• Kevin’s back with another of his week-end reports. This week, Kevin shot mostly stuff with the actresses of the flick, including a great debut performance from his wife, Jennifer. Sounds like he’s incredibly pleased with the film, which builds the anticipation even more. Anyway, here’s Kevin with that report:

• Mysterio is back with another HUGE report from the set of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. The guy’s got all access to everything around, and, while he’s still doing his best to keep the spoilers down (as are we), you can get a feel for at least what’s happening and who’s appearing in certain scenes in his latest report. Remember, you can read these things in their entirety at Scooping The Monkey or at Aint It Cool News, their original home.

• It’s confirmed that Ethan Suplee is unable to do his cameo because he (like Duchovny) is still tied up shooting ‘Evolution’ for Ivan Reitman.
• Joey Lauren Adams, as Alyssa Jones, will just appear in a cameo, like a lot of the other Askew characters, outside of the theater where The Bluntman & Chronic feature film starring Biggs & Van Der Beek is being shown.
• Kev asked Joey to play Serendipity in Dogma when her role as Bethany fell through due to Miramax’s desire for a different actress.
• Joey hopes to come back and work with Kevin again in larger roles in future films.
• Other folks listed as just doing “cameos”: O’Halloran, Anderson, Ewell, Humphries, Johnson, Flanagan. We’re not sure if this was their only scene or if these actors will show up elsewhere. Our bet is that most characters from the previous films will show up in just this one scene (referenced above as a spoiler).
• Jason Lee will be on set for other scenes, so his role or roles are obviously not just a single cameo.

As always, TONS more to be read on this stuff in the full-blown articles. They’re longer than ever though, so have at least a half hour or so to spare. Thanks to Mysterio and AICN!

• Mysterio continues his extensive on-set reports from Los Angeles today with a new edition of his column that covers the on-set happenings at “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back”. His report rivals our own On Location reports in size, so grab a drink or a sandwich or something and settle in before you start on this one. The most interesting revelations of this week involve the fact that Kevin and Scott are filming alternate takes of scenes to make them TV-friendly, as Miramax feels the film will play well and be easy to sell to a network if there’s a clean version available. Must be very difficult for Kevin to have to write and manage 2 scripts and 2 versions of the film right off the bat, especially considering the amount of colorful dialogue we’ve heard that’s in this one.

Also, it seems that George Carlin spent a whole day filming on the set, and that some celebs continue to stop by to visit. For the full report, visit Aint It Cool News! We’ll soon be making all these available at “Scooping The Monkey” as well for your convenience, with thanks to AICN and Mysterio.

• Hey folks…There’s some SPOILERS ahead, minor ones, but still, spoilers all the same. Since as you know, many fans had the opportunity to be extras at the El Rey theater yesterday, naturally, some reports were going to come in. Naturally, we got a ton of them here and Aint It Cool News even posted some pics from the event, which include a certain film that’s playing on the marquee. We’ve got those shots, and a summary of what we learned about the production. Naturally, we don’t want to ruin any of the film for those of you that want to go in cold (as hard as that is these days), so we’re going to hide as much as we can. We’ve blurred the thumbnails above, but click them if you’d like to take a look. Also, swipe the text below if you’d like to read the information learned about the film. Bear in mind these are not major spoilers, just some small tidbits:

• The film on the marquee is a “Bluntman & Chronic” movie, which is apparently the film within the film. In this film, Jason Biggs plays the “Bluntman” character and James Van Der Beek plays “Chronic”.
• The AICN scooper saw a scene being filmed with Jason Lee and Dwight Ewell walking out of the theater and fighting. We’re not sure which charaters Lee and Ewell were playing at the time, but it’s likely that we’re seeing Banky & Hooper there.

And finally, this isn’t much of a spoiler, just a confirmation, but we hear that Joey Lauren Adams DOES reprise her role as Alyssa Jones! We’ll have more from the set as it becomes available.

