- Some folks are beginning to get callbacks regarding their extras submissions! If you haven’t gotten called yet, don’t fret, but we do assume at least some notice will be given. Dates confirmed so far are Tuesday, October 8 in Center City Philly and Monday, October 14 in New Jersey. We’ll keep ya posted.
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AOTC DVD Commentary Cites “Clerks!”
- In a moment that’s sure to make Kevin and any View Askew fan proud, George Lucas himself cites the famous Clerks debate regarding contractors on the Death Star! Though he gets the characters mixed up, it’s still a historic moment. Here’s the text from the AICN report on the upcoming DVD:
Holy Shit, a View Askew reference! Although Lucas gets the characters wrong (it was Randal and Dante, not Jay and Silent Bob, but props nonetheless) he mentions the classic debate of the contract workers who are killed when the under-construction Death Star is blown to bits. Apparently, some of those workers were Geonosians. So they DID deserve to die after all. Randal will sleep better now.
The truth finally revealed! Read it all HERE!
Vulgar Released on DVD TOMORROW!
- Get your Vulgar DVDs everywhere TOMORROW — Or, better yet, if you haven’t already, get that order in with the Stash, as director Bryan Johnson will personally caress and sign your Vulgar disc for ya. You know ya want that. We’re receiving reports of some leaked copies in stores around the country as well, so your local unscrupulous shop might already have the disc out there today. Thanks to all who reported on this, and if you haven’t already, be sure to check out our own review of this excellent disc.
View Askew NewsBites™
- Tomorrow night at 9 PM, VH-1 is airing “Remembering the Concert For NYC” from last year where Kevin did his “Why I Love New %*&!# York” short film. The show claims to have behind the scenes footage about the concert and everything that went on that night, so perhaps we’ll see some new Kevin stuff.
- We’re hearing than an Australian newspaper called the “Adelaide Advertiser” is claiming that Damon wants to work on a Good Will Hunting II. Worst…idea…ever. If it’s even true.
- This week’s prize for the Guess the Gross game on Bikkit.com is a Vulgar poster signed by Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, Bryan Johnson, and Brian O’Halloran. Wow. We want one! Check it out HERE.
- Jason Lee will be on Late Night (which starts re-airing on Comedy Central this Wednesday) September 13th and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart September 17th. This will all likely be to promote “Stealing Harvard”.
- We mentioned a strange magazine called “Bizarre” that ran a one-page article on Vulgar last month — With the DVD release upon us, we’ve got a scan of that above. Click to give it a read.
- Speaking of Vulgar, if ya know French, DVDrama has a French review that seems to be quite positive, and recommends buying the Region 1 version as it’s unlikely to get a release in French Theaters.
- You want more scans? Will give ya more scans! While the last Arena didn’t have Kevin’s new column, it DID have a huge new interview with Matt Damon, with questions from “contributing editor Kevin Smith”!
- If you’d like to check out that glowing Total Film review of the new UK Chasing Amy DVD, you can find a scan of that very page online HERE.
- Speaking of Damon, seems he was a little tough to persuade regarding his cameo in Jersey Girl, according to Moviehole :
Matt Damon will have a cameo role in Kevin Smith’s new film.
Jersey Girl stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Damon says he was a little reluctant to appear in the film to begin with, but director Smith persuaded him to do it.
“He said ‘What you’re too good to work for me now? Won’t appear in your old friends movie?”
- Check out artist & Marvel EIC Joe Quesada’s new official site for art for sale, news, articles, a forum, and lots more!
- On last Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s Beat the Geeks, the movie geek was asked what three movies John Hughes directed featured Anthony Michael Hall and what was the fictional town. The movie geek responded with the correct answer, but threw a shout out to Jay and Bob for trying to corner the dope market in that fictional town of Shermer, Illinois.
- Two new DVD reviews are now online for Jay & Bob and the Stan Lee disc are now up at DVD Launch. They’ve got a Vulgar review on the way as well.
Jersey Girl In Paulsboro: Report
- Yep, the Inquirier does it again with an excellent story covering the recent happenings when Ben Affleck greeted fans in Paulsboro while filming some Jersey Girl stuff on location yesterday. Ratface gets some ink as well! Yeah!
Wishing on stars and seeing a few
The filming of “Jersey Girl” brings movie magic to fans in Paulsboro, Gloucester County.
By Sara Isadora Mancuso
Inquirer Suburban Staff
PAULSBORO – Police Chief Ken Ridinger’s headphones hung off his neck as he stood behind the yellow crime tape keeping cameras, reporters and fans from creeping into off-limit blue tents and trailers.
