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Five years ago, at the end of their first feature, \"Clerks,\" writer-director Kevin Smith and producer Scott Mosier alerted fans to their upcoming film -- \"Dogma.\" Two comedies and two movie companies later, \"Dogma\" is having its day. Smith, 29, and Mosier, 28, have had a rough time pressing to make their mark with \"Dogma,\" which opens in theaters today. They started out working with Miramax, the company that distributed \"Clerks\" and \"Chasing Amy.\" But Miramax is now owned by Disney, and that connection brought their film unwanted attention. \"It's not the church,\" Smith says in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film made its North American debut. \"The church has never said anything about the movie. It's a little group called the Catholic League, which is made up of so- called Catholics. But they don't represent the church.\"

De comer pizza y mirar televisión en la residencia presidencial, [Reggie] pasa a enfrentarse con una serie de amenazantes enemigos del siglo XVII decididos a todo con tal de usarlo de banquete. La película tiene más de una referencia destinada a los adultos (al dúo humorístico Cheech y Chong, a la serie británica de ciencia ficción Doctor Who ), pero para los más chicos la trama se termina complicando innecesariamente con torpes apuntes bienpensantes. Y los personajes carecen de carisma, una falla imperdonable para este tipo de historias que podría achacarse en principio a Jimmy Hayward, parte del departamento de animación de buenas películas como Buscando a Nemo , Toy Story y Monsters Inc. , pero con menos experiencia en el campo del guión y la dirección, aunque su debut en ese terreno, con Horton y el mundo de los Quien , era algo más alentador.

Looking dazed and confused after days of discussing their new movie, \"Clerks,\" the filmmakers barely manage a word of greeting when yet another journalist enters their disheveled domain. [Kevin Smith] reclines on the sofa while [Scott Mosier] slouches on a nearby chair. \"We're really lazy,\" says Smith. \"All we do is watch laser discs and play video games.\" After high school, Smith enrolled in the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, where he met Mosier. Halfway through the eight- month course, Smith dropped out and returned to the convenience store. After graduation, Mosier joined Smith in New Jersey. 2 PHOTOS by UNKNOWN. CAPTION: The setting for director Kevin Smith's `Clerks,' which opens today in Doylestown, is a Quick Stop in Leonardo, N.J. CAPTION: Smith, left, and producer Scott Mosier made `Clerks' for a mere $27,575.

The final hurdle came when the film was initially given an NC-17 (adults only) rating, something to do with the multitudinous references to blow jobs. They were horrified at the prospect of editing out the obscenity. \"The reason we objected to the NC-17 rating was not because we're very artistic and we have a lot of integrity, because that's not really true,\" admits [Scott Mosier]. \"It's because there's no coverage, and the film is all dialogue so it would have been impossible to cut.\" In independent film-making, budget dictates aesthetics, and Clerks went for minimalism. Most scenes were shot from one angle in a single take, with some random images to cover any edits that had to be made. \"That's why there's so much stuff of the cat asleep on the counter,\" [Kevin Smith] explains. \"And a couple of senseless cutaways outside.\" They held a press conference to protest at the rating: in the end the censors relented. At the end of Clerks, [Randal] and [Dante] ask a question that Kevin and Scott must have asked themselves: \"If we're so f***ing advanced, what are we doing here?\" Until last year they were a picture-perfect example of twentysomething malaise, complete with downward mobility, minimum wages and an obsession with pop culture. Making Clerks turned them into models of entrepreneurial zeal. Kevin wrote the film in a month; he borrowed $3,000 from his parents, as did Scott, and raised the rest on credit cards. Scott sold his car and quit his job. Kevin kept working at Quick Stop: he would do a day shift and then film when the store was closed, between 10.30pm and 6am.

[Kevin Smith] dropped out after one of the two semesters and headed back to the Quick Stop but only after he and [Scott Mosier], who was finishing school at his parents' insistence, had pledged to reunite to make a movie. Each set to work on his own script, agreeing that they'd film the first screenplay finished. Clerks was it, and Smith got the Quick Stop owner's permission to film there - between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. when the store was closed.

