• The “Chasing Amy” screening at the Arclight has been bumped up from a 200 seat theater to a 400+ seat theater! So, that means double the fun, and double the tickets! Remember, this is a rare chance to watch many fan’s favorite View Askew film, “Chasing Amy”, followed by a live Q&A session with the director himself, Kevin Smith.
  About 200 or so seats are now currently available, both on-line and at the Arclight box-office. Get your tickets NOW before they sell out AGAIN!

• According to the Arclight, there still are a FEW single seats left for the Chasing Amy screening and Q&A coming up on December 14th. So, if you’re local, you may wanna swing by their box office to see if you can snag ‘em up. It’s also a possibility that the event will move into a larger theater which would open up a ton more seats. We’ll keep you informed. So, if ya missed out, there’s still hope!
  As for the upcoming NuArt Dogma screening and Q&A, still PLENTY of tickets and seats available for that — Don’t miss this event, you’re always in for a treat when Kev does a Q&A — Who knows, with Mewes back in LA, he might even show up! Make sure you get to all of these Kevin-centric events while he’s around, when things get busy again, you may not have a chance to catch him live for a while. If you’re local, ya got no excuse! The NuArt screening of Dogma, followed by a Kevin Q&A, is THIS FRIDAY, the 28th.

• Here’s your chance to own a BIG piece of the Askewniverse: Banky & Holden’s table from “Chasing Amy”. The table is repeatedly seen holding Banky & Holden’s Sega. It was also featured in a key scene at the climax of the film. Both Matt Dickinson, the artist and View Askew Studios have authenticated the item as the original Kannex table from Chasing Amy. A certificate of authenticity signed by Kevin Smith will also be provided to the buyer of the table. The item will be available for the next 8 days or so, and bidding starts at $100. Congrats in advance to the lucky buyer, hopefully it will end up in a fan’s home and receive lots of TLC.
  Bid on the item HERE at the frighteningly addictive eBay.

• Well, it seems that astute viewers of the Chasing Amy DVD weren’t wrong after all. The sucker DOES have some framing issues and wasn’t, as the package advertises, supervised by DP Dave Klein (hence the errors). Vincent explains:

• Well folks, you’ve asked, pleaded, and begged, and now, it’s finally a reality. Chasing Amy is on DVD shelves everywhere here in the US (it’s a week or two late in Canada due to a shipment problem from the distributor, sorry folks). We took a few hours and sat down with this disc last night, checked out the menus, watched the movie from start to finish, and checked out all the extras. Wanna know what we thought? Read our EXCLUSIVE REVIEW of the disc here, one of the first (if not THE first) reviews of the release on the web!

Thanks again to Criterion for supplying us with the test pressing of the disc. Though it arrived just a day before the disc’s release, it’s the thought that counts, and it seems that the other big DVD sites got nothing at all, so we’re very appreciative.

Since we’ve mentioned it, a few more questions have come up on the disc so we just wanted to clear the air on a few things. The disc has always been a joint effort from Criterion & Buena Vista, we just weren’t sure who was putting their name on the release. So this disc WILL be an official “Criterion Collection” disc, and contain all the material that was found on the Criterion laser released a couple years back. All the deleted scenes, commentary, stills, and other good stuff will all be in here, along with a NEW anamorphic transfer supervised by DP Dave Klein and a new special DVD introduction done by Kevin. Buena Vista’s handling all the release and promotion of the disc, though.

Above you’ll find scans of the DVD’s front and back, courtesy of DVD File. Click them for larger versions.

Unfortunately, we’ve got no contacts at Buena Vista anymore and hear that the other DVD review sites have the same problems in dealing with them, so it looks like any reviews on the disc’s material from us will have to wait until sometime next week, once our mail-order copies arrive and we’ve had a chance to look at the thing. We’ll keep ya posted.

Well, it seems that the day that will answer one of the most oft-asked e-mail questions e-mails in News Askew history is just a week away, but it hardly seems like it!

Criterion‘s Chasing Amy DVD is scheduled to street one week from today, on June 13th. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to get a peep out of Criterion on the disc, aside from an e-mail scolding us a while back when we posted rumors that it wouldn’t make the release date. We’ve asked a couple times for a review copy of the disc and received no response. So, we’re sorry to say, it doesn’t look like there will be any advanced review of this disc. It’s sad that Criterion doesn’t cooperate with DVD sites, since it doesn’t seem anyone else has received a copy, either, but we’re especially disappointed that we’re not able to bring you an advanced look at one of just four flicks that this site was first created to celebrate.

We’ll likely just place orders for the disc online from one of the discount stores and drop a review up here once we’ve gotten our copies and had a chance to watch the flick, but it may be later than usual. We hear that the new anamorphic print is absolutely perfect, and that there’s a new introduction on the disc from Kevin, but that’s all we know as far as new material over the already seen Criterion laserdisc. We’re sure those of you who’ve yet to see the Criterion laser stuff will dig it, though. There’s a lot of great material on that disc, for sure.

Anyway, to sum it up, we suppose the disc will just quietly arrive next week. Sorry that we weren’t able to get better coverage on this for you, but we’re at the mercy of the studio and it looks like this time we’re just not going to get nice treatment (like the air expressed review copies Columbia/Tristar gave us when Dogma’s DVD was released). We’ll keep you posted as best we can on this one.

• Well, if you’ve been reading the site the past few days you’ve noticed that there’s been rumblings of the Chasing Amy DVD’s arrival this June, and now Criterion has indeed confirmed this. Thanks to a post on DVD File, we’ve verified that the disc is planned for release this summer, and will indeed feature all the good stuff from the packed Amy laser from a few years back, AND a brand new anamorphic transfer. Thank goodness! As soon as we get a definite date (online DVD sites are still saying June 13th), we’ll post it here.