• Studio Creations is at it again. They’ve created a short one minute cartoon celebrating the release of the Clerks Cartoon DVD. These guys do fantastic work, so don’t miss checking this one out. You can watch it online, totally free, right HERE!
• Today’s DVD Journal reports that the Dogma:SE is looking like it’s going to be released on April 17th, 2001. We’d love if this was true, but have nothing at all to back it up yet. Chalk this one up to just a rumor.
• Kevin gets mentioned in another online poll, this time at entertainment site Amused.com. They ask, “What Kevin Smith movie could easily be improved with a cameo by Charlton Heston?” An interesting question at that. But can anything beat that over the top Wayne’s World appearance?
• You AOL Instant Messenger users may wanna grab this Jay and Silent Bob AIM icon HERE to modify your software.

• Kevin once again checked in as he seems to do every Sunday with a report from last week’s happenings on the set. Sounds like another great week of filming and that everything’s running right on schedule. Looks like that question a lot of you have been asking is finally answered, too – They’ll be back in Red Bank to finish up the last week in March. Here’s Kevin:

• Some glowing reviews of the Clerks TCS DVD are appearing all over the place on the net and the WWWBoard. Once again, the gang at View Askew have put together a quality product packed full of extras. One review sent to us appears at the Home Theater Forum and can be read HERE. UK Site DVD Debate also has their own take on the disc. The reviewer there gives the disc a B+, but it only seems because he wanted more on the disc and thinks it should be marketed differently.

By the way, there have been a few reports coming in regarding faulty Clerks Cartoon DVD sets, both of which feature 2 copies of Disk 1 rather than a Disk 1 and a Disk 2. You can easily tell this because the labels on both discs will have #1 on them (it’s not a content error with disk 2, rather, just 2 of the same #1). We’re not sure how widespread the problem is yet, and we still don’t have copies to see if ours are like this, but be sure and check them out. We’ll try and dig up some details on what you can do to get a replacement if your set is bad.

• There’s an interview in this month’s Maxim with Kevin in which he discusses why he wanted to do Green Arrow, the Superman fiasco and Sam Raimi’s directing of the Spider-Man movie. Nothing we all haven’t heard before, but entertaining nonetheless. We’ll post it if we come across it.
• J&SBSB gets a brief mention in Entertainment Weekly this week under a blurb about Shannon Elizabeth.
• Chris Rock makes a brief mention of the new flick in an interview with the Mr. Showbiz website. Here’s a snippet:

You can read the whole interview HERE.

• The Official Website of Jason Lee’s next flick, Heartbreakers can be found HERE. You can also watch a high-quality trailer for the flick HERE.
• Kevin and Jason in a still from Dogma are used as the link to “Pop Culture Meets Star Wars” reference archive at the Jedinet website. They’re also in the site’s current poll topic.
• Looks like Wizard World will also have coverage from the set starting soon. Here’s the latest from their site:

• Finally today, here’s a pic of Lee in action during the old skating days. Enjoy.

• WARNING! If you downloaded the supposed “View Askew” web browser that was mentioned earlier today in NewsBites, we understand that it contains 2 viruses inside of it. Uninstall this software immediately if you have installed it and scan your system for viruses with the latest software. Sorry for any inconvenience. You can mail this guy if you want to complain: miltonkowsnofski@aol.com.

• Howdy folks. Just a few things to mention regarding some recent stuff on the site. First of all, the disappearing talkbacks problem. Unfortunately, it seems that when a particular talkback category gets too busy or full of posts, it just disappears totally from the server. We’re trying to bugfix it, but it’s tricky, especially since we didn’t write the software that runs the talkback portion of the site. We’ll see what we can do about it. It might also be a server problem but usually even that stuff can be fixed by reprogramming. The biggest pain is that the entire file vanishes, so all the great stuff that’s in there gets lost. We apologize for that.

Now, onto this whole “Which number in the series is J&SBSB” stuff. The Empire Online article made a mistake yesterday when it called the new flick the fourth in the series. As far as we’re concerned, this one’s number 5. However, the first three Jersey Trilogy films should stand on their own, since they were supposedly all in that “world”. Dogma stepped outside of that but not completely, since Jay & Silent Bob referenced the past flicks just by being there. The new film will do that AND incorporate tons of past characters (even from Dogma, we assume). For that reason, it really should be just considered “Kevin Smith’s fifth film” and not really labeled a part of a series. All the films can stand on their own quite nicely. We’re not sure if the author of that Empire piece was mistaken, or just skipped over Dogma. At any rate, hopefully that will settle some of that.

Today we’ve got some various stuff for ya…It’s been another quiet week regarding set reports but we assume Kevin will check in at some point soon to let us know how things went. Hopefully this week’s been as good as the past month. OK, then, let’s see what we’ve got today:

• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have nominated Dogma for a Nebula Award. Kevin’s script goes up against “South Park:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut”, “The Green Mile”, “Galaxy Quest”, “Being John Malkovich”, and “Princess Mononoke”.He is only on the preliminary ballot, however the final ballot will be released in March 2001 and the winner will be announced at the 2001 Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles on April 27-29, 2001. You can get details on these awards at the SFWA’s website HERE.

• Here’s the most info we’ve seen released get on Bluntman & Chronic, coming soon from Graphitti. Thanks to Toyfare magazine for the details:

• Our scooper wasn’t supposed to really chat about the flick at all, but was fortunte enough to catch Jason Lee‘s next flick, “Heartbreakers”, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver. Lee plays the love interest of Hewitt’s character in this one. Anyway, he saw a 2+ hour print of this one, which is bound to be tightened up (as most comedies are), and summarizes what we saw for us below. He gives a high-level outline of what sounds to be at least the first half of the film, so if you want to go in cold, you may wanna skip this one. Personally, I never mind if these types of films get spoiled for me, but it’s your call. Check it out:

• Want to ask Jason Lee a question? Here’s your chance. “Lee World” will be conducting an EXCLUSIVE interview with Jason Lee very soon and they want you to send in questions for the man. Simply send a note to revieraskew@hotmail.com with your questions for Lee and they might just be put in the interview. Get them in by the 23rd of this month. They expect to post their interview on the 26th of February. Make ‘em good, folks.
• The famous “stink-palm” gag gets a mention on Gamespy.com, a popular PC gaming website this week. PVP Online author Scott Kurtz composed this piece on the top ten clues as to Emperor Palpatine’s (of Star Wars fame) true identity. Brodie’s famous Mallrats trick gets a mention, and a picture, at number 2 on the list. The whole article’s fun, and can be checked out HERE.
• Fandom.com has printed an interview with the cast of the upcoming X-Files spin-off THE LONE GUNMEN. In it, there’s a brief mention made of View Askew:

• RTE 1, an Irish TV station, will be showing Chasing Amy next Wednesday, the 21st, at 9:35. Since most of the main video stores (Xtravision and Chartbusters) seem to have gotten rid of their Chasing Amy copies, this’ll be a good chance for those who haven’t seen it to catch it.