Archive for October 7th, 2003

View Askew NewsBites™

October 7th @ 10:43 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by KMakila, Gary Anderson, James DeChene, Pat Auliso, Stephen Humphrey

  • Just to fend off the e-mail onslaught, Film Threat’s upcoming “Danger Ranger” feature has nothing at all to do with Kevin’s upcoming “Ranger Danger and the Danger Rangers”. From what we understand, the project is a totally original idea and script from Kevin, and has nothing to do with any serials of similar name, past or present.
  • This Friday and Saturday at midnight, the historic Riverview Theater in Minneapolis will be showing Clerks on the big screen. We hear the popcorn there is dandy, too.
  • The recently elusive Scott Mosier is quoted regarding a new Scott Morse comic, “Barefoot Serpent”, over at Top Shelf Comix:
“As a fan of Kurosawa and Morse and movies and comic books, this is about all I could ask for.” — Scott Mosier, Producer of CLERKS, CHASING AMY, GOOD WILL HUNTING, JERSEY GIRL.

The book is billed as a heartwarming story of a young girl befriended by an extraordinary boy, as her family recovers from a tragedy while on vacation in Hawaii. Swimming in themes of loss and loneliness, as well as happiness and hope, this genuinely touching tale is book ended by a full-color rumination on the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa.

  • Jay & Bob make a brief cameo in panel two of web comic Striptease this week.
  • And just because one Doherty story in a week wasn’t enough: Shannen’s back in the news again, with a new TV comedy in the works. They reference her comedic experiences in “The Ortegas” but not in Mallrats or Jay & Bob.

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Clerks Turns 10 & The Playboy Mystery Revealed!

October 7th @ 8:48 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Kevin Smith

  • October 3rd was a milestone day for View Askew Productions, as it marked the 10th anniversary of the first oublic Clerks screening, the one which got the film in front of the rest of us as well as put Kevin & View Askew on the map. Time sure flies by, don’t it? Kevin stopped by the board to reflect on that, as well as reveal the answer behind the mystery woman who he recently shot for Playboy magazine. Wanna know who it is? Read on, dear friends, because here’s Kevin:
Big Day in View Askew History, Past and Present
Ten years ago today (October 3, 1993) “Clerks” screened publicly for the first time, at the IFFM. For those who’ve followed our antics, you’ll recall that it was at that screening Bob Hawk saw the flick and recommended it to Amy Taubin (who wrote glowingly about “Clerks” in the Village Voice – the article which first brought us to the attention of Mark Tusk, the then-head of acquisitions at Miramax), Peter Broderick (who would later write about “Clerks” in Filmmaker Magazine), and Larry Kardish (who selected the film for the New Directors/New Films series at the Museum of Modern Art, the sister program of the New York Film Festival).
Thanks to everyone here who would later discover the flick themselves and dig on it – maybe even moreso than the folks previously mentioned. Not a day goes by that I’m not grateful for the support (hence Stash Bash). However, without that screening – and Bob Hawk being AT that screening – none of you ever would’ve seen the flick.
And I’d still be working at Quick Stop, no doubt.
Ten years. In the words of Anthony Hopkins in “Meet Joe Black” – “Doesn’t it go by in a blink?”
Big Day, Part Two…
The Playboy shoot was today, and it went excellently.
A bit of background: along with a bunch of other directors (not sure if Playboy announced them yet, so I don’t wanna list them here), I was asked to shoot my idea of something erotic for a pictorial that’s to run in the 50th Anniversary, slated to hit stands in December. The idea was to shoot anything I wanted that I felt was a turn-on.
Naturally, I picked Jen.
Fuck, did she look amazing! We shot about six different set-ups (some scantily-clad, most completely nude), and Jen was absolutely fearless… not to mention insanely sexy. It was a pretty cool thing to do as a married couple, and something we’ll always have to look back on years from now, when we both keep our teeth in cups on the sink. I’m so proud of her, and crushing big time right about now. Wife, mother, and now, a Bunny too.
And wait’ll you see the theme…

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Kev & Jay @ WizWorld Texas: It’s Official!

October 7th @ 8:42 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Justin Hertner

  • Here’s the official announcement regarding Kevin and Jay’s upcoming appearance at Wizard World Texas:
CHASING TEXAS
Jay and Silent Bob strike Wizard World Texas!
Wizard Entertainment is proud to announce that Kevin Smith, actor/director of such movies as Clerks, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, along with his well-known partner Jason Mewes will be appearing at this year’s Wizard World Texas multi-media convention event. The event will be held on the weekend of November 21st -23rd at the Arlington Convention Center in Dallas Texas.
Smith and Mewes join the growing list of entertainment stars appearing at Wizard World Texas. Special guests for the show include: Guest Of Honor George Perez (JLA/Avengers), Marvel Comics’ Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada (Daredevil), Jim Lee (Batman), Marc Silvestri(Top Cow founder, upcoming New X-Men), Michael Turner(Soulfire), with many more to be announced!

Order your tickets online now. And don’t forget, this will be the only place to get our beloved Dixie Cup Brodie.

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View Askew NewsBites™

October 7th @ 8:39 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Mark, Gary Anderson, MrHahn, Joe, Zach

  • Mark Hamill’s directorial debut, “Comic Book: The Movie”, comes to 2-disc DVD on January 27, 2004. Kevin’s featured in a scene-stealing cameo. Visit the official website for a lot more info.
  • Most of this is stuff we’ve heard before, but here’s a blurb from IGN Filmforce regarding Daredevil 2 and the extent (or lack of) Kevin’s involvement:
Daredevil 2
Fox and Marvel are reportedly bringing Ben Affleck and director Mark Steven Johnson back for another installment of Daredevil. There hasn’t been a whole lot of buzz around the project but it is on our radar screen. Filmmaker and comic book author Kevin Smith told Wizard magazine, “Both Ben and Mark have asked me about writing the next one. I don’t know. It’d be one thing if I only had to please Ben and Mark, but you have to deal with Marvel, Regency and Fox. I’d rather just kick back and watch somebody else try to make sense of my stuff.” The second film is rumored to be based on Smith’s own Daredevil
comic arc.
  • ‘Dogma’ will receive its terrestial debut on Channel 4 this Monday, October 6th at 10:00 PM in the UK.
  • Mallrats will be shown as the midnight movie on Friday and Saturday, October 24th and 25th, at the Birchwood Cinema in Port Huron, Michigan.
  • And another one! In Spokane, WA, The Garland Theater is showing Clerks at midnight for the next few days. Admission is a bargain at just 3 bucks.

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