- MANY of you caught their first televised trailers/commercials for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back last night, which aired during the MAD TV and Saturday Night Live programs. This is another good sign, as not only does that target the key demographic of the film, but FOX and NBC are major networks. The ad runs the usual 30 seconds and featured Jay & Bob, with George Carlin coming in a close second as far as exposure (as well as a little bit of Ben and Shannon). It’s basically just a condensed version of the theatrical trailer, but they did a fine job with the time they had. We’ll work on getting a capture up for you real soon.
Archive for July 29th, 2001
Reviews Pouring In Over At the News Askew Forums!
- Have you been to the News Askew Forums J&SBSB reviews area yet? This is what will serve as our review database for the duration of the film. Whether you’ve seen it yourself and would like to contibute your own review, or found a review in the paper or on the web elsewhere that you’d like to add in, our goal is for this to be the largest collection of J&SBSB reviews anywhere. Surf over to the Reviews area and add your own, someone else’s, or just read up!
More “Black Cat” Stories…
- Kevin’s announcement about Black Cat has settled in now, but there’s still a few more lingering articles that are showing up. This one was available to subscribers of Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine:
KEVIN SMITH TRIES HIS LUCK WITH BLACK CAT
While it probably doesn’t come as an enormous surprise that today at the San Diego Comicon, Marvel Comics announced writer Kevin Smith would make a return to the publisher to launch a new ongoing series, let’s be honest…how many people thought they were going to announce it would star Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat? Well, they did, and it does.
After earning something of a Midas-reputation for turning two previously floundering properties – Marvel’s Daredevil and DC’s Green Arrow – into sales gold, Smith will get to show if he’s a true alchemist next year when he launches the sometimes-supporting character of the Spider-Man titles into an ongoing series of her very own. Details are still early and sketchy, however. No artist has been assigned yet and the plans are for the series to launch sometime in mid 2002.
The series will be set in current Marvel/Spider-Man continuity and Smith calls the wall-crawler “integral” to the launch of the series. “I think we’re doing a Spidey one-shot that leads into the ongoing Black Cat series,” he said. Though it’s too early to say how closely the new series will tie into the Spidey titles.
Alonso says her adventures will occur in the Spider-Man universe, so he expects that their paths will cross, though asked if she’ll be back in the Mafia-esque New York scene with Silvermane, Cloak & Dagger, and the rest of the Spidey-crew from her heyday, Smith said she’d instead be out and about in new directions.
Alonso said it will be the same character readers have already come to know (”with nuances”), and Smith said he’ll be strictly focusing on the human element of the one-time super-powered character. “But I’ll handle her far grittier than she’s been handled before,” he said. “We’re going to take her in the least likely direction imaginable. Thank God Marveldumped the Code, is all I’m saying.”
The current plan is that like Daredevil and Green Arrow, Smith is committed to the first year of Black Cat, when he’ll then likely move on and let another writer take over the series. But that said he’s winded up staying around Green Arrow longer than first anticipated. His current thinking is he’ll stay on that DC series at least another half year beyond the first, and maybe more.
As to other future Marvel plans, Smith says there may be a Dr. Strange project of some kind in the future, as well as possibly a Daredevil graphic novel illustrated by Quesada.
“But that would be way down the road,” he said.
There’s also a few more notes on the upcoming series in this new article courtesy of Comic Book Resources. Check that one out as well.
View Askew NewsBites™
- A TVO talkshow which recently featured Pat Mastrioanni from Degressi Junior High fame (he played Joey Jeremiah on the show) and a question was directed at him about Kevin’s upcoming appearance on the film. Pat spoke very fondly of Kevin but said that due to scheduling conflicts with Kevin on the set of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back that Kevin will NOT appear on the show. The role is set to go to actor/writer/director Don McKellar (of the very fun “Twitch City” program) instead.
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back got a mention in the current issue of US Weekly. The text is as follows:
James’s Dig At Jason
They may be teen idols, but James Van Der Beek and Jason Biggs don’t mind making fun of there young careers. When Biggs flubbed lines while playing himself in the new comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Van Der Beek cracked, “You wouldn’t last a day on the [Dawson’s} Creek.” Later, when Biggs was recognized for his infamous scene in American Pie, he screamed, “It always comes back to that f—ing pie!”
A scan of the article appears above.
- Marc Spitz made a full page pseudo-game on p. 84 of September’s SPIN magazine (currently on newsstands). It appears to be plugging Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, every other “Jersey” film, and even mentions viewaskew.com and the ruckus on the message boards there. If anyone’s got a scan, send it on!
- The Channel Ten television network in Australia has announced that this Tuesday, July 31st, they will be hosting Chris Rock on the show “Rove Live” that will air at 9:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. There’s no set focus of the interview, but as it will be a live program, J&SBSB will likely at least get a nice mention.
- J&SBSB is currently the #1 most visted preview at Upcomingmovies.com.
- Vulgar is now set for an October 12th limited release.
- The syndicated alternative rock countdown program “Out of Order”’s host Jeb played Afroman’s “Because I Got High” and then went on to say, “If that was the first time you’ve heard that, you’re lucky. Clerks and Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith did that video and his new movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back will be in theaters next month.”
- Mike Avon Oeming will be appearing this weekend at Super-Mega-Show at the Meadowlands Expo Center. It’s mostly a sci-fi/celebrity has-been show, but it’s also your chance to say hi to Mike and maybe get your own Bluntman & Chronic sketch! All the details can be found right HERE.
- Jeff Anderson’s “Now You Know” now has a review available at the IMDB. Check it out HERE.