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Kevin & Affleck To Join Favreau For “Dinner”…

July 2nd @ 9:22 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Alonso Duralde & Nick McFarlane

  • This should be a very cool show — Dinner For Five, the show where Jon Favreau sits down with 4 guests to discuss whatever comes to mind, is premiering its second season with an episode featuring Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, and their DareDevil costars Colin Farrell and Jennifer Garner:
“Dinner for Five” Takes a Second Helping

(indieWIRE: 07.02.02) — The Independent Film Channel (IFC) has picked up a second season of its original series, “Dinner for Five” the network announced yesterday. “Dinner” is hosted by Jon Favreau (”Swingers” and “Made”) who also created the program. It features four dinner in a free for all . The season opener will include Favreau’s “Daredevil” co-stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner along with Colin Farrell and director Kevin Smith. The format is spontaneous with guests swapping banter about life and their pet projects.

“Dinner for Five”’s refreshing, no holds barred format has resonated with IFC’s viewers,” said Frances Berwick, senior vice president programming, IFC and Bravo in a release. “We’re thrilled to be continuing our relationship with Jon Favreau.” Managed and operated by Bravo Networks, the Independent Film Channel broadcasts independent film commercial free 24 hours a day. IFC Originals produces original programming that airs on the network exclusively. Bravo Networks is a division of Rainbow Media Holidings Inc., which provides news, sports and other entertainment programming. [Brian Brooks]

The new episodes are being produced this summer. We’ll let ya know as soon as a date for the premiere is announced! Thanks to indieWire, Countingdown and Comics Continuum for the story!

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July 2nd @ 9:21 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Joe Kean, Martin Fleming, Brandon Padgett, Jim Austin, Blas Jose & Douglas Fir

  • The latest Arena transcript is now online in text format, for the graphically-challenged of you out there.

  • Kevin, Affleck, Damon, and lots of others show up on this chart of Hollywood relationships and friendships that appeared in Empire Magazine. Click above for a better look.

  • Amazon reports that the Comic Book Confidential DVD, which is to have a new intro from Kevin, will be released on the 23rd of July — Sooner than we expected! Check above for a cover scan. We hear it’s a true classic, and a great little documentary for comic book fans old and new.
  • That BBC documentary with some Kevin stuff is now online for your listening pleasure right HERE.
  • View Askew t-shirts were spotted at “Hot Topic” stores in some areas. If you’re looking for something along those lines, you might want to stop in at your local mall.
  • This article’s a good read, especially for those of you who attend a college or university that you’d like Kevin to come speak at. It concerns students rallying together to try and raise enough cash to get the man to fly in for one of his famous Q&A’s.
  • Madblast ran a small article on the Daredevil flick, which features a couple quotes from Kevin as well as Affleck.
  • Finally today, a fun fact — A Mallrats on the region 4 DVD was spotted in Mexico, with the name “Jovenes Modernos”. Roughly translated: “Modern Youngsters”.

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