- We’re not sure where this date comes from (as there hasn’t really been an official announcement from Lions Gate yet) but the Upcoming Movies site is listing Vulgar as having an August 24th release date.
- It’s a bit of a rough scan, but it IS the first shot from inside the Quick Stop that appeared in the Star Ledger last week. We’re hoping to get clearance to bring you more shots from inside the store soon.
- Dogma got a small, positive mention in the Christian Science Monitor’s March 13th edition, with a photo and this text (on an article about relgion in Hollywood):
In the comic “Dogma,” two fallen angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) think they’ve found a loophole in Roman Catholic dogma that will allow them to escape their punishment and reenter heaven.
While none of these movies have equaled the profits of Hollywood blockbusters, all have played in a substantial number of American theaters within the past couple of years, suggesting that audiences have an interest in films with religious themes.
- Here’s an Eliza Dushku article from the May issue of ‘Elle’ which took place whilst she was filming J&SBSB:
RAGING BELLE
Eliza Dushku, 100-lb heavyweight, goes up against Robert De Niro (and everyone else)
Eliza Dushku, strikes a fighter’s pose for the finale in director Kevin Smith’s new slapstick comedy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Her stance is tough, assured. Her tiny hips jut to one side, and her hands are balled into fists. While Smith struggles to get the right camera angle, and co-star Ben Affleck looks on, Dushku delivers the same line – “I am so sick of this bull-s–t!” – over and over before a stuntwoman mock-kicks her in the head.
“We always fight stunt doubles; otherwise the actors would do too much damage to one another,” explains Dushku, 20, with a wry smile while striding off the L.A. set for a quick break. She plops into a director’s chair and takes a deep breath. “They don’t actually hit you, but you get thrown around. I had my face smashed earlier; that hurt.”
For Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fans, Dushku in a brawl should be easy to picture; as Buffy’s gravelly voiced nemesis, Faith, she held her own against Sarah Michelle Gellar, both as adversary and star. She got raves in last summer’s hit Bring It On, playing a hard-edged cheerleader opposite perky team captain Kirsten Dunst. Next, Dushku takes no prisoners in three upcoming movies. The New Guy, about a geek who reinvents himself as the big man on campus (from the writer of There’s Something About Mary), and Jay and Silent Bob are both out this summer. In September she stars in City by the Sea, appearing opposite Robert De Niro – for the second time.
Dushku first met De Niro when she was ten. She landed the part of his daughter in This Boy’s Life after grabbing a casting director’s attention when she fell and got a bloody nose at a commercial audition. “She was fairly precocious, confident, and she could act – and was therefore known to Bob [De Niro] and me as “that pain in the a–,” says Boy’s Life director Michael Caton-Jones. “Eliza’s very noisy, Bob’s very quiet; I was the referee.”
Cut to last winter, when Jones reunited Dushku and De Niro for City by the Sea, about a cop who investigates his own son for murder. This time, the “pain in the a–” plays the reformed-junkie mother of De Niro’s baby grandson. “The first time Bob saw me again he had this look like, ‘Oh my God, the kid got breasts!’” Dushku says with a throaty laugh. “I think I made the guy blush a couple of times.” If anyone could make De Niro blush, it would be Dushku, who says she was born with “an attitude.” She and he three older brothers were raised in a Mormon household by their mom, a divorced feminist political-science professor at Suffolk University in Boston. But early on Dushku realized she wasn’t Mormon material, often ditching church and hitchhiking home.
Dushku’s brand of bad girl gone good – or good girl gone bad, depending on the part – is riveting to watch. She exemplifies a unique female prototype: the girl who just doesn’t give a [insert your own four-letter word here] what anyone else thinks. At a mere five feet four and 100 pounds, Dushku gives the impression that she could kick your butt.
Unfortunately, there’s no time to don boxing gloves; Dushku has to go get her head bashed some more. She grabs a cookie off a plate and crams it in her mouth and then, almost as an afterthought, hands you a double-chocolate one and says, “You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you’ll ever meet.” This may be true, but as you watch her storm back on set you can’t help thinking, That stunt double better watch her back. – Deanna Kizis
By the way, Dark Horizons has also posted the trailer to “The New Guy” a flick starring DJ Qualls (Kyle from “Road Trip”) and Dukshu. You can find the that trailer HERE.
- Kevin’s quoted about hockey in this week’s copy of The Sporting News. On page 49, he naturally picks New Jersey as the team to bring home the cup this year:
Kevin Smith, director, actor:
Don’t know if they can repeat the phenomenal season they had last year that culminated with the snagging of the Cup behind enemy lines, but as a Jersey boy, I’m going to have to say the Devils, of course.
- The Silent Bob figure shows up in the latest Toyfare magazine. Check out the scan above.
- Don’t forget, Clerks will be playing in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse at midnight tonight. The promotion for it says they’ll also be showing outtakes, the alternate ending and behind the scenes footage. Admission is 5 bucks.
- For those of you out there using AOL Instant Messenger, there’s a Silent Bob buddy icon up on www.angrygopher.com.
- Rumor has it that those dates to be extras on “The Sum Of All Fears” (with Affleck) in Montreal will be on May 9th and 10th. They’ll be looking to fill Olympic Stadium with extras.
