Recently heard from a representative from Hart Sharp Video and a long with the previously mentioned commentary from Bryce and Mark on the first two episodes and a “making of”, we can also look forward to a gag reel (supposed to be pretty funny), a large amount of dailies and more photos and possible other extras. They are also trying to get permission to reprint some articles on Mark that appeared over the past few years.

All in all, this is shaping up to be an excellent release for fans of the show. This is great news. In the past, THE CROW and DVD have been synonymous with disappointment. Perhaps that tide is turning.

Hey folks, some news NOT related to the upcoming STH release on DVD for you. Fellow fan John Thomas has put together a petition to get O’Barr to finish the long rumored, but never realized THE CROW “AUTHOR’S EDITION” graphic novel completed. This has long been mentioned by O’Barr himself as a work in progress but there has never seemed to be much in the way of progress. We have featured extra pages on ABaHB that would encompass such a re-release of the original graphic novel. Go out to the petition and sign it. Perhaps if O’Barr sees the interest is there he can find a publisher for it.

There has been a couple new sections added to CrowFans.com. The Crow: Stairway To Heaven DVD section has been added to help promote DVD Box Set that is coming out July 24, 2007, there is even a couple downloads available for your IPod/PSP device. The Events section has been added to keep you up to date on birthdays, appearances, online chats, and much more. There has also been some additions to the CrowFans.com store, we now have a section available for our visitors from Canada, there are also sections available to purchase Brandon Lee and Mark Dacascos merchandise. Below is a complete list of updates.

* New sections added to the site The Crow: Stairway To Heaven DVD Section and the Events section
* Brandon Lee, Mark Dacascos, and Canada Merchandise has been added to the CrowFans.com Store
* 40 new images from The Crow: Stairway To Heaven have been added to the Devil’s Night Greeting Cards section
* Seattle Crow Sites has been added to The Pit
* New links have been added for Yuji Okumoto, David Goyer, and Katie Stuart have been added to the links section.
* A new wallpaper by Shai has been added to Arcade Games

If you have a myspace page, a blog, livejournal, or your own personal website, please help spread the word about CrowFans.com by heading to the Link To Us section. You can also use our banner in the Link To Us section as your signature on message boards you visit.

Stay tuned to CrowFans.com for more updates on The Crow: Stairway To Heaven DVD!

Recently, Frank took a little vacation time and headed up to sunny Seattle. His travels first took him by one Kona Kitchen which is owned by Yuji Okumoto (Pestilence) from THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER. Yuji wasn’t at the restaurant because he was in LA filming a documentary and he was flying out to Japan on Monday.  On the walls of the restaurant he had a lot of autographed pictures including The Rock, as well as fellow WICKED PRAYER cast mates Tito Ortiz (Famine), Danny Trejo (Harold), and Edward Furlong (Jimmy Cuervo) as well as Crow alum Mark Dacascos (Eric Draven from the series THE CROW: STAIRWAY to HEAVEN). The food was excellent and reasonably priced especially for Seattle where prices can be a bit high. Frank had the Aloha burger with seasoned fries. A common problem in the northwest is soggy fries or overcooked fries, not so here, they were cooked just right,

Below you will see his pictures from WICKED PRAYER as well as Mark Dacascos. If you are ever up in the Seattle area, definitely give Kona Kitchen a visit. Click on the image to view the full size.

One of the last stops Frank made was to the grave of Bruce and Brandon Lee. The atmosphere was solemn. There was a piece of a VHS box from THE CROW setting on Brandon’s headstone. Another ironic symbol, a crow was flying around the area cawing. Along with the pictures taken at Kona Kitchen there is one of the gravesite. Please click on the image to view the full size.

Bryce Zabel reports in his latest blog that the commentary track featuring he and Mark Dacascos has been completed. We are looking foward to hearing this commentary when the THE CROW: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN complete series is available July 24th. You can pre-order the set from Amazon.

The Crow’s Loft has been given its first major update in nearly 3 years. The Crow’s Loft originally retired on July 21, 2004, but is now officially out of retirement. The picture gallery has been totally redone and now has 440 images. The Crow: Stairway To Heaven section was given a huge overhaul and now has IPod/PSP compatible downloads, and over 180 new images were added from the TV series. Some downloads will be updated in the future, with more modern formats that weren’t available when these downloads were originally created. So please check out the new updates at The Crow’s Loft.

Now the next set of updates will be for CrowFans.com. Some of the updates include.

* We’ll be adding more images to the Devil’s Night Greeting Cards section
* There will be a section dedicated to The Crow: Stairway To Heaven DVD Set that is coming out July 24th 2007 for Region 1.
* Some new links will be added
* A new section has been completed and will be launched these updates go live.
* There will be another page added to The Pit
* There will also be some minor updates made around the site.

These updates will probably go live on May 31, which was the original launch date of CrowFans.com back in 2000. For those of you who use your cell phone to check out websites, there is a mobile version of the news section available at http://news.crowfans.com.

After a bit of touch and go there, all is going forward with Bryce Zabel and Mark Dacascos’ involvement with the upcoming region 1 release of THE CROW: STAIRWAY to HEAVEN boxed set. Yesterday, Bryce and Mark got together for a commentary track that will be featured on the set. Thanks to everyone that voiced their support for this to Hart Sharp Video, who as I said, are all about giving us a quality product. I can’t wait to get the set and hear the commentary track. Bryce is also supplying a behind the scenes feature for the release.

You can go here to read Bryce’s latest blog entry and you can go here for the updated advertisement from Hart Sharp Video.

As you know, we have followed the recent troubles that Rochelle Davis (real name Andrea Ruano) has endured since Oct 26th, 2006. The upshot of everything, given all of the charges that were being leveled at her (I saw the transcript and it read like a laundry list from hell), she ended up only being charged with conspiracy and child endangerment. These were far lessor charges than what she could have seen thrown at her.

Recently, Frank spoke to Rochelle’s manager Jaine Flanagan. By her own account, Jaine has been more of a friend than a manager to Rochelle over the last 10 years. Jaine reports that Rochelle suffered a great deal after Brandon’s death. They had become close friends and Rochelle described herself as one of Brandon’s biggest fans. According to Jaine, Rochelle had a hard time after the accident auditioning for other parts. Her heart just was not into it. Though things came to a head on October 26th of last year with her arrest, Rochelle had other challenges that she had endured since her last acting job on The Crow. Finally, it was a lack in judgement which cost her dearly when the people whom she had become friends with turned out to be some pretty unsavory characters. She has learned a valuable lesson through the course of the events that have transpired over the last 8 months.

Will she act ever again? Who knows. Right now, she is just trying to get her life back on track for her and her son Destin. We hope that she will feel up to talking with fans in the coming months. I know that she is loved by the fan base and everyone is pulling for her to get back on her feet. When I was visiting with Robert Zuckerman he mentioned how much he would love to reach out to her now. I hope she knows how much she is loved, by those who know her and by those who have never met her. We are all a family and when one of your family hurts, everyone hurts.

I pray for nothing but the best for Rochelle and Destin.

Great news to report. After speaking with reps from Hart Sharp Video, the door has not been totally closed on the extras and who will be involved with the set. If all works out, Bryce and Mark will be participating in the DVD release of THE CROW: STAIRWAY to HEAVEN. This is great news for fans as we know how much Bryce put into the series and how much he was open to the fans. I think it speaks volumes that a DVD company is interested in a quality product first and I feel very confident that Hart Sharp Video is dedicated to giving us the best possible release of STH on DVD.

At any rate, we will keep you updated on the release.

Frank took a trip today that I know everyone is going to be interested in hearing about. We will have his report and pictures soon, so be looking forward to that.

Folks, I got word from Bryce Zabel that neither he or Mark have been contacted about their involvement with the DVD. Whats more, it would seem Bryce will not have any input to the DVD and we will be given a less than stellar release. I can’t begin to put into words my disappointment in this news. The franchise as a whole just seems to be getting crapped on at every turn. I will not go down without a fight however. The director of marketing for the dvd, Marylou Bono, needs to be contacted by us and told how we feel about them releasing the series on DVD in this fashion. We need to be intelligent in our emails to her, don’t send her a mindless rant. We need to let her know what this series means to us and the lack of involvement of Bryce and Mark is inconceivable. Here is the email address: marylou.bono@hartsharpvideo.com .

Here is an article that Bryce has posted. He goes on to talk about how the latest promotion article by Hart Sharp Video makes several typographical and content blunders, the most telling, the misspelling of Mark’s first and last name as well as a ludicrous synopsis that totally misses the point of the series all together. This screams loudly that they don’t care about this release and are basically throwing it out there. If they can’t get the basics right, how are we to trust them with the most important content of all, the episodes themself?

Time to wake up folks, I have been saying we need to get more involved in this franchise. Now is the time for fans of the series to not sit back and take what we are given.