Kevin Smith was born on 2 August 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey. The story behind his success began when he received a super 8 camera at the age of 14. He grew up in a Catholic family together with his two siblings. After reaching the high school, Kevin Smith interested in film and during his free time, he videotaped basketball games.

Early Life

Kevin Smith attending The New School in New York, Kevin Smith started working at a youth center, where he met the man who would later play “Jay” in his films. He joined Vancouver Film School for that purpose of being equipped with essential education for direction of his first film. He dropped out before its completion in order to save some money since he determined that he had enough knowledge with which to commence the project.

Kevin Smith Net Worth?

Kevin Smith is an American film screenwriter and an actor as well as director and film producer and a comics writer with an estimated wealth of $ 25 million. Clerks made in the early 90s by Kevin Smith who was coaching at the store was a great success thus making him direct it.

The movie made on a low budget however gave a real feel of life, the rawness of dialogues and subject matter was loved by the viewers. This pondered upon Smith’s finesse in portraying life like incidents that made it to screen it at the Cannes Film Festival and subsequently it was picked up by Miramax movies.

Smith has engaged himself more in the world of comics also, he has written stories for “Daredevil” and “Green Arrow” series among others He also owns a comic shop in Red Bank, New Jersey called Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, which shows how much he is a fan of comics.

Career

Kevin Smith still had very little money on him and having to invest in his first movie; he had to sell his complete collection of comic books. He also got his previous job at a nearby shop of a convenience after he was forced to move out of his house.

The first movie that would be produced by him is ‘Clerks’ and as the title of the movie depicts, the movie is all about his experience in the ‘Clerks’ store. All in all, Kevin Smith had $27,575 to finance the film and in order to save money he casted his friends in a number of parts.

Kevin Smith went on to win the Filmmaker’s Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival of 1994 was the movie that pushed Kevin Smith into a filmmaker. It was also awarded major awards at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.

This kind of critical acclaim made Harvey Weinstein to purchase the film from Kevin Smith and it was marketed with an extremely limited release. Despite the fact that the number of screenings did exceed fifty at one time, it grossed over $3 million.