• 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.

• The Eagle Awards were presented at the Comics 2000 festival over the weekend in England. Daredevil’s 1-8 won for “Favorite Story” (the award officially went to Smith & Quesada). Congrats, guys.
• Here’s that Dogma video review from Entertainment Weekly we mentioned earlier this week:

• In case ya didn’t go and see Scream 3, we’ve gotten a hold of the 10 second sound clip from the flick where Jay & Silent Bob appear. Click HERE to listen. (Courtesy http://i.am/ghost.face.
• This Friday, the new movie by Mike Figgis called “Time Code”, opens in 5 big cities. One of the stars is Salma Hayek, and it’s a very cool concept. If ya live in a big city, check it out.

• Finally today, some View Askew-related fan art from the Wizard site.

• Thanks to our good friends at Columbia/Tristar, we were fed-exed review copies of the Dogma DVD! So, we’re proud to present an early look at this disc. Remember, this one will pale in comparison to the massive special edition that they’re preparing right now for this Fall, but all in all, if you just want to watch a damn good movie, this disc is certainly a worthy purchase. Check out our detailed review, menu screens, and cover art of the Dogma DVD here. The disc streets on May 2nd, one week from today.

• Congratulations to Clerks for being one of the 500 nominated films for the AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list. The special, which announces the 100 winners chosen from these 500, airs on CBS in a couple of weeks. Sadly, Mallrats, Amy, and Dogma are not among the 500.
• A comic called “Quantum & Woody” (issue #21), written by Christopher Priest, contains a slight View Askew/Marvel Knights sorta reference. One of the characters, Woody, sues “Marble Comix” for “Black Kitty”, which suspicously looks a lot like Marvel’s Black Panther (also written by Priest) for ripping off his life. There’s a cameo by Jimmy Palmotti and Joe Quesada. Later, after when negotiating with an editor, Woody says “Well, maybe I’d settle for a jet, a house in Paris, a Rolex — and, oh yeah — I wanna meet Kevin Smith!” We’ll try and dig up a scan.
• Thanks to all of you who wrote in on the “Go Fish” price — You can get the flick at a sellthrough cost — Under $15 online and in most shops that sell video.
• A trivia question of sorts on Jay & Bob’s “Scream 3” appearance shows up over at Entertainment Ireland under the WEEKLY COMPETITION area.
• And finally today, in the May 5th issue of Entertainment Weekly, a small review of Dogma appears in their What To Watch video section. They give the film a B this time around.

• As we mentioned briefly earlier last week, Jimmy Palmiotti, a very cool guy we’ve had the pleasure of hanging out and chatting with on a few past occasions, is leaving Marvel Knights and, thus, Daredevil. Here’s the official press release on the matter, and again, we wish Jimmy the best:

• We’ve added a new Dogma WinAMP skin to Files Askew, or click here to download it. The skin replaces the look of your current WinAMP MP3 player.

• Guin Turner‘s “Go Fish” is seeing a re-release on VHS on May 2nd. We’re not sure if it’s at an affordable price or justfor more video stores to grab a copy, but look for it.
• An interestingly weird new shockwave Jay & Silent Bob game has appeared on the web HERE. Seems that Mooby has been murdered and you gotta find the killer. Looks a bit odd to us, but we thought we’d let ya know about it.

• Sometimes video box & poster art from other countries is a lot different than the U.S. counterpart. Check out the British video sleeves for Clerks & Amy, and a very different German Chasing Amy cover above.

See ya!

• Howdy folks! Hope all of you had a nice Easter (or just a nice weekend, for those of ya that don’t celebrate). We’re back today with a late update and just a few Newsbites. Again, as Kev mentioned on the board recently, it’s just a quiet time for View Askew right now, and a welcome break from the craziness. We’re still keeping up with the stuff that’s going on, but apologize if it’s minor.

Howard Stern fans may find it humorous to see that this year’s top recommended People Online “Most Beautiful Person of the Year” write-in vote is for “Beetlejuice”. You can surf to their site and write him in.

