• A great double bill is on tap for Pittsburgh, PA this weekend – Clerks I and II at The Oaks theater! The fun starts at midnight Saturday the 12nd, and 10 PM on Sunday the 13th. THIS WEEKEND ONLY! Don’t miss it!
• Movie supersite iFilm have posted their extensive collection of Clerks II videos for your viewing pleasure, all in one spot. Check out their trailers, exclusive interviews, red carpet coverage, and more.
• ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, reviews Clerks 2 (and some other films quite hilariously) in his column today. It’s a B-minus mixed review, but generally positive.
• Check out this Wired article on Slackers for some mentions on Clerks II (and comparisons to Linklater’s Fast Food Nation).
• Kevin is mentioned briefly in this review of Talladega Nights when the reviewer mentions the appeal of his work to a specific generation.
• Australia’s starting to get excited about Kevin’s impending arrival for the Clerks II premiere. Here’s a scoop sent in from a local listener of a popular radio program:

• Fan Girl AmyWin blogs about her recent experiences with Clerks 2 at her blog site.
• Anyone who wants to get a better look at Randal’s new favorite website can check out the flash designed for Clerks 2 over at http://www.wheelieblog.org/.
• The lovely Claire Forlani of “Mallrats” fame (recently seen in a pretty bad Stephen King “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” episode) has joined the cast of CSI: New York. She will play the team’s new medical examiner.
• Add “My Name Is Earl” to the MySpace community – Yahoo News reports that Beginning this week, MySpace members can submit their photos via a My Name Is Earl profile page, with three pictures ultimately being chosen to appear during the credits of a second-season episode of NBC’s top-rated sitcom under the heading “Friends of Earl.” Your face on NBC! Best get over there and start submitting!
• Surviving Grady is a popular Boston Red Sox blog. They just did a dialog post using Randal and Dante, plus some of the Sox players. Good stuff. Especially funny if you follow the Sox, of course.
• A web post is now indicating that Screen International will release Clerks II in the UK on September 22nd.
• And ending on the big note today, horror, the Project Greenlight horror/comedy “Feast” will indeed have a small theatrical run before hitting DVD. The world premeire will be at the awesome Palms hotel on September 12, 2006 — Anyone got tix for us? 😉 Feast will hit theatres nationwide for special late night showings beginning on September 22 and 23, 2006. The special run will be followed by the DVD launch of “Feast” on October 17, 2006. We’re looking forward to seeing this one!

• Here are some fresh pictures taken last evening at the Netflix Rolling Roadshow screening of CLERKS. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect night, clear skies and a cool breeze. Over 2000 fans enjoyed one of the liveliest Q&A sessions in recent memory, even one fan was there in a full Stormtrooper uniform! I’d like to give some special thanks to all-round good guy Ming Chen. He got us into the gated off area when there seemed like no hope. If you live anywhere close to any remaining Netflix Rolling Roadshow events, you owe it to yourself to catch one. It was a blast! Here’s Kevin’s wrap-up of this awesome event…

• Kevin said that over 2,000 people showed up at the Stash for the big signing event last night in Red Bank, New Jersey, which ran for13 hours until every last person in line got their photo and/or autograph (ending at 4 AM). That means that at LEAST that many (but probably many many more) will be showing up at Red Bank’s waterfront tonight to see Clerks project in open air, on the big screen. We’ll be there covering the event, so expect a full report on the site this week.

If you’re anywhere near the northeast, this is a BIG event — The first-ever screening of its type for Clerks. Kevin and cast/crew will be on hand for a Q&A prior to the event (and likely available to meet and greet throughout the evening). Then, when the sun sets, Clerks will show for the biggest outdoor crowd ever! Bring chairs, munchies, and a bunch of pals – It’s going to be a great night with absolutely perfect weather for a screening. Thanks to Netflix for bringing the Rolling Roadshow to New Jersey.

Again, we apologize for the site being updateless lately — Our email has totally been offline for the past two days, due to some configuration error with News Askew. We are waiting for a fix, and hope at that point that the email sent to us in the past couple days will catch up with us. If your scoop didn’t get through, please send it again once we get this fixed.

