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October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Nathan Spillman, Neil Marks, TVJ, Josh Babetski

  • DVD Website extraordinaire The Digital Bits reports a tidbit on the Chasing Amy DVD today:
We’ve been told by very good sources, that Buena Vista is negotiating with Criterion to obtain the rights to all of the supplemental materials used for the Chasing Amy laserdisc. Buena Vista reportedly wants to release the title as a Miramax Collectors Edition DVD. Let’s hope that they do a new anamorphic transfer while they’re at it. Whatever disc gets released, you can expect Alliance’s postponed Canadian version to be identical.

This is a good sign, and sort of what we’d expected. We’re afraid to say that Buena Vista is about as likely as Criterionto do a 16:9/anamorphic transfer (and chances of that are slim to none) so we’re not holding our breath. We’d assume thatVincent or Kevin would somehow have gotten involved if something like that was going down, too. All the same, it’ll beworth the dinero for the sweet extras — And let’s hope Kevin gets to make that documentary he mentioned, too.

  • What’s Linda Fiorentino gonna follow up Dogma with? Here’s something hot off the wire:
Linda Fiorentino and Ben Kingsley are in negotiations to star in a dramatization of painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s life titled “Till the End of Time.”

The film, which focuses on the passionate and stormy relationship between O’Keeffe (Fiorentino) and Alfred Steiglitz (Kingsley), is set to begin shooting in November in the U.S and Munich. Marek Kanievska (“Less Than Zero”) will direct.

An O’Keeffe project has been in development at Paramount Pictures for at least a decade, with such actors as Michelle Pfeiffer, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere at various points and in various degrees involved.

  • There’s a George Carlin box set on the way, containing old and previously released material. It’s called “The Little David Years” and it’s set for an October 19th release. 7 discs, including six classic LP’s, [FM & AM, Class Clown, Occupation: Foole, On The Road, Toledo Window Box and An Evening With Wally Landow] plus a seventh disc simply reffered to as “Unreleased Material.” We’re big Carlin fans, and we’re sure this’ll be a way cool set.
  • Looks like Kevin will be in The Big Apple tomorrow again (or, most likely, he just hasn’t left yet) for a taping ofthe Sundance Channel show titled World Cinema Today. It’s happeneing at THE IMAGE GROUP/MTI STUDIOS, 885 Second Avenue @ 47th Street (Entrance on Northwest corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue) in NYC at 12:00 noon. We assume that it’seither limited or closed to the public, but if you’re in the area you may wanna swing on by and check into it.

  • Finally today, Jay & Silent Bob appear in the upcoming Mojo Mechanics, issue #3 (You can order it through Previews now) , from Syndicate Publishing. The guys behind it are big View Askew and News Askew fans, and sent us the first two books…Fun stuff. Definitely worth checking out, even if you’re just collecting books with Jay & Bob references.

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