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Archive for the ‘Crow News’ Category
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Crow-Een 2K10 is not going to happen this year. There is several reasons why Crow-Een 2k10 will not be taking place this year. Some of those reasons include the lack of interest and participation, and the time needed to run the contest and promote it. We still encourage you to dress up as your favorite Crow character this Halloween and submit your photo to the Fan Gallery. We plan on bringing back Crow-Een next year and hopefully we will be able to revamp the contest as well.
On a personal note from the author:
I’ve been very busy this year with raising my son who just turned a year old on August 3rd. So any free time I’ve had to work on this site, I’ve been focusing on the development of CrowFans.com version 5. I promise CrowFans.com V5 will not as long to develop as it took Axl Rose to come out with Chinese Democracy. Thanks for your support of this site; I hope to be able to show off CrowFans.com version 5 in the near future.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The folks over at TheWrap spoke to Pressman recently. Seems there is a rewrite of the Norrington script for the new Crow film being done. None other than Nick Cave has been asked to complete said rewrite. Those that know Pressman are familiar with rewrites (for some reason he didn’t commission any rewrites for Salvation which could have used a few more passes before going before cameras). Not sure if this means the Norrington script was not working, or they wanted a different voice to see how it stirred up the pot. The same was done with the first film’s script where you had Jeff Most and John Shirley writing the initial drafts and then David Schow coming in to add his flurishes. One thing for sure this does mean, it will be that much longer before cameras start rolling on the film.
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
With it appearing that Dimension is out of the way and Relativity taking over distribution, one would think that the new Crow film by Norrington might stand a greater chance at a theatrical release. All indications are that is the route being pursued. Of course, we have heard that before and have seen the last two films go the direct to video route. We shall see if all good intentions do lead to a theatrical release. That would be a bit of good news in what so far hasn’t been anything to “crow” about with this latest effort. I stand cautious at this point, not cautiously optimistic as I am still not sold the route being taken is the best. However, for now, I will stand cautious and hope my fears are disproved.
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
MTV Splash Page has posted this bit:
The screenplay for a new The Crow film is finished and production will begin this year, Producer Edward Pressman told MTV today.
The new film will, according to Pressman, be set in both a small Southwest town and a larger city. The action will move from the town to the city and back again.
Though a star is not currently attached, Pressman claims that an offer has gone out to “a major actor”.
The new film will attempt to reboot the franchise with a number of alterations. One Pressman talks about is the nature of the actual Crow itself, describing it as “a creature… it’s not just a bird. It’s got a personality and a character. Not like Godzilla exactly, but it’s very different [and has] a more active role in the story.”
All I can say is this looks like another rehash, recycled, reheated attempt at the original movie. This sounds nothing like a reboot. The more I hear, the further I feel this is going down the road of just another sequel. I want to be wrong, I really do.
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Greetings! Yep, it has been a year and a half since my last post here. Probably no one has noticed and the same will read this. But for my own satisfaction, I am getting active again.
So what has been going on via the Crow front, not a whole lot. The reboot of the films is still in pre-production, though they claim to be closer to bringing things all together. I have still not heard directly from anyone on this and have no idea what we can expect.
Frank over at Crowfans wrapped up the latest Croween contest with winners announced.
O’Barr continues to make appearances. He recently announced progress on the LONG in the works re-edit of the original Crow graphic novel with panels originally deleted from it.
I have not heard anything on the Blu-ray front in regard to the movies. Surely there are plans to bring them to Blu-ray. I would love for them to get Proyas’ involvement and put out a Blu-ray that is the ultimate version of the film. Also would love for Tim Pope to be allowed to assemble his true vision for COA on Blu-ray. They could really make the Blu-ray release of these an event.
Man, I see so much false information on the first movie’s events being posted around the net. People totally confused as to what scene Brandon was shot during, how much of his performance is in the film, etc. I think that is what has drawn me back out amongst the mess. Someone has to set the story straight. It seems since ABaHB stopped being active, the Crow world has lost focus on our past.
