Director Kevin Smith did not receive much luck following the release of “Dogma” in 1999.
Smith said Entertainment Weekly On Friday, he revealed he received “400,000 pieces of hate mail and three death threats” following the film's release.
The comedy starred Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as two fallen angels who try to make their way back to heaven from New Jersey.
“There was a rubber poop monster in the movie,” Smith told the outlet. “Can you imagine there being so much anger over a movie with a rubber poop monster?”
Smith said he had received many hate messages centered on his views on religion.
He remembers well one message that said: “Jews, better take the money you stole from us and start investing in flak jackets, because we’re coming in there with guns.”
“I hope whoever wrote that letter finds peace,” Smith told the outlet.
“Dogma” is currently unavailable on streaming services.
Smith said The Wrap In 2022 producer Harvey Weinstein was “holding it hostage.”
“My movie about angels is owned by the devil himself,” he told the outlet at the time.
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison in February 2020 after pleading guilty to forcing oral sex on TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and third-degree rape of hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.
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He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault from rape allegations made by actress Annabella Sciorra in the 1990s.
Weinstein has denied ever having nonconsensual sex.
Ultimately, the appeals court found that the trial judge should have allowed witnesses to testify only about the sexual assault incidents that led to allegations against Weinstein.
During his trial, several women testified about sexual assaults allegedly committed by Weinstein, though this was not the case for which he was charged.
Weinstein's retrial is set to begin in November.
He was charged with additional sex crimes earlier this month.
He will be tried on these charges on September 18.
