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Release Date: Oct. 31

Director: Kevin Smith

Writer: Kevin Smith

Cinematographer: David Klein

Starring: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Justin Long, Brandon Routh

Studio/Running Time: The Weinstein Company, 101 mins.

If writer/director Kevin Smith had called his new film Kevin Smith Makes a Porno, it might be considered autobiographical, albeit without the porn. Smith used the experiences of making his first film (Clerks) at night in the convenience store where he worked, and injected it into Zack and Miri Make a Porno, where cash-challenged roommates shoot their first adult film at night in the coffee shop where they work. Fortunately, Smith now has a budget to hire a true star (Seth Rogen), one who has become America’s greatest slacker via Knocked Up and Pineapple Express.

They say laughter is always the best remedy, no matter the situation. Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni's Oscar-winning drama, made light of one of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen. Juno, Paste's 2007 movie of the year, was a smart-as-a-whip comedy about teenage pregnancy, a subject nobody finds particularly funny. And Woody Allen has poked fun at everything from sex with sheep to czarist Russia. Now, Freaks and Geeks alum Seth Rogen will try and convince moviegoers cancer can be funny. Wish him luck.

Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno comes out on Oct. 31, meaning that its publicity machine is getting into full swing right about now. One pretty unorthodox method of drumming up interest, though, was inviting director Tony Kaye (American History X, Lake of Fire) to make a short film about what Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks think about the simulated sex they make for the screen. Mean Magazine features this short as part of their cover story about the film. A bit reminescent of Errol Morris, Mean describes the short by saying, "Sex sells. Sex kills. Sex thrills. 'This Is Not Sex' pays homage to the subject of the upcoming Kevin Smith flick, Zach and Miri Make A Porno, whilst taking you through a ride of sexual misperception through the lens of director Tony Kaye."

Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno will make its premiere at this year's CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. CMJ announced its initial line-up today, along with their inaugural Cinemini Short Film Contest, and another first: a partnership with the Broadway rock musical Spring Awakening.

It’s been a long and hard road, but director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) will show his latest film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, at the Fantastic Fest next month.

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A crossover between two of Judd Apatow's most recent comedies might seem like it's jumping the gun a little bit, or that it's the product of a hash session between the stars of Pineapple Express. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that it sounds like a totally awesome idea.

Release Date: August 6
Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Cinematographer: Tim Orr
Starring: Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez
Studio/Run Time: Columbia Pictures, 111 mins.

Producer Judd Apatow and his comedy factory are making their apologists work overtime to explain which of their films are worth a damn and which were thrown together by stunted man-boys who've figured out how to make a buck off of high-school nostalgia. For a time, it seemed that the involvement of Seth Rogen, either as a writer (Superbad) or actor (Knocked Up), separated the wheat from the chaff. But then Drillbit Taylor, a half-hearted mess thrown together for Owen Wilson, took a chunk out of that section of the rubric. It was co-written by Rogen, who now stars in and co-wrote the team's latest film, Pineapple Express, which complicates matters further. Unlike Drillbit, which didn't seem to know what it was aiming for, Pineapple seems to be exactly the kind of shallow, flimsy movie that Apatow and team set out to make. They aimed for a low target and hit it square in the nuts.

Finally, a porno you can go see with your parents.

Following the buzz that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was "gunning" for it, Kevin Smith's Zach and Miri Make a Porno (the flick about making a porno flick) has been hit with the ultimate cockblock: an NC-17 rating.

Actor, writer, and former Phantom Planet drummer Jason Schwartzman is taking on sleuthing, cast as the lead role in HBO's comedy pilot Bored to Death.

Knocked Up at the End of the World? The 40 Year Old Virgin's Last Day on Earth? Both of these horrendous titles were not under consideration for Seth Rogen's new film, but perhaps they should have been. After all, the premise does involve the televised weed smoker confronting the Very End.

Kevin Smith would like his new movie, which happens to be about making an X-rated movie, to get an R rating, go to theaters, and bring mirth to many a gutter-minded American. Instead, Zack and Miri Make a Porno is fighting a restrictive NC-17 rating from the MPAA.

Fun Fact: Seth Rogen will star in every comedy coming out this year.

All right, you got us, we jest. But it really does seems that way: Rogen will appear in films such as Kevin Smith's Porno flick, the stoner comedy Pineapple Express and even a children's movie that comes out next week. When does this guy sleep?

In his latest venture, Observe and Report, the proudly Jewish-Canadian actor will star as a mall cop in his first collaboration with writer/director Jody Hill. Shooting for the new film will begin in April, after Rogen wraps up working with Smith.

Related links:
Time.com: The Education of a Comic Prodigy
A.V. Club interview: Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen on IMDb

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