“He’s really knocking it down in this scene,” Ridinger said as Ben Affleck’s lines for Jersey Girl filtered into his ears.
Yesterday’s sprinkle went unnoticed by the 80 or so fans praying for a star sighting as they lined the sidewalks across from Paulsboro’s municipal building on Delaware Street. Mothers and fathers with babies in arms, teens, and shop owners huddled together, waiting for a wave from Jennifer Lopez or Affleck, the stars of the $35 million Miramax movie.
The dramatic comedy stars real-life sweethearts Affleck and Lopez as newlyweds with a newborn. The story is set in Highlands, Monmouth County, but Paulsboro is doubling for the coastal town, where director Kevin Smith, of the 1994 sleeper hit Clerks, grew up.
During the fans’ stake-out, which for some started at 8 a.m., disposable cameras never left their sides, and pens and paper for autographs stayed gripped in hands, wet from rain.
They had a great view of Affleck – his stand-in, at least – clad in black-and-white Adidas pants outside the back doors to Borough Hall.
Eventually, the fans’ screams were answered.
Only partly.
J. Lo was off-set, in New York for the MTV Video Music Awards.
But Affleck walked down Delaware Street around lunchtime after portraying a New York City entertainment publicist in a scene. In Jersey Girl, George Carlin plays Affleck’s father, a municipal employee.
Back on Delaware, traffic crawled while Affleck spoke on a fan’s cell phone; doled out hugs, kisses and autographs; and posed for pictures.
A few hours before, real Borough Council members signed autographs before heading into Borough Hall for a scene with Affleck.
Councilman John Gentile took the seat he always uses at borough meetings. “We were just sitting there being ourselves. Then Ben Affleck appears,” he said, incredulous.
Inside, municipal business was slow. Borough Clerk Kathy VanScoy, a movie star for a day, slipped in and out of the office. Her hair, usually long and flowing, was fashioned with bobby pins in a loose bun, and her makeup had just been done at Hill Studio, Mayor John Burzichelli’s production studio.
Robert “Ratface” Holtzman, a production designer who has worked with Smith and Burzichelli, scouted Gloucester City, Collingswood and other towns before settling on Paulsboro, known for its high school wrestling championships, oil refineries, and borough pride.
“Paulsboro is a diamond in the rough,” Holtzman said.
He had been searching the area for a Craftsman house like those that could be mail-ordered from the Sears catalog in the 1930s.
“I found the perfect house and the perfect street,” Holtzman said.
No, he’s not releasing the particulars.
During the next few weeks, more cast members will be filmed in the borough. They began their 10-week shoot in the Philadelphia area Monday.
The crew and cast, which includes Liv Tyler, also will be at Paulsboro High School and Loudenslager Elementary School in the coming weeks.
For now, the movie crew is getting comfortable shopping in Gloucester County thrift stores and restaurants.
Weiss True Value in Paulsboro has supplied the set dressers with lightbulbs, tools and tape – sometimes three or four times a day.
“They’re down-to-earth, regular, cool people,” manager Phil Weiss said.
The fans were a different story. Dana Truhan and her best friend, Emily Buffington, both 18, were gushing when they entered Gervasi’s Restaurant after taking pictures with Affleck.
“People were screaming his name,” Buffington said. “And we were just like….”
Read it online HERE.
View Askew NewsBites™
- In this article, published in the Chicago Tribune’s movie section today, Kevin talks about how his marriage is reflected in Jersey Girl:
…Even Kevin Smith, king of the slacker flick, is changing his stripes with the upcoming “Jersey Girl,” starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, about a workaholic publicist who decides to get married and have kids when he meets the right woman.
Smith (“Chasing Amy,” “Clerks”), said it will be interesting to see how his young fans react to this movie, which doesn’t feature his stock characters, Jay and Silent Bob, poster boys for the unencumbered life.
“It’s not about subject matter they can all identify with,” Smith said about “Jersey Girl.” “But we all think about marriage and want it, even if we’re not going for the white picket fence.”
“I wanted to marry the woman who rocked my head and my heart and rocked me physically. I hope she feels the same,” Smith said.
Read the whole article (which cites other filmmakers as well) HERE (you’ll have to register with the site to do so).
- Today’s IMDB poll asks which defunct TV show you’d most like to see made into a movie. One of the choices is CLERKS: TAS! Wonder if we should tell them that the show is already based on an upcoming film…
- Yet again, the new issue of Arena magazine does NOT have a Kevin Smith column. Damn shame! That’s 2 months in a row now. We’re not sure if Kevin is on hiatus due to filming, or just completely done with the column. If that’s the end, it will be missed.
