Now then, let’s summarize a few of the recent tweets that may be of a News Askew-type interest to you:

• “Did (nearly) full-cast read-thru of the script today. Funny, funny stuff. Lucky to be joined by two way-talented DICKS.” (referring to the new cast signings of Brody & Scott).
• Kevin linked up a Comic-Con piece from last year regarding the panel he sat on with Apatow, Miller, & Snyder.
• On Friday morning, Kev promoted an appearance on radio program “Scott & Todd” in NYC that we hadn’t known about. If anyone sees the podcast goes up or has audio, let us know.

To follow Kevin on twitter, it’s simple, just hit twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith. You’ll enjoy his regularly changing background images there as well. You can also follow News Askew on twitter, where we post a tweet and direct link to each new story on the site as it goes live.

Help us sell out Carnegie Hall by spreading the word. If you’ve got a website, post up a link to us. If you’re on Twitter, tweet up a link or a promo. Do what you can to let folks know, especially here in the northeast, that the best show in town, the best place to be, will be Carnegie Hall, June 17th. You won’t be wrong.

Kevin Smith comes to Carnegie Hall, for an uncensored night of laughs & surprises. Do NOT miss it. Tickets are available, but we’re hoping for a sell-out, especially as the date draws closer and folks firm up their plans. Buy now for the best seats.

First up, check out a video clip featuring Kevin’s advice to Andy Samberg on hosting this weekend’s MTV movie awards. Kevin gives his thoughts on Samberg, a few tips, and discusses his own past appearances on the show.

Next up, Kevin proclaims he may perform a one night only bodily function with the mic on the night of the Carnegie Hall show in this video clip. Here’s a snippet from the text:

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…In that sense, Smith pointed out that his Carnegie audience might feel similarly out of place. “Part of the reason they enjoy going is the aspect of, ‘We’re not supposed to be here,'” he said. “There’s a naughty element going in. If I’m not the guy farting into the mic, someone in the audience will do it.”

It’s the audience, Smith explained, not the setting, which ultimately decides the content and character of the evening. “The beauty of what happens at these shows is it changes from venue to venue,” he said. “It’s all about that particular audience. Granted there are a bunch of questions I’ve been asked a zillion times, so of course I’ve got a long story answer prepared for it, not by virtue that I’ve rehearsed it but by virtue that I’ve told it a zillion times.”

At a recent performance in Vancouver, Smith invited a man on stage so he could fulfill a lifelong wish to strip naked in front of thousands of people. “I don’t know if we could get away with that at Carnegie,” Smith mused. “I could see security–boom!–tackle the naked guy.”

Once again, do NOT miss this show — Tickets can be purchased online direct from the venue. If you’re reading this article, and can get to NYC for a summer visit, plan it around this event.

“It’s been roughly two years since Mr. Kevin (“the Clerks. guy”) Smith and his other hetero life-mate (and producing partner), Mr. Scott Mosier, launched their own podcast series, entitled SModcast. Since then they’ve posted seventy-six pieces of what I can only describe as some of the most absurd, silly, raunchy, and down-right brilliantly funny audio bliss ever! And since that time I’ve been a devout listener, always waiting patiently each week for their next new posting — sometimes even having to wait up until a month or so for a new one to show up (I dare not complain, Smith’s a busy man).

For those of you unfamiliar with SModcast, the premise is as follows. Each week Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier find time amongst themselves to sit down and, well, shoot the shit for lack of a better term. In the beginning each show lasted roughly fifty-two minutes, plus or minus, with only a few notable exceptions. Once the series began to reach double digits, however, the show began to change up. SModcast was created partially as an attempt by Smith for he and Mosier to get together each week and catch up on things, but as the show progressed it became apparent that such a notion wasn’t always feasible. And so with it’s thirteenth episode, “SFodcast (or SWodcast),” SModcast found itself with an absent Scott Mosier and special guest, sitting in, Walt Flanagan (“Fanboy,” to the fanboys), one of Smith’s best friends from his youth. And while there is not, and probably never will be, a SModcast without Smith himself, we found that from time to time there will be one without Mosier, at which time we will be treated to a special guest…”

Read the whole article over at Lockergnome.

“…These filmmakers such as Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino and M. Night Shyamalan proved that you didn’t need computers or big bangs to be able to reach the audience. These filmmakers brought a real renaissance to independent film and set up a nice dichotomy in the decade between the decadence of special effects-driven event movies and personal talkies of smaller films.”

