• Hey everybody. Just a quick reminder here that Jim Venable‘s score for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back will be released tomorrow here in the States. Make sure you pick up a copy of this great score and while you are at it, stop by your local theater and see Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back again!

• iFILM has the pilot episode of Clerks The Animated Series up at their site for everyone’s viewing pleasure. Click HERE to watch it!
• Chasing Amy (9/14 and 9/15) and Clerks (9/21 and 9/22) will be screend in North Dallas at the Beltline & Preston Studio Movie Grill as a part of their “Films that are Good but are Better with Beer” film series.
• Here’s a video review column from the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch that gives a nice overview of Kevin’s work.
• The number for the ticket hotline for the UK premiere of J&SBSB being held on October 4th in Hyde Park, Leeds is 0113 2243801 or 0113 2243802. We don’t know if they still are selling them or not at this time.

• Finally today, Jay & Silent Bob recevied a reference in a recent Boondocks comic strip. Click the thumbnail above to check it out. Catch you all later!

• Thanks go out to Allan for sending in these scans of a new J&SBSB on-set report from the current issue ofWizard Magazine. Click the thumbnails above to check it out!

• There’s quite a few early reviews of the new Cameron Crowe flick “Vanilla Sky” featuring Tom Cruise and our boy Jason Lee over at AICN today. Most seem quite positive and a few may contain spoilers. So if you’ve never seen the original “Abre los ojos”, or want to avoid any knowledge, read them at your own risk!
• Every month, Spin Magazine assigns different symbols to represent different rankings for their cd review section. This month Silent Bob is used for #7. Some other notable characters are Flavor Flav at #9 and Sancho Panza at #10.
• Afroman’s making the rounds on Australia radio. ‘Because I Got High’ has been playing on the alternative youth station Triple J. It first started being played last Wednesday night, and has been a daily fixture ever since. You can even vote for it on their weekly Net 50 Show. Also, the song is only ever so slightly edited.
• DVD Easter Eggs has posted a page for the now infamous “A Better Place” DVD.
• There’s a 2 page interview in the latest issue of the UK mens magazine Arena (with covergirl Eva Herzigova) He talks homophobia, Magnolia, Reese Witherspoon, his favorite expletive and the gets in a word or too about J&SBSB.

• Jason Mewes made it into the current issue of US Weekly under their “Fashion Police” section where they pick their worst dressed and critique what they are wearing. Check it out above.
• Good news for Australian fans. After the less than stellar “Chasing Amy” DVD release a while back, it looks like “Clerks” will get the 5-star treatment. Features include: Cast/Crew Bios, Deleted Scenes, Scene Selection, and the Theatrical Trailer. The disc will sell for about $35, and there’s nothing about whether it’ll be widescreen or pan and scan. You can click HERE for more info. Incidentally, this just leaves Mallrats for release in Australia now…
• Finally today, here’s a little Haiku movie review of J&SBSB to wrap your mind around:

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• Here’s a great scoop. You can now view the whole Ben Affleck and Matt Damon “Good Will Hunting 2” cameo from J&SBSB online courtesy of Entertainment Tonight. We’ll keep an eye out if they decide to post any more clips from the film online.

• J&SBSB was holding fast to #5 for Thursday’s boxoffice for a total of $23,296,196. Keep spreading the word so we can get this flick up and over $30,000,000!

• The saga finally ended today. The Phantom Editor finally revealed himself today to The Washington Post. His name is Mike J. Nichols, a freelance film editor from Santa Clarita, California. You can read the whole article about this story right HERE.
• Here’s one fans rebuttal website to the now infamous Jay & Silent Bob.com fansite. Do you think we should let him in on the joke?
• A new site run by the same group who ran the now defunct Psycomic.com has posted their review of J&SBSB. You can check it out on PopCultureShock.com.
• Birthday-girl Shannon Elizabeth shares some kind words for her J&SBSB director on Empire Online. You can read it all right HERE.
• IGN FilmForce has a new article about Tracy Morgan’s upcoming film “Number 1 With A Bullet”.
• Here’s one for all the Linux geeks out there… Linux Today posted THIS story about the news Linux desktop that just released today and how it relates to Jay & Silent Bob.
• An astute fan noticed today that Afroman has made the playlist for Radio 1, the UK’s most listened to radio station. It is also mid-morning presenter, Jo Whiley’s featured track this week, getting a play every day. Obviously it has been edited slightly, though probably not as much as much as you may think.
• It looks like Joey Lauren Adams’ new flick “The Dress Code”, formally know as “Bruno”, will be heading straight to video. Here’s a description:

• Finally today, here’s a fan-tweaked version of the J&SBSB poster featuring George W. from the SomethingAwful Forums. Catch you later!

• Hey folks, this site’s normally a team effort, but in this case Chris is going to take over full duty for a bit while I head off – I happen to be getting married this weekend and then going on the honeymoon. So, please don’t send any scoops to the brad@newsaskew.com address starting tomorrow (Friday) and throughout next week if you’ve been doing so, send them directly to the scoops@newsaskew.com address to get them in. See you all in a week and a half, and take it easy on Chris!

• In a record-setting pace for us, we logged our last one million hits in just over TWO MONTHS! Incredible really. And so, another milestone is hit, SEVEN MILLION HITS. Thanks again to all of you for the visits, the referrals, and for sticking with us over the years. Seeing the counter soar like that is inspiration to keep things going and make News Askew a fun and interesting place to come back to day after day. Mark was kind enough to send us this screenshot of the number BEFORE the big number, though we never heard from the 7 millionth person (they likely were a regular visitor and just missed it). With hits coming in at this rate, we’d better start planning for something big when we hit 10 million! Again, thanks to all of you for making this our most exciting summer at News Askew yet. Let’s get on our way to that next million now!

• The box office numbers changed considerably after the weekend, and it’s great to see that J&SBSB jumped up to #5 on Tuesday, ahead of the recently released “O” and the other films “Rat Race”, “The Princess Diaries”, “Summer Catch” and”Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”. As of Tuesday, the film grossed $553,706 the day, with a 12-day total of at $22,531,505.