• Yep, it’s here…Click the graphic above for a full page view of the cover! The Kevin Smith spectacular from Wizard hits newssstands today (man, this summer is FLYING by!) and this thing has just TONS of coverage…Too much for us to even go into here, so PICK UP THIS ISSUE. There’s interviews, set reports, tours, and pages of stuff you’ll want to soak up. If you’re reading this site, you want to go pick up this book. Get them before they’re gone!

• IGN Filmforce is running a Kevin Smith poll, asking what your LEAST favorite of his films is. Check out the results over at their site.
• Bryan Johnson revealed some information about Vulgar’s release next month and the potential for a theatrical trailer. Check it out:

• Kevin gets a mention in a USA Today article on Comic Book Artists, referencing his work just briefly by name. Read the whole thing HERE.
• That episode of Dinner For Five with Joey Lauren Adams aired on IFC on Sunday, sorry we missed it with the reminder. Check your listings for reruns though, as it’ll probably air again soon. She did talk about her work with Kevin on Chasing Amy during the program.
• Ali Larter is to be on Late Night with Conan O’Brien tonight, July 18th. She is promoting “Legally Blonde”, but she might mention J&SBSB.

• We’ve got a few more stories coming up later today, but be sure and surf below for a BIG update to our On Location story from earlier this year, complete with new pics and spoilers! Later today we’ll have news on the rest of the AICN interview, Vulgar, and lots more.

I also want to say thanks to everyone who took the time to write in and offer advice and help on the Orlando trip, especially The Marksman and his girl for the time they spent trying to work out some airline problems.

I’d also like to say a big NO THANKS and urge all of you to avoid using the Expedia service for booking travel stuff online. Their prices turned out to be horrible, their policies are awful, and their customer service just plain SUCKS. I paid more for tickets there than I could have getting tickets even directly from the airline, and they offer nothing in return to correct that. If you have any plans to book travel online, stay away from Expedia at all costs, and use a better service like Orbitz or, if you have some flexibility, Priceline. Thanks for nothing, Expedia. You’ve lost my business and hopefully a lot more after others read this.

Thanks again to everyone for the advice, and we’ll be back later with more news!

• A few of you might recall our promise to add spoilers and a ton of onset pics to our big On Location visit from the J&SBSB Bluntcave set earlierthis year…Well, with just over a month to release, it’s time to open thefloodgates! Revisit our Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back On Location reportfor a ton of new inside info (which is easily highlighted in blue in caseyou just want to skim though). You’ll also find a TON of new exlcusivephotos from the set, mostly of the Bluntcave itself, though the camera’ssmall zoom lens and the funky lighting made it tough for stuff to come outthat well. What you will see in the photos are the first shots of theinfamous Bluntmobile, and a lot of small nuances of the Bluntcave that justwon’t show up on film at all. Again, the new material DOES contiain somespoilers, so read at your own risk. Enjoy the new pics and info!

• We’ve added a link at the top of the page to composer Jim Venable’s website, www.venablemusic.com. Jim’s currently working with Kevin and co. to put the finishing touches on the score of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Surf over to the site for some background info on Jim, to listen to some of his work, and more. Jim helped the gang throw some really cool music into the Jay & Silent Bob Internet trailers as well. We’ll be spotlighting the page for the next week or so here at News Askew. Check it out.

• Some pics of Kevin and Jay from a recent MTV Total Request Live appearance have shown up on their website. No idea if any further MTV promotion for the new flick is planned just yet.
• Dark Horizons posted a link today of a FilmJerk.com review of Changing Lanes, the new Ben Affleck/Sam Jackson movie coming out this winter. Check it out HERE.
• Want some more details on the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack? A full track listing, including the titles of the dialogue clips, is up at HMV.COM in the preorders section.
• Speaking of the soundtrack, that fun “Because I Got High” track is available for download off of DC 101’s HERE.
• Here’s a fun one…A reader stumbled across this wonderful bit about Linda Fiorentino’s “nudity rider” that’s worth looking at for a chuckle. It even mentions “Dogma.”
• Kevin gets a mention at the official Star Wars website regarding his upcoming San Diego con appearance.

• Vincent Pereira and Don May of Synapse were kind enough to supply us with a test disc of “A Better Place” arriving on DVD next month. What did we find out after sitting down with this long-awaited View Askew Producion? Check out our in-depth review of this Special Edition DVD right here…It’ll help hold ya over while you wait for your copy to arrive! The review presents some background on the film, the video, the audio, the extras…And of course features a TON of new screenshots. Check out all the details right HERE.

• There was just so many of you that mailed in on this, a scooper list was impossible to assemble, but Mysterio did e-mail in this morning and said to expect part one (of three) of his interview with Kevin Smith, where he answers questions from the fans and reveals a ton of stuff about Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back and everything that came before. Here’s a sample of it for ya:

Check out the whole text at AICN right HERE!

• Looks like that release date push is being confirmed around the web…This story comes from Jim over at the Wizard World site:

• A small interview with Paul Dini appears over at comicscontinuum.com, regarding his script for the live-action Batman Beyond movie. They give JASBSB a brief mention:

The whole thing can be checked out HERE.

• The Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back official trailer has made its first television appearance on the E! Network‘s Coming Attractions program. The show airs fairly often, and the trailer’s running first off, so check your listings. Coming Attractions showcases trailers for all the big upcoming flicks.
• Apparently reactions to J&SBSB footage are still being recorded, this time in the Chicago area. Sounds like they’re still trying to decide how to market the film, perhaps? The survery also asked about the actors Chris Rock, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes and about the interest of seeing a film with those actors (along with 25 other questions).The movie is currently set for a huge 2,500 screen release on August 22nd.
• And finally today, a press release confirms the August 7th soundtrack release:

The release goes on to list the full track listing, which we already know (and you can find here in the archives).

• Howdy folks, hope you’re all having a good week. Got some of those Stroke 9 “Kick Some Ass” promotional CDs to give away…Yep, you can’t get these in the stores anywhere, and they’ve got Jay & Silent Bob all over them. How can ya get one, you ask? Well, starting this week, we’ll be choosing the most intelligent/on topic/meaningful talkback post for that week and awarding that user with a CD. Simple as that. So, keep that in mind when you’re posting! This should help to foster some better discussions there and keep it interesting. Good luck!

By the way, if anyone works or has connections with someone at US Air, Marriott hotels, or anything in the Orlando area, drop me a line…I’ll be flying there for a week this September.

And now, on with the news!