• Vanilla Sky’s official trailer has surfaced, after AICN broke the news of the capture, Cinemovies has now posted the official Quicktime version. Askew favorite Jason Lee plays a part in this one, and shows up in the trailer, as the best friend of Tom Cruise’s character. The trailer’s quite cool, though it looks like about 95% the same as the Spanish Open Your Eyes that it’s remaking (some shots even look identical). It does seem like Cameron Crowe has chosen some interesting music for the film (at least, the trailer) and is carefully keeping scenes of Cruise’s character looking a certain way out of the trailer (to say more would spoil things). At any rate, you might want to check out the original film in the meantime, it’ll give you a good idea of what to expect and also how large of a part Lee will have in this one. Thanks to Dark Horizons, AICN, and all our scoopers for the news.

UPDATE: The trailer is also now available in a much better, high quality version over at apple.com.

• For those of you still wondering about the extent of Kevin’s involvement with next week’s release of “Starwoids” on DVD, this open letter came to us from Jonah Loeb, president of IndieDVD (yep, the same company working on releasing View Askew production Drawing Flies to disc this year):

• Until October 5th, J&SBSB is showing at the Rio Film Festival. Shows are continuing to sell out and play well, with applause throughout. One local newspaper, “Globo”, called Jay and Silent Bob the “Abbott and Costello of the 90’s” and gave the flick 4 out of 5 stars. The movie has been purchased by a local distributor for release there.
• We’re hearing that Amazon is writing some of you to cancel your pre-orders of the “Bluntman & Chronic” book. They’re claiming this:

Don’t worry, folks, as far as we know Amazon is just cancelling the item due to delays, and the book will still see a release, there’s just no current release date scheduled at this time. We’ll post more as soon as we can find it out.

• Good news, folks: After some delays, we’re now hearing that the long-awaited Beserker long sleeve and short sleeve T-shirts are shipping this week to all comic stores from DIAMOND. Here’s the prices and item numbers from their catalog:

• Even after its theatrical release has come and gone, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are still in front of the hottest flicks poll at Rolling Stone. Check that out HERE.
• Speaking of polls, the current poll at Slacker’s Guild asks about your favorite Kevin Smith flick. Feel free to weigh in.
• Wonder what it’s like to make a journey across the globe to visit the mecca of everything Askew, Red Bank, New Jersey?One fan’s documented his pilfgrimmage online right HERE. Take a look!

• And finally today, yet another dude who dressed up as Silent Bob to celebrate the film’s release. The resemblance is pretty uncanny, a job well done. With Halloween around the corner though, we’re afraid we’re gonna hafta stop posting these pics soon, or they’ll take over the site! Enjoy ‘em though. Catch ya next time…

• In the November issue of “Maxim Presents Blender” magazine, there’s a page where they ask different people (doctors, authors, celebs, etc.) their advice for Suge Knight now that he’s out of prison. One of them is this:

• Participate in bravotv.com’s Request-A-Guest Marathon Poll and vote for your five favorite episodes of Inside the Actors Studio as Bravo celebrates the shows’ 100th guest. Ben Affleck, whose appearance included Weinstein and Damon cameos, is among the thirty-five potential vote-getters.
• The Columbus Filmmakers Consortium have created a new film to promote themselves that looks like it took place at a very familiar locale…Check it out HERE in Quicktime format or HERE in Windows Media format.
• This rap star mentions Kevin Smith, ‘Silent Bob’ and Green Arrow at his site HERE.
• And speaking of Affleck, rumors are running rampant regarding the fate of his “The Sum of All Fears” given the recent world events. Page Six ran this story today:

• Attention MAC Users: These sweet new icons are done and available for download HERE and soon at Files Askew. They are compatible with Mac OS 7.5 right up to the new Mac OS X. Look above for a screen shot of some of them in action.

• And finally today, above you’ll see a panel from DC Comics/Vertigo’s new release “I, Paparazzi”, which details the adventure of a celebrity photographer as he reveals the hidden secrets that a vast alien/freemason/government conspiracy exists, using our celebrities to lull us into submission so that the world can be taken over. By way of proving this theory, he finds himself in a party where a couple of familiar faces can be seen (check out the far left of the frame). The hardcover released this week is carrying a $30 pricetag, so you may wanna wait for the softcover on this one.

• Hey folks, just wanted to pop in for a sec and let you know why we’ve been silent the past couple days! Chris is out of town this week but usually does help get the updates up on the site – Starting with the Monday update, he had some technical difficulties and I do believe we might have lost that update completely (not sure yet). He couldn’t get back up on Tuesday either, so that update I’ll likely get to later today, along with a new Wednesday update. Sit tight, we’ll have some catching up to do but we’ll have it all back in order as soon as possible. Hopefully when Chris returns later this week we’ll be able to salvage that Monday update, also. See ya again soon.