• Fangoria Magazine has a nice article on “Dead And Gone”, the new horror flick starring Clerks’ Marilyn Ghigliotti. Here’s a snippet:

“When I read the script for the first time,” says Sasson of his directorial debut, “everything flowed like greased lightning. It’s a mix of THE SHINING, TWIN PEAKS and a lot of EVIL DEAD and DEAD ALIVE. I loved it immediately. Unlike with a lot of other independent horror scripts, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead of the storyline. Without sounding too philosophical, the movie is about reality and how we perceive it. On screen it is the story of Jack Wade [Jones], a Hollywood trophy husband who is forced to take his comatose, ex-Hollywood-studio-executive wife Frankie [Bates] to a small cabin in the Nevada mountains. The solitude begins to take its toll, and he starts to question reality, and his sanity. Is his mind playing tricks on him? Is his wife faking the coma? Or is the whole place simply haunted?”

There’s a ton of new pics and the full story waiting for you at the Fangoria website!

• In the upcoming (April 26th) Dark Horse comic, “Star Wars: Tag & Bink — Revenge of the Clone Menace”, you’ll find a cameo of two very familiar looking Jedi! Check out the two pages where these guys appear.
• Mark your calendars! According to the latest issue of Stereo Sound Agency’s newsletter, Jason Lee is scheduled for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on May 10th. We’ll remind you when it gets closer.
• Stan Lee will be starring in and hosting a new reality show for the Sci Fi Network called ‘Who wants to be a Superhero’. The show will feature 11 contestants, dressing as custom super heroes, competing in challenges that test their bravery, honor, self sacrifice and others. Each episode, Lee will say goodbye to some contestants (ala Donald Trump). The winner will recieve a comic book based on their charecter, and a possible TV movie. The show will begin filming in May. Details HERE.

• In the Newsweek dated April 17th, with Katie Couric on the cover, there’s a mention about Kevin’s “Me and My Shadow” series. Page 18 in “The Technologist” section, at the bottom in their Blog Watch:

The series continues this week at the MySpace and Speaks blog sites. Honest, moving storytelling at its best. Don’t miss it.

• Our good friend, photographer Albert Ortega is back with another series of photos, this time from Kevin and Scott’s April 5th appearance at “Film Indepedent’s The Director’s Series with Kevin Smith & Skywalker Sound”. The event took place last week in West Hollywood. As always, these are highest quality, high resolution photos you can get, so be sure to click for crystal clear views of the event. Check out that Mosier beard-age! More thumbnails can be found at the WireImage site as well.

• Viva la France! Check out these photos that Kevin passed on today (via a poster at the View Askew Board), showing a VERY classy French video store window. We hope any of our French fans who are in the area give their patronage to this place.
• An early Clerks II teaser trailer (featuring only Clerks 1 scenes) is currently 6th on the list of top previews at major film website “Coming Soon”. Keep spreading the word, folks!
• Stan Lee still wants a shot in front of the camera again with Kevin. Check out this excerpt from a recent Newsarama interview with the man:

NRAMA: While you didn’t get to play JJJ, Stan, you’re now a big-screen veteran, having appeared in several Marvel film adaptations and Kevin Smith’s immortal Mallrats. Anything coming up on the silver screen in the future?

SL: Well, I’ve got a cameo in X-Men 3, but it’s not exactly the kinda role that’ll qualify me for an Oscar nomination. Of course, I’m still hoping Kevin Smith will do a sequel to Mallrats and that he’ll let me play myself again—or anyone else, for that matter. I’m easy to please.

• Kevin is mentioned in Monday’s Podcast over at CinemaBlend. In it, they chat about Jersey Girl, Clerks 2, and the direction of his career. You can skip 20 minutes in to get right to the Kev stuff.
• The Quick Stop and View Askew inaction figures make an appearance in a web comic over at the “Wrestling Fan” website.
• The Fine folks at joblo.com have Mallrats in their weekly Ten Spot colum. This week they are counting down the best rabbit appearences in film. Jay and Bob beating the hell out of the Easter bunny clocked in at #7:

You can check out a shot of this and other moments HERE.

• And finally today — Since we’re in the Holiday spirit and all — And it’s sort of a fun Mallrats tangent to the story above — We suggest you give a watch to “The Easter Bunny Hates You”. Some laugh-out-loud good stuff in that clip. Enjoy, and Happy Easter!