Seann William Scott and Adam Brody are joining Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in Warner Bros.’ “A Couple of Dicks,” a buddy action comedy being directed by Kevin Smith.

The script, by Robb and Mark Cullen, follows a maverick cop (Willis) and his partner (Morgan) who, while tracking a valuable stolen baseball card, tangle with a memorabilia-obsessed gangster and rescue a Mexican beauty who holds the key to millions in laundered drug money.

Scott plays a thief known as the Shit Bandit for the souvenirs he leaves at his robberies. Brody is an abrasive detective not happy to be working with Willis and Morgan.

Shooting begins Monday in New York.

Marc Platt and Polly Johnsen are producing. Sarah Schechter and Matthew Milam are overseeing for the studio.

This marks the first time that Brody will work with Kevin on a film. Scott as you may recall, was thrilled to be a part of “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” for a memorable cameo. Joblo confirms the story as well.

And yep, shooting starts THIS MONDAY! We’ll be ramping up coverage here at News Askew, with the hopes that a New York location shoot might get us some more visible scoopage that Zack & Miri’s more subtle Pittsburgh-area stuff. Stick around. It’s gonna get good.

View each video direct from the NHL website by clicking the links below:

Segment One – Kevin visits the Pregame Show (3:48)

Segment Two – A Visit to Kevin’s Suite for Game 7 (3:10)

We’d also like to take this moment to promote the NHL and the wonderful game of ice hockey — Pass the word on and check out some playoff games, or at least the Stanley Cup finals this year. And congrats to our local hometown Hershey Bears here in PA, who are once again going to the Calder Cup finals this year. Go Bears!

Lee’s got at least one more official interview segment on the way, plus some possible outtakes. YouTube has spotlighted the interview clips in 23 countries, and the videos continue to score record traffic. We can’t recommend this great interview enough, one of our faves of Kevin’s career.

“The fake blood is still a little sticky after all these years, and it’s rendered the fabric quite hard and stiff–it’s almost like a hard plastic plate attached to the fabric. Must have been uncomfortable to wear.”

The film: Quickstop employee Dante (Brian O’Halloran) wasn’t supposed to be at work today. Pissed off and with his girlfriend on his case, he just needs to make it through the day.

Passing time with Randal (Jeff Anderson), the clerk from the adjacent video store, they discuss movies, deal with annoying customers, and play hockey on the roof.

Why It ought to be a musical: It’s one for the college crowd, a cult hit from the word go.

No locations to worry about, and Dante and Randall’s profane, scattershot dialogue would translate perfectly to the stage.

Music & lyrics by… Bruce Springsteen and Kevin Smith. New Jersey’s finest together at last.

Hit songs: ‘I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today’, ‘Down At The Nudie Booth’, ‘I Can Do Without The People In The Video Store’, ‘Happy Scrappy Hero Pup’, ‘I Don’t Care If She’s My Cousin’, ‘Best Of Both Worlds’, ‘I’m Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today (Reprise)’.

Producer’s notes: Stage the production in black and white for authenticity.

Heck ya — We’d go.

This first article focuses on “A Couple of Dicks”. Of particular interest, it reveals that Kevin was offered directing gigs on both “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” and Eddie Murphy’s upcoming “Imagine That”.

Kevin Smith On Trying To ‘Breathe New Life’ Into The Buddy Cop Genre With ‘A Couple of Dicks’

“For years, I’d been like, ‘No, I only direct stuff I wrote,'” Smith said. “I would do interviews and be like, ‘If you ever see me directing a script I didn’t write, I’m clearly paying off a mortgage.’ Stuff like that, because I never thought I would.”

But Robinov, who’d been a big fan of Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” thought the director would be the perfect guy to helm “Dicks.” And based on the personal way in which the script resonated with Smith, he was only too happy to accept–even as he continued to be surprised that the directorial offer had ever been made.

“I’ve never even directed anything but a Kevin Smith movie, so why would you trust me with anything else?” he said. “That’s why this is amazing. I can’t believe that somebody would be like, ‘Here, try to breathe new life in the buddy cop franchise.’ But I guess it makes sense. All I do is buddy movies. In this one they have guns and there’s a plot. As opposed to them sitting around talking about ‘Star Wars’ and sex.”

Smith’s ultimate goal, he said with a laugh, is to make “Dicks” a TNT channel classic. “It’s a throwback to ’48 Hrs.,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop,'” Smith said. “It’s a buddy cop flick. It’s not like, ‘He’s a by-the-rules white guy and he is a jive-talking black guy, but together they’re gonna fight crime!’ They just happen to be black and white and they’re long-time friends.”

