• Great news just came in from Vincent. His “A Better Place” DVDs will street on August 21st (Yes, it’s OFFICIAL!) and copies ordered signed from the Stash are set to ship on Friday, August 17th or Monday, August 20th at the latest. Yep, that’s right, just a couple weeks until you can own your very own copy of this OUTSTANDING disc, or, for many of you, watch it for the very first time. Sit tight, it won’t be long now!

• Here ya go, folks. It won’t be long now! The DVD jacket has been finalized for the A Better Place Special Edition, and here it is! Click the thumbnail to get a look at it in all its glory. It’s going to be a great, packed disc, so if you didn’t get that preorder in, do it now. You don’t wanna miss out. Thanks to Vincent for sending it our way.

• Vincent was kind enough to hook us up with the final two screenshots from the “A Better Place” DVD, which reveal some cool stuff about the release. First of all, the deleted scenes not only have scene by scene access (thankfully), but also a very nice menu system for getting around to re-watch your favorites. Even cooler, they’ve packed the disc with even more by adding a comparison of the original sound mix to the new Skywalker 5.1 sound mix. You won’t believe the difference that a remix can make. Anyway, check out the screens, and don’t forget to order your disc from the Stash to get all the signatures and film clipping! Street date is June 19th.

• Good news, everyone! (Any Futurama fans here?) You can now place your order from the jam-packed “A Better Place” Special Edition DVD for the low, low price of $24.95 from the Stash. This disc will include a signed jacket by Vincent Pereira and Brian Lynch, AND a bonus film cell signed by Vincent & Kevin. Way cool. This offer is limited to the first 1,000 copies pre-ordered, so place those orders now! This is a great deal, and a must-have piece of merchandise, even if you don’t have a DVD player yet. Don’t miss out on this deal on a great flick at a nice price. Here’s the announcement:

You read it right folks – the DVD that you’ve been waiting for (the one packed with goodies that Vincent talk about below) is now available for pre-order and at 5 bucks off the retail price.

The DVD features the following:

SIGNED by Vincent Pereira
SIGNED by actor and liner notes author Bryan Lynch
Director’s commentary
Deleted scenes with commentary
Widescreen Digital Transfer of the Director’s Cut (featuring scenes not in festival prints)
5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack mixed at the Skywalker Ranch
Special introduction by Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier

Also included are FRAME CLIPPINGS and a SIGNED and NUMBERED CARD signed by Vincent Perira and Kevin Smith Quantities limited to 1000.

By the way, coincidentally, Express.com, who were previously offering the ABP DVD deal (but no longer), declared Chapter 11 yesterday and laid off almost their entire staff. Yikes! Stay away from orders at that site, folks. The A Better Place Special Edition DVD will be released on June 19th. Get those orders in ASAP!

• Thanks to Vincent, we’re happy to present 4 menu screens from the upcoming Synapse DVD release of “A Better Place: Special Edition”. Note: On the final version, “Cassese” and “Skywalker” will be spelled correctly. Click the thumbnails above for a better look at how the chapter selections, special features, introductions and more are organized. It’s nice to see that the deleted scenes will indeed be viewable both with and without a commentary track, a feature often lacking from this area of most discs. Enjoy, and pick up your copy on or preorder before June 19th!

• Well, one of the two anyway….Sadly, we’re still unable to report anything on the Dogma Special Edition DVD. We’re waiting for any info but they’re keeping it quiet for the time being. Basically, we’re still assuming there’s some content issues (similar to those issues a while back that they’d found a way around) and that the studio is working with those involved with the disc to come up with a solution. While this again seems rough, it’s a good sign. Whatever the problem is, the delay means that they’re trying to get the best product out there to the fans, rather than just settling for something inferior.

Speaking of which, the A Better Place DVD could have been done a while ago too, if Vincent hadn’t insisted on making this thing PERFECT. And while we know a lot of you have orders in all over the place, the good news from Vincent himself is that the final blocks are being put into place. Here’s Vincent:

There ya go, folks. Stay tuned for more big DVD news here soon. Clerks Uncensored is still on track and we expect to see the two mentioned in the headline in the next couple of months. Keep those spots on your DVD shelves open.

• We are VERY PLEASED to report that Lions Gate Films has acquired theatrical distribution rights to Bryan Johnson’s View Askew Produced “VULGAR”. The film made its debut, as you know, at the Toronto Film Festival this year, and was filmed a couple of years ago. Kevin & Scott helped produce the flick, which is being described as a VERY disturbing one, as Kevin himself has said, “Think of this movie as the unholy product of ‘Blue Velvet’ after having been raped by ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2′.” Kevin dropped by the board upon his return from Toronto with the big news, but left the distributor out of it, since it’ll be all over the place in Variety soon, we’re sure. However, Lions Gate was kind enough to contact us directly, as they’re very pleased to have acquired the film and wanted to let everyone know ASAP. Here’s Kevin:

HUGE congratulations to Bryan Johnson on the big achievement, it’s quite an honor to have any film sold for distribution, let alone your FIRST one, so we’re really happy for the guy. Congrats also to Kev, Scott, and the whole press machine that put things together in Toronto and helped to get the job done. It’s a very happy day for View Askew Productions!

• After scant reports on the flick, we’ve got some information on Bryan Johnson’s “Vulgar”, which we hear will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next month before it’s shown at Vulgarthon 2000 in Red Bank. Thanks to Upcomingmovies.Com, we’ve got a premise for the film from Johnson himself, as well as some other info.

In addition to that, we’ve got some exclusive behind-the-scenes shots from the set, taken by Gramp quite a while ago. They’re not overly revealing, but if you just wanted to see some set photos, there ya go. Gramp promises more coolness, including a shot of O’Halloran in makeup, if he can get the scanner up and running.

Watch this site for more Vulgar news as it happens!

• You’ve heard the rumblings, and from talking to Vincent as well as others, along with the website DVD Express now moving the release date, it looks like Pereira’s “A Better Place” jam-packed special edition DVD will be out this Fall. A release date of October 31, 2000 is now being predicted, but that’s just speculation. Vincent has said that the new remix makes ABP “sound like a [David] Lynch film”, so we’re certainly looking forward to all the great stuff that’s in store. As with all View Askew productions, sit tight, it’ll be well worth the wait!

• We chatted with Vincent Pereira briefly today about the “A Better Place” Special Edition DVD that’s coming soon. Seems that the disc is now scheduled to arrive on JULY 22nd, as Vincent has hooked up with some folks from Skywalker sound and is getting the final plans in place. He’s heading up to New York this weekend to lay down a bunch of the soundtrack, and then it won’t be long before he’s off to the Ranch to supervise the brand new Dolby Digital 5.1 mix. It’s gonna be a great disc. We’ll have an exclusive first look of all the goodies on this thing soon.