{"id":358,"date":"2008-03-05T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=358"},"modified":"2012-11-08T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:23:14","slug":"first-look-zack-miri-make-a-porno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/05\/first-look-zack-miri-make-a-porno\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look: ZACK &amp; MIRI MAKE A PORNO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that there&#8217;s something about the title of Kevin Smith&#8217;s currently in production comedy, <strong>Zack &amp; <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Miri<\/span> Make A Porno<\/strong>, that always makes me laugh. Perhaps it is the simple <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">sentence<\/span> structure recalling old children&#8217;s book titles, a la <em>Curious George Goes To The Zoo<\/em>, juxtaposed against the decidedly adult task of producing pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The adults in this case are Seth <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Rogen<\/span> and Elizabeth Banks, seen her in the first still released from the film. They play the titular (no pun intended) life-long friends who decide to produce their own porn video as a way of paying off their mounting (another pun unintended) debts.<\/p>\n<p>But will a comedy about amateur porn attract folks to the box office? Industry analyst Jeff Bock, quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/movies\/news\/2008-03-04-porno-title_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> article that featured this picture, seems to think so, claiming &#8220;It&#8217;s one of the best titles of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith certainly doesn&#8217;t have any qualms about using the word &#8220;porno&#8221; in the title. &#8220;We&#8217;re just hoping that by the time the movie comes out, if the marketing people do their jobs right, it&#8217;s a word that people will kind of get over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll find out next fall when the film hits theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">I have to admit that there&#8217;s something about the title of Kevin Smith&#8217;s currently in production comedy, Zack &amp; Miri Make A Porno, that always makes me laugh. 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