Next up, Kevin’s daughter Harley presents her own review of the vampy chick-flick “Twilight”:

Kevin Smith’s Daughter Reviews ‘Twilight’

Writer/director/actor/all-around nice-guy Kevin Smith stopped by recently to chat with MTV’s Josh Horowitz on a variety of subjects. While the ever-busy Smith had plenty to say about his own work, he also managed to squeeze in a brief review of “Twilight.” In all honesty, Smith didn’t have much to say about the movie other than mentioning that it made him wish he was a 14 year old girl. It’s his daughter who’s the real fan, and she was brave enough to step in front of the camera so she could share her thoughts.

Finally, Kevin mentions that he currently does not have any interest in taking comics and making movies out of them:

Kevin Smith Has ‘No Interest’ In Working On Big-Screen Comic Book Adaptations

“I have no interest in making those movies,” Smith told MTV News. “They look very tedious to make. It takes a talent that I just do not have. But I love to kick back and watch them.”

He went on to cite Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) and Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”) among the ideal candidates to direct comic book properties. And when it came to the question of writing another script, Smith questioned the very need for a “name writer.”

“When I got hired for that ‘Superman’ gig, the first thing out of my mouth was like, ‘Why are you talking to me?'” he said. “Why don’t you talk to Dan Jurgens or somebody who works on ‘Superman?’ You’ll get a great script out of a dude who’s worked on 60 issues of ‘Superman.’ I guarantee it.”

“But then it was all about, ‘Well, they’re not in movies.’ And now it’s different,” continued Smith. “Now you can cherry-pick and go into a genre and be like, ‘Let’s take these dudes. They write on ‘Lost.’ Their episodes are good. Let’s let them write a script.’ You don’t need a cat like me. And you shouldn’t get a cat like me.”

Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty is set to take the lead role in British indie flick “The Beautiful Outsiders”. She will be playing Sarah Fugate,a prostitute who goes on the run from the law with ex-con Jason Starkweather (Cameron Douglas). Shannen replaces the previously attached Tara Reid who had to leave the project due to a scheduling conflict.

Shannen is famed for her work in cult films “Mallrats” and “Heathers”,as well as long running TV shows “Charmed” and the recently revamped “90210”.

Two other new cast members have also joined the project. “Clerks” star Jeff Anderson will feature in the major supporting role of Eric. Jeff is famed for his work with director Kevin Smith in films such as Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and the recent Zac and Miri Make a Porno.

Multi millionaire businessman Peter Jones,who is known to TV audiences in the UK and US for his work on Dragons Den and American Inventor, has agreed to play the cameo role of Ron in the film.

They join previously announced cast members Brad Dourif, Doug Bradley, David Hess,Giovanni Lombardo Radice,John Fallon,Claire King, Sarah Barrand, Stuart Cable and BAFTA award winning Welsh actress Stephanie James. The film is being jointly produced by Swansea based Masterplan Film Productions and LA based Thunderball Films with award winning Welsh filmmaker Andrew Jones writing and directing. Principal photography is now set to take place in South Wales during September and October this year.

It’s always a treat to see Anderson back in front of the camera. We’ll keep our eyes on this one, and hope to work with the producers to provide you some exclusive content once filming begins.

As for “Reaper”, the show’s pilot was Kevin’s first TV directing gig, so has quite a bit of historical significance. With a cancellation this late in the year, we’re betting that “Reaper”, like “Earl”, may also end with an unresolved cliffhanger.

“…The main thing that’s been going on is ironing everything out with Kevin Smith. When we first acquired The Green Hornet we had quite a few creators wanting to be involved and had creators asking us for up to four years to be involved. A few of the creators we’ll be working with . . . and Kevin Smith was the only person we reached out to and he was interested – but we had to wait to see if it was a definite yeah or nay. Kevin was able to bring incredible amounts of media attention by getting brought on to entertainmentweekly.com, which we gratefully respect, and with the support of the comics industry we plan on making this one of our biggest launches that we possibly can.”

“…Well, Kevin came into the picture when we remembered that he was a fan of The Green Hornet. He’s done a movie with Seth Rogan [Zack and Miri Make a Porno] and while just like the original script that Kevin did that has no involvement with the new movie script with Seth, Kevin as a creator has grown over the last five years and we were able to approach him about doing The Green Hornet as he would approach him today.”

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