- The interview with Kevin from Toyfare last month has been reprinted on Wizard World’s website this week, with two new questions! Check it out HERE.
- Speaking of interviews, we’ve got scans of one with Kevin from the latest issue of (of all things) Hustler Magazine. As this IS Hustler, we’re scrambling the thumbnails, only click them if you have no objections to some cartoon nudity. View and read at your own risk.
- This event sounds like one NOT to miss…And here we thought nothing ever happened in Kansas! The Landmark Starlite Drive-In (Wichita, Kansas) will be having a “Kevin Smith Triple Feature†this Friday and Saturday, with Clerks showing at 8pm, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back at 9:45, and Dogma at 11:30. Admission is $10 per carload. Sounds like a FANTASTIC deal, and worth the drive if you can make it in. Their website is www.starlitefun.com.
- In other screening news, “Clerks†will screen at the University of Dayton, Ohio this Friday night at 8 PM.
- Kevin comes up a big winner in this massive Empire Magazine “Ultimate Movie†poll. First, he took honors as the #19 director , and even cooler, placed #5 in the screenwriter competition. Check ALL the results of the poll online HERE.
- And in other UK news, this small piece on “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back†from Total Film:
Kevin Smith returns with cameo-crammed fan-fest
There are directors who’d sell their own grannies to buy security from the hordes of internet fanboys who fanatically study every inch of their output. Not Kevin Smith – he’d rather make a movie about all those bile-spewing netheads. And he’s also made a film which references all of his own movies and includes his bezzie mates. A little egotistical, perhaps, but Smith has proved he knows comedy (Clerks, Mallrats) and he’s not short of famous mates who’d queue up to read the New Jersey phone book for him.
So while Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back focuses on the eponymous stoner characters (played by Jason Mewes and Smith himself) normally just a geek chorus in Smith’s world, there are cameos aplenty, including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Lee and Star Wars icon Mark Hamill.
A road-trip comedy, Strike Back sees the druggie duo heading to Hollywood when they discover that the comic book based on them is being made into a film – and they won’t see any cash from it. Along the way, there are movie spoofs (ET, Good Will Hunting) and the usual Star Wars references / scatological laughs. US audiences voted with their feet and Strike Back launched at number three at the box office charts. So, overblown self-promotion or love letter to the fans? Judge for yourself when it arrives here in December.
- The latest issue of Inquest (the sister publication to Wizard that focuses on games) has a “Twisted Toyfareâ€-ish 2 page spread titled “Jay and Silent Atogâ€. Basicly it’s Jay (or a Jay action figure) chilling on a sidewalk with an Atog (from the card game Magic) while various characters (again-from Magic) walk by and Jay makes comments to or about them. It’s 11 panels total. If someone has a scan for us, send it on in and we’ll post it up.
- A View Askew reference has popped up on one of the many Bin Laden flash games out there these days. If you play the game HERE , and choose the nuclear weapon, the nuke’s got a picture of the Buddy Christ with the text “Whos Your Buddy?†on there.
- When J&SBSB is released in Australia on November 15th, it will go up against “Evil Woman†(â€Saving Silverman†in the US) and “Don’t Say A Wordâ€.
- With the Halloween season upon us, theme parks and cornfields around the country are setting up their big Halloween scare fests. Jay & Bob’s popularity must be soaring, as we’ve already received reports of them appearing at two of the country’s largest.
In Southern California, there’s a little amusement park known as Knott’s Berry Farm. At Knott’s Berry Farm, they transform the park into “Knott’s Scary Farm†– The Halloween Haunt for the month of October. This event has been happening for 29 years now. One of the main attractions of the Haunt is “The Hanging†show. The Hanging has evolved through the years from an old-style witch hanging into a current spoof of pop-culture. This year, two of the characters in the Hanging are Jay & Silent Bob. The set up for their arrival is a Planet of the Apes lead-in. The Apes are looking to take over two areas of the park, The Ghost Town & The Gauntlet. Jay & Bob arrive on the scene to “Save the park for the stonersâ€. Hilarity ensues with a culmination to our boys dressed in Bluntman & Chronic garb & having a light-saber duel with the apes! (One of the apes is actually using the “Green Destiny†sword (from Crouching Tiger fame) against Jay as he is wielding his dual ended light-saber. The Haunt runs for 21 days this month in Buena Park, CA. It all starts tonight, October 4th!
The duo also have large parts in this years Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure and Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. The guy playing Bob is like a smaller version (both shorter and skinnier) but other than that good, and the guy doing Jay reportedly “pretty much nails itâ€. Check these shows out if you’re in the area!
- Finally today, this interesting tidbit from Wizard that contained a reference to Mallrats:
“Be Fair,†Brodie says in the movie “Mallratsâ€. “Everyone wants Mr. Toads Wild Ride.†That might be true but only one person was able to walk away with this original Mr Toads Car, from the Walt Disney World ride when it was auctioned online. It sold for a whopping $6,600. Someone takes Kevin Smith characters way too seriously.
The Wild Ride, by the way, has been turned into a new Winnie The Pooh ride, and lines for it have been VERY long at the park.
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