• We’re looking into this one as we speak, though it seems Kevin dropped a big scoop at a weekend Q&A session — His next flick will be a HORROR film! We’d expected a non Askewniverse romantic comedy, from earlier reports, though this may have changed. As soon as we get ANY more details, and can confirm (or deny) this, we’ll let you know. Certainly a very interesting and exciting development if it holds true. It’ll definitely represent a new venture and direction for Kevin, and we’re of course excited to see where he goes with it (let’s hope scary and violent as all get-out!). More on this soon!

• Tickets for the Clerks II Premiere for Melbourne and Sydney are now available via this link.

For the next 12 hours (Australian time), you will need to use the password “silentbob” to get in on the presale. Tickets for the rest of folks who don’t know the password won’t go up for sale until 9am Australian time, so if you wanted in, here you go, News Askew readers! Don’t say we never did anything for ya. Enjoy!

• For the first time ever, Comic Book Resources have presented a full length Q&A session from the San Diego con on their website — And wouldn’t luck have it, it’s the complete Q&A from Kevin last weekend! Kevin was sadly delayed due to traffic, so the panel was pushed back to later in the day. So, if some of you missed it due to the scheduling change, or just weren’t there, here’s your chance to watch Kevin amuse the crowd as he takes on a variety of questions, both smart and really, really stupid.

As you can see from the uncut video, these things are always full of fun and surprises. Watch our upcoming events page for your own chance to catch Kevin live, and GO. You’ll have a blast. And of course, watch for Evening 2: Evening Harder on DVD this Fall.

(Editor’s note: If we forgot any scoopers on this story, we’re sorry. Let us know and we’ll get your credit. We lost our first post of this.)

• The wonderful Rosario Dawson fills in for Kevin at ComicCon during his delay, sweetheart that she is. YouTube’s got the video, around ten minutes or so. A story above features the complete Kevin panel which happened later in the day.
• Comic Book Resources recaps Kevin’s Wizard World Chicago panel from this weekend with a nice summary. Here’s a preview:

• Ethan Suplee has joined the cast of NBC’s “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” which stars John Goodman, Delta Burke, Chris Kattan, Harvey Fierstein, Michael McKean Eddie Griffin and Carol Kane. The two-hour movie, based on the 1974 Rankin-Bass perennial that featured stop-motion animation, will air during the upcoming 2006 holiday season.
• Amazon now confirms that a new book IS coming next year: “In-Convenience: The View Askewniverse From Clerks To Clerks II” collects all of the Kevin Smith film scripts for the first time ever, together with numerous photos. We’ll have a great deal on signed copies from the Stash when this arrives next year, and let you know when they’re ready for pre-order from us.
• We’ve broke into a new magazine — From the August 7, 2006 issue of Business Week, this blurb appears:

The text also included a picture of a video iPod showing a scene with Kevin and Jason talking.

• Catch some glimpses of Affleck in the “Smoking Aces” trailer over at The Movie Box. Catch you again soon! Hope you’re having a fine weekend.

• Prepare to want something — These Clerks posters were created exclusively for the Netflix Rolling Roadshow of the film next week. They are VERY limited and VERY cool. The pre-orders have sold out, though we hear a select couple will be available at the show — If anyone knows how we might snag ourselves a couple, LET US KNOW. We’d love that. Check out the Clerks posters above, and BigDave’s post for all the other variants for the other roadshow flicks, cool in their own right, created by famous rock poster arists.

You can visit the excellent official site of the Rolling Roadshow for more info and coolness. See you next week, 7:00 PM in Red Bank’s Marine Park! Q&A runs at 7, with the flick at 8:30! The movie is free and seating is first come, first served. Tons more Q&A at that page, including the fact you CAN bring food, NOT alcohol mind you (so sorry, no Clerks drinking game re-creations here). Looks to be BIG fun this Tuesday!

• You can now purchase tickets online for Kevin’s previously announced appearance in Orlando, Florida. It’s not often Kevin gets to that part of the country, so if you’re in the area, we highly recommend buying yourself a seat. Tickets are $35 for the September 23rd afternoon show.

A press release states that Clerks will show at 10 AM, followed by a Kevin Q&A starting at 2. They claim the Q&A will go to at least 4, but will allow him extra hours if needed. This could be a marathon, folks, don’t miss it!