Filmmaker Kevin Smith is shopping for the movie show that made him fall in love with filmmaking.
The 52-year-old Crimson Financial institution, New Jersey, native is buying the Atlantic Moviehouse in Atlantic Highlands, the place his father introduced him as a toddler, generally permitting him to chop faculty for the expertise.
The filmmaker, who introduced the information on Instagram, is anticipated to shut the deal on the property, which he’ll co-own along with his spouse, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith and different enterprise companions, on Sept. 14.
His plans on renovating the 250-seat inside of the theater, already renamed SModcastle Cinemas, contain erecting a mural within the foyer that includes characters from his motion pictures that had been set in New Jersey.
They embrace “Clerks,” — which was shot in comfort and video shops the place he labored in actual life for $27,575 and earned a staggering $3 million on the field workplace — “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma.”
He additionally pledged to host lives exhibits, create a “Merry Marvel Film Society” for followers of Marvel Studios releases and open a movie faculty on the premises.
Smith additionally plans to stay within the condominium above the theater, a twist on his childhood dream of dwelling in a movie show, he mentioned in his put up.
“This definitely isn’t about an funding deal,” Smith instructed NJ Advance Media. “That is about proudly owning a little bit piece of my private film historical past, a constructing that helped forge the filmmaker that I might turn into.”
