Tons of Actors both higher profile and not, have taken to the whole social media Twitter craze.  If you haven’t seen it enough on CNN, you’re going to read about it here.  The 140-character based messages have been blowing up faster than a scene in a John Woo movie, and celebrities, athletes, and your basic chumps like myself have taken to it.  Now movie directors are on Twitter.

Yes I am a Twitterholic and am proud of it.  I want everyone to know what I am doing exactly at every point of the day.  Nah, it’ not like that at all, it’s actually great for networking, especially with this blog.  I connect with tons of other awesome movie bloggers out there.  But that’s another post.

Now there are a handful of directors who are on Twitter which you can follow and check out how their upcoming filming shoots are going along and what not.  No they won’t get back to you, but still pretty cool to get the inside scoop about their movies or other movie related dealings they got going on.  Or if you are a real creeper and actually care what sandwich they had for lunch.

John Favreau

@john_favreau

Director/actor/producer and overall lovable fun guy most know for Swingers, Made, and a favorite of mine The Replacements.  If you really know your stuff you will know he was the tutor in Rudy (where he first met Vince Vaughn).  He is the director of Elf and Iron Man and currently directing Iron Man 2.  All around good guy seems very regular.

Kevin Smith

@thatkevinsmith

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King of the 90’s indie comedies with ‘Clerks,’ ‘Mallrats,’ ‘Chasing Amy’ and creator of the great on screen duo Jay and Silent Bob (he plays Silent Bob).  He also directed the awesome action movie ‘Enemy of the State’ and the recent ‘Zach and Miri Make a Porno.’  Seems like a good dude, he has had Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in movies and is currently filming “A Couple of Dicks.”

Jason Reitman

@jasonreitman

He directed ‘Juno’ and ‘Thank You for Smoking’ with some smaller stuff as well.  He really likes taking the simple concept movie and putting this style of humor in it.  He also tends to make the beginning of movies long and different to have the audience ease into their movie.  Currently directing ‘Up in the Air.’

This is a handful of especially the more popular ones I think you would enjoy following.  There are smaller directors as well who can be fun to follow.  And I guarantee there will be more to follow real soon.

Check them out and let me know what you think?