Just in time for Christmas and another item in our series of merchandise even you can afford:

The Vulgar Afterparty Invite Button – issued to very special guests for the afterparty at the Vulgar world premiere at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival.

The button measures 4″ in diameter and proudly states “Vulgar party 2000 – I’m Invited, Now let Me The Fuck In!”

The back gives the address and time of the secret party location. These are authentic.

All that for $2.50. Buy them now.

HISTORY GONE ASKEW

Director Kevin Smith may use the Net better than any other filmmaker, and his rabid fan-base is right there with him all the way. Smith’s next project under his View Askew production banner, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (which he’s detailing on the Web in fascinating weekly columns on the Psycomic site), is the culmination of a series of intertwining characters and storylines from past Smith films including Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma. In an effort to keep track of the comings and goings of all these varied characters, the HistoryAskew site features a timeline of overlapping events from all the movies, including Jay and Silent Bob cameos in Scream 3 and the events of the Clerks animated TV series. Now, even newcomers to Smith’s universe will be able to keep track of a world in which ”almost every character in each film has slept with or at least gone down on a character from another View Askew production.”

Word comes my way that the headline-grabbing deaths at the teeth of Great White Sharks off South Africa and Australia have made bosses at Universal Pictures green light another Jaws movie.  The original Jaws, which was followed by three sequels, is still one of the most successful films ever made, but the last installment in the fishy saga was so rotten you could probably contract botulism from it.

Steven Speilberg’s moster-hit remains hugely popular among cinema audiences and the movie’s exhibit at the Universal Studios Theme Park is easily the top attraction at the Florida tourist trap.

No specific news on what Jaws 5’s story will be about, but it looks like it will be fairly unrelated to the first four movies and have more than one Great White chewing up the surf.

Speilberg is incredibly unlikely to be involved but Jaws fan and Clerks and Mallrats writer/director Kevin Smith is in talks to provide a rough draft of the script.