An interesting sounding flick coming up with Jason Biggs. “Guy X”. Plot Outline: A dark comedy about the Vietnam War involving terminally wounded veterans held in a secret Arctic military base. Along with Biggs is the lovely and talented Natascha McElhorne (Ronin, Solaris) as well in the title role Micheal Ironside (Top Gun, Tortal Recall, Starship Troopers, and mort recently the voice of bad ass superspy Sam Fischer in the Splinter Cell series of games).

Some interesting casting in Affleck’s new rom-com “Man About Town” — of course everyone knew it had the lovely Rebecca Romijn, but also of course features Kal Penn (Superman Returns), but also Monty Python GENIUS John Cleese as well as tv comic icon Howard Hesseman. Adam “Hebrew Hammer” Goldberg (Dazed and Confused, Saving Private Ryan) also is part of the cast.

As for Affleck’s “Truth Justice and the American Way”, with Adrien Brody and the ever beautiful Diane Lane, also toss in Robin Tunny to round out a solid cast. What really sets this film apart aside from the true story aspect of old Hollywood is that prolific Soprano’s director Allen Coulter (who filmed some of the BEST shocker University, as well as the 3rd season’s strange FBI centric premiere “Mr. Rugerio’s Neighbohood”. Coluter is also helming HBO’s upcoming epic mini series “Rome”.

A FUN look at Mewes filmography shows him as being in the IN PRODUCTION “Green Hornet”, although no director or other stars are even announced. Is Mewes playing the Hornet?

Sure now that “Teaparty” has been screened, JSBSB behind the scenes footage is fairly commonplace, but I was shocked to see some tonight in a documentary about Stuntwomen. The Doc is called “Double Dare” and it follows two stuntwomen. The older, established one is a woman by the name of Jeannie Epper and one of the first things she does is a brief stunt role in JSBSB. She is involved in the Miramax chase scene and goes crashing into a table when Jay and Bob bike past. It’s a great film and a real must watch for anyone interested in what really goes into the final product that we see in the theater. It will be playing the rest of this week at the Gene Siskle Theater in Chicago for anyone who is interested.

E! Sources Confirm the ‘Alias’ Star Is Expecting a Little Affleck
By Gary Susman, Entertainment Weekly

Are Daredevil and Elektra having a superbaby? Well, maybe off-screen. E! Online reports that Jennifer Garner is expecting Ben Affleck’s child, citing multiple sources close to the couple as having confirmed that Garner is three months pregnant. The stork report comes just two weeks after People and other outlets published reports that the ‘Daredevil’ costars had become engaged. The baby would be the first for both Affleck, 32, and Garner, 33. Still no word on when Ben and Jen might wed; the marriage would be the first for Affleck and the second for Garner, whose 2 1/2-year marriage to former ‘Felicity’ costar Scott Foley ended in 2003.

Affleck publicist Ken Sunshine declined on Saturday to respond to E!’s pregnancy report, saying he doesn’t comment on his client’s personal life; then again, Sunshine has also dismissed reports that Affleck and Garner are engaged, despite published descriptions of the proposal and the ring. Garner’s rep has not commented on the baby news.

A November due date for Garner could pose some production problems for ‘Alias.’ Producers may have trouble writing her pregnancy into the plot, since Sydney’s eggs were harvested last season. On the other hand, it would be hard to hide the pregnancy with the typical baggy costumes that expectant TV actresses often wear, since Sydney favors skin-tight outfits. And production of Alias, which is scheduled to resume in July, can’t begin any sooner, since Garner will spend much of the next two months in Vancouver shooting the romantic comedy ‘Catch and Release.’ Still, if anyone can wriggle out of such a tricky situation, it’s Sydney Bristow.

We’re about to be blessed with the presence of Jennifer Garner and the rumors and paparazzi baggage that travel with her.

As tabloid reports circulate that have the Alias star ready to marry Ben affleck and/or pregnant (not that we’re buying into either), rehearsals for the film Catch and Release get underway in Vancouver this weekend (although at press time, it was looking like it had been pushed back by a few days)

Beau Affleck won’t be around much, considering he’s playing George Reeves in Truth, Justice, and the American Way about the investigation into the supposed suicide of Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950’s TV series. Filming just got under way in Toronto.

However, there’s a lot Affleck related about Catch and Release , besides Garner. Kevin Smith one of his best buddies, has been cast in a big role. Smith, of course, is the writer and director behind early Affleck flicks such as Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma, and appeared as Silent Bob in those flicks.

Also rumored for a role is Jason Lee, who starred in the above Smith flicks.

And there’s the involvement of Jenno Topping (which probably started the whole ball rolling), who is married to Chris Moore, the co-creator of Project Greenlight (among other Affleck related projects), Affleck and Matt Damon’s reality show for budding movie makers. Moore wil be in town to babysit their two kids while Topping works on Catch and Release.

