- Finally today, we’ve uncovered another story about the great Jim Mahfood, artist of the Clerks comic. Read all about it HERE.
Archive for May 29th, 1998
Oni, Clerks & The IFC…
- We’ve got a nice Oni Press scoop for you today, by the way of a press release. Apparently,they’ll be playing a part in the IFC’s “Clerks” marathon. Here’s more:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — MAY 27, 1998
Independent Film Channel and Oni PressStay Open All Night
The Independent Film Channel will air an Open All Night Clerks MarathonSaturday, June 13. The Open All Night Marathon will present the widescreenformat version of Kevin Smith’s film CLERKS for 12 straight hours. Theshowings will alternate between the version of the film as seen intheaters, and the version of the film with director Kevin Smith’scommentary about it, as found on the Criterion laser-disc edition. Aftereach showing, there will be a never-before-seen on television segmentpresenting out-takes and the theatrical trailers from the film.Oni Press is a promotional partner in this event. During the breaksbetween showings of the film, an Oni Press placard bearing the companylogo and featuring a graphic of CLERKS: THE COMIC BOOK and the photo coverof JAY & SILENT BOB #1, along with the Comic Shop Locator Service Number(888-COMIC BOOK) will be shown. A voice over urging viewers to call inorder to find out where and how they can obtain copies of the books willaccompany the visual.
The Independent Film Channel is the most widely distributed channeldedicated to independent film on television. Managed and operated by BravoNetworks, IFC is a pay-channel presenting independent films uncut andcommercial-free, 24 hours per day. The IFC advisory board is comprised ofMartin Scorsese, Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Robert Altman, Joel and EthanCoen, Martha Coolidge, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh and EdSaxon. IFC reaches more than 13 million homes nationwide.
We at Oni Press are very excited about this opportunity, and are surethis will be an exciting event for the Independent Film Channel, theirviewers, comic shops, their customers, and Kevin Smith fans all-around. Formore information on this event, please feel free to contact either theoffices of Oni Press or the Independent Film Channel as listed below.
By the way, you might be missing our new and improved Oni Press Releases page! On it, you’llfind ALL the Oni press releases (even the non-askew ones, just because we like the gang sodarn much…). For the latest Oni info, it’s a great place to go.
AICN Kevin Rumors Explained…
- Alright, well, we’d hoped to save an update for later, but so many of you were mailing us about this story that appeared on AICN today, so we thought we’d better speak up! First, the story, then, our comments:
Warner Brothers and Kevin Smith???
Ok folks, now the first thing I’m gonna say, is don’t go running out telling everyone you know that this is so, Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, I got some interesting vibrations that came out of the oil tincan today. The first one was that WARNER BROTHERS is talking to Kevin Smith about SUPERMAN LIVES and that theproject isn’t dead, then the next bit came from another vibration saying that WARNER BROTHERS is hiring Kevin Smith to do the script for THE SCOOBY DOO MOVIE. Sudden evil comes over Harry as he envisions Ben Affleck with blonde hair as Fred and Banky as Shaggy (REPEAT THIS ISN’T TRUE JUST A HARRY DELUSION)
So what can we gleam from this? Well that according to the sources I have in Terry Semel’s office, Kevin Smith and Warner Brothers are talking about…something. Ok all you View Askewers, what’s up?
First of all, we’ve dropped Harry a line to try and fill him in and let him know what we think of all of this. In the note, we basically said that, although both rumors MAY be true, we’d believe the Warners chatting with Kev about Supes again is much more likely than the Scooby project. Kev’s just got too much on his plate with Dogma’s post-production, the book, the Fletch script, and all the comics to undertake yet ANOTHER script, at least this year. However, after seeing all the articles touting what a great script that Kevin came up with for Supes Lives, it wouldn’t at all surprise us to see the brothers Warner knocking on the VA office door again…