- Here we are folks, at one of the busiest times of the year for us and likely many of you personally, thus, a bit quiet in the world of News Askew and View Askew. We’re hitting sort of a double-whammy this year, as Kevin and Co. typically take a breather after a film’s release, so couple that with the holidays and Hollywood in general takes a bit of leave from publicity. This, of course, all makes it a little tougher for us to come up with news to share, but of course we’re always on the lookout. As always, times like this make YOUR scoops key important, so please hit up our scoops page if you see anything on the web, theaters, tv, or print, and let your voice be heard. We’d love to hear from you.
Next week, we’re eagerly anticipating another installment of SModcast, where Kevin and Scott promise to continue discussing the “Zack And Miri” experience in their open forum. If you missed last week’s episode, it’s absolutely compelling listening, we highly recommend you grab it.Also, to wind up the year, we’re now prepping our annual “Year In Askew” which will run next week. This story, usually a two-part affair, will run down the entire 12 months of 2008, looking back on another year with View Askew Productions making headlines. It’s always incredbile to look back and see everything that happens in a single year. Watch for that, SModcast, more news, and be safe during the crazy holiday season. Just a couple quick newsbites for ya today…
Archive for December 20th, 2008
View Askew NewsBites™
- Moviefone’s “Year End Movie Poll” features “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” in several categories — Surf on over and let your voice be heard, show the film and its stars some much-deserved love and praise. It looks like you need to answer each question to move on to the next, and our heroes are scatered throughout.
- The Digital Bits announces the Blu-Ray arrival of a modern classic, “Donnie Darko”, which will again feature the commentary track featuring directory Richard Kelly with Kevin Smith:
Also newly announced by Fox for BD release on 2/10 is Donnie Darko (SRP $34.99). This will be a 2-disc set (one Blu-ray and one DVD). Extras on the BD disc will include both the theatrical cut and the director’s cut, 3 audio commentary tracks (one with writer/director Richard Kelly and Jake Gyllenhaal on the theatrical cut, a second with the cast and crew on the theatrical cut, and a third with writer/director Richard Kelly and Kevin Smith on the director’s cut) and D-Box enhancement. The DVD disc will include more extras on SD format, including a Donnie Darko Production Diary with optional commentary by director of photography Steven Poster, 2 featurettes (They Made Me Do It Too: The Cult of Donnie Darko and #1 Fan: A Darkomentary), a storyboard-to-screen featurette and the director’s cut theatrical trailer. Cover art is available below.
Sounds like nothing new, but hopefully a beautiful looking and sounding Bluray worth adding to the collection. It’ll be nice to have both cuts on one disc, as many have spoken out preferring the more ambiguous theatrical version to the director’s cut.