Weinstein films until January. MGM already pulled their logo from the stick figure posters and the trailer for the film, slated to open Oct. 31st.
Super annoying, because the brothers Weinstein are already up to their eyeballs trying to finance their own films, let alone get distribution on them. Pain in the ass MGM decided to reneg on Porno, either because of CONTINUED »
