Quentin Dupieux’s SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING Poster & Trailer Reveal

 "A Superhero movie for idiots! One of the best films of the year." John Waters. The maestro of the weird is back Quentin Dupiuex (Rubber, Wrong) returns with a super hero tale. SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING, a wildly inventive new French comedy from Quentin Dupieux. The film, which had its world-premiere in Cannes’ Midnight section, follows the misadventures of a team of five superheroes known as the Tobacco Force - Benzene (Gilles Lellouche), Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra).

After a devastating battle against a diabolical giant turtle, the Tobacco Force is sent on a mandatory week long retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.

Magnet Releasing will release SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING in theaters and on demand March 31, 2023

THE LEGEND OF WASCO: RELEASED TODAY! The True Story Behind The Viral Sensation

Today The Legend of Wasco gets out of it's tiny clown car and arrives in Redboxes, iTunes, Vudu, Xbox and will be seeing a DVD release January 5th, 2016. In June I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to be a day player on this film. I play Detective Palmer.

A synopsis: Future brothers-in-law Tyler and Byron bond by dressing as the Wasco Clown and taking pictures that spread across the internet, a viral hit overnight. What starts as great fun turns deadly as the very real Wasco Clown returns to terrorize the town. A tale of legend come to life, a test of the friends’ courage to overcome their fear of a circus nightmare, resurrected. 

A lot of folks worked hard to pull this film off. It was co-directed by Shane Beasley and Leya Taylor who previously have worked on the films Found & Headless. The screenplay was written by Nathan Erdel who wrote the film Headless and produced by Scott Schirmer who wrote and directed Found. Here are a couple of stills from the film. Jason Crowe, Dan Nye, Jessica Schroeder play the leads in the picture. Brian Williams did the cinematography.

                                Robert A. Mitchell with Phyllis Munro as Homicide Detectives.

                                               Talking to a couple of suspects.

Here is the trailer: