“I believe Criterion is holding release until two weeks after the vid release, which may now be in January”

Vincent : “I think (but am not certain) that Criterion will try and make the disc available day and date with the tape, which would mean a mid-December release. This is also contigent on Kevin and Scott getting all of the suplementary material (such as the thrity or so minutes of cut footage) together soon. The picture transfer for the disc is done, by the way – David Klein actually supervised that months ago (before Criterion even became involved with the project), so it’ll mainly be a matter of recording the comentary and getting the cut-scenes and trailers together, and getting all the elements to the folks at Criterion for the making of the disc.”

So I’m back, and I’ve gone through this entire always passive-aggressive board (and some were exTREMEly aggressive, mind you). I’ve read your comments on the Supes script and the Howard Stern appearance. My take on both? I, too, find the Supes script weak in parts (though largely better than most would do with it, character-wise), and agree that Jay and I weren’t really up to snuff on the Stern show (although we served the purpose we were there for; and who cares in the end – we got to meet Howard and the gang).

The tour went well – the movie was uniformly embraced by the French and British press, not to mention the French and British audiences we watched it with (interesting tid-bit: the French aud was the largest we ever screened for at once, clocking in at close to fifteen hundred people).

And now it’s time for serious writing work, as I immerse myself completely in the novel and comics scripts. I’ll only be surfacing daily to sign merchandise at the office and post here (as always).

Hope all went well in my absence (nice to see some new folks have joined in the mix – good and bad), and I hope to see a bunch of you at the Rutgers screening in Camden (for the record, there may be another one in New Brunswick next month – more on that when I get more info).

So one of the people who e-mailed over the past few days wanting the script was someone who wanted to pass it on to Roger Ebert. He gave me Mr. Ebert’s address, so I figured I’d e-mail him to get his toughts on both the script, and my methods for distributing it. Without telling me his thoughts on the script, I got this e-mail this morning :

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I am happy to be able to read the script, but I believe that a script in development has much the same legal status as a commercial or trade secret, and distributing it is about as legal as posting Ford’s patents for a new fuel pump on the Web. In other words, I think that legally you had no right to do it, and that WB would have won in a walk if they had sued you. Thedesire of others to read it, Kevin Smith’s reputation, etc., are all irrelevant: This is pretty much an open-and-shut case of copyright infringement. My own advice to you is to have nothing to do with the further public or private distribution of the script, or you may actually find yourself in court, as an example to others.

I give this advice because I know you acted sincerely and with good intentions, and I would just as soon save you a lot of grief.

Very best,
RE
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