Filmmaker Kevin Smith is a man who wears many hats, and I don’t just mean the literal ones for his head. Along with his extensive movie and TV work both on and off camera, which includes serving as one half of the Jay and Silent Bob duo with longtime friend Jason Mewes (although another actor almost ended up playing Jay), he’s also a podcaster, comic book writer, comic book store owner and podcast theater owner. Smith has announced that he will be buying The Atlantic Moviehouse in Atlantic Highlands. Smith is still unsure about the bomb threat that was issued to this theater just days after the news broke.
Kevin Smith shared this on InstagramOn Saturday, The Atlantic Moviehouse received a call from a person who wanted to know if Smith was interested in buying the theater. Unidentified caller, calling from a California number, confirmed that Smith was buying the theater. “bomb threats.” The police has since been informed, and while Smith’s daughter, Harley Quinn Smith, is concerned about this being a legitimate threat to the theater, which is being renamed to SModcastle Cinemas, Smith is looking at this from a different angle. This is how he described it:
*I* think it’s a joke about how my movies have ‘bombed’In theaters. Is it better to laugh at the shadows or be wary of a warning? Thoughts?
Kevin Smith isn’t one to shy away from self-deprecating humor about his body of work (particularly the brutally-reviewed Yoga Hosers), so him thinking this person is making a joke about how some of his movies haven’t performed well at the box office is keeping with his schtick. Still, in this instance, it’s probably better to err on the side of caution and treat this call seriously, even if it is just, as the person who passed along what had happened, “some a-hole kids.” Hopefully this situation is resolved soon so that the people who work at the movie theater don’t need to be worried for their lives.
Having frequented The Atlantic Moviehouse in his younger years, Kevin Smith decided to buy the movie theater with business partners Ashley DiGennaro, Jeff Swanton and Ernie O’Donnell (who also co-owns the SModcastle podcast theater). The deal isn’t finalized just yet, but along with changing the name of the theater, Smith has big plans for it use. According to Smith, the filmmaker. NJ.com that he plans to hold live events, including podcast shows and script readings, at what will be SModcastle Cinemas, and he’ll live in the apartment above the movie theater whenever he’s in town. Smith also wrote a movie in a movie theatre in 1986, so he plans to film the production from this location.
Kevin Smith’s next movie is the long-awaited Clerks IIIThe trailer for, which was released its first trailer last month, will be shown mainly in the United States through Clerks III, The Convenience tour, and also screen in theaters through Fathom Events on September 13th and 15. Smith will also be on hand to perform the showrun. Revolution by Masters of the UniverseThe Netflix sequel, “The Second Coming of the Netflix Show” Masters of the UniverseSmith also led the effort. You can also see his NSFW rant regarding the Batgirl movie being cancelled, as well as our ranking of Kevin Smith’s movies so far.