UPDATE FROM WRITER/DIRECTOR JOHN HARLACHER
July 26th 2007 Anyone want to make a short "Tales from Scum City" movie for the web? If you make one I'll give you swag. Email ScumCity[at]UrchinTheMovie.com if you're interested. June 22th, 2007 Two upcoming NYC screenings!
Sunday July 1st at 9:00PM at the Rapture Cafe at 200 Ave A (between 12th + 13th Streets) NYC This is the last Urchin screening in NYC Ever. No lie. The last time
anyone will get to see this thing on the screen without flying to Asia
or buying a screen and inviting us. And it's free, and there's booze.
Also,
Luke Leonard, Urchin's DP, presents the premiere of his wonderful short
film Antiquated Play Click here for the trailer.
A N T I Q U A T E D P L A Y A Film by Luke Leonard LIMITED SEATING - RSVP REQUIRED Please be our guest... You are invited to a FREE premiere screening of Luke Leonard's short
film, ANTIQUATED PLAY. Inspired by Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech from Romeo and Juliet, the
film follows Mercutio, a contemporary cowboy, who wakes from a massive
hangover and finds a book anonymously placed next to him. The book, a
Complete Works of William Shakespeare, contains a porthole to dreams
that can only be reached through reading Romeo and Juliet. Mab, a
woman wearing a niqāb and abaya, serves as the temptress and dream
guide for those who read the play. Mercutio is encouraged to dream of
love only to fall for the temptress herself. A struggle ensues as a
man attempts to connect to a woman despite their differences. Running time approximately 30 minutes.
June 12th, 2007 Urchin will be playing in NYC again in the next few weeks. Check this space for more info as it comes. If you are elsewhere, you can Preorder the DVD right now. The RPG is great and will be out on the 26th, the same day as the DVD. Videogame in progress. KURU in Progress. Life in progress.
May 8th, 2007 Urchin will have it's Asian-Pacific premiere at the Hack in the Box conference September 3rd and 4th . It will play seven times. Check here for more info. Pre-Order the DVD on Best Buy! Playtesting has begun on the Urchin Role Playing Game, and HUGE Urchin videogame news is on the way.
March 15th, 2007 Urchin will be released by Vanguard Cinema, and available everywhere in the USA on June 26th, 2007. You can pre-order now on Best Buy or any of the usual places online. UK and Japanese deals are in progress. A crazy role playing game is being written as you read this by Clint Krause, and will be available in late June as well. Thanks to all who ccame to the NYC screening. Check out our review blurbs! "I
found Urchin impossible to turn away from. . .a nightmarish urban fantasy
with flashes of compasion, and a redemptive outcome that is both unexpected
and surprisingly moving. . . .It reminded me of (Aronofsky's) PI." "A
fascinating movie with disturbing imagery... if you see it you will probably
go to hell." "A
search for Shangri-La deep in the subways ...a hollow earth fantasy from
an aging crackpot. . . give(s) undiscovered names a chance to shine." "(An)
aggressively low-budget movie. . .Urchin captures the eerie rhythm of
the subway at night."
February 10th, 2007 The URCHIN Theatrical run has begun! We
open Saturday 2/17 at the Horse Trade's Red Room Theatre in NYC at Please come! You can buy tickets at SmartTix.com. Who knows if we'll ever be able to show this on a big screen again. I'll be there, along with cast and crew members. Come tell us what you think! USA DVD release in a few months, along with GAME NEWS!! I can say no more at this time.
November 28, 2006 Here's the news: We are proud to announce that URCHIN is being distributed worldwide by a major film distribution company. There will be a theatrical run in limited markets in February, and then a worldwide DVD and on-demand release in mid 2007. Good stuff! The Enemy is working on our next film. We are in the preparation stage, and will enter pre-production in mid January. (KuruMovie.com) This one has cannibals. John
URCHIN is done! It's August 31st 2006 and twenty minutes ago we made the final sound tweaks. Boom! We started filming in February of 2005, so it took a year and a half. Pretty fine for our first feature. I'll have some exciting news about distribution to announce publicly soon, so check this space. My company The Enemy (FaceTheEnemy.com) will be in production again this winter, and 2 Cities Productions (2cps.com) is gearing up for their next theatrical extravaganzoid in March, and this winter they will shoot a Martial Arts Short film by URCHIN's Second Unit DP Abe Heisler. Keep in touch!
We are very close! It's June 29th, and I am writing this from Round House music, (RoundhouseMusic.net) where we are putting the final touches on our sound design. It's working really nicely. The film will sound as good as it looks. And it looks good. Greg Orsi's cartoon credit sequence blows me away(gregorsi.com). I want to make a whole animated feature now. Our color correction is nearly complete, and Bryce Barros, our effects artist, has come up with some amazing stuff. The sequence where The Kid shocks The Outside Man to death (played by Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 mag(2600.com)) is the highlight. On a that note, here's a big shoutout to anyone discovering this site from the 2600 or HOPE6 sites. We will be screening an in-progress version of URCHIN at that hacker conference on July 22nd at midnight. If you'll be there, drop me a line: More info on in-progress screenings soon. Finished screenings soon too. I can't wait for you to see it. John
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