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24 hours after Asher Levin announced the Cougars, Inc. screening tour and with less than 24 hours to go before it was due to start the first event has been called off.
The Boston event Facebook page has been updated with the word “CANCELLED” in its title though the time and location information remain. The description has been removed but more ominously the details, what few there were, of the other planned events have been removed. So much for May.
At the time of writing no explanation has been given.
Update: The Facebook event page for the Boston event has been removed. Still no explanation and no sign so far of information about any other events.
Asher Levin has finally published details on the Cougars, Inc. Facebook page of the US screening tour he’s been promising since late March would happen throughout April. He’s left it until the last minute too. The first event on this roadshow is tomorrow (4th May 2011) at the Woodward At Ames restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts. It is not clear who from the cast will be attending the event.
Other than Boston the cities the tour is listed as visiting and the dates known so far are:
- Miami, FL on 6th May
- New York City, NY on 9th May
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Austin, TX
- Las Vegas, NV
- Scottsdale, AZ
- San Francisco, CA
As you can see not all the dates have been confirmed or venue details given. The short time between the 3 dates we do have suggests that the whole process will be done in a less than a month. With the DVD and Blu-ray versions of Cougars, Inc. due for release on 10th of May in North America it makes sense for this be more of a promo tour for that.
So much for April. On the day the Austin, Texas screening was due to happen (7th April) Asher told me via Twitter that they’d be in the city later in the month. It was as though the Maggie Mae’s party was never really on, despite evidence suggesting it was originally going to hold the première.
A Facebook event page for the Boston happening can be found HERE.
If you get a chance to attend one of the events please let us know what it was like.
Update (10th May 2011, 7:45BST): The Boston event was cancelled. The Miami event was disrupted by bad weather. The New York event didn’t happen at all, with no explanation by anyone. It appears that Asher Levin was actually in New York over the weekend for a music video shoot though.
 Today’s the day to get out on the Straße and hit the Geschäfte because the 21st of April is Loverboys – Desperate Wives day in Germany.
Europe sees the worldwide première of the renamed Cougars, Inc. on DVD and Blu-ray, three weeks before the North American 10th of May release. The discs almost certainly contain the original English soundtrack so won’t be limited to only German speaking folks.
This will be the first time that the DVD extras (which apparently include a “Making of…” and picture gallery) will be seen.
My copy should be here very soon. Just in time for the extended weekend 😉
If you buy yourself a copy please let us know what you think.
Update: Credit to Amazon Germany and UPS for getting the discs to me first thing this morning. As Julie comments below Kathryn only appears on the front of the box art. Denise appears 5 times in total. Rebecca and Catalina twice. Disappointingly the DVD extras only amount to the trailer and a photo gallery (I’ve added copies of the 3 involving Kathryn to the Gallery), though there are trailers for three other movies. There is no “Making of…” and no cast and crew commentaries. The need to have a 2nd language on the disc may have taken up too much space and caused the removal of the extras. Making it a dual layer disc would have added to the costs. The Blu-ray is little more than a high definition version of the DVD. We’ll have to wait and see if the American version is different.
Update 2: Credit to me from Amazon Germany! The price of the Loverboys Blu-ray dropped by €5 to match the €9.99 (less than US$15) of the DVD, making it even more of a bargain than before and they’ve refunded me the difference. They ship internationally. You can find the Cougars, Inc. Blu-ray on the Amazon.de website here.
 Kathryn was a no-show in Austin last night. In fact the whole event appears to have not happened at all.
Asher Levin (writer/director of Cougars, Inc.) had posted on the Facebook page on Monday about the event. Yesterday I asked him if he was in or was heading off to Texas in the hope of finding out if Kathryn would be there. He replied:
we’ll be in austin later this month. Along with some more towns all over the country. More info to follow… – Link
I tried to confirm that he really meant that they were not going to be at Maggie Mae’s for the events he previously informed us about (nearly a week after KM UK broke the news) and were listed on the venue’s website (and still is at time of writing). No answer was forthcoming.
On several occasions Asher has asked for people to suggest towns