Also, we’d like to congratulate our Philadelphia Flyers on their first round playoffs win. The guys played damn fine without their head coach or Eric Lindros, and beat one of the best goaltenders in the league. The series against the Pens starts on Thursday, and we’ll be watching!

Alright, here’s a few tidbits for ya today:

• We’re doing a Saturday update this weekend since we’ll be taking the Easter holiday off tomorrow. Caught “U-571” yesterday, and it’s a fun, mindless action flick. Gotta love those submarine movies. I kinda got a bit pensive though before the flick started. Seems that practically every movie is forcing us to watch a good 2 or 3 outright COMMERCIALS before the movie starts. So, I gotta wonder now, with all the raised ticket prices, why does the movie theater hafta make even MORE dough by selling advertising that we paid good money NOT to have to watch? I mean, with inflation and all, it would make sense if prices stayed the same and the ads showed up, but to raise ticket prices AND throw in commercials? Sounds like outright greed. Damn shame.

Moving on, we’ve got a couple newsbites today and a thanks to all of you for helping us reach 3 million hits. Also, the Dogma DVD streets in a couple of weeks yet we never did receive any preview copies from Columbia Tristar. If anyone’s listening, get in touch with us, we’d love a chance to check out the disc and throw up a review for the many who read this site before the disc hits the streets.

• We wanted to take the opportunity to thank each and every one of you for helping us reach yet another amazing milestone: 3 MILLION HITS. It’s an amazing number, really, to imagine that this page has been loaded and viewed 3 million times is quite a feat. And there’s no way we could have ever done it without all of the support and loyalty of the View Askew fans out there. We’re lucky to have such a great bunch like all of you as visitors to the site, as well as to have the chance to work on a site with material that’s so near and dear to us on a daily basis. It’s a lot of fun, and the fact that you’re allowing us to grow and continue on is a testament just to what a wonderful bunch of folks that View Askew fans really are.

Thanks to all of you who wrote in with congrats, and special congrats to JOEL CLYNE, who hit the magic number at 3:24 PM on Thursday, April 20th!

Now, to get started on that next million…

• Be sure and pick up Daredevil #12 if you haven’t yet. It’s got a new story and drawing style so it’ll seem different than the others, but if you want to continue on with the series, don’t miss it. The Q&A section of the book has a reader asking if Kevin will be returning, and it reveals that he is “talking about coming back to write”. That’s all we know at this point. So, in short, we assume Kev will come back at SOME point, but not for a while.
• There are two Kevin related items in the new issue of Fanzing, the independent DC comics magazine, focusing on Kev’s hopefully still upcoming Green Arrow stint. The first piece is an article titled “Where, Oh Where Has My Green Arrow Gone?” which focuses on the delays of the upcoming issues that are to be written by Kev. It summarizes what’s been holding up the book fairly well from what we can see. The second, a short comic script called “Being Jon Peters” features Kevin as a character.
• The StarWars.Com website poll currently has readers choosing Matt Damon as their top choice for a new Luke if “Star Wars” we to be (gasp!) remade. Other contendors include Jonathon Taylor Thomas (double gasp!) and Ed Norton.
• Dogma opened in Sweden on Thursday to mixed reviews. Some critics seem to know how to appreciate Kev’s writing style and what he gets out of his actors, and others seemed disappointed since they expected some sort Michael Bay style FX extravaganza, according to our scooper.

Thanks for stopping in today. We’ll see ya sometime early next week.

• Wow, after that excitement yesterday it just doesn’t seem to quit! We’re close to celebrating yet another huge milestone at this site today, and it arrived much sooner than expected, so our numbers are definitely increasing. Way cool. Thanks for visiting with us, as always.

Kevin’s news yesterday was welcome after a couple weeks of dead air around here. It certainly sounds as if they tried to make the Clerks shows into a flick, which would have worked nicely, but it seems that ABC wanted to hold onto their investment for some reason. At any rate, nice to know that the show will be seen by all in just over a month.

In addition to all of Kev’s news yesterday (and if ya missed the post, please go back and read it), we’ve got lots more. Some screenings, interviews, pics, files, and even a humorous little article. It’s a busy day around here, for once…So, let’s get goin’!