- The Fourth Rail highly recommends Issue #15 of Green Arrow, the last written by Smith and illustrated by Parks and Hester! They give it a 9/10:
And now, Oliver Queen has his very own Joker. Onomatopeia’s inhuman intensity here is thoroughly chilling. Is he just so insane that nothing can stop him in his tracks, or is there something more to him? I suspect it’s the former — makes him creepier — and I also suspect that we’ll get to see more of him in the future (but not the near future, thanks to Smith’s exclusive contract with Marvel). I certainly hope so, because Smith has crafted a truly unique villain here.
- Cinematographer.com has reported on Vilmos Zsigmond’s signing on to Jersey Girl, and gives an August 12th start date for filming:
As reported on Ain’t It Cool News, Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC (”Deliverance,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”) has been tapped to shoot “Jersey Girl,” directed by Kevin Smith. Shooting is set to begin Aug. 12 in Philadelphia. The black comedy stars Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and George Carlin.
First we’ve seen it called a “black comedy”, though. We heard it was gonna be more of a drama.
- Variety reports that Ben Affleck is negotiating to write “Gone, Baby, Gone” and may make it his feature directorial debut. “Gone,” a novel by Dennis Lehane,” is part of a series of five mysteries involving a pair of Boston private eyes named Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. The book was optioned this year by Paramount and producer Alan Ladd Jr. in hopes that Affleck would star, adds the trade. Ladd has the rights to another book from the series, “Prayers for Rain,” and the hope is that it will add up to another Paramount franchise for Affleck, who scored a hit in his first turn as Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears. This would be Affleck’s first screenplay since “Good Will Hunting”.
- NBC News channel 5 in Dallas had a trivia question on their “Early Show” program today: “In which movie did Brandy Svenning appear?”
- Clerks cartoon creator Chris Bailey will be at the San-Diego comicon previewing his 3-minute Major Damage CGI animation, and also likely to promote “Action Planet: Monstermans Two-headed Monstrosity Special”. Say hi and tell him News Askew sent ya!
- And finally today, here’s one for the books — Pringles has announced they are making a wider can so people will no longer get their hand caught reaching for the chips in the bottom!!! Even stranger, Jay Leno recently made a joke about the wider can, saying that Jennifer Lopez created the wider can first. See ya next time folks…
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