Archive for March 26th, 2006

The Latest From Kevin…

March 26th @ 7:15 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Many of you wrote us in regards to an article that appeared on gossip website “The Superficial” regarding a story Kevin told at one of last week’s Q&As. As you know, Kevin lets loose at Q&As with honesty and revealing stories, but stories that are most appreciated as a whole, not as a 3 sentence press newsbite. Kevin responded to the story at the Myspace blog, so we’ll let him take it from here:
Mewes, Nicole Richie, and me and my big mouth

At the UPenn gig the other night, I told a fifteen minute story that detailed Jason Mewes’ amazing journey from severe heroin abuse to sobriety, giving the man props for coming up on his third anniversary of being completely clean (April 6th) – a stellar accomplishment that should serve as inspiration for anyone looking to kick any monkey of their back. It’s an anecdote filled with tons of love and pride for my boy, which culminates with a convesation Mewes and I had two and a half years ago about what he noticed the big differences were between life on drugs and now off.

And in the age of internet gossip, that heroic tale of a guy who was able to beat his demons has been reduced to this…

Kevin Smith tells really filthy secrets

It’s not like I haven’t told this story at other college gigs over the last few years, but for some reason, it’s now news. I got an email from someone at the NY Daily News regarding not just this bit, but another story that came from a question that night regarding my enmity for Reese Witherspoon (which is pretty well-covered in the book “Silent Bob Speaks”) that they want to run on Monday. This was my response…

“It’s one thing to tell that tale out of school at a college Q&A (in the context of a far larger, longer story about Mewes’ hard journey from heroin abuse to three-years of total sobriety), and a completely different thing to just pull the stuff about bathroom sex and run it in a gossip column. So unless you’re gonna run the whole, unedited transcript of me talking about how amazing it was for Mewes to get clean (a fifteen minute oral story), I’d rather you not include just that bathroom sex snippet, which makes it all seem like unsavory locker-room chit-chat.”

Naturally, I’m not expecting they’ll keep the context. Sadly, it’s not news that Jay – with nearly both feet in the grave at the lowest point in his life – was able single-handedly pull himself out of the self-made Hell of drug addiction and work his way back to the land of the living, clean and sober; what’s news is that he had sex in a bathroom stall with one half of the “Simple Life” dorks.

*sigh*

There’s lots more good stuff from Kevin in his recent blog posts — Visit the page for details on the Clerks 2 trailer (changed to a more official-looking trailer, and running before every print of Scary Movie 4 in April), new pics of Harley, Jen, and friends, and his thoughts on last week’s Q&As. Don’t miss it.

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Clerks 2 Trailers: An Update!

March 26th @ 7:15 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Seems we’ll see a very polished trailer attached to Scary Movie 4 prints next month, but Kevin promises some more down-home style trailers for us internet folk. Here’s the update:
The “Clerks II” teaser I showed at WizardWorld L.A.? That version’s no longer going at the head of “Scary Movie 4”. Weinstein Co. tested another teaser that test much higher, so that’s the one you’ll see on April 14th. I’m torn, because it’s a little too “trailer-y” for my tastes, but since it’s going at the head of a mainstream flick, I guess that makes the most sense. Meanwhile, we’ll keep doing teaser and trailers that’re more my speed over at the “Clerks II” website.

I watched the final version of the “Clerks II” trailer last night – the one that’s going up in front of “Scary Movie 4”. And while it’s a little main-streamy for my tastes, it’s makes sense for the placement: “SM4” will have a killer opening weekend, so that’s a lot of eyes on April 14th, the lion’s share of whom have never heard of our flick yet. Weinstein Co.’s theory is give the mainstream audience a mainstream version of the trailer. Meanwhile, over at the “Clerks II” website, I’ll throw up a trailer that’s more in line with the way I’d personally sell the flick (i.e. – under-sell) to run April 14th. This way Harvey and Bob are happy and I’m happy.

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View Askew NewsBites™

March 26th @ 7:15 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Chuck Gould, Rich Drees, Kevin, Alonso Duralde, Just McGill

  • Two documentaries that feature Kevin Smith interviews will be screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival which starts on March 30. There first film is THIS FILM IS NOT RATED, which takes a look at the screwed system that’s used to rate movies in this country and screens March 31 at 7:30pm, April 3 at 5 pm and April 6 at 7:15.

The second doc is called simply FUCK and is about America’s relationship with the mother of all curse words. DOGMA veterans Alanis Morissette and Janeane Garofalo are also interviewed along with the likes of Drew Carey and Pat Boone. It screens on April 4 at 9:45 pm and April 7 at 10 pm.

More info can be found at the Philadelphia Film Festival website

  • Kevin attended a New Jersey Devils hockey game over the weekend, where a video was shown, filmed by Kevin, congratulating Ken Daneyko on the retiring of his #3 jersey. If anyone’s got a copy we can post, drop us a line. We hear it was funny but hard to hear over the crowd.
  • Kevin is briefly cited in this Australian Age piece on “25 Must-See Films”:
This raised in my tiny mind the spectre of something director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, etc) once said. It was OK that he hadn’t seen the films of the great European masters, he believed, because the directors he admired had, and that was close enough.
  • According to Davis DVD, “Making a repeat appearance on The Opie & Anthony Show (XM Satellite Radio 202), comedian/actor actor Judah Friedlander gave an update on the status of Feast, the horror movie whose production was notoriously documented on the “Project Greenlight 3” series. The film will finally see release this October in limited midnight screenings, followed by a DVD release by The Weinstein Co. and Genius Products. “Feast” — directed by John Gulager and starring Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty and Jason Mewes — was one of a handful of films that Harvey and Bob Weinstein took with them to their new company after their split from The Walt Disney Company in early 2005.” In the bloodfest a group of strangers gather in a bar where they’re attacked and systematically killed by monsters.

We’re looking forward to seeing this one. You may recall, Kevin screened an early version of the film on the series.

  • The View Askew Pixel Pound, the #1 spot on the web to store pics from your View Askew events, has expanded with a new Forum, a WikiPedia page, and a MySpace site. Be sure and check them out!
  • In case you haven’t checked it out yet — Here’s that clip of the spanish Jay & Silent Bob. Fun stuff.
  • And while you’re watching videos over there, you just gotta love this one. With all the “Jaws” references that Kevin’s made in his films, we’re sure that he, and the rest of you, will appreciate “Must Love Jaws”. See ya next time!

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