• Wow, sure are busy times around these parts, huh? With the big press push starting to kick in real soon, it’s only gonna get busier! We’ll be doing our best to keep on top of all the big press, including the interviews, articles, and appearances. As always, Scooping The Monkey should be a daily stop for you, as when this stuff starts kicking into high gear, we’ll be running some material over there exclusively. As you’ll see below, we’ve added more multimedia to the site as well, and while we’re not sure if it’s going to be the official site of the film, it’s definitely got the biggest collection of sound, video, pics, and stories about the movie. You won’t find more stuff anywhere. Check it out.

How about that Planet of the Apes opening, huh? 64 million in 3 days! Wow. Now those are some majorly impressive numbers. We’re not sure what Dimension is planning for J&SBSB’s opening, but we’re betting that even half of that would be a big win for the film in it’s opening days. The audiences are certainly there, and hitting theaters in droves! Perhaps because it’s been a fairly lackluster summer? The numbers that Rush Hour 2 and American Pie 2 pull in over the next couple of weeks will also be quite interesting to watch. Let’s hope the press machine keeps truckin’ along.

Continuing our coverage of the film, we’re very pleased to announce that we’ll be attending the J&SBSB premiere in Los Angeles on August 15th! We’ll have a full report on everything that goes out out there, exclusively right here at News Askew. By the way, if anyone’s got any suggestions on methods of transporation to take from LAX to Beverly Hills, drop me a line. It looks like it’s about a half an hour ride, and I’m shuddering to think of what the cab fare might be! It would just be nice to know what to expect. It just wasn’t worth the hassle of renting a car for only 2 days. It’s a damn shame that The Price Is Right isn’t taping that day, though, it would have been the perfect place to spend the afternoon before the big show! Thanks to Kevin for flying us out for the big day, it’s gonna be a great time! We’ll have our exclusive first-hand coverage of the event here and over at STM, of course. 16 days til the premiere, and just 23 more days until the film’s released.

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• Be sure to stop over at our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back site, Scooping The Monkey, for the latest multimedia on the film. Just added, two more web exclusives: The first J&SBSB television spot, as well as a piece from Starz! Movie News that we mentioned last week. You’ll find these 2 movies and lots more high quality stuff, with a lot more on the way. Don’t miss it. Thanks to Wayne Bjorne for the heads-up on the commercial airtimes.

• Congrats to this winning post from the topic “Jay & Bob In Green Arrow #6!”. It was another tough competition, but we dug the message of this one, and the very accurate statements about Kev’s movie and comic writing skills:

Saintx99 wins a limited J&SBSB Stroke 9 “Kick Some Ass” CD single, courtesy of Universal Music and News Askew. Pick up your Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back CD soundtrack in stores next week, and save a few bucks on admission to the flick with the movie cash inside! We’ve got one CD left, good luck to all the talkback posters this week! Remember, we’ll pick our favorite on topic, thoughtful talkback post of the week and award them with the prize.

• Joblo have placed ALL their San Diego Comiccon coverage online at their site, along with coverage of Kevin’s epic-length panel, which you can read HERE. Don’t skip over this one, it’s the most extensive coverage we’ve seen of the Q&A session yet.
• Here’s the official dates and times for the upcoming Wizard World event in Chicago, just days before J&SBSB is released! Kevin and Jay are scheduled to appear, where they’ll almost certainly have tickets for a screening and some clips of the new flick:

• Chalk up more big internet buzz on the film: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the #1 most requested Movie trailer at www.filmspeed.com. It certainly seems that the flick’s won the internet crowd on this one, hands down.
• This week’s episode of Movie Television on CityTV in Canada has a short bit about J&SBSB. Not too much new information, but a very short interview with Kevin where he talks about how far he’ll take the hilarity in a movie, and the future of Jay & Silent Bob. It’ll be re-played at 8:00 on Tuesday.
• A few folks have been sending in this article on Affleck’s hair color change, which mentions the film as well, so we figured we may as well put it up:

• The FX channel is re-running the Making of Planet of the Apes special that Kevin had that small snippet in, in case you want to catch it. Check your listings. With the film taking off so well, it might run more this week.
• This small blurb from an article on Shannen Doherty appears in the new Details magazine:

• Finally today, talk about a real fan! Check out this tattoo. Wow. Now that’s devotion.