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- For the first time in quite some time, Kevin did a massive Q&A session on his WWWBoard at the View Askew site. You can surf over and check out all his posts for yourself, though we’ve summarized some of the major revelations for you right here:
- Vulgarthon 2001: Kevin says he is “working on it now” and that it will happen in New Jersey (but not at least until he’s back later this Winter).
- The Bluntman and Chronic comic is now slated to hit shelves by the end of September or start of October.
- The new movie (for which he still didn’t reveal the title) is “More like ‘Chasing Amy’ territory”, and very Jersey/NYC specific.
- That Starwoids thing (documentary about the Star Wars phenomenon): Kevin did “Just an interview, really. And I did some opening narration for the flick too.”
- Kevin says he’s done with Star Wars and Jaws references in his films…for now.
- Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back’s original plotline: “Originally, it was about Jay and Silent Bob trying to save Quick Stop from being closed.”
- There are no ties between the new flick and the first five they’ve made, though Kevin will continue to use Affleck, Lee, and other actors from the previous films.
- Marvel is working on a charity project to benefit those affected by last week’s tragedies here in the US. Kevin will be writing something for it, and Joe Quesada’s already drawn his piece.
- Fletch Won is still scheduled, and Miramax has optioned the whole library (minus the two with Flynn in them), so if the movie hits, they might make more. Kevin, however, will not be involved with any future Fletch films after “Won”.
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- Jay and Silent Bob came in at #13 with an estimated $1.4 million for a 24-day total of $27.7 million, about 13 percent ahead of Dogma at the same point. Details are HERE.
- Tickets for Kevin’s talk at Cornell, set for October 1st, went on sale this morning to CU students. They go on sale Wednesday to the general public for $12 ($7 for students).
- “Clerks” will be screened at Silver Cinemas South Hills 8 in Poughkeepsie, NY, September 21st at midnight. For more info, email BrainWrappedFilms@hotmail.com.
- In this week’s Guardian, they feature Jason lee in their “Overexposed/underexposed” column where they write about two celebrities, one who’s overexposed and one that’s underexposed. Lee is obviously underexposed and they mention Kevin and Mumford, and call him the high point of “Almost Famous”. Two weeks ago, they featured Will Ferrell in the underexposed section as well.
- Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back is set for a November 15th release, the same as in Australia. TV4 in NZ will also screen Clerks 9:30pm on Monday the 24th. The TV Guide there gave it 4 stars, making it one of the highest rated movies for the week, equal to Return of the Jedi, screening the previous night.
- Jay & Bob (and some of the Clerks gang) appear in the Jay & Silent Bob Dance, another of those hamster-dance spinoff pages.
- J&SBSB has received an R(A) rating in Singapore ‘Restricted (Artistic)’), which means no one under 21 can see the film, not even accompanied by an adult. The film is however being released uncut (films are notoriously cut in Singapore, even with the R(A) rating, if content is deemed objectionable).
- Finally today, some photos. The first one comes from Australian magazine NEW WEEKLY, and has Affleck touting the View Askew website. Good stuff. The second scan from Aussie rag NEW IDEA features Affleck and Matt Damon at a Six Flags amusement park…Check out who’s in the front of that coaster with them. Finally, as bootlegs of the film are starting to make the rounds in foreign markets, we thought you’d enjoy this strange, strange cover art for the film that showed up on a bootleg copy in China. Catch ya later, folks.