• Well, this scoop may be even bigger than the pics above…Again, no major spoilers here except for details of who was involved in the scene that was shot yesterday and which characters play what…So if you’re curious about where Shannon Elizabeth, Will Ferrel, and others fall into place in the flick, swipe the text below. Mike’s done a great job of summarizing what he saw on set, and it sounds like extras were in for a treat yesterday, as practically every major player was on the scene to appear outside the movie theater (we’re guessing that a lot of the previous characters from the other films appear in this scene and possibly no others). One of the scenes described here is apparently the end of the film, so it could also be considered a SPOILER, but it doesn’t give too much away, at least from our standpoint, having not read the script. As always, our standpoint on this is READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you don’t want to know anything about the film, just move on. If you don’t care if some details are spoiled, swoop away:

Very interesting stuff there! We’ll continue our extensive coverage of the filming here and over at our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back site! Stay tuned as more exciting developments take place.

• Due to the overwhelming amount of e-mail and requests for an update on the Dogma: Special Edition DVD, we felt we’d better do an update about it even though there’s really no new news, just in the hopes that the mails will stop! Although chains like Amazon and Best Buy are all reporting a release date of April 10, this is all just speculation as there still has been no official resolution to the problems and there is NO set release date. As soon as an official announcement is made, we will have it, rest assured. We want the disc as bad as all of you, and are sad that it’s still not on the shelves. We’ve got a lot of contacts that are involved with the disc though, and are doing our best to keep in touch with them and bring any updates we can. It’s just that lately, there hasn’t been much to say.

Another popular e-mail subject of late is Shannen Doherty‘s involvement in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, due to her name being listed on the Internet Movie Database in conjunction with the film. As far as we know, unless this was meant to be some big surprise, Kevin has not admitted to Doherty’s involvement, and, given their past relationship during Mallrats and her current TV schedule, we highly doubt it. Still, with a film full of cameos, anything is possible. If we hear that she is officially on board, we’ll report it, otherwise, chalk it up as IMDB’s error.

• Aint It Cool News’s own Mysterio has been working hard on getting this together, and we congratulate him on his first of what looks to be many on-set reports from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back! Almost makes us wanna pack up News Askew and move it out to the west coast! Anyway, the first report involves a reading of the script and a meeting with Kevin, and is quite extensive. The best part of this coverage is that it’s SPOILER FREE, which is the way we like to see things kept around here. So, while he has read the script and will be on set, none of the details of the flick, including its plot and surprises, are going to be ruined for us. Here’s a preview of some of the more interesting stuff:

We’re going to be asking AICN’s permission to repost the stuff on our Jay & Bob page in an archive, but in the meantime, you can read the entire piece HERE.

• A few things to report from the mouth of the man himself…He’s on draft #5 now, that being, the fifth draft of View Askew 5 (seems the appropriate time to stop, oddly) that’s been passed over to Bob Weinstein at Dimension.

Kev also said that TIFF couldn’t GET the Jaws print, thus the change. Anyway, that’s about it from Askew headquarters, it’s been quiet, but with all this writing and planning going on, we bet there’s some big news on the horizon.

• Well it was natural that when the partial cast list was announced that all of us would start speculating on the plot as well as how much of a “sequel” the film would really be. It sounds like Kevin’s given a lot of thought to that, and wisely wrote a movie that stands on its own for newcomers, but still contains enough slight references and in-jokes to make the film enjoyable on a different level for fans of the other ones. Here’s Kevin with the first of what we’re sure will be many posts regarding View Askew 5’s plot:

• As usual, Kevin and company wowed the crowd with a 2 hour Q&A session at the Chicago Wizard World convention on Saturday. Most folks who attended the convention and checked in with us said it was by far the highlight of the weekend. We’ll have some individual reports a bit later, but for now, here’s the BIG news, some confirmed castings for “View Askew 5″, spoken by Kevin to the crowd:

In addition to correcting that Matty error (folks misheard Kev as saying “Ivy” for some reason), we can only assume Affleck WILL be back, since Kevin does promise that the open-end from Chasing Amy between Holden & Alyssa will be solved (though we’re not sure we WANT to know what happens) as well as unanswered questions from the other 3 films. And so, as all of us fanboys and fangirls dreamed, it does look like this will be a sequel of sorts to ALL the films rolled into one.

Production on the still untitled “View Askew 5″ project is scheduled to begin this fall, in October or November, with a planned release of Summer 2001. Those of you checking your calendars would be astute to notice that filming may actually run at the same time that Vulgarthon 2000 is happening. Pretty damn cool, huh?