Kevin Smith talks ‘Clerks III’ at N.J. premiere. Also: Harvey Weinstein’s last hold over ‘Dogma.’

World premiere of Kevin Smith's Clerks III in Red Bank

Director Kevin Smith at the New Jersey premiere of "Clerks III" in the Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank Sunday. “I’ve been waiting for this f---ing moment for like three years,” he said.Julian Leshay | For NJ Advance Media

From Red Bank, Highlands and across the country they came, wearing Quick Stop and Mooby’s uniforms and hockey jerseys.

Kevin Smith fans are a devoted crowd, and this was the long-awaited New Jersey premiere of “Clerks III,” a film made by that guy from Jersey, set in Jersey and filmed in Jersey. They hung on his every word.

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