• Check out the cover for Green Arrow #3 in all it’s beautiful full-color glory by clicking the thumbnail. The issue is written by Kevin Smith; art by Phil Hester and Ande Parks; cover by Matt Wagner.

• Yep, Kevin sure does know how to pick ‘em!

• Michael McClelland has given a huge thumbs-up to Kevin’s Daredevil run from last year. Read his review at Stan the Man’s Lee’s website right HERE, true believers.
• To all who are interested in seeing ‘Clerks’ on the big screen (in all its glory once again), the Phoenix Film Festival is happening February 9-11, 2001 at the AMC Arizona Center Theatre in downtown Phoenix. On Friday and Saturday nights, at midnight, they will be screening three of what we call ‘Midnight Independent Classics’. They will include, in addition to two others, Kevin Smith’s immortal ‘Clerks’. Check out their website at www.phxfilm.com.
• A re-airing of Ben Affleck’s Inside the Actor’s Studio appearance is running this weekend on IFC. Check your cable or satellite listings if ya wanna catch it.
• And finally today, Dogma never seems to get out of the spotlight! This time, it’s protests in POLAND! Check out the full Yahoo story right HERE. We’ll see ya next time.

• Want to talk back in an area where spoilers from the stories below can be openly discussed? Do it here! Feel free to chat away about the new flick, but only enter if you don’t want stuff spoiled. Enjoy!

• Hey folks…There’s some SPOILERS ahead, minor ones, but still, spoilers all the same. Since as you know, many fans had the opportunity to be extras at the El Rey theater yesterday, naturally, some reports were going to come in. Naturally, we got a ton of them here and Aint It Cool News even posted some pics from the event, which include a certain film that’s playing on the marquee. We’ve got those shots, and a summary of what we learned about the production. Naturally, we don’t want to ruin any of the film for those of you that want to go in cold (as hard as that is these days), so we’re going to hide as much as we can. We’ve blurred the thumbnails above, but click them if you’d like to take a look. Also, swipe the text below if you’d like to read the information learned about the film. Bear in mind these are not major spoilers, just some small tidbits:

• The film on the marquee is a “Bluntman & Chronic” movie, which is apparently the film within the film. In this film, Jason Biggs plays the “Bluntman” character and James Van Der Beek plays “Chronic”.
• The AICN scooper saw a scene being filmed with Jason Lee and Dwight Ewell walking out of the theater and fighting. We’re not sure which charaters Lee and Ewell were playing at the time, but it’s likely that we’re seeing Banky & Hooper there.

And finally, this isn’t much of a spoiler, just a confirmation, but we hear that Joey Lauren Adams DOES reprise her role as Alyssa Jones! We’ll have more from the set as it becomes available.

• Well, this scoop may be even bigger than the pics above…Again, no major spoilers here except for details of who was involved in the scene that was shot yesterday and which characters play what…So if you’re curious about where Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrel, and others fall into place in the flick, swipe the text below. Mike’s done a great job of summarizing what he saw on set, and it sounds like extras were in for a treat yesterday, as practically every major player was on the scene to appear outside the movie theater (we’re guessing that a lot of the previous characters from the other films appear in this scene and possibly no others). One of the scenes described here is apparently the end of the film, so it could also be considered a SPOILER, but it doesn’t give too much away, at least from our standpoint, having not read the script. As always, our standpoint on this is READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you don’t want to know anything about the film, just move on. If you don’t care if some details are spoiled, swoop away:

Very interesting stuff there! We’ll continue our extensive coverage of the filming here and over at our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back site! Stay tuned as more exciting developments take place.

• 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.

• We’d been hearing speculation, but weren’t sure until E! Online and Cinescape today officially broke the news that Eliza Dushku (we know her as girl-gone-bad “Faith” on Buffy The Vampire Slayer) will play “an aggressive jewel thief” in the flick. We hear that Kevin actually created the role around her after a lengthy audition. Sounds like a very interesting role for a flick that grows more and more interesting and complex by the day. We’ll keep ya posted!

• Aint It Cool News’s own Mysterio has been working hard on getting this together, and we congratulate him on his first of what looks to be many on-set reports from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back! Almost makes us wanna pack up News Askew and move it out to the west coast! Anyway, the first report involves a reading of the script and a meeting with Kevin, and is quite extensive. The best part of this coverage is that it’s SPOILER FREE, which is the way we like to see things kept around here. So, while he has read the script and will be on set, none of the details of the flick, including its plot and surprises, are going to be ruined for us. Here’s a preview of some of the more interesting stuff:

We’re going to be asking AICN’s permission to repost the stuff on our Jay & Bob page in an archive, but in the meantime, you can read the entire piece HERE.

• Those of you who submitted information to appear as extras in the film for January 25th at the El Rey theater hould be receiving callbacks today or tomorrow, if not already. Best of luck and be sure to send your reports from the set to us here at the site, we’d love to hear about your experiences. Did you make it? Mysterio says, “Basically if you’ve submitted your photo and called during the time the phone number for extras casting was posted, it’s a pretty safe bet you’re in. Now sure pretty safe may not sound much like a “for sure” right now, but Kev has assured me that you folks WILL be getting called; probably as early as tomorrow with the details.”