• Today’s edition of Yahoo! Movies has a slide show featuring pics from last week’s MTV Movie Awards. They give a hilarious in-joke nod to “Mallrats” in their
  caption under “The Rock”. See it HERE.
• Rate That Commentary is a DVD-related website where you, what else, rate DVD commentary tracks for entertainment
  value. At presstime, 3 View Askew films (Dogma, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) are already all in there. Why not cast votes for your faves as well?
• More UK: The Empire Online review of Jersey Girl is now online HERE.
• Pennsylvania resident Andrew Zehner, the writer-director of the new film “Spielburgh”, mentions Kevin as an influence in this
  South Bend Tribune article:

The film centers around a wannabe filmmaker who just happens to be named “Steven Spielburgh” and works in a theater. There’s more info on the premiere
at the above link and also over at the ‘Shoot. We’ve got a copy here at the News Askew offices to watch as well, which should happen sometime this week.
We’ll let ya know what we think!

• 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.

• 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:

• As we mentioned yesterday, UK magazine Hot Dog did a bunch of cool pieces this month to celebrate the UK release of
  Jersey Girl. First off, a huge 7 piece article on CLERKS, one of the most extensive we’ve ever seen:

And next, their stellar 4-star review of Jersey Girl:

Finally, an interview with the lovely and charming Liv Tyler:

Thanks to Martin for helping us out with the scans!

• Custom-made DVD covers are all the rage these days. Folks have taken their favorite films and done amazing jobs on some
  custom covers, in high resolution, often giving even cooler results than the studio covers. One fan, Carb_One, has made his own classy
  set called “The Kevin Smith Collection” which he’s gracioously offered up for free download HERE. If you
  wanna put all your titles on the shelf together, this is a nifty way to do it.

• Here’s more on the interesting, developing story regarding Miramax and Disney’s future relationship, or lack thereof. We’re not sure
  what this means for the future of View Askew, but imagine that Kevin would likely continue to work with Bob and Harvey regardless of their parent company.
  However, it’s interesting to see that “Green Hornet” and its respective budget are cited as one of the reasons that Disney’s thinking of renegotiating
  things. Here’s the story off the wire :

• Michael Moore’s controversial new film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ premiered at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science in Beverly Hills, California last night, and Kevin was on hand to check out the film. We’ve got photos up above (the first expands into a very high-resolution shot directly from AP, the rest are courtesy WireImage and thus you’ll need a subscription to see them in their full-screen glory). Looks like a very star-studded crew was on hand for this one.

At the premiere, Kevin was interviewed and then quoted in this MTV News story:

Good for you, Kev – Don’t shun the press like so many of those other fearful folks!

• Thanks to our old pal who provided us (and you, fine readers) with all those Arena columns, here’s 3 nice shots of the increasingly
  thinning, Atkins-friendly Kevin doing his thang behind the podium at his recent UK Q&A appearance. Kevin’s back stateside now, but it sounds like he got
  to meet a lot of you and did some good press for the film over there. We’re sure you’d all welcome him back anytime.

• Guardian UK has another small blurb on Kevin’s likely exit from Green Hornet’s directing duties.

• Send ‘em!
• Apologies for the late notice, but we just learned of ClerksClerks screenings tonight and tomorrow in Linz/Austria. If you’re in the area, it’s playing in
  the Moviemento cinema, tonight at 9 PM CET and tomorrow at 6pm and 9pm CET. It’s showing in English with german captions. For further info, surf
  HERE.
• Brad’s off to the beach for the weekend, so be sure and address any scoops e-mail directly to Chris or the standard scoops box, now thru
  Monday. Thanks, folks!

• Confirmation came in today for the September 7th release of Clerks: 10th Anniversary Edition. Three discs, suggested retail $34.99. With this announcement,
  we’ll hopefully have more soon. We can say this much: Kevin revealed that two of the more anticipated items, the Clerks live action pilot, and the “Lovely
  Tea Party” documentary will NOT be a part of this set. Tea Party will see the light of day eventually, perhaps on its own disc or as a bonus on a future
  release. The TV pilot might be stuck up in some sort of legal bind. That’s all we gots right now, but we’ll let you know more about this set as we hear
  it, and hopefully have a nice early review for you this summer once the test discs roll out.