August 12th @ 9:16 pm | 1 Comment » | Scooped by John Whiteaker, Bruce Sorge, Ehab Rashed, Alex Eschbach, Chuck K, MonmouthCountyVAFan, James Emery
- We’re getting reports that Kevin has been announced as a guest at the “2008 Wildwood Film By The Sea” Film Festival in Wildwood, New Jersey. Unfortunately, those reports are false (despite him being listed at the website. Kevin will NOT be attending this festival. You can always look to the right sidebar of News Askew for a complete, accurate list of upcoming appearances from Kevin and other crew Askew.
- Empire Magazine runs a very cool “Guess The Movie Poster Letter” game this week, and we’ve spotted at least one of the letters to be from a View Askew flick from the past. Can you find it???
- Empire also continues to prove their coolness by running a fantastic piece on the 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters of all time. Kevin scores a mention with the (possibly ironically) mentioned “Daredevil” coming in at number…37!!!
- And hey, while we’re on the theme of lists, IGN scores a BIG win, yes, the #1 spot, in their top 10 “Movies within Movies” rundown. Yep – Applesauce, bitch:
1. Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
In retrospect Good Will Hunting was an over-earnest bore, but at least its stars and writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck had the good grace to parody their Oscar-winning effort for Kevin Smith. “Think about the paycheck” says Damon to Affleck on set, whilst Guus Van Sant counts a huge wedge of cash. As with the first movie, Damon has his knowledge of southern colonies questioned, only this time is retort is not an intellectual comeback, but blowing the guy away with a shotgun. “It’s hunting season! Apple Sauce Bitch!”
- The creator of the hacker convention, Defcon, seems like he might be a View Askew fan, striking a very familiar pose in the last photo of this Wired article.
- Wanna see a cool scan? In Australia, they’re relasing a DVD 2-pack featuring “Chasing Amy” along with “Slacker” — Yep, arguably one of Kevin’s best along with the film that inspired him to get into the biz in the first place! A very cool pairing, we must say.
- Finally today, worth a quick look, the IMDB have added a few shots from the San Diego “Zack And Miri” panel to their stills page for the film. Catch ya again soon! Thanks for stopping on by News Askew today.
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