Well, that is enough random rambling for the time being. I will be hunting down information and posting it.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
TheCrow.com is back online finally after nearly 2 years of downtime.
Crow-Een is currently 50% judged, just waiting on the other two judges to finish up.
CrowFans.com Version 5 development has slowed down a lot due to me being a dad. One of the changes pending for CrowFans.com version 5 will probably launch ahead of version 5.
Tags: CrowEEn 2K9, CrowFans V5, The Crow
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
This article was reposted with permission from ShockTillYouDrop.com.
Crow Creator Talks Upcoming Projects
Source: Chris Congiardo – August 10, 2009
James O’Barr, creator of “The Crow,” dropped in on the Chicago Comic-Con over the weekend and ShockTillYouDrop.com reader, Chris, wrote in with a brief report on what the man is up to.
“He’s working on two new comics. ‘The Ride’ will feature a story revolving around a car chase between a late ’60s Camaro and a Cuda. The other comic, which is being fully painted, is titled ‘Sundown in Hell’ and is being touted as a vampire western.
A 20th anniversary edition ‘Crow’ comic was scheduled to be released this year, but is now being planned for sometime early next year. James stated that when he was working on the original ‘Crow,’ some 32 pages of material had been cut. This new edition will feature that material.
In regards to ‘The Crow’ movie, he still keeps in touch with Alex Proyas and mentioned that 11 minutes of footage had been cut from the film, as it had originally received an X rating. James said that most of those 11 minutes featured Brandon Lee. James mentioned that Alex has been talking with the studios to access that material.”
View the original article by clicking here.
Tags: Alex Proyas, Crow Comics, James O'Barr, The Crow
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
James O’Barr will appear at Dallas Comic Con January 24th and 25th. For more information on his appearance click here or visit his official website at JamesOBarr.com. If you visit his website you’ll notice a slightly late Christmas present from the man himself.
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Thanks to readers Matt and Kyle for passing this along.
“The Crow” will fly again.
Stephen Norrington has signed on to write and direct a reinvention of “The Crow,” based on the comic created by James O’Barr.
Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is negotiating with producer Ed Pressman to acquire the film franchise and finance the film.
Pressman produced the 1994 Alex Proyas-directed screen transfer, in which rock musician Eric Draven is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs, and returns from the dead one year later to exact vengeance. Though the original became a gothic-style hit that grossed nearly $100 million worldwide, it is primarily remembered for a tragic accident in which star Brandon Lee was killed during filming.
For Norrington, “The Crow” deal marks the end of a long screen sabbatical. After making his breakthrough with the Marvel Comics hero “Blade,” Norrington took on a big-budget comic transfer with “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” Neither the director nor his star, Sean Connery, has made a film since.
Norrington said he felt demoralized by that experience, and the accomplished sculptor spent the next five years writing and working on his art. He made a deal to direct “Clash of the Titans” for Warner Bros., but left the project, he said, because he was “unable to excite Warner Bros. with my take, or influence the screenplay to any comfortable extent.” That pic goes into production early next year with Louis Leterrier at the helm.
Norrington resolved to focus on independent projects, and sparked to an approach on “The Crow” from Relativity production chief Tucker Tooley and Pressman. Norrington had a relationship with Pressman when they came close to making “Mutant Chronicles” several years ago. Both embraced Norrington’s vision of the antihero, which Norrington said will be different than the film Proyas made.
“Whereas Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style,” Norrington told Daily Variety.
Norrington is repped by Endeavor.
Courtesy of Variety.com
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Rochelle Davis and James O’Barr updates
Rochelle Davis recently attended Screamfest 2008 in Orlando and she has posted a blog and some pics from her experience on her MySpace page.
James O’Barr will be at Wizard World Texas November 7-9 at the Arlington Convention Center. James O’Barr has also posted some new paintings up on his MySpace blog.
Tags: James O'Barr, Rochelle Davis, Wizard World
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