"Red State begins by following three horny high school boys who come across an online ad from an older woman looking for a gang bang. Boys being boys, they hit the road to satisfy their libidinal urges. But what begins as a fantasy takes a dark turn as they come face-to-face with a terrifying "holy" force with a fatal agenda."

 

Kevin Smith (who is like one of my favouritist people ever) ventures away from comedy with this new horror film coming 2011, my anticipation is high, especially after the one and only Neil Gaimen said "Best thing he's ever done. Left me shaken & grateful".

 

probaly my most anticipated film right now.

 

 

Kevin Smith caused a bit of an uproar at Sundance last night and is going to be distributing the film himself,

 

The Harvey Boys have witnessed first hand the vagaries of "studio math" - the byzantine numbers game that sees an uneducated media and public celebrating "huge" openings at the box office while ignoring the obscene marketing costs attached to reach those figures. We believe it's a pyrrhic victory to simply "buy" an opening weekend by pouring millions of dollars into TV spots, billboards and print ads. As storytellers, why not instead use our creative abilities that resulted in a film in the first place to also creatively SELL that film directly to our public?

 

We believe the state of film marketing has become ridiculously expensive and exclusionary to the average filmmaker longing simply to tell their story. When the costs of marketing and releasing a movie are four times that film's budget, it's apparent the traditional distribution mechanism is woefully out of touch with not only the current global economy, but also the age of social media.

 

Therefore, The Harvey Boys will not spend a dime on old world media buys (such as TV/Print/Outdoor) as we self-distribute our film, Red State, in an admittedly unconventional, yet extremely cost effective, word of mouth/viral campaign.

 

Knowledge is power, and we believe in empowering the filmmaker - so the Harvey Boys vow to make the financials of Red State open and transparent from which anybody hoping to follow suit can learn. We will do what no studio has dared: open up our books for the world to see so anyone interested in pursuing a similar independent release strategy has a better understanding of the BUSINESS of Red State.

 

And if we're successful - or even merely effective - at producing a film distribution apparatus that can stand apart from the cost-prohibitive studio model currently viewed as the only way to get a movie into a theater? It is our intent to use the groundwork we lay with Red State to aid other filmmakers in releasing THEIR films, via our newly launched SModcast Pictures.

 

Don't hate the studio; BECOME the studio. Anybody can make a movie; what we aim to prove is anyone can release a movie as well

 

The Harvey Boys

 

Jon Gordon & Kevin Smith

 

http://viewaskew.com/redstate/theredstatement.html

 

Glad to see such a profilic director and someone i am a big fan of to fight against vertical integration in the film industry, good to see someone as known as him trying to make a change and getting more young filmmakers out there, can't wait to see how SModcast Pictures turns out.

this is f***ing good.

 

and so is the distributing.

 

Kevin Smith <3

 

completely unlike anything else he has done though.

I'm looking forward to this one. Looks great

I loved this. Flips superbly between genres in the first hour and raises many questions about morality and religion as well as being darkly funny. Recommended

this film was AWESOME

that main dude's performance was truly inspired

that main dude's performance was truly inspired

Can you be more specific? There isn't really a lead character in the movie.

Can you be more specific? There isn't really a lead character in the movie.

 

Michael Parks who plays Abin Cooper...

Debatable whether he was the lead character, he wasn't even in the first act. I've found something that's interesting about the film is that no one is set as a lead character or protagonist. Great performance from him though. I need to watch this again soon.

The movie did the good work and this movie got the nice ratings from the audience.