• Looks like Vincent’s done a real bang-up job with a screening yet again, as promised! His film’s just great, and you can really tell how much pride he has in it when he attends a showing of ABP. Anyway, here’s an on-site report from a fan who had an excellent time — And you’ll see what we mean…

We’ll have those scans soon, hopefully! Keep in mind that ABP screens again at this festival in a week (watch our countdowns) and hopefully streets on DVD this fall. We’ll keep ya posted, for sure.

• In the next day or two, you should notice…nothing. Well, except that we’re on a new server. As we’ve said, though, this move is designed to be transparent to viewers, so really, aside from a message telling you that you’re now on the new server, things should look and operate just as they always have. Hopefully things will be a bit speedier for ya, but we’re working on optimizations off and on, behind the scenes. What we WOULD like to hear is if you have any problems on the new server, such as slowness, pages NOT loading, links not working, graphics missing, and the like.

When ya move a website as large as this one, you’re bound to screw something up or forget something. We think it looks good, but COME ON! We can’t be perfect! So, if you find something wrong, let us know…Please!

Also, now that the move is complete, expect some nice surprises in the next few weeks. We’ve got some little enhancements here and there on the horizon and, hopefully, a couple major scoops as well. Just some stuff we’ve been saving for a big occasion like this.

Oh, and by the way, News Askew is now being hosted by Create-A-Web. Service has been great so far, so if you’re looking for a host for yourself, look into them. This is by no means a commercial for them, we’re still paying to house the site there, so if you DO get on board, tell ’em that we sent ya and they’ll throw a free month our way. Every little bit helps!

Domain names take time to get across the entire internet, so, over the weekend, we’ll update at both the old and the new server sites to give your local internet connections time to catch up with us at the new home. Effective Sunday, though, we’ll remove our pages from the old server and put a forwarding message that automatically carries you over. If you’re seeing that, send your provider a message and tell them to reboot their domain name servers! They’ll know what you mean.

That being said, enjoy the site & the new server. We’re happy to be here.

• Many news outlets, including Anotheruniverse, now say they have an OFFICIAL release date for Dogma in the UK! The date, ironically, is the day AFTER Christmas: December 26, 1999. Great news for all of you overseas! As for us here in the states, this definitely tells us that we’ll see the flick before THAT date anyway. We hope it still hits the predicted mid-October slot. At any rate, we’ll keep ya posted, of course.
• The Project Pocketwatch site posted a new pics recently, and is near completion! Be sure and drop by for a visit if it’s been a while – We’ve always been fans of this project, and loved the idea.
• Jason Lee appears (looking quite sinister, we might add) in Movieline Magazine this month. In it, they talk about Dogma, Mumford, and the upcoming Cameron Crowe film. We really dig this piece, too. Lee has some great stuff to say about working with Kev (that you’ll love to see), and there’s quite a few other tidbits as well (Click the pic for a closer look):

Jason Lee considers himself lucky to be sitting in front of me at Canter’s deli, crunching on a salad. Only yesterday, he and a fishing buddy were stuck for hours in the mountains outside of L.A. when their SUV went off the road. “It was definitely scary,” he tells me, “but I don’t think it would have gotten to the point where my friend and I had to eat each other.” Lee’s hiply sardonic, hang-loose style set him refreshingly apart from the glam troop of young actors emerging from hit TV shows. He does, in fact, come from somewhere else entirely — he’s a former professional skateboarder who got into acting on a whim. “I was curious about movies,” he says, “the way you might wonder what life in the army’s like.” Lee’s breakthrough performance two years ago as the caustic but charming comic book artist in Kevin Smith’s indie favorite Chasing Amy so impressed Lawrence Kasdan that the writer/director wrote the role of a computer-software genius specifically for him in the ensemble comedy Mumford. The actor’s current hirsute state — shaggy hair and mountain man’s free-flowing beard — is for his rock-star turn in Cameron Crowe’s upcoming film about an American band circa 1973. Meanwhile, Lee will be on-screen this fall as a demon named Azrael in Kevin Smith’s controversial religious satire Dogma, which stars Alanis Morissette as God, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as genital-free renegade angels and Chris Rock as a troublemaking disciple. “I don’t see it as controversial,” Lee says. “It’s a Kevin Smith movie, with his fast, witty dialogue. I’ll work with Kevin Smith for the rest of my life. That’s my position on it.” Acting, according to Lee, turns out to be a lot like professional skateboarding. “The more you do it, the more confidence you get. Then you’re controlling it, instead of it controlling you.” That goes for choosing projects as well. Lee says he’ll try anything, except for certain stuff he’soffered all the time. “My agent knows I’d rather not work than do any of the Gen-X-kids-on-the-edge movies. You know: teenybopper mayhem, two guys in a car full of diamonds, on the road, and they pick up a waitress or a stripper and blah, blah, blah. I’d rather work for established directors who are at least trying to say something.” –Joshua Mooney

• MTV’s Fanatic is looking for Chris Rock’s #1 fan! Maybe it’s YOU! All we ask is that you throw a question about News Askew in the mix somewhere if ya win. Heh heh. Here’s details…

A closing note today: I mentioned that updates were quick due to time limitations and all the other stuff that needs to be done on the site. This goes for e-mail, too. Every once in a while, I feel the need to let ya know — I do my best to respond to ALL the site’s mail in a timely manner, but often those responses need to be short just because there’s SO many of you to get back to. Please don’t take it as an insult, we truly appreciate ALL the mail we get, and still read every since piece of it. Thanks a lot! We’ll see ya next time…And hopefully get Dogma:RC up to date then as well!