• We’re currently working on a story covering your upcoming chances to see “A Better Place” up on the big screen, the way it was MEANT to be seen, prior to it’s home video release…But in the meantime, be sure and check out the jam-packed OFFICIAL SITE with pics, interviews, the press packet, news, and lots, lots, more. Vincent and webmaster Jesse Ray Boehm have done a nice job.
• Canadians take heed: A chance to see Clerks, uncut, for free! It’s being shown on SHOWCASE this Thursday, April 1st, at 11 PM eastern time. Tune on in. You’re SUPPOSED to be there that day.
• A new favorite site of ours, upcomingmovies.com, has added a Coyote Ugly preview page. For the uninformed, Kevin’s writing on the script for Mike Bey as we speak (possibly finished, who knows?).
• And finally today, we thank The Den over at Daily Movies, who gave News Askew (and our trilogy of drinking games) a very kind writeup today:

They then go on to print the rules for the Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy games. By the way, for you newer arrivals to News Askew, these were the suckers that we created at the inception of this page (that grew into the monster that you see now!). It’s nice to see the ‘ol games still getting some recognition. As always DRINK RESPONSIBLY! Thanks.

‘Til next we meet…

• Here’s something pretty cool that we hadn’t seen or read about anywhere…Of course, we ASSUMED it would come, but hadn’t heard a peep about til now: Kevin’s ENTIRE Daredevil run collected in one trade paperback! Our scooper peeked at a recent Production memo that was routed to certain people’s desks and spotted something called DAREDEVIL VISIONARIES: KEVIN SMITH added to the list. A closer look revealed that this 192-page trade paperback, set to go on sale in September, will collect DAREDEVIL (vol. 2) #1-8 into one handy volume! This is great news for collectors as well as those of you who missed a few issues or were just too damned lazy to buy them (what’s WRONG with you?). We’ll have more on this one as soon as we can confirm.

• Lots of nice stuff to talk about today, some small, some big, but all equally important. On our side, we’ve got a few cool things in the works, as well – First of all, the kind hosts extended the red carpet to us for the Rider University screening next Thursday night (April 8th), so we’re planning to attend. It’s been close to 2 years since we’ve seen Kevin speak, and Rider’s not TOO big of a drive for us, so plan on some first-hand coverage of that event (though we still welcome your own stories and pictures, of course). Also, we’re hearing the rumblings of what could be a major event here at News Askew, but aren’t going to say more until we get some details worked out. Stay tuned, you won’t be sorry! And now, the news: