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CLERKS X Packaging First Look!

June 12th @ 10:31 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Ming

  • Kevin dropped by his message board the other day and dropped some serious information and pictures for the upcoming CLERKS X dvd. September 7 can’t get here fast enough!
  • The 93 minute “Clerks” Theatrical cut
  • All new HiDef transfer from 16mm IP supervised by Dave Klein with all-new 5.1 Skywalker Sound remix supervised by Scott Mosier, includes original commentary track from laser disc/initial DVD release (Disc One)
  • The 103 minute “Clerks” IFFM First Cut, includes all-new audio/video commentary track with Kevin, Scott, Jeff Anderson, Brian O’Halloran and Jason Mewes. (Disc Two)
  • The 95 minute “The Snowball Effect: The Story of Clerks” Brand Spanking New Documentary that inteviews almost everybody who ever had something to do with “Clerks” (Disc Three)
  • The MTV Jay and Silent Bob shorts that everyone’s been crying for us to put on a DVD for years now
  • The Arclight 10th Anniversary Q&A with Brian, Jeff, Marilyn, Scott, Dave, Mewes, and me
  • Lots of new video intros.
  • “The Flying Car” short from the Tonight Show (re-telecined in HiDef).
  • The Original theatrical trailer
  • “Can’t Even Tell” Music Video
  • The original Jeff, Brian, and Marilyn and Ernie O’Donnell audition tapes
  • The brand new, seven minute animated “Lost Scene” short
  • Expansive Still Photo Gallery
  • ‘Clerks’ Trivia track
  • Original 168-page original first draft screenplay
  • Kevin’s ‘Clerks’ Journal
  • Kevin’s ‘Sundance’ Journal
  • Peter Broderick’s 1992 article “The ABC’s of No-Budget Filmmaking” that inspired the budget for ‘Clerks’
  • Peter Broderick’s followup article “Learning from Low-Budgets” a year later that does the same treatment on ‘Clerks’
  • Amy Taubin’s Village Voice article on the 1991 IFFM and ‘Slacker’ that inspired Kevin to take ‘Clerks’ to the IFFM
  • Amy Taubin’s Village Voice article on the 1993 IFFM about ‘Clerks’ being the gem of the festival.
  • Janet Maslin’s 1994 New York Times review of ‘Clerks’ entitled “At a Convenience Store, Coolness To Go”
  • The entire John Pierson ‘The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994” Chapter from ‘Spike Mike Reloaded’ book
  • The original Kevin-penned IFFM program note
  • The original Bob Hawk-penned 1994 Sundance Film Festival program note.
  • “Mae Day” – Kevin and Scott’s Vancouver Film School documentary short.
  • Booklet.

View Askew’s message boards are being upgraded today, so if those images won’t expand just try back later in the day. They are really something to behold.

View Askew NewsBites™

June 12th @ 10:31 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Glen, Jeff Morris, Sylvia, James Woods

  • Region 2 View Askew fans rejoice! The “Evening With Kevin Smith” will finally be released on dvd June 21, 2004.
  • The BBC ran this rather interesting interview with Kevin about JERSEY GIRL.
  • And in our final over-seas story for the day, CLERKS will be shown on Dutch television Sunday night at 10 pm.
  • MTV News ran this story today about Kevin’s next film project:
“Kevin Smith (”Clerks”) is hard at work writing “The Green Hornet,” but he’s not sure the comic flick will be his next project. “I actually want to make something a little smaller, a $250,000 movie,” said the director, who will write that script next. “I’m not telling anyone [the story line] yet. I like things that are more subtle. Probably a return-to-my-roots-type thing.” Smith added he was shocked to hear that “Jersey Girl” co-star Jennifer Lopez had married over the weekend. “It’s kind of shocking. I mean, who knew she would want to get married again so soon,” he said. “But whatever. She’s happy, I’m happy. I won’t bet on her. I understand there are odds [on how long the marriage will last].”