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Filmmaker Kevin Smith is back in the news again, but this time he's complaining about Hollywood as opposed to airplane seat size...

Smith had first suggested that he would hold an auction at Sundance after the screening of his latest flick, the horror movie Red State, for distribution rights, but now plans to go on the road throughout 2011 and release the film himself, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Red State has a planned official weekend opening on October 19th and Smith's road tour will begin on March 5th at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.

Kevin Smith said the following at the Eccles Theatre on Sunday night:

    "What we need to prove is that anyone can release a movie. Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up. It is just indie film 2.0 now. In indie film 2.0, we don’t let them sell our movie, we sell our movie ourselves. We are going to make our money back by going out on the road and going city by city. It’s too much f***ing horseshit. I just want to tell f***in’ stories."


Smith paid himself $20 to purchase his own flick and the movie's budget is roughly $4 million. Good luck!