As you’re here reading News Askew, we’re sure you’re going to see the movie today or this weekend, maybe once, maybe a few times. That’s a given. But what we’re hoping you can ALSO do is encourage friends, family, co-workers, and the like to check it out this weekend. There’s so many comedies out there that just aren’t funny these days. Kevin and View Askew deliver the goods in a BIG way, so “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” is a sure-fire crowd pleaser. Let’s not only have a great opening weekend, but let’s sail into next week with even bigger word of mouth.

We hope that you all enjoy “Zack and Miri”, and will come back to this post and Talk Back with your thoughts on the final product, the lines, the crowd reactions, and the like.

Thanks to the fans for your support and excitement leading up to this big day — Now it’s time to get to the theaters, buy your popcorn, claim your seats, and laugh it up. Hey, we’ll see ya there.

• First up directly above you will find a hilarious and rauchy interview Kevin did over on G4 yesterday. Definitely turn down your speakers if you are at work!

• The latest issue of Wizard Magazine (#206) has a story on Kevin and Walter Flanagan’s upcoming Batman : Cacophony comic series for DC Comics.
• Roger Ebert posted a new blog today about the unwritten rules for movie critics. In one of the talkbacks asking about rules for posting spoilers, there was this quick and funny Zack And Miri mention:

  
  Question: An interesting post. Do you have any rules of thumb about writing spoilers? I ask because sometimes it is hard to tell where to draw the line. Also, do you have any rules about writing notes during a viewing?

  Ebert: What I sometimes try to do is, refer to an event in a movie in a way that means one thing if you’ve seen it but another thing, although making sense, if you haven’t. For example (spoiler!) this line from my “Zack and Miri” review: “This does not happen easily, and is accompanied by a flood of scatological humor.” Rules about writing during movie: Do so, but not with an illuminated pen!

• Moviephone conducted an exclusive and uncensored interview with Kevin and you can read it right HERE.
• And finally tonight, Ain’t It Cool News’ own Capone tracked down Craig Robinson for and exclusive interview about his career and his experiences working on Zack And Miri with Kevin and the rest of the cast.

Drove from central Pennsylvania out to Pitt for this. The screening was held at the Oaks Theatre in Oakmont, PA (outside of Pittsburgh). The theatre was nice, small, and only one screen. I think the capacity was around 400. They had a large section reserved for the local film crew who worked on the movie. The film itself recieved a great reception from the Pittsburgh crowd. Kevin got stuck in traffic so he arrived a few minutes late after the film, but treated the crowd to about an hour of Q&A including questions about the film itself, Red State, Brandon Routh, favorite Pittsburgh locations, etc. Hilarious as usual. The theatre owner cut him off though because they had a showing of Beetlejuice and Gremlins scheduled which was stupid on the theatre’s part. Having the oppurtunity to have a director such as Kevin in their small theatre, you would think they would have cancelled Beetlejuice, but the owner demanded the Q&A be ended and they pushed everyone out the door. Kind of disappointing on the theatre’s part.

The afterparty was at the Alto Lounge. It was a small place and became extremely crowded with everyone from the screening. The wrong type of place to put the afterparty. A bigger location would have been more sufficient. It should have been planned better. It was so crowded, many people just went outside. Kevin and Jen showed up for the party but quickly moved outside as well because it seemed the Alto did not plan at all for this. Kevin took the time outside on the sidewalk to meet with a few fans, do autographs, and take pics.

In the end…great movie, fun Q&A, though cut short, and poorly organized plans by the PFO. If you check out the Msg Board, many others felt the same and were upset about the organization. Jen also stated on her thread that the Alto was a hassle. No blame on Kevin, he did his best to put on a good Q&A and meet with fans. And the most important thing is that the movie was fabulous!

We won’t say much, other than this clip involves a great deal of the cast, a key element of the film’s title, and a great surprise special guest cameo. And man, is it ever FUNNY. Showing a clip like this around should easily raise interest in the movie, though, so we can see why Kevin has this one making the rounds — After you watch this, we just can’t see how you’d be able to stay away from the film next weekend.

JoBlo links the clip which comes to us originally courtesty of Cinemablend. Watch and enjoy the laughs. It sure looks like “Zack and Miri” swings for the fences and hits it out of the park — Hopefully like the Phillies can continue to do this evening! Go Phils!

SModcast 66: Sleipner the Conquerer –

In which our heroes get political, war the world, and await the annual arrival of Odin.

We’d like to remind you that SModcast remains free, thanks to the good folks over at ThinkGeek, home of half of the stuff on our Christmas lists. Promo code “PORNO” now saves you $5 on orders of $25 or more or $10 of orders of $50 or more. Sweeeeet. Grab episode #66 exclusively at Quick Stop Entertainment.

Now, while you’re over there, do NOT miss the latest cuts of the “Zack And Miri” webisodes “Money Shots”, which continue to focus on showing us interviews with cast and crew without spoiling any moments from the film, which we love. The ever-bubbly Katie Morgan is currently featured on the front page, chatting up her sex scene in the film. Stick around to the end for a bonus bit from Jason Mewes. It’s a double shot!

Zak and Joey continue to break records posting these things, so if you’ve missed a day or two, stop by the archives for more of the kitchen chat with Rogen & Banks (where they chat about their fellow cast includes Mewes and Mabe), and another quick-shot PSA from Ricky himself. We’re expecting this pace to continue at least up until the 31st and quite possibly beyond, so keep your eyes on Quick Stop Entertainment and News Askew for the latest.

So, that means we’ll be seeing something that’s never been seen on the web or TV before on Cartoon Network this Sunday night. Cool.

Our scooper captured it with a digital camera, so the quality isn’t the greatest, but take a look at the current spot, then tune in Sunday for their exclusive!