How can a guy go 14 years and 8 films and not make money once? How is that possible? Most of his early films made money or broke even. But how can you survive for 14 years and not make a dime? Is the secret having investors, paying yourself up front, and losing other people's money?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48486925)

The first movie he made that was a commercial and critical failure was Jersey Girl and he basically said at the time that he made it for himself and no one else. If you're a big fan of his work you probably think he's a genius, but if you're a normal person you have to wonder why he wastes a lot of time and money on things that only 5 people care about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48487027)

that's literally the movie business

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48487032)

So you're vegan Kevin Smith. You haven't 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 had a big hit, if we're being honest, since 2001 or so. You want to put your mid dotter in some vehicle to get her on the big screen. You have been in pictures long enough to know there aren't 4000 theatres willing to screen this turd. You're going to do like zero marketing. You just have to pay yourself and the actors and then you go on the road and do a Q&A and the 50 biggest Kevin Smith heads in every town in America are going to pay 100 bucks to come see you.

But wait, how do you finance this crap? You have to go through your phone and ring up some Gen Xers. You have to find the people who aced OCI. And then you pitch them, like a bitch. You get down on your hands and knees and say, remember me? I'm Kevin FUCKING Smith. I made Chasing Amy. Clerks, that was a good one. Remember how good you felt when they were playing roller hockey on top of that gas station in New Jersey? I'm the guy who did that. Now sign here and here that's a check made out to BongJesus productions for 750,000k and you own 5% of this turd and after we gross 25,000 dollars your share is $1250 plus whatever it makes on streaming and on demand. Thank you, and have a nice day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48486970)

but he has a giant low iq neckbeard redditor cult.

does he crowdsource a bunch of it from people who don't care if they lose money because they're part of helping kevin smith create his art?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48487834)

1. His movies aren't that expensive. So he has to raise like $5 mm. Think of how CSLG and his dumb sushi restauarnt. How many people are there in that same income bracket who would love to give $1 mm to say they're producing a Kevin Smith movie.

2. He can pre-sell a lot of this shit to streamers. Apple TV pays $15 mm per episode for episodes of the morning show. Disney spent $20 mm on each episode of the Acolyte. Not unreasonable for them to spend a couple of million bucks and say "Hey we have the exclusive for Clerks III!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5654425&forum_id=2Elisa#48488266)