\"The past 10 1/2 years have been a very tough emotional roller coaster culminating in yesterday's cowardly act of Mr. [Terry Louis Johnson] not coming into the courtroom,\" Mosier said. \"The game-playing is over. I will never spend another day with my son -- Terry Johnson made sure of that.\" Johnson told the court he wanted to offer condolences to the Mosier family for the loss of [Christopher Mosier], but insisted he was innocent of the crime. \"I've never killed anyone, certainly not Christopher Mosier,\" Johnson said. Johnson told police he picked up his infant son from Christopher, who was baby-sitting on Dec. 30, 1993, and that the teenager was alive and well at the time. But prosecutors said only Johnson had the time and the motive to kill Christopher, and improved DNA testing showed Christopher's blood on a baby blanket that was in Johnson's possession.

Mosier had been baby-sitting [Terry Louis Johnson]'s infant son Dec. 30, 1993, before his death. Johnson claimed Mosier was fine when Johnson picked up his son that evening. The Rev. France Davis and Johnson family friend Earnest Blossom both spoke in court Tuesday, expressing the Johnson family's sympathy for the Mosiers. Blossom also asked the judge to take Johnson's claim of innocence into account. Above, Terry Louis Johnson, right, stands during his sentencing Tuesday in 3rd District Court for the 1993 murder of 14- year-old [Christopher Mosier]. With him are defense lawyers John O'Connell, left, and Robert Heineman. At left, [Scott Mosier], father of the murdered boy, reads a statement to the judge at Tuesday's sentencing. \"I will never be able to spend another day with my son,\" he said.

The infant's clothing and blankets were confiscated that night. They have been tested at the Utah State Crime Lab for blood and DNA comparisons -- and recent and more improved DNA testing \"revealed to a scientific certainty\" that [Chris Mosier]'s blood is on the baby's clothing and two blankets, court documents say. Chris was an avid Jazz fan, but music was his real love. \"He loved playing drums and guitar, and he liked to write music,\" [Scott Mosier] said. Scott Mosier also recalls his son as a good student and a loving, outgoing youngster who was mature for his age. \"He was a big kid for a 14 year old, 14-year-old, but he always looked out for smaller kids, making sure they weren't picked on,\" Scott Mosier said. \"I know justice moves slowly, but it's hard to believe that he would be nearly 25 today.\"

--- Moviemakers Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier present \"SModcast Live!\"at 7 p.m. Monday at the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center, 1031 Edgecomb Ave. on the Penn State York campus in Spring Garden Township. Tickets: $25-$45. Information: 505-8900 or http://pullocenter.yk.psu.edu. --- Comedian Earl David Reedgoes for three rounds of laughter to benefit a good cause in \"Funny, Fit, and Fighting Breast Cancer\" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center, 1031 Edgecomb Ave. on the Penn State York campus in Spring Garden Township. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. Tickets: $26.50. Information: 505-8900 or http://pullocenter.yk.psu.edu.

Scott Mosier, son of Denny and Helen Mosier of Pomona, made the President's list at Cal State Long Beach for the fall 2009 semester. Scott took 22 units and got all A's. Universal Technical Institute Foundation has awarded Jennifer LaFever of San Jose a $10,000 Brienne Davis Scholarship to attend Universal Technical Institute in Rancho Cucamonga. The scholarship is part of the Brienne Davis Scholarship Fund - a scholarship program designed to help women gain the education they need to pursue careers in the automotive industry. Davis, a UTI alumnus who became a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series official, died in 2008. The scholarship is a partnership between the NASCAR Foundation and the UTI Foundation to honor Brienne Davis. Each year several NASCAR drivers celebrities and NASCAR executives are \"locked up\" for the event, which is held at Brickhouse Tavern in Davidson, N.C., and has raised $200,000 over the course of two years.