• Alrighty, so things are finally STARTING to get back to normal around here. The server is still receiving MUCH higher than normal traffic, which is amazing considering the trailer has been around for almost 3 full days now. We’re currently sharing bandwidth with Moviepoopshoot.com, thus any site that’s linking directly to the trailer there is slowing down News Askew as well. Again, if you’re downloading the trailer to watch it again or save a copy, PLEASE try the mirrors listed over at Scooping The Monkey first.

Believe it or not, the news is pretty slow, most folks must just be watching the trailer over and over again. Many fans are piecing stuff together from the many, many quick clips in the trailer, and the net is going crazy over this thing. Countingdown, Dark Horizons, Total Film, Cinescape, and TONS more are picking up on this story and the response has been incredible. For this reason, we don’t HAVE a lot of scoops, so if you have yet to receive a reply on a scoop, or they bounce back, please keep trying to get your e-mail through. Things should slow down this weekend.

By the way, as a result of this, News Askew and View Askew WILL be receiving a massive server upgrade…More disk space, bandwidth, memory, the whole nine. Watch for that soon. You should see faster loading times, talkback generation times, faster forums, and, best of all, a slowdown like this should not happen again. We’re planning it all out now, and hope for a seamless transition to the new boxes very soon.

Also, a couple strange requests: First of all, is there by any chance anyone here who works for a print shop? I’ve got a couple of postscript files that I’d like printed out, but very large…I’m talking about maybe a couple of high-quality gloss decals that are about 3 feet by 1 1/2 feet. If I took these things to a print shop, they’d charge me an arm and a leg, but I thought if someone worked in one, you might be able to help out. If you can, please drop me a line.

Finally, has anyone seen a copy of that Japanese Survivor-like flick with kids fighting to the death called “Battle Royale” out there anywhere? If so, again, drop us a line. Thanks, and now on with the show…Just two very very small newsbites, but hey, it helps to clean out the mailbox: