Kevin Smith has announced the supporting cast for Zack and Miri Make a Porno, kinda. Actually, he’s uploaded a bunch of photos of eye close-ups as a tease. The View Askew fans are on the case, trying to match up headshots to the teaser photos.

Who are these six actors/actresses? Find out at least four of [...]

Kevin Smith has always been a self professed “rehearsal Nazi”, insisting on at least three weeks of actor/actress prep before cameras roll. But as Smith explains in his latest Blog entry, that he’s learned to “lighten up and do more on-set tweaking than anything else.” Smith explains his progress, going step by step through his [...]

Busted Tees has beaten Kevin Smith to the punch, and has produced a t-shirt based on the fast food version of the infamous Lord of the Rings line which was featured in Clerks 2. Reminds me of the “Ringers” marketing that Burger King includes on their french fry packaging (seen below).

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Ramon Stokes spent 60 hours creating this custom modified Clerks-themed Nintendo Wii. Stokes’ company Morphon Mods was commissioned by Smith’s friends “Ken, Zak and Joey” to create the Wii as a Christmas Gift for the Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith.
The Wii was painted using flat gray scale colors to match the black and white clerks characters. [...]

Writer/Director Kevin Smith has been busy prepping his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which beings shooting next month. Last month the big announcement was made that Knocked Up/SuperBad superstar Seth Rogen had been cast as the male lead (oh yeah, and the girl from Invincible too). But it looks like Kevin isn’t [...]

Ever since it was announced that Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks had been cast in Kevin Smith’s new movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno, everyone’s been wondering “How Did That Happen?” Smith explains everything, giving an incredibly honest account of the casting process in his latest blog entry. Here are some highlights from his [...]

Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) and Elizabeth Banks (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) have been cast as Zack and Miri in Kevin Smith’s upcoming comedy Zack & Miri Make a Porno. The movie is about two platonic friends who decide to make a porno movie to solve their finacial problems, and in the process, they discover they have [...]

Kevin Smith’s west coast comic book and memorabilia store is now closed. But fear not View Askew fans, the store is going to reopen as part of one of Los Angeles’ best DVD store - Laser Blazer.
“Rather than see us close up shop on the West Coast, someone offered the Secret Stash West a new [...]

NBC has decided to pull the Heroes spin-off miniseries Heroes: Origins from a midseason launch. THR is claiming that the writers strike may have contributed to this move, but I’m sure the slight drop is Heroes ratings had more to do with the decision. And while the network isn’t saying what will become of the [...]

Kevin Smith has recently revealed a few minor new details about his upcoming comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Interestingly enough, Smith will be returning to the place where he filmed Dogma almost exactly ten years ago. As it turns out, they will be shooting the movie over 40-days in Pittsburgh instead of the [...]

Kevin Smith’s horror script Red State was given a pass by The Weinstein Co. The impression I have gotten so far is that Red State might be the type of horror film that Hollywood may be too afraid to make.
I remember a day when Harvey wasn’t ever afraid. But we now live in a post-Grindhouse [...]

It looks like Heroes is trying to collect some interesting writer/directors for the new spin-off series Heroes: Origins. Kevin Smith has already signed on to write/direct an episode. News circulated through the tabloid papers this past week that Quentin Tarantino was asked to pen and direct an episode (but he turned it down because he [...]

Since the now infamous Cannes Film Festival screening which resulted in a wave of bad buzz like never seen before, Richard Kelly has been trying to do damage control on his sophomore effort, a follow-up his hit cult first film Donnie Darko. Southland Tales has been re-cut, enhanced with new special effects (which evident in [...]

A few weeks ago AintITCool reported a RUMOR that Jason Bateman had been cast as Zack in Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I was able to speak to Bateman exclusively while he was promoting his appearance in Jason Reitman’s Juno at the Toronto Film Festival, and he denied the story completely.
“No, I [...]

Since Kevin Smith has finished the first draft of his horror film Red State, he’s been talking about the film all over the view askew message boards. Like him, or hate him, one thing you must admire is how accessible Smith makes himself to his core group of fans, and how very honest he is [...]