- Yep, it’s up for another one. This time, “Chasing Amy” has been nominated for a fairlystrange sounding category: “Best Foreign Film in English Language” in the British IndependentFilm Awards! The whole thing’s sponsored by the Raindance Film Showcase, a cool festivalthat’s showing the allegedy excellent (though we’ve yet to see a frame of it) Six StringSamurai…Anyway, the awards take place in London, on October 29th at the Cafe Royal.
- Apparently, Ben Affleck’s Armageddon figure is not selling all that well. We hear rumors that comic shop owners are trading in with the company to get more BruceWillis figures. Sad! Get out there, and demand more A.J. figues, dammit!
- A scooper also sends up details of Nike coomercial #2, airing nationwide during footballgames on Sunday:
I was watching the WB Network (don’t ask why), and I saw another Nikecommerical with Mewes in it. It’s basicly the same thing as the bridgeone, only it’s on a basketball court. Mewes tells some b-ball player towear the shoes to be nicer to the ground. He also makes a joke about howyour “Your not dribbling, your passing! The ground passes it back toyou!”. Then at the end he says something about how he loves the ground,and gets down to kiss it, and says something like “HEY! Who put this gumhere?!”
- Captain Comics, a syndicated column on comicbook collecting, reports (in the October 4th column):
“– Did I mention strange? Action figures this month include Spy vs. Spy andAlfred E. Neuman from Mad magazine and Jay & Silent Bob from Kevin Smithmovies like Chasing Amy, Mallrats and Clerks. Jay & Silent Bob, against allexpectations, have made a successful transition to a very funny comic bookat Oni Press. Go figure.”
- In Comics 2 Film’s (http://www.comics2film.com)newest poll, they ask who should play Spider-man if they ever make the Spider-man movie. Twoof the options are View Askew-ers Matt Damon and Jason Lee. Go vote for your favorite!!
- Rounding out the day, Ben’s Official Site is up at : http://www.affleck.com. It’s not finished, but you can view the front page. It looks like it’sgoing to be very well designed (from what little you can see that is…
