• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back will be part of the program on the Quart festival film program in Norway this summer, joining the ranks of such oher flicks at Men in Black 2 and British fave Ali G. It’s the largest festival in the area.
• The Unrealistic Expectations website now has “Sound Boards” (clickable audio clips) from Clerks, Mallrats, AND Chasing Amy. You can check out their sites HERE.
• You can find a new interview with Matt Damon at the Onion AV Club website. Damon’s been doing the circuit to promote The Bourne Identity.
• A funny clip from the BBC Radio One program we mentioned the other day that aired earlier this week — There was one Interview clip which had Kevin talking about what is appealing for comic book fans, i.e. not being part of the masses, he went on to say “What kind of movies are Rush Hour 2, Planet of the Apes and Legally Blonde? – They’re dogshit movies”. After this quote, they immediately cut away to an interview about Batman with none other than Tim Burton. Fun coincidence!
• IFC’s “Dinner for Five” episode featuring Joey Lauren Adams is re-airing this week. In it, she does talk a bit about Chasing Amy, being mistaken for Renee Zellweger, and more. Check your local listings, we do believe it should re-air again this Saturday at least.

• Matt Booker was kind enough to send us a few exclusive shots taken at the Comics 2002 con in the UK. Click above to check out shots of vet Askew comic artist Duncan Fegredo and the outside of the “This is Our Youth” show featuring Matt Damon & Casey Affleck. Damon’s run on the play recently ended but we’re hearing good things about it.
• Speaking of Damon, we got a report on a radio interview with him that was heard this morning, where some of his View Askew work was discussed:

• Variety reports today that Askew vet Ethan Suplee has joined the cast of COLD MOUNTAIN, which will be directed by Anthony Minghella (”The English Patient”). The film will also star Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, Brendan Gleeson, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Ray Winstone, James Gammon, and Charlie Hunnam. Quite a cast!
• Alanis Morisette has been nominated for 2 MMVAs (Much Music Video Awards) this year : Favourite Canadian Artist (Hands Clean) and the MuchMoreMusic Award (Hands Clean (version 1). The awards will be taking place (and airing) on June 16th.
• This sounds like a fun place to work — A training video for “Global Video” employees in England reportedly starts with the famous scene from Clerks with Randal and the “Ruse” woman asking questions about the two videos. After the scene is played out some annoying guy comes on, and states that employees should NOT act like that. Too bad!
• Finally, a happy birthday to Jason Mewes, who turns 28 today!

• This one takes the cake as one of the best web parodies for View Askew, let alone parodies in general, we’ve ever seen! What would happen if the Quick Stop and RST were run by the likes of Captain America and Daredevil? The hilarity ensures as this duo and a ton of your other favorite superheros appear in this flash animated tribute to Clerks the film and Clerks the cartoon. You’re gonna love this one! It’s well worth your download time. Check out the flick right now over at the Power House site!

• Original action figures from View Askew flicks are always cool — This fan’s converted a “Matilda” 12” doll, by 21st Century Toys, into “God” from Dogma. She admits that the likeness is a tad shaky, but she’s honing that skill! Hopefully we’ll see more from her soon. The clothes on the doll, by the way, were custom done as well.
• More View Askew film appearances have shown up in the last two Invisibles Games at the Filmwise website.
• A lot of you have been writing us about a country music song called “Chasing Amy”. Here’s some more info on that one:

• Clerks: The Cartoon vet Chris Bailey’s got a new series on The Disney Channel, called “Kim Possible”. Bailey’s got a great style (he of course created the perty logo you see at the top of this site) — If you’ve got the channel on your cable or satellite system, check your local listings!

• One fan took this fun little South Park shockwave application to build a South Park likeness of Jay & Silent Bob (see above). What can you create?
• At a recent concert (Y100’s FEZtival in Camden, NJ), one of the rappers from the Icelandic band “Quarashi” was wearing a Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back t-shirt during the show. Glad to hear the influence is spreading around the globe.

• Will Wilkins has finally posted his compilation of fan interviews as they waited in line at Dave’s for the recent Jay & Silent Bob DVD signing. You can check out the 24 minute piece as Will chats with fans waiting in the extremely long line at his Netheads website. Kevin even grants Will a nice interview at the end of the segment. Enjoy!
• In the new “Get Kraven” miniseries, the first few pages are about an independent filmmaker who’s working on a documentary but with a script, which they have rewritten by Kevin Smith. He has a big mention — it spans about four pages long, and we hear it’s a good one — The company’s corporate bigwig has a complete change of heart on the project when he heard that Kevin is attached. Check out the mini at your local comic shops.
• Speaking of documentaries, Radio One’s Lamacq Live has the following documentary running at 11pm in the UK tomorrow:

If you’re not in the UK, you can also listen online HERE, but don’t forget to do the time conversion!

