Archive for January, 1998

Chalk Up Another One…

January 10th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • They like the Chasing Amy in Texas as well, apparently! The flick made number 9 in the Top 10 of 1997 according to the Austin Chronicle. The list is based on the compiled lists of film critics Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Robert Faires, Marc Savlov & Russell Smith, a whole bunch of people who have never been in our kitchen (And if you get that reference, you watch too much TV).

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    Commentary

    January 10th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • News Askew is QUICKLY approaching the 50,000 hit mark! Quite a milestone. Since the ‘thon ended, the site has been going CRAZY (along with my e-mail box). So, please, keep sending the mail, I’m still responding personally to every message ASAP, it just may take a bit longer. As always, thanks for visiting and for all your e-mails. On with the news…

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    Flixtour Becomes “A Better Place”…

    January 10th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Here’s some more news that we learned at VulgarThon: Vincent Pereira’s been asked to take his film “A Better Place” on a Flixtour, which brings him to at least 12 colleges around the country, covers all his travel, food, and living costs, and even pays some of the green stuff to boot. Not only will he get the chance to show his excellent film (*We know, we saw it at VulgarThon and it delivers…Full details in our wrap-up) to many diverse audiences, but he’ll get to see the country and take a nice vacation. Here’s Vin’s words:
      In case anybody missed my announcements during the Q&As at the VulgarAthon, A BETTER PLACE has been invited to participate in the Flixtour, a kind of traveling film festival that will bring the film to a minimum of twelve colleges over a ten week period, starting in late January. Needless to say, I’m very excited about this- the prospect of seeing my film with so many audiences over the next few months (and getting paid for it no less) is… fuck, let’s just say that I’m very, very happy.

    And we’re happy for ya…Congrats, Vincent, and good luck!

    By the way, check out Vincent’s snazzy new webpage as well…

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    Another View Askew Mailing List

    January 9th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Because the WWWBoard exists, I always shy away from these things, but we were asked if we could mention a View Askew Mailing List set up by Landon. There’s regular and digest forms of the list, which is available here. Check it out if youre web-imparired or just looking for another dose of View Askew chat.

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    Chasing Amy & The Spirit Awards

    January 9th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad @ Chris

  • Yet another of those revelations at VulgarThon was that “Chasing Amy” has been nominated twice for the Independant Spirit Awards in the categories of Best Screenplay and Best Picture! There’s been no “official” announcement yet from what we’ve seen, but it’s certainly true. Two more honors for a great flick! Let’s hope that Kevin can take one or both of those suckers home.

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    Joey Lauren Adams on Jay Leno TONIGHT!

    January 9th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Thanks to Ron Freshour, Brock Davis, and Bill Minter, we won’t miss Joey’s appearance on Jay Leno tonight! Looks like she’s really making the circuit to milk this Golden Globe Nomination. Anyway, tune in tonight, check out her new hair color, see what clip from Amy they show, and listen to some anecdotes about what she’s been up to lately.

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    VULGARTHON PICS: WE NEED YOUR HELP!

    January 9th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Well folks, unfortunately we just received word that our source for VulgarThon pictures got an offer at the event and will be selling the pics to another source rather than making the pics available for us here. We’re very sorry to report this, since we’d made plans for the photos to be taken ahead of time, and because of this took none of our own. That’s where YOU come in.

    Now, more than ever, we need your scans of VulgarThon pics! Any pics of the guests, fans, places, Q&A’s…Whatever you got! Send them along and we’ll do our best to get them on our VulgarThon Page. It’d be a shame to put one up without some visuals!

    Again, we’re sorry for the lack of professionalism. We promised you exclusive shots and it just looks like we can’t deliver this time. It won’t happen again. Please help!

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    Remember Project Pocketwatch?

    January 9th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Pocketwatch himself writes us to inform us that his cool artwork series of stills from Kevin’s Superman Lives Script (as they WOULD have appeared with the right cast) has been moved from Art Askew and resurrected on a NEW SITE where all the shots will be coming up on schedule. We love what we’ve seen so far (In fact, we’re saving the pics for the archives), so do stop by and give it a looksee. Pictures will be posted on a weekly basis, and the first should be up by January 15th.

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    View Askew NewsBites™

    January 7th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • The Mallrats SE LaserDisc has been a topic of discussion lately, now that everyone’s seen the excellent Amy disc. At this point, Kevin has said that the project is definitely a “go”, but, although they have an excellent relationship with Criterion now, it is doubtful that the disc will BE a Criterion. Most likely, it will be distributed by another outfit, whenever it’s done.
  • Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Robin Williams will be appearing on The Charlie Rose Show this Monday, January 12th. Thanks to Adam Mark and Ross for this information.
  • We’d like to give a shout out to Garo for sending us the Charlie Rose tape with Tarantino praising “Amy”. Thanks, man!

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    Jason Lee To Play Azrael In Dogma!

    January 7th, 1998 @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • We were hoping to save some of these major announcements for the VulgarThon Page (although we probably shouldn’t be mentioning some of this stuff at all), but we figure, what the hell.

    The folks in theatre 2 were made privy to the big news story you saw yesterday, while in theatre 1 the big revelation was that Jason Lee will indeed appear in “Dogma” as the character of Azrael. Kevin said that he’s certain Jason will do a fantastic job with the part. Lee has given 2 show-stopping performances in Rats & Amy, and we’re sure “Dogma” will be no exception.

    Thanks to Aaron Fowler and Darl for making sure we knew the news, and to Aaron Perkins for coming up with the question that elicited this answer & news at the ‘Thon!

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