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February 17th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brodie, Greg Hall, Jason Harris, Joel, Simon, Allan, Justin McGill, Chris, Insane Ian, Fuk Boy & Homer

  • Kevin’s run on Daredevil (1-8) is nominated for an Eagle Award, apparently a pretty prestigious award, at that. He’s nominated for Favourite Comics Story, and is up against No Man’s Land, Heart of Empire, Avenger’s Forever, Inhumans, and Sam and Twitch. Voting can be done online HERE.
  • Superman Lives is big in the news today…Why, do you ask? Well, it looks like the project may be saved, thanks to a new script from William Wisher, the dude that wrote “Terminator 2”. Word has it that Tim Burton and Nic Cage are quite pleased with the script, and that the flick’s getting closer to materializing again. Thanks to Hollywood Reporter, the Canoe website and the Popcorn website for the story.

ALSO – Comics Scene ran a story featuring quite a few sketches that were made for the proposed Supes movie a way back, and we hear they’re pretty good. Be sure and pick up a copy if you’re so inclined. Now that Kev’s not involved with the flick anymore, our coverage will certainly wind down.

  • Well, ya heard what happened to us when WE played the Dogma drinking game, now those of you within walking distance of the Brew & View pub in Chicago will have YOUR chance. Dogma and Mallrats start screening there this Friday the 18th through Tuesday (22nd) and then once again on Thursda (24th). They play at 10pm and 12am respectively. We hear it’s a great place to grab some beers and catch a good flick. Print out those game rules, folks!
  • Speaking of screenings, here’s another for those of you that for some ungodly reason missed Dogma on the big screen or just wanna catch it again: Dogma is going to be shown on March 31 at von der Mehden on the University of Connecticut campus. Tickets for students are $4 and $6 for the general public. The boxoffice opens at 7 p.m. and the movie starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call (860) 486-2260.
  • Got LOTS of mail on this, sorry if we missed some scoopers but apparently a lot of ya heard: Salma Hayek got a nod, but not in a GOOD way – A WORST actress nomination from the “Razzies” for her Dogma and Wild Wild West performances. We assume mostly for WWW, that awful piece of garbage. Oh well!
  • Jay Mewes is in the news today, for picking up 2 awards! First of all, High Times magazine (which featured Jay on their cover earlier this year) selected Jay as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy. He was also voted, believe it or not, “Second Greatest Man Alive” on the Apartment 3 Gazette at www.sierraice.com. Alrighty. Big day for Jay!

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February 17th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Well, we’re in sort of a lull here after the big update on the 15th, but we DO have a few newsbites to share with ya that may be of interest. ALSO, we are JUST starting to hear buzzing of Reel.Com cancelling Chasing Amy DVD orders on some folks, claiming that the DVD was pulled from release. We assume this is just a mistake, and that the disc IS on schedule, of course, there may be a bit of a delay due to the new material and the remaster, but we’re sure it won’t be bad if that’s the case. At any rate, just hang in there until we hear otherwise.

By the way, if anyone has some good online sources for DVDs from other regions (outside of the US and Canada, that is), VCDs and stuff, could ya let us know?? Much appreciated.