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Mallrats is a 1995 American buddy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Claire Forlani, Priscilla Barnes and Michael Rooker. It is the second film in the View Askewniverse following 1994's Clerks.
Oct 4, 2023 · Mallrats was not a commercial success upon its initial release. Despite gaining a cult following over the years, Mallrats did not perform well at the box office upon its release.
- The Beginning
- Casting
- The Shoot
- The Release
- The Comeback
KEVIN SMITH: I’d spent a lot of time at the mall as a kid. As a Jersey boy, we’ve got nothing but malls. So, I’m at Sundance, 1994. Clerks had just won the Filmmakers Trophy at the awards ceremony and John Pierson (a producer's representative and Smith mentor) introduces me to Jim Jacks (Mallrats producer), who I didn’t know, but I knew his name. I...
KS: Shannen was the green-light. They told us, "You get Shannen Doherty you've got a green-light." Shannen was the most famous person in our cast, she had just left 90210. So, getting her was a coup. She came and read and it was instantly like, "Oh my god, she’s the person." Universal was waiting for someone famous. Because I was like, "I want to h...
KS: We were in Eden Prairie, Minn. That was where we got the rebate, so we wound up shooting there after looking for malls all over. I thought we would shoot in New Jersey. That was my first lesson in the movie biz, that you’re going to go wherever it’s cheapest to go. So we found the Eden Prairie mall, which at that point was at less than 50 perce...
KS:When the movie came out Jim Jacks, on Saturday morning, he called with the box office results. I said, "How did we do?" He goes, "We made $400,000." I said, "On what screen?" He goes, "That was all the screens nationwide." I said, "What happens now?" He goes, "It’s over." I remember being so sad and then he goes, "Hey don’t worry about it. We we...
KS: He was absolutely right. Ten years later, I was like, Oh my god, Jim nailed it, we were just a little bit too early with the movie. I started noticing that the way people felt about Mallrats when it came out — or at least the way critics felt about Mallrats when it came out — was not the way that the world seemed to feel about it. In 1995, it p...
Nov 1, 2022 · The Superhero Genre Helped ‘Mallrats’ Go From Failure to Cult Classic. By Reid Goldberg. Published Nov 1, 2022. Link copied to clipboard. Image via Gramercy Pictures. Believe it or not, there was...
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Oct 20, 2020 · When it was released in 1995, "Mallrats" was a box office bomb and its wunderkind director/writer Kevin Smith was anxious about his future in film. At first, Smith publicly trashed his sophomore...
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Oct 13, 2020 · The buddy comedy Mallrats landed in theaters on October 20, 1995. And it bombed. “I thought that day was the end of my career,” recalled writer-director Kevin Smith. “We’d done a test ...
Mallrats, which was released 20 years ago today, is the story of T.S. and Brodie, two heartbroken young men who spend an eventful day at the mall trying to win back their girlfriends.
