• A few of you might recall our promise to add spoilers and a ton of onset pics to our big On Location visit from the J&SBSB Bluntcave set earlierthis year…Well, with just over a month to release, it’s time to open thefloodgates! Revisit our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back On Location reportfor a ton of new inside info (which is easily highlighted in blue in caseyou just want to skim though). You’ll also find a TON of new exlcusivephotos from the set, mostly of the Bluntcave itself, though the camera’ssmall zoom lens and the funky lighting made it tough for stuff to come outthat well. What you will see in the photos are the first shots of theinfamous Bluntmobile, and a lot of small nuances of the Bluntcave that justwon’t show up on film at all. Again, the new material DOES contiain somespoilers, so read at your own risk. Enjoy the new pics and info!

• We’ve added a link at the top of the page to composer Jim Venable’s website, www.venablemusic.com. Jim’s currently working with Kevin and co. to put the finishing touches on the score of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Surf over to the site for some background info on Jim, to listen to some of his work, and more. Jim helped the gang throw some really cool music into the Jay & Silent Bob Internet trailers as well. We’ll be spotlighting the page for the next week or so here at News Askew. Check it out.

• Some pics of Kevin and Jay from a recent MTV Total Request Live appearance have shown up on their website. No idea if any further MTV promotion for the new flick is planned just yet.
• Dark Horizons posted a link today of a FilmJerk.com review of Changing Lanes, the new Ben Affleck/Sam Jackson movie coming out this winter. Check it out HERE.
• Want some more details on the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack? A full track listing, including the titles of the dialogue clips, is up at HMV.COM in the preorders section.
• Speaking of the soundtrack, that fun “Because I Got High” track is available for download off of DC 101’s HERE.
• Here’s a fun one…A reader stumbled across this wonderful bit about Linda Fiorentino’s “nudity rider” that’s worth looking at for a chuckle. It even mentions “Dogma.”
• Kevin gets a mention at the official Star Wars website regarding his upcoming San Diego con appearance.

• Vincent Pereira and Don May of Synapse were kind enough to supply us with a test disc of “A Better Place” arriving on DVD next month. What did we find out after sitting down with this long-awaited View Askew Producion? Check out our in-depth review of this Special Edition DVD right here…It’ll help hold ya over while you wait for your copy to arrive! The review presents some background on the film, the video, the audio, the extras…And of course features a TON of new screenshots. Check out all the details right HERE.

• There was just so many of you that mailed in on this, a scooper list was impossible to assemble, but Mysterio did e-mail in this morning and said to expect part one (of three) of his interview with Kevin Smith, where he answers questions from the fans and reveals a ton of stuff about Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and everything that came before. Here’s a sample of it for ya:

Check out the whole text at AICN right HERE!

• Looks like that release date push is being confirmed around the web…This story comes from Jim over at the Wizard World site:

• A small interview with Paul Dini appears over at comicscontinuum.com, regarding his script for the live-action Batman Beyond movie. They give JASBSB a brief mention:

The whole thing can be checked out HERE.

• The Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back official trailer has made its first television appearance on the E! Network‘s Coming Attractions program. The show airs fairly often, and the trailer’s running first off, so check your listings. Coming Attractions showcases trailers for all the big upcoming flicks.
• Apparently reactions to J&SBSB footage are still being recorded, this time in the Chicago area. Sounds like they’re still trying to decide how to market the film, perhaps? The survery also asked about the actors Chris Rock, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes and about the interest of seeing a film with those actors (along with 25 other questions).The movie is currently set for a huge 2,500 screen release on August 22nd.
• And finally today, a press release confirms the August 7th soundtrack release:

The release goes on to list the full track listing, which we already know (and you can find here in the archives).

• Howdy folks, hope you’re all having a good week. Got some of those Stroke 9 “Kick Some Ass” promotional CDs to give away…Yep, you can’t get these in the stores anywhere, and they’ve got Jay & Silent Bob all over them. How can ya get one, you ask? Well, starting this week, we’ll be choosing the most intelligent/on topic/meaningful talkback post for that week and awarding that user with a CD. Simple as that. So, keep that in mind when you’re posting! This should help to foster some better discussions there and keep it interesting. Good luck!

By the way, if anyone works or has connections with someone at US Air, Marriott hotels, or anything in the Orlando area, drop me a line…I’ll be flying there for a week this September.

And now, on with the news!

• The Upcoming Movies website broke this potentially BIG scoop, and says they’ve now confirmed it with Exhibitors Relations, so it does indeed seem that Miramax has bumped Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back up two days, from August 24th to August 22nd, a Wednesday! We realize this was confusing as we didn’t have the announcement sooner, but we had not received information from Miramax, Dimension, or anyone on this, still haven’t actually, but feel it’s best to run this story now before it gets too confusing. Keep in mind nothing official has still come into this website, but the Upcoming Movies site has always proved reliable, so we’ll hope this one’s true. Stay tuned for more solid info on this as we can confirm it.

Greg also tells us that, according to his website, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back is the third most anticipated this summer, behind Jusassic Park III and Planet of the Apes. Jurassic’s really not that good, either. So, after this month’s releases, it looks like J&SBSB is set to run away with a lot of business, at least according to those polled.

• We’ve got the FULL scoop on these upcoming must-have toys from Graphitti. Seems they’ll be released in December 2001, just in time for Christmas! Click the new scans above to get a bigger look at each figure on its own, as well as the duo together with their pal Suzanne. Here are the FULL details, including the writeup as well as every little extra that they come with:

• The Afroman video, the second filmed for the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack (the first being Stroke 9’s “Kick Some Ass”) is now online. You can view the ‘Because I got High’ video from Afroman, featuring Jay & Silent Bob themselves, in its entirety HERE.