Kevin Smith Finally Regains Control of Dogma, Coming to Streaming for 25th Anniversary

Kevin Smith’s celebrated 1999 comedy, Dogma, will quickly be re-released in theaters and made obtainable on streaming for the primary time, now that the director has lastly secured the rights to the movie after its one-time proprietor, Harvey Weinstein, held it “hostage” for years.

Smith confirmed the acquisition throughout a current interview on The Hashtag Present, explaining that the rights had been purchased off Weinstein lately, which allowed him to lastly regain them. “The film had been purchased away from the man that had it for years,” he mentioned. “The corporate that purchased it, we met with them a pair months in the past. They had been like, ‘Would you be fascinated with re-releasing it and touring it such as you do together with your films?’ I mentioned, ‘one hundred pc, are you kidding me? Touring a film that I do know individuals like, and it’s sentimental and nostalgic? We’ll clear up.’”

Smith then expanded on concepts of what he might do to have fun the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon-starring movie. “Proper now, 2024 is [the movie’s] twenty fifth anniversary. November is once we got here out. So, I feel 2025, it appears like, is when the motion’s going to occur there. Again on residence video, then again out in theaters, and I’ll tour it and stuff like that.”

Nevertheless it gained’t finish there — the Clerks director can be musing on methods to increase the Dogma universe with new media, together with “sequels, TV variations, by way of extending the story.” These initiatives might even contain authentic forged members. “[It’s] one thing we might by no means do earlier than,” Smith mentioned. “All these individuals who labored on it are nonetheless viable.”

For years, Smith has lamented that the movie was being held hostage by the Weinsteins, who refused to promote it again to him. This previous January, he defined at a reside occasion that he even made a $1 million greenback provide to acquire the rights, however was turned down. Throughout that point, he refused to be concerned in something associated to Dogma on the premise that Harvey Weinstein had “any connectivity” to it.

Now, although, the chains have been damaged, and followers can count on to leap into all the heat and nostalgia the 1999 movie has to supply. Watch its authentic trailer beneath.

Smith’s most up-to-date movie, The 4:30 Film, is out now. Revisit sondramedia’s interview with Smith from earlier this month, the place he mentioned the state of the movie business, his profession, and extra.