Kevin Smith's Clerks III gets additional theater dates following high ticket demand.

Lionsgate and Fathom Events announced that the theatrical release of Clerks III has been extended a full week and will receive four additional big screen dates throughout the month of September, including Sept. 14, 16, 17 and 18. "Thanks to you, thanks to all of your interest in Clerks III, and buying advanced tickets for the Fathom Events screenings on September 13th and 15th, movie theaters have added more days, they've extended us, so now you can go see Clerks in a movie theater near you," Smith said in an announcement.

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Initially, Clerks III was intended to receive a limited, two-night theatrical release on Tuesday, Sept. 13 and Thursday, Sept. 15. However, due to the high demand from fans, those dates have been extended. Now, according to Smith, the new release schedule will include a "normal ass weekend, a Friday and a Saturday, for all those people who were like, 'Why can't you just release this movie in a normal ass fashion?' It's about to happen, kids."

Released in 1993, Clerks was Smith's debut feature which followed a day in the lives of convenience store employees in New Jersey. Apart from launching Smith's career, Clerks set the groundwork for his "View Askewniverse" films and introduced two of his most iconic characters, Jay and Silent Bob, played by Smith and Mewes, who will reprise these roles for Clerks III. A sequel, Clerks II, was released in 2006.

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Clerks III will star Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson. The story will focus on Dante Hicks (O'Halloran) and his best friend Randal Graves (Anderson). After suffering a near-fatal heart attack, Graves decides to make a movie about their lives working at the Quick Stop, which was inspired by Smith's real-life experience in 2018. Returning cast members include Marilyn Ghigliotti as Veronica Loughran, Trevor Fehrman as Elias Grover and Rosario Dawson as Becky Scott.

In August 2021, Smith called Clerks III a " bizarre return to form," saying that Clerks was "very autobiographical," while Clerks II was "completely fabricated, right down to the fact that I never even worked in fast food." However, this won't be the case for Clerks III. "The film is predicated on the idea that Randal survives a heart attack, a massive heart attack, quite like I did, and then winds up, you know, deciding that he's wasted his life," Smith said. "...We take Randal, a motherfucker who wears cynicism on his sleeve, and we turn him into a dreamer."

Clerks III will release in theaters on Sept. 13.

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