Release Date: October 31
Featured Apatow acolytes: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson.
Apatovian plot: Rogen and Banks star as lifelong friends down on their luck. After a fifteen-year high-school reunion underscores their lack of accomplishment, they decide to start their own amateur porn company. Then, inexplicably, they fall in love.
How Judd Apatow would’ve made it funnier: Jay Baruchel as a high-maintenance mustached porn actor with performance anxiety.

Premium tickets, which get you into a gala screening such as this one, cost $37.38 and are well worth it — They can be ordered online, by phone at 416-968-FILM or toll-free at 1-877-968-FILM or in person at the TIFFG Box Office at Manulife Centre right now.

We expect this screening to sell out, quite possibly even by the time some of you have read this (it pays to be a weekend News Askew reader or feed subscriber, see?). Good luck — We’re hoping a lot of News Askew fans can end up in the audience for what is sure to be a fantastic screening. Get those tix right now, don’t delay! More news coming up later today. We just wanted to get this out there ASAP.

KEVIN SMITH

Clerks (1994)

At first, all Smith had was his voice. Didn’t have any money, didn’t have any idea where to put the camera (still doesn’t, many critics would say), but he had that witty, profane, pop culture-soaked voice that made spending all day at a convenience store with slackers Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) into a fun way to pass the time. Smith also gave himself the not-too-taxing role of Silent Bob, which became his signature character.

Chasing Amy (1997)

The unlikely romance that made stars of Ben Affleck and sidekick Jason Lee, and that gave Smith his biggest acting challenge to date: the monologue that gives the film its title.

Clerks 2 (2006)

Even slackers have to grow up sometime. That’s the lesson facing Dante and Randal (still in service-industry purgatory 12 years later) and Smith himself, as he closes what looks to be only the first chapter in a long career.

Written by Kevin Smith
Art by Walt J. Flanagan & Sandra Hope
Cover by Adam Kubert
Variant cover by Andy Kubert
Sketch cover by Andy Kubert
Best-selling comic book writer/director Kevin Smith (GREEN ARROW, Daredevil, Clerks) steps into Gotham City to write this 3-part miniseries event! Practically from out of nowhere, the mysterious masked killer known as
Onomatopoeia returns and sets his sights – and sounds – against The Caped Crusader!

Retailers please note: This issue will ship with three covers. For every 25 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Adam Kubert), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Andy Kubert). For every 50 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Adam Kubert), retailers may order one copy of the Sketch Edition (with a cover by Andy Kubert). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.


On sale November 12 • 1 of 3 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US

We really dig Kev’s villain and can’t wait to see him face off against Bats. The saddest news of the whole thing is probably the confirmation that it’s just 3 short issues, though we’re betting the story will be packed. The variant cover details are also interesting to see, at the rate they’re being issued, it certainly seems they’ll be rare (so if any kind comic shop owners out there can get us a hookup on the rare books, let us know, lest our View Askew comics collections be incomplete). We’ll of course keep on top of this story, a great Fall followup to “Zack & Miri” will be the new Batman book, just two weeks after we see the film!

1. Clerks, film, available on DVD. Perhaps the most eloquent Star Wars geek on record, director Kevin Smith crafted dialogue about the issue of contract labor on the second Death Star in Star Wars: Episode VI–Return of the Jedi. Collateral damage or deserving collaborators? The debate rages on.

ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO
Oct. 31
Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks

Roommates Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) are broke. If only there were something they could do to make some extra cash, something quick and easy and highly profitable that requires no real skills besides just doing what comes naturally…. Hmmm. Well, I’m stumped. Guess we’ll just have to see Kevin Smith’s movie to find out what they come up with!

You can see the mention both on-line as we linked it here, or the same write-up in this week’s print magazine.

• Crazy 4 Cult 2 happens next week – This gives fans the chance to view and purchse some of the coolest art that you’ve ever seen. All of the art has ties to the world of film, television, and multimedia. Kevin gives examples of some absolutely amazing stuff that we’d die to own, so be sure to surf over and check them out. Last year, Kevin bought quite a few of the View Askew pieces for himself, but there’s lots more this year and some other coolness. The show takes place on August 22nd at Gallery 1988 on Melrose. A party in the parking lot follows. 1,000 people showed up last year. This year, expect even MORE.
• You can e-mail donkey@viewaskew.com if you’d like to get involved in a card game with Kevin on August 23rd, the day after the art show.
• Kevin confirms the Toronto Film Festival screening of “Zack And Miri” as the first, and that tickets will be available online starting September 3rd. Be ready as we are sure they’ll go REAL fast. The film itself unspools on Sunday September 7th.
• Kevin reminds us that tickets are available for the November 7th Q&A in Red Bank. It’s a Friday, at it WILL sell out. Thse Q&A sessions are always great, but Red Bank’s are EXTRA special. You don’t wanna miss it.

Brian co-hosted in support of his new film “Brutal Massacre” in July and has been asked back, which is way cool. Brian will join hosts Debbie Rochon (horror film star) andand Tony Timpone (Editor in Chief of Fangoria Magazine). He’ll be joined by Trevor Matthews and Jon Knautz, star and director, of “JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER”, Mick Garris (“Masters of Horror”), David Zayas and Lauren Velez (stars of one of the best programs on TV right now, “Dexter”), and one of the best FX guys in the viz, Greg Nicotero, who worked on “Mirrors”, opening this weekend.

Clerks/Mallrats – Actually, you can probably insert any and all of Kevin Smith’s view askewniverse movies. The fact that the dude has created an entire universe upon which his two main characters Jay and Silent Bob and countless others mingle makes Kevin Smith like the creator of Sims, but for funny movies. Whether it’s a chance encounter in a bedroom leading to an alternative lifestyle or watching Smokey finally “give it” to the Bandit, John K throws the best parties and we desperately want an invite.