Smith, by the way, is driving here with his wife and young daughter and most likely the couples two dogs, who should be right at home in Vancouver.

After all, their names are Scully and Mulder.

1. Pick Up These Pilots: There are more than 100 pilots (basically, show tryouts) in consideration for the new fall season, and no one is supposed to see them. But tapes are floating and sources blabbing, and I can tell you that the following pilots are, by all accounts, this season’s biggest and brightest:

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• My Name Is Earl (NBC), a comedy starring Jason Lee (Almost Famous) as a low-rent crook who wins the lottery, is the funniest damn thing you’ve seen since Arrested Development.

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Most of y’all may already know this from reading “My Boring-Ass Life”, but just in case…

So production on “Clerks 2” has been pushed back to a September start, to allow me to head up to Vancouver this week for the two month and change “Catch & Release” shoot.

Beyond that, everything’s locked-and-loaded with the flick. The budget’s in place and the cast is almost locked. This move will probably pooch the idea of debuting at Sundance ‘06, but while that would’ve been a poetic move, as Mosier pointed out, it’s not like it would’ve been a triumphant return or something: we’d already had that moment when we debuted “Chasing Amy” up there in ‘97, after the theatrical crash-and-burn of “Mallrats”.

As per Scott…

“In ‘97, we had nothing to lose. Most folks had written us off after ‘Rats’, and didn’t expect much out of ‘Amy’, so we were able to surprise them. Now? We wouldn’t be regarded as underdogs. We’d be showing up with a flick for which there’s already a bunch of expectation. We don’t really need a film festival to launch this flick, as based on the amount of press we’ve gotten already, it seems like the media will wanna talk about it anyway. So missing Sundance might not be such a bad thing, really.”

That being said, we’re hoping for an early spring debut (I’d like to open in February/March, while kids are still in college), and a possible trip to Cannes in May (in the Director’s Fortnight or Un Certain Regard categories, if not the International Critic’s Week section, where “Clerks” had its Cannes debut), for our international launch.

Anyway, that’s where we stand at the moment.

Pajama-Rama SuperFriends Retrospective with Kevin Smith and guests, celebrate loveable goofiness and good times that is “The Super Friends”

Los Angeles, CA April 30, 2005 Part One 43:22 Part Two 44:11 Part Three 54:05

Thanks, all, for listening in. We had a haphazard start, but I think by the second hour, we were in a good place with the whole affair.

Last night, I discovered that I don’t like being the front-man of a radio show. I liked my three days on Alice because it was Sarah’s show, and she got to steer it, while I simply followed her lead and got to chime in with the funny. Last night, I found myself in the Sarah role and Brian was me. Good for Bri, not so good for the Sarah-proxy. Riding shotgun, I’ve discovered, is way easier – because all you have to do is tag-up on the leader. Go back and listen to the Alice stuff; that’s all I did for three days. And that’s a lot more fun for me.

Mind you, this is not me taking anything away from Brian or Mewes, who were great and did what they were supposed to do. But I’ve learned that I’d rather be a guest or second banana. It’s really not that different than the Q&A’s: in that situation, the audience is in charge, and I’m just tagging up on what they say, in the form of story-telling.

If I were to do this in the future, I’d wanna be paired up with someone like Sarah – who’d be in charge of running the show. In radio, I think I’d rather just be a sidekick.

Not saying no to radio; just saying what I’d rather do in radio.

In any event, we won’t be doing it again ’til at least after “Catch & Release.”

After hearing about Kev hosting an LA radio show, I decided to make an impromtu 9pm trip to LA, and by the time I got there, was listening to Kevin, Brian Lynch, Jason Mewes, and Edgar Wright shoot-the-shit for a few hours. Now the first hour was kinda slow, not much talk from Mewes or Bry, and Edgar wasn’t there yet. But after that hour, it was a flat-out riot. Most of the show seemed to be dedicated to Star Wars, with a lot of talk about Kev’s review. At one point, he started naming off people who blasted him on the Ain’t it Cool boards and proceeded to rip them apart. Also a caller called in asking Kev if he was in fact involved with the new Star Wars TV project, and Kevin said this, “I’m not saying if I’m involved or not, all I’m saying is that I’d love to be apart of it.” After that, they started taking calls, asking people there their show should be called. One of the memorable ones were: Not that Bad (the one they seemed to like the most), News Askew, Jersey Grill, The Smith Mewes Lynch Review, and Yes, We’re Open. Then, after talking to callers for a while, they touched a bit upon a possible comic-book sequel to Shaun of the Dead, which would be called From Dusk to Shaun. And finally, talked a bit about Mewes’ two years or sobriety. All-in-all, a great listen, and hopefully it’ll become a regular show.