• We mentioned George Carlin’s New York appearance coming up yesterday, but here’s an even better one! Mr. Carlin is performing in Red Bank on February 11th at the Count Basie Theater. There’s probably even a better chance of George talking about the new flick, as he recently did a day of filming on the set of Jay & Bob. If there’s tickets left, check out the show and send in any info you might find!
• Kevin’s name gets a mention in a Yahoo article discussing the whole “A Film By…” credit before or after a feature that has people debating. Kevin of course doesn’t like the idea, as he feels a lot more folks than the director deserve credit for the finished product.

• On February 8th, George Carlin will be performing at the Sheas in Buffalo, New York. We doubt he’ll mention anything about Jay & Bob, but ya never know. Either way, Carlin’s performances are always a blast, so if you’re in the area and looking for a fun night out and tickets are left, get ‘em!
• Here’s an intersting rumor from the Silver Bullet Comics rumor realm:

• Finally today, we’ve got a very nice fan-made mock-up of a Bluntman & Chronic comic book cover, made with watersoluble pencils. It’s nice work! Click the thumbnail for a better look, and we’ll see ya later with more news from the set!

• Happy Saturday, folks. Today’s update represents a catch-up of sorts. Due to the exciting nature of the scoops from the day at the El Rey theater, we placed some other stuff on the back burner. Today, we’ve got all that stuff, as well as the first content exclusive to the “Scooping The Monkey” website. Over there, we’ve got a better shot of the poster that we displayed yesterday, an alternate marquee shot, and a few more stories from fans who were on the set doing extra duties. In those scoops, we’ve got some more details on the film, characters, and plot. As always, we’ll warn about spoilers, and advise you to read at your own risk. Kevin also posted regarding Thursday’s shot, which sounds like one of the most exciting days in View Askew history. Glad so many of you could be there to witness it.

A couple of interesting things learned from one of the scoopers’ notes was that Kevin said the Dogma SE DVD will probably be on hold until the movie wraps up, so that puts a release at least into March, probably more like April or May. With the new flick due late summer, who knows, they may wait and release the DVD as a tie-in or even include a J&SBSB teaser or preview on that sucker! Also, Malcolm Ingram (he of “Drawing Flies” fame) was shooting extra stuff on set JUST for inclusion on the eventual Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back DVD. Cool, cool stuff. Should be an even bigger disc that Dogma.

With Superbowl and Survivor tomorrow, this will be the only weekend update, so hopefully it’ll hold you over until we’re back on the air on Monday. Until then, here’s the news:

• Kevin’s been great about keeping the Internet denziens posted on the happenings from the set, and has the biggest report yet regarding Thursday’s shooting. He himself declares that this post contains spoilers, though anything here is mild compared to yesterday. So, read on, or skip down to the next story, it’s up to you. Here’s Kevin:

And a follow-up post from earlier today:

• Congratulations to Jason Lee for his Blockbuster Award nomination! His nod is for Almost Famous. Here’s the full list of nominees:

Jason himself had this to say about this honor:

Good luck, Jason! We’ll all be pullin’ for ya.

• Check out the cover for Green Arrow #3 in all it’s beautiful full-color glory by clicking the thumbnail. The issue is written by Kevin Smith; art by Phil Hester and Ande Parks; cover by Matt Wagner.

• Yep, Kevin sure does know how to pick ‘em!

• Michael McClelland has given a huge thumbs-up to Kevin’s Daredevil run from last year. Read his review at Stan the Man’s Lee’s website right HERE, true believers.
• To all who are interested in seeing ‘Clerks’ on the big screen (in all its glory once again), the Phoenix Film Festival is happening February 9-11, 2001 at the AMC Arizona Center Theatre in downtown Phoenix. On Friday and Saturday nights, at midnight, they will be screening three of what we call ‘Midnight Independent Classics’. They will include, in addition to two others, Kevin Smith’s immortal ‘Clerks’. Check out their website at www.phxfilm.com.
• A re-airing of Ben Affleck’s Inside the Actor’s Studio appearance is running this weekend on IFC. Check your cable or satellite listings if ya wanna catch it.
• And finally today, Dogma never seems to get out of the spotlight! This time, it’s protests in POLAND! Check out the full Yahoo story right HERE. We’ll see ya next time.

• Want to talk back in an area where spoilers from the stories below can be openly discussed? Do it here! Feel free to chat away about the new flick, but only enter if you don’t want stuff spoiled. Enjoy!

• 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.