• 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!

• An anonymous source sent us a few close-up shots of Affleck and crew on the set of “The Sum Of All Fears” in Canada from a couple weeks back. They were taken at Mirabelle airport near Montreal, and at St.Jean-Sur-Richelou, an old militarybase outside of Montreal. Shooting of the film continues in Canada, though no futher set details or release information has been leaked on the flick lately. Affleck’s certainly been keeping busy and working on a lot of flicks, though, that’s for sure. All the pics do enlarge, by the way, just click on ‘em.

• Your second chance to win a Chris Bailey-signed Clerks cartoon DVD print is now up over at animationondvd.com. Surf over, answer the question, and good luck.
• For those of you keeping track of Matt & Ben’s Project Greenlight, Zentertainment reports:

• Speaking of Affleck, he’s featured on the cover of the new Newsweek, which features a story on the upcoming Pearl Harbor. The only question is, will the flick take in as much as The Mummy Returns did last weekend? Our coverage of the film here, which will surely have a TON of press, will be limited due to all the other stuff going on more closely relating to View Askew.
• In the liner notes of the new album by Blues Traveler, “Bridges” (which comes out this week,) buried in the middle of the ‘thank you’ section, it reads:

• All this month the Emerald Theater in Mt. Clemens, Michigan is showing one of the View Askew film every Wednesday night. Last Wednesday was Dogma, this Wednesday is Clerks, next Wednesdat is Chasing Amy, and the following Wednesday is Mallrats. The shows all start at 9 PM (they’re also showing an episode of Clerks TCS before each of the movies, by the way). Tickets are only $2. More info can be found HERE.
• Finally today, a fan has made 2 MP3 “mixes” of sorts titled “Silent Bob Bio” and “Bodie Bio” which you can get respectively HERE and HERE. I can’t listen to or test these from work, so listen at your own risk!

• Once again, thanks to Jamie Anderson, Scott Mosier, and Kevin Smith, we’re happy to present three never before seen photos from the set of “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” for ya on this Monday morning. The first shot above features one of (if not THE) first looks at Affleck reprising the role of Holden, as Jay & Bob follow him into the loft. Note the cool new Nails artwork done by Ratface, Scott & crew towards the center as well (guess it’s kinda hard to miss). Next is a shot of Eliza, though honestly we’re not sure if this one’s in the context of the film or just some goofing around off camera. Finally, one of the Mosier classics, an outdoor scene featuring Will and the other police. That’s AD Tim Byrd to the front and right of him, by the way. Thanks again to View Askew for the photos, and we’ll see ya next Monday with three more.

• Just a quick word today…With all the news happening and the bigger stuff surrounding the movie starting to come around, don’t forget to check the site for multiple updates from time to time. For example, tomorrow morning we’ll post the new set pics for the week, then likely be back later if there’s more news to report. Don’t miss out! Today we’re very pleased to bring you the menu screenshots from the upcoming “A Better Place” DVD (it won’t be long now, folks) as well as a few other odds and ends, including that scoop that a lot of you saw, Kevin’s new plug in Ebert’s Answer Man column, and more. Check out that new poll topic, as well. Here we go:

• 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!

• Today’s most popular scoop, by far, is Kevin’s quote in this week’s Answer Man column by Roger Ebert. He manages to answer the question AND get an early plug out there for Jay & Bob this August. Check it out:

• Look for Ben Affleck and his “Pearl Harbor” costars to begin appearing on 3 days of Celebrity “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” starting on May 20th. Contestants’ winnings will go to benefit the proposed National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• Finally today, Fandom’s got an article on the Comics Code Authority and in it, they talk to Kevin about how he was forced to make changes in Daredevil:

To read the whole article, surf HERE.

• That Access Hollywood clip that Kevin mentioned a while back is finally showing up on the program this weekend as part of their Summer Movie Preview, about 15 minutes or so into the show. The significance of the clip is that it features the first shots of the Bluntcave, as it looked exactly when we visited the set a few months back (we must have just missed these guys!). Jen, Ali, and Eliza are also featured in a quick shot, along with some words from Kevin. Want to see the clip? You’re in luck! We were able to capture a feed of the show and throw the clip up over at Scooping The Monkey for your viewing pleasure. Surf over and take a look. Enjoy!

• That WizardWorld piece was posted on Friday as scheduled, and it’s quite good. There’s a few new bits revealed that you may not have been aware of, as well as some clues to some other stuff. In addition to the stuff about the flick, there’s info on Green Arrow, Bluntman & Chronic, and lots more from the comic realm. Here’s a preview:

You can read the whole thing at the WizardWorld site right HERE.

• Heartbreakers, with Jason Lee, streets on VHS and DVD on September 25th.
• Will Ferrell is supposedly booked for the Conan O’Brien show on the 18th of this month. Perhaps a J&SBSB mention will happen?
• Recently on MTV during the Destiny’s Child special, Kevin and Will Ferrell appeared for a pretty funny confessional. Will sang an…..interesting, rendition of Destinys Child’s “Survivor” while Kev was laughing. Then Kevin looked to the camera and professed his love for Destiny’s Child and their music. Then Will informed the rest of America that “Orange is back in” as he pointed to his orange shirt. Some pretty funny stuff, even if it were for a few minutes of joy.
• There’s an article in this months DIAMOND DIALOGUE (a retailer supplement magazine previewing books, cards & the like to be sold through Previews within the next few months with background articles on them) about the new issue of High Times featuring Kevin. Here’s the transcript:

• There’s a better version of the black and white Jay & Bob pic that we posted the other day over at Scooping now.