• Ok, if you think I’m talking too much about this, just tell me, but now I hear that Nicolas Cage has completely agreed to wearing THREE different costumes throughout the movie to help with toy merchandising, as well as driving some sort of “SuperCar”, which also will be of course created into ANOTHER toy. It really sucks seeing such a great script getting turned into this, especially after waiting so many years for another GOOD Superman movie. Alright, I’m done.

• A guy named Vinny mailed us and let us know that he did a makeup job on Chris Rock for a Rolling Stone layout and had the chance to ask him a quick question about Dogma. He said that he was a “very cool guy, was very high on the script for Dogma, and seems like a fun person to work with.” Just thought you folks might like to know.

• We received a scoop today from Devin Clancy, whose deft eyes caught this blurb about Kevin, Scott, and Miramax in the back of a magazine called Creative Scriptwriting’s Fall ‘97 issue:

Sounds like a good deal to us. Hopefully View Askew and Miramax’s relationship will continue in this fashion well into the next century, also.

• Vincent Pereira tells us that Big Helium Dog production began yesterday, and went VERY well for the first day of shooting! He and director Brian Lynch managed to knock out 7 tough indoor location scenes yesterday, and rumor has it that the crew was having quite a bit of trouble stifling their laughter. Sounds really promising. Congrats, guys! If anyone from the crew would like to give us some updates from the set from time to time, we’d love to hear what’s going on. We also plan on making a set visit ourselves sometime in the future if everyone’s schedule permits. Stick with us for all the latest Big Helium Dog info!

• Sad how this is today’s big news, isn’t it? Anyway, ViewAskew.Com is back online, at least from what I see as of 7:00. Happy surfing!

• Thanks to Jay Gunn for letting us know that Dogma’s Internet Movie Database Enty has been updated to include all of the latest casting information, and that the aforementioned “shit demon” played by Ethan Supplee will be (Kev’s words) “a shit version of Clayface”. Sounds good to us! Speical Effects in a View Askew flick, huh? Sounds cool.

• Ming announced that the dormant Fringe Askew section of the View Askew Webpage is now active! You can now stop by and visit sites dedicated to A Better Place, Big Helium Dog, and Vulgar. All these are independent films that View Askew is producing, so you know they gotta be good. Fringe Askew will keep you up to date on all this kind of stuff, and we’ll do our best to keep you informed on THIS site as well.

• We apologize for the lack of updates today, but promise to make up for it tomorrow. We finally got our hands on a second-hand washer and dryer today and were busy moving it in, hooking it up, and cleaning up the water that the washer spewed all over our basement floor. If anyone lives in the Central PA area and knows how to fix washers, please let me know. For now, guess it’s back to the laundromat for us. Come back tomorrow for some real news.

• Here’s some info on the upcoming Clerks comic, hot off the presses (The story that is, not the actual issue):

With Kevin doing the writing you can bet these things will be top-notch in quality, and I’m sure they’ll tie together nicely with the current Askewniverse. Plus, it’ll be cool to walk into the Stash and see Clerks and J&SB comics on the shelves. Perhaps Kev will have an in-store signing when the books are released? Time will tell.

• I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been a big supporter of these, but if you’re into this sort of stuff, a View Askew mailing list has started. This is basically a way for folks to chat Askewness through e-mail messages, which you receive (normally) bunches at a time. Here’s how to get on the list:

If you decide to join the list, let us know how it’s working out. You can e-mail the guy who started this, Skeeve Stevens if you have any questions, I suppose.