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August 13th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Zeebadaboodee, Herbie, Amie Logan, Dave Zatz & Larry Seltzer

  • Some sad news, Amy DVD fans: Latest reports point to the Chasing Amy DVD (as well as Alliance’s OTHER cool release, From Dusk ‘Til Dawn), NOT being 16:9 enhanced. This doesn’t mean much now, unless you have a widescreen set like me, but it DOES mean that the disc won’t have a new transfer or anything fancy like that. Sounding more and more to us like a carbon copy of the Criterion laser, which is fine with us, we suppose we were just hoping for a LITTLE bit more. Ya can’t win ’em all though. By the way, the splash graphic that looks like cover art over on DVD Depot (The cheap place on the net to buy the Amy DVD) is just something THEY created. No official cover art for the disc is out yet, but we figure that’s close to what it’ll look like. We’ll keep ya posted as we hear more on your chance to round out the triology on DVD.
  • In an article on Another Universe on Harley Quinn, they give a kind nod to the Smiths and their new arrival:
      Even more, Harley had become a pop icon of sorts within the comics community, her popularity guaranteed for long into the next generation thanks to things like Kevin Smith naming his daughter after the character (“How cool is that?” Dini asks) and upcoming Detective Comics writer Greg Rucka sporting a Harley Quinn tattoo on his arm, something he’ll have a fun time explaining to his children.

  • An astute scooper points out you can sorta own stock in Dogma, for REAL, if ya like! Shares are currently less that 2 U.S. dollars each, on the AMEX Stock Market. If you’re a player, might not be a bad little investment. Just don’t forget us little people if ya do well. 😉
  • A piece ran in this week’s Entertainment Weekly Magazine (the Fall Preview issue) with that familiar pic of Matt & Ben sitting at the airport (we saw a good 10 to 20 takes of that one on the set) and a nifty writeup for Dogma that should get the word out there. The issue also lists a November release. We’ll have the full piece for ya soon, I’m just not up for transcribing at 1 AM!

    Video Business Magazine

  • Here’s a nifty pic we dug out of a trade magazine of the gang at the Virgin Megastore Mallrats DVD signing. Enjoy.

    The Blair Clown Project

  • Finally today, not really Askew related, but a faithful reader of ours is putting together what looks to be an excellent, well-made parody on Blair Witch. This one, titled The Blair Clown Project, even has a website modeled after the one that helped to make the original so famous. Click the graphic above to check it out!

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    Dogma Selected For New York Film Festival!

    August 13th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Zeebadaboodee, John Caulfield, Chasing Holden & Scott Kramer

    • Big news comes down today for Dogma…It’s going to be playing at the prestigious New York Film Festival!!! This is another excellent nod from the film community for Dogma, and we’re glad to see it. The fest is also showing “Being John Malcovich”, a flick you may have heard us mention before and that we’re just dying to see after reading Corona’s reports on the thing. Sounds weird. Anyway, both indieWIRE and The Hollywood Reporter ran a story on the films selected for the festival today…we’re just going to share with you the opening paragraphs of each piece, which mention Dogma, to keep this short. First indieWIRE, then Hollywood Reporter:
    The lineup of this year’s New York Film Festival is dominated by controversial fare, including Kevin Smith’s satire of Roman Catholicism, “Dogma,” Harmony Korine’s Dogma 95-style “Julien Donkey-Boy” and Frenchman Léos Carax’s “Pola X,” which was booed at its Cannes premiere.

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    The Film Society of Lincoln Center has confirmed the lineup for the 37th New York Film Festival. After opening with Cannes critics’ favorite, Pedro Almodovar’s “All About My Mother,” the 37th New York Film Festival gets under way on September 24 with a collection of highly anticipated international films. Harmony Korine’s digitally shot Dogma 95 entry “Julien Donkey Boy” will bow in New York after its world debut in Venice. As will Mike Leigh’s Festival Centerpiece “Topsy Turvy,” a biopic about British composers Gilbert and Sullivan, to be released this fall by USA Films. The distributor formerly known as October Films will also unveil music video director Spike Jonze’s first film “Being John Malkovich,” which will also show at Venice. Other domestic highlights include Kevin Smith’s religious comedy “Dogma,” Kim Pierce’s fictionalized version of the Brendan Teena Story, Fox Searchlight’s “Boys Don’t Cry” (formerly titled “Take It Like A Man”) and Robinson Devor’s “The Woman Chaser.”

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    August 13th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

    • Incredibly late update today, so if it seems rushed we apologize – I don’t even think I may take the time to hyperlink it…Well, let’s just see how long it takes to do. Regardless, there won’t be a Saturday update, it’s party time! Perhaps late, late Sunday, after sleeping off a nasty hangover, there’ll be the strength to type a few words for you good folks. We FINALLY got the DNS stuff straighted, so now, if you’re STILL not seeing the new page first (and you get the forwarding white page before the News Askew frontpage), let us know…We wanna see how bad the problem still is. If it’s gone, we’ll take the old server completely offline.

    As always thanks for visiting today, we appreciate it…Hope you enjoy the news we’ve got for ya:

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