• Due to the overwhelming amount of e-mail and requests for an update on the Dogma: Special Edition DVD, we felt we’d better do an update about it even though there’s really no new news, just in the hopes that the mails will stop! Although chains like Amazon and Best Buy are all reporting a release date of April 10, this is all just speculation as there still has been no official resolution to the problems and there is NO set release date. As soon as an official announcement is made, we will have it, rest assured. We want the disc as bad as all of you, and are sad that it’s still not on the shelves. We’ve got a lot of contacts that are involved with the disc though, and are doing our best to keep in touch with them and bring any updates we can. It’s just that lately, there hasn’t been much to say.

Another popular e-mail subject of late is Shannen Doherty‘s involvement in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, due to her name being listed on the Internet Movie Database in conjunction with the film. As far as we know, unless this was meant to be some big surprise, Kevin has not admitted to Doherty’s involvement, and, given their past relationship during Mallrats and her current TV schedule, we highly doubt it. Still, with a film full of cameos, anything is possible. If we hear that she is officially on board, we’ll report it, otherwise, chalk it up as IMDB’s error.

• A couple of screening opportunities for View Askew flicks are happening around the US, check below and see if you’re within range:

• Minnesota State University-Mankato will be showing Clerks on February 1st at 7:00 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m.; Mallrats on February 2nd at 7:00 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m.; Chasing Amy on February 3rd at 7:00 p.m.; and a “Kevin Smith Marathon” on February 4th, starting at 3:00 p.m. and it will show all three movies back-to-back-to-back.
• Clerks is going to be shown at midnight at the Arizona Center February 9th – 11th.
• And finally, you can JUST make this one – There’s as screening of Chasing Amy tonight at 7PM at West Virginia State College in Cole Complex Room 315.

• From UK’s The Guardian website: Hollywood buddies Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are set to team up again for a new baseball film about a real-life wife-swapping scandal. According to reports, Damon has bought the rights to sportswriter Maury Allen’s memoirs “All Roads Lead to October” which chronicles the highs and lows of the New York Yankees. However, Damon is planning to focus only on the chapter which recounts the exploits of team-mates Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekick. According to Allen: “They literally exchanged wives, kids, houses, furniture, dogs and cats. They hatched the swapping plan whilst they were at my house.”
• Want to check out some pics of celebs arriving at the openings of Kev’s films, among others? There’s lots of Dogma and Mallrats stuff here featuring Lee and Doherty. Check them out at photographer Steve Granitz’s official website of celebrity photographs.