• It seems another 6 Degrees of Kevin Smith game has popped up over at this forum. Seems you can use Affleck to link back to Kevin quite a bit.
• Mallrats started *for the first time* playing on the TQS network in Montreal. It’s the first TV debut of the French language version. Watch for some replays as the month goes on.
• IGN.com recently ran a review for the Vanilla Sky DVD, giving it a 7 out of a possible 10, but really praising Jason Lee’s performance. The reviewer must be a News Askew reader, because of this one paragraph: “The movie isn’t terrible, just a bit flawed. Performances are strong all around, and as usual Jason Lee shines in what is a pretty small role (he’d make a great Fletch). “

• Today’s big rumor: Kevin’s being courted to direct a Batman film. No word on how true this one is at all, but Cinecon and Batman-On-Film.com are both reporting that a rumor has started a rumor that Kevin himself might be courted by Warner Brothers to direct a Batman film (more than likely the “Year One” project that’s currently planned). This might have spread from the story over at AICN that claimed that the planned Batman: Year One director, Darren Aronofsky, and the Warners are in dispute over his current flick, “The Fountain”. In the past, Kevin has stated that he’s not into directing a superhero flick, but stranger things have certainly happened.

Kevin himself has responded to this and filled us in on a LOT of other stuff, we’ll save his post for a seperate story, just below. Read on…

• It’s about time for this! Kevin checked in with a TON of news, including a denial of the Batman rumor above, the news that Jersey Girl WILL shoot in PHILLY (just a hour or so away from us here), and LOTS more! Put on those protective goggles, folks, cuz this one’s definitely not for the kiddies:

• It’s Friday, and ya know what that means, folks…Yep, another chance to own some of those incredibly cool and rare View Askew items over at Auctions Askew! This week’s centerpiece items are definitely that screen-used Mooby doll (a very rare item), a Jay & Silent Bob crew jacket, and that very rare comic artwork. There’s also another signed Mallrats poster that would look great on your wall, along with a framed page of a French article way back from the Clerks days. As always, this stuff is 100% certified authentic, and perfect for your movie collections. Happy bidding, and good luck to ya.

• Kevin & Jennifer attended the recent premiere for the upcoming Matt Damon flick “The Bourne Identity” — You’ll find some photos of the couple at Wireimage.
• In case you missed Affleck on Tech TV earlier this week, you can check out all the info online right HERE.
• A Chasing Amy parody poster with Super Mario characters appears at the often scary “Something Awful” website today.
• Dark Horizons reports that the teaser/trailer for Big Helium Dog is now available at the Angry Naked Pat site. Do not miss this hilarious piece, especially if you didn’t see it on the “A Better Place” DVD. It will have you dying to see this flick. Check it outHERE and enjoy! Tell everyone you know that you want to see Big Helium Dog! Maybe it’ll inspire Lynch and co. to get it out to the masses. It’s a really funny movie (not to mention the first appearance of your two fearless webmasters a View Askew film).
• Oh, and as for the Movie Poop Shoot banner at the top of the page, expect the veil to lift on that one a little bit this coming Monday…Have a good weekend.

• Tuesday night, Rob Zombie visited the Daredevil set and interviewed the cast on MTV’s new show, “Movie House”. If ya missed it, you can catch a rerun at these times: 6/7-2pm & 7:30pm, 6/9 – 5:30pm. You can also check out Rob’s interview with Ben and watch some footage at the MTV site.
• Kevin gets a mention in the movie section of this month’s Playboy Magazine — In an article on the “Sophmore Slump” of all things. They mention Clerks being a great and acclaimed film and that Kevin publicly apologized for Mallrats. Later in the story, they give him praise for his directing ability.
• Nicolags Cage mentioned Kevin’s Superman script briefly this morning when he made a surprise appearance on The Howard Stern Show:

This is the first time we recall seeing expense issues as the reason Kev’s script was tossed – Interesting. Thanks to Dynamic Forces for the story.

• Project Greenlight / Stolen Summer DVD news: Reports are indicating that the 4-disc set might actually be the series AND the movie in one box, which would make the 4 disc size a bit more reasonable (but still leaves room for a TON of extras). Release for Stolen Summer is currently the same date as scheduled for Project Greenlight, September 24th.
• You’ll find another small blurb on Kevin’s ACTOR benefit appearance at Silver Bullet Comics. Kevin helped to raise over $8000 for the cause.
• During a recent radio interview with Matt Damon, KROQ’s Bean divulged that he thought Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was one of the best films of the year, noting that Kevin is a genius.
• Ink Tank ran another slight Jay & Bob reference last month that we never metnioned. Check that one out HERE.
• Speaking of Damon, a new Matt Damon message board has opened at MattDamonForum.com.
• Those of you that are still DVD-challenged might be happy to know you can get a Mallrats VHS brand new at Walmart for around $5, according to reports.
• This is so gossipy we hate to post it, since it doesn’t even seem to be true, but we figure this will fend off all the mail we got on it so far. Apparently just because Damon’s cameo got cut from “Sum of All Fears”, folks are speculating that he and Affleck are fueding. Reports tell us that the workprint contained the cameo, but since Damon had such a silly look on his face due to the role, it had to go. Read about it at the IMDB.
• Neither Ben Stein nor the contest knew this final round question on today’s “Win Ben Stein’s Money”: “What director of Clerks and Mallrats plays the character Silent Bob in his films?” Isn’t that show supposed to have TOUGH questions?
• Here’s an advance review of the Affleck & Damon exec-produced film “The Third Wheel”, from their LivePlanet company, with a lot of the same Project Greenlight crew involved, which you’ll find on video shelves soon:

• And finally today, on a fun note — If you’re gonna attend the coolest Elementary School around, it may as well be this one.