EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas is getting behind Kevin Smith’s mission to theatrically re-release his controversial 1999 non secular satire Dogma, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as fallen angels, after a tumultuous launch first time spherical.
The maverick Paris-based gross sales firm has acquired worldwide rights to the remastered 4K version of the movie, which is screening within the Cannes Movie Competition’s Cannes Classics sidebar this yr.
The Cannes splash follows Smith’s announcement final October that he had gotten the rights again to the film which had been out of his fingers for the reason that preliminary launch. This acquisition was made by Triple Media Movie in partnership with View Askew Productions.
Underneath the care of Triple Media Movie, the movie is totally remastered in 4K, and was supervised by Oscar-nominated director of images Robert Yeoman, who was the cinematographer on Dogma, forward of going to work on a number of movies with Wes Anderson together with The Grand Budapest Resort.
“ I’m so happy in regards to the re-release of Dogma. I just lately rewatched the movie and it positively holds up! The remaster appears to be like nice. Congratulations to Kevin and our forged and crew for making such a hilarious movie,” stated Yeoman.
Dogma, is now resulting from be re-released on 1,500 screens in US and Canadian film theaters on June 5, with Iconic Occasions.
Smith has additionally launched into a bought out U.S. tour along with his firm Smodcast, backed by AMC Theatres, bannered, “DOGMA: The Resurrection Tour, A twenty fifth Anniversary Celebration, with Kevin Smith”. The tour bought out in its first 24hours.
“Offered out screenings, standing ovations, and now Cannes? That is past divine,” stated Smith. “To see Dogma honored as a Cannes Basic is a real blessing. Because of everybody who believed on this resurrection, and thanks to the followers who confirmed up, in pews full.”
The director will contact down in Cannes, accompanied by Yeoman, with the remastered movie, which can mark the primary worldwide date for the tour.
Affleck and Damon star in Dogma as Bartleby and Loki, two fallen angels who make their approach to New Jersey for a loophole that can get them again to heaven. The movie additionally options Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee and Alanis Morissette, in addition to Jason Mewes and Smith reprising their roles as Jay and Silent Bob.
The movie served because the fourth instalment in Smith’s View Askewniverse universe, which additionally consists of Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) and Clerks III (2022).