• Due to some issues with the unrated Clerks 2 trailer being out there, it’s likely going to be removed from the YouTube site — But before it is, Kevin’s asking you ALL to watch it a few more times to get our numbers up! If you haven’t seen it yet, or just not in a while, give it a look – Doesn’t get old to us! And don’t forget to post a comment, as well. Here’s Kevin:

There’s a full update on the way later today — So stay tuned!

• Just a reminder, folks — If you’re in the Northeast and up for a memorable evening, you can’t go wrong with a trip into Stockton College for Kevin’s Q&A gig tonight. The event kicks off tonight at 7 PM in the Sports Center.

Tickets are are true bargain for the show: $3 for students w/ID, $10 general admission; Call 609-652-9000 to pick yours up. Kevin promises some Clerks II clip action, yet another reason you don’t want to miss what’s sure to be a laugh-packed evening. Get there!

UPDATE: Kevin missed the early flight out this morning, and reports the gig will not being until sometime in the 8 PM hour tonight. Feel free to adjust your arrival times!

• Kevin’s MySpace blog continues to be the popular spot for catching updates from the guy lately. Here’s a summary of the past few days’ activity:

• Kev celebrated the addition of his 10,000th friend.
• The continution of the brilliant “Me and My Shadow” has been delayed until Monday.
• Kevin asks you hit YouTube to watch the Clerks 2 trailer a few more times. His words:

  “I need a favor: There was a glitch with the “Clerks II” trailer at YouTube. We were about to hit 100,000 views, and now, that version got locked for some reason. We uploaded a new version, but it’s only sporting a paltry 2000 viewes. Gotta get that number (and the comments) up, to keep the clip somewhere near the front page. I know you can peep the trailer on this very MySpace page, but can you do me a solid and click on the link below and leave a message, please? You’d really be making my day.”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAgPiCi94o&search=clerks%20II

We’ll keep you posted on Kevin’s latest blog entries here, though you can always join his MySpace page as well. Also, at presstime the YouTube service seems to have been down all weekend. No idea on uptime for that again.

• Happy Belated birthday wishes to the lovely and charming Jennifer Smith, from News Askew and via this touching post from Kevin.
• For those viewers who have yet to see Lexicon of Love (I & II), The-N.com is offering Degrassi On Demand, allowing you to watch the episodes online. Simply use the free On Demand player and enjoy!
• The new episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” features Ben Affleck, and it’s been a while since we’ve seen the guy. They mention he starts his behind the camera duties next month for “Gone, Baby Gone”. The shows airs almost nightly between HBO and HBO2. Check your listings.
• From one of those “movie a day” desk calendars, their “Sunday List” featured the category “Shopping Frenzy” and this flatterng Mallrats write-up:

• Tickets for the Newport Beach Film Festival showing of “Drop Dead Sexy” (starring Jason Lee) are now on sale. The film will show at 5 PM on April 22. Here’s a capsule description:

An in an interesting “coincidence”, Jason’s “Almost Famous” co-star, appears in the movie Amateurs which is showing after Drop Dead Sexy. 7pm and 7:30pm shows.

• 411mania is a pulp-culture news site that regularly hosts a weekly ‘Fact or Fiction’ article which provides statements and its writers have to explain their position as to why the statement is ‘fact’ or ‘fiction’. This week, a Clerks II statement was brought up:

You can read the full article HERE.

• MGM recently listed Clerks II in a March press release regarding their upcoming releases, sparking quite a bit of debate considering the fact that we’d assumed it’s have The Weinstein Company banner in front — Especially given the fact that we’re wondering if MGM would even be willing to fly with the unrated release. We were WAITING to see what the controversy would be with this one! Could this be it!?!?! Kevin’s got more:

Clerks II – Distributed By MGM???

• Kevin’s continuing to pump out what has to be one of the most compelling online blogs EVER, the story of his relationship with Jason Mewes, FREE of charge via his Myspace blog and “Boring-Ass Life” site. If you’re not reading, get started, as all parts are available, and each section grows more compelling, heartbreaking, and enlightening than the last. A true tale of additiction, redemption, and true friendship, this is some fantastic storytelling from one of the best writers in the business today. Do NOT miss “Me and My Shadow”, now playing at Kevin Smith’s blogs. ONLY online.