Yesterday, we did a reading of the script, with Brian, Jeff, Jay, Jen, me and the new guy, Trevor (our surprise, secret weapon). Fucking fantastic. The
flick reads great. When Brian and Jeff got going in their back-and-forth, I got all sorts of non-sexual hard. Fuck, this is a funny flick, and those guys
are in top shape.

Afterwards, me, Mos, Phil Benson, Jeff, Brian and Trevor did oral notes on the script, voting for cuts in the stuff that just lays there, suggesting
tightening in some scenes, rearrangement in others. We were a story-telling collective, all working toward making something that already feels hillarious
and special even moreso. I’m guessing the current 119 Second Draft of the script will go down by another five to ten pages in Draft Three.

I can’t describe how fulfilling it is to hear the script performed and to watch Brian and Jeff bounce off one another. And Mewes? Top form. Tip-top form.

Wish I could bust with some of the best lines here, but don’t wanna be a spoiler. I want you guys to go into this flick virgins, and leave debauched.

“When they leave Disney in September, the Weinstein brothers are expected to start a new film distribution and production company, which as yet has no name or staff. “

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“The arrangement has allowed for an amicable divorce instead of the open warfare that threatened only months ago. But it leaves the brothers, their current employees, and a host of filmmakers and their representatives in the awkward position of making movies for a company that does not exist yet – and may not be in full swing for another year or more.”

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“We’re going to wherever they go,” said Kevin Smith, the director of “Clerks,” who said his sequel, “The Passion of the Clerks,” was scheduled to begin shooting in April but would probably wait until May because of the uncertainty. “My allegiance is to Harvey and Bob.”

No star trip for Smith

Kevin Smith doesn’t like the way his demeanor was described recently by Wired News.

The director of “Jersey Girl” had some choice words when Wired News quoted someone as saying that he frequents a place called Genius Bar, and “rarely has anything to say, but always looks [bleeped] off when he is forced to wait at the bar just like everyone else.”

“If I looked [bleeped], it’s only because I don’t burst into a room, a’la Robin [bleeping] Williams, trying to make everybody laugh,” Smith ranted on his web site. “What the [bleep] is this [bleep]? Now, if you’re not wearing a grin all the time, you’re [bleeped]?”

Smith, who insists he only visited Genius Bar once, also denies that he was irritated about having to wait at the bar. “I’m not [Ben] Affleck,” he wrote. “I’m used to waiting in lines.”

Wired News had no comment.

Duo pursuing ‘Truth’ – Affleck, Lane find their ‘Way’

NEW YORK — Ben Affleck will play George Reeves and Diane Lane will also star in Focus Features’ “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” the story of a Los Angeles gumshoe trying to solve Reeves’ mysterious death.

Reeves met a tragic, mysterious end in 1959 after years portraying TV’s Superman.

As previously announced, Adrien Brody stars as the detective investigating Reeves’ death. Lane will play Toni Mannix, the Hollywood wife of a studio exec who may have been linked romantically to Reeves.

Script also centers on Reeves’ complex relationship with the iconic role that propelled him to stardom.

Pic starts shooting this summer, with Allen Coulter helming.

“Truth” was penned by Paul Bernbaum, with a final draft by Howard Korder.

Glenn Williamson is producing through his Back Lot Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Focus. Williamson recently served as an exec producer on the Focus pics “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and upcoming “The Ice Harvest.”

Bernbaum is exec producing “Truth,” with Focus’ Joe Pichirallo overseeing.