- Jennifer Lopez mentioned Jersey Girl in an inteverview during the MTV VMA Awards preshow last night. Congrats to Jennifer on her VMA as well!
- Matt Damon has been on the talk show circuit in Australlia this week to promote Bourne Identity. Today, on Good Morning Australia, he mentioned Kevin’s role in his success, saying that without Kevin, he wouldn’t be where he is today.
- In the latest issue of “Too Much Coffee Man Magazine”, there’s a small article on how Kevin Smith owes Jason Brightman $1.50. Apparently, Jason met Kevin at a convention and gave him a copy of his comic, “Frayed Ends”. Jason then received a fan letter from somebody who bought the comic, before it’s release, at Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. Jason says all he wants is $1.50 or 50% of the sale. Alrighty then.
Be An Extra…ONE LAST CHANCE!
- We have been getting countless confused e-mails here at the site, since it seems that the official page touting information on becoming an extra in “Jersey Girl” has been taken offline (likely due to the high amount of interest once the news agencies picked it up). For our loyal readers here, we remind you this was the information we were given:
For casting consideration, send a photo of yourself along with your stats (age, sex, height, weight) and your contact information to…
I WANNA BE A JERSEY GIRL!
c/o
Mike Lemon Casting
Callowhill Office Center
413 North 7th St.
Suite 602
Philadelphia, PA
19123
Deadline for submissions is August 31st.
See that deadline above??? The original deadline was AUGUST 31st, which is SATURDAY. So you better hurry! We’re not sure if they’re even full already, but you may as well take a shot if you think you can get that info in there before the end of this month. HURRY UP! Please don’t email those casting call requests here, there’s nothing we can do with your resumes or photos. Sorry.
First Shots Of Lopez & Affleck In JG!
- Last night’s EXTRA did indeed run a small piece on Jersey Girl, where we saw our first shots of Affleck and Lopez in character. We’ve just got some small caps of these scenes above (sorry, they don’t expand). From the looks of the set footage, it appears that they are filming in a suburban type neighbourhood. Jennifer has wavy/curly hair while Ben is back to his short, dark brown hair. The only thing they mentioned about the plot was that Jennifer Lopez’s character is a single mom to begin with. Could this be Kevin’s “Jerry Maguire”? Time will tell.
Jersey Girl Sightings Light In Philly…
- Dark Horizons reports that only a handful of Jersey Girl’s scenes (night ones, at that) will be filmed outside in the Philadelphia area. Most of the rest will happen on a soundstage or inside. Chances are the daytime exteriors are happening in Paulsboro, NJ then.
Today’s Inquirer article seems to confirm this:
“In a town starving for Jersey Girl-related sightings on its first week of filming, this will have to do:
Police tow trucks were busy clearing parked cars from Chestnut Street yesterday outside the Lord & Taylor store, near 13th Street. What was up? Ben Affleck and Jason Biggs, who play coworkers in the Kevin Smith film, were due to show up to shoot inside the Wanamaker Building. When queried, a worker at the building said an upstairs stairwell would look great on celluloid.
The Jersey Girl crew will be in Paulsboro, Gloucester County, today and tomorrow before taking a Labor Day break.
In other Jersey Girl matters:
Affleck and his best friend, Matt Damon, have something else in the works these days. They enjoy giving back to the film community since they were plucked from obscurity with Good Will Hunting, and are launching their second Project Greenlight filmmaking contest; this time it’s open to aspiring writers and directors, with the winners getting $1 million to make their movie. (Info: projectgreenlight.com.)
And the sight of Biggs, who stars in the American Pie flicks, ties nicely into a bit of, uh, dish: George Carlin, who plays Affleck’s father, is a major-league, don’t-spare-the-nutmeg pumpkin-pie connoisseur. We’re told that a few pies have been delivered to him for his dining pleasure.”
DAREDEVIL: THE TARGET #1 Coming In November!
- Here’s the issue description for the new Daredevil series, coming from Kevin this Fall (scheduled for this Novemeber at presstime). This sounds like a MUST-BUY, and has to be one of the most anticipated titles in the comics industry, with Kevin’s writing and Fabry’s amazing artwork:
DAREDEVIL: THE TARGET #1
Written by Kevin Smith, art and cover by Glenn Fabry.
There’s unfinished business in Daredevil’s life: a psychopath called Bullseye who killed a woman that Matt Murdock loved — and now it’s payback time. It’s the greatest grudge-match of the year, and it features artwork (and painted covers) by Preacher’s Glenn Fabry. 32 pages, $3.50.