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September 18th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Matt, Max Burke , Zms, Blinkboy & JD

  • “Clerks” will be shown (35mm print) at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (just outside Chicago) at Norris University Center on Friday, September 24 at 11:30PM and Saturday, Sept. 25 at 6:30PM. Admission is 3 bucks. Go and fillthem seats up!
  • The DareDevil #1/2 issues that were only available through order in Wizard have started to ship. The story basicallyrevolves around the introduction between Kingpin and Mysterio. There’s some hilarous pics in the issue with Kev, Joe, & Jimmythat we’ve got for ya, along with a copy of the certificate of authenticity that comes with the book (since it’s rare) and,of course, the cover. All of it can be found on our DareDevil page. The DD page will most likely go dormant until Kev returns to the series, now. We’re still reading though. We’re hooked!
  • Entertainment Weekly‘s latest issue discussees the Top 100 movie moments. Kevin’s surprisingly missing from the Top100 list, except for his picks for the Top 5 comic book movies, however Amy does get an honorable mention of sorts:
BEYOND THE TOP TEN
A selective guide to some other ’90s treasures

7. Chasing Amy (1997) The easy comic rhythms of Kevin Smith’s mostaccomplished film propel a sophisticated, philosophical story ofmodern-day morals and desires.

Damon & Affleck are also named as the best offscreen duo of the 90’s in this section.

  • We dunno if it was because of the popularity due to our mentioning of their abridged Clerks script the other day, butThe Editing Room has now posted abridged scripts for Mallrats and Chasing Amy as well!
  • The VH-1 Storytellers Episode Featuring Alanis will premiere Sunday, October 3rd, at 10:30 PM ET. Here’s what she says about “Still”:
* “Still”: This song was inspired by Kevin Smith’s new film, “Dogma,” in which Alanis plays the role of God. The film is Smith’s “take on Catholicism and God in general…I hadn’t written anything in a long time and it felt really great…the lyrics are things I’ve thought a lot about lately…this is my take on what I believe God is.”

CNN Offers Up 3 New Dogma Clips, Story…

September 18th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Lazlo, Andrew Happli, John French , Shawn Sanders, Steve Cohn, KMower, Michael Alberghini, Ted Hardy, Steven Cohn, Ryan Fedon & Benjamin Lynch

  • Naturally, since Dogma premiered in Toronto, there’s been an amazing amount of requests for interviews with Kevin and the gang. Many pieces have surfaced on the web and in print over the past few days, and they’re all being added to Dogma Rumor Control’s Press Section. The standout piece comes to us from CNN, who write a long, detailed account of all the controversy surrounding the film, present 4 new stills, and 2 exclusive clips. You can find the clips linked at our files page, and the latest stories all on the press page.

Dogma Site Fully Online…

September 18th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Ming

  • Ming dropped us a line with the excellent news that the Official Dogma Website (www.dogma-movie.com) has now gone online. The site is amazing, including a animated Flash-enhanced interface, TONS of behind the scenes stills, the complete Dogma Diaries that we compiled here at RC, and lots, lots more. Here’s Ming with a summary on the fruits of his efforts:
So here’s the scoop on the Dogma website.

It is now up and fully functional at www.dogma-movie.com. We got the green light to launch it yesterday. Please block off the next hour or so and take a look. And as always, please let me know what you think. My only hope is that everyone gets something out of it.

A couple notes:

1) The full treatrical trailer is up and running. QuickTime 4.0 is highly recommended.

2) Some of the images in the ‘From the Eyes of the Director’ section may be considered a bit spoilerish. If you’re concerned about seeing Lee’s horns close up, don’t head into any of the Lee sections. Buddy Christ pics are scattered around the site as well and I believe that’s all an open book at this point. I think the section some people may want to be careful around are the Church pics (‘Keep Holy the Lord’s Day’) however. A marked image index is provided for anyone who’s concerned.

3) We’ll have an outtake posted early next week featuring Scott Mosier entitled, “Is This Your Dog?” It’ll be dumped in the Multimedia section.

Sounds great! We’ll keep ya posted here as to when cool new stuff appears at the Dogma site. They’ve even got a HATE LETTER of the week section, which we found quite clever.

To celebrate the site’s appearance, you can now get the Mooby Magnet set, on sale through the Stash.

FINALLY: Ming tells us that the one sheet is speeding its way to him as we speak. It was pressed about 3 days ago. The Dogma site will present the one sheet any day now. We’ll have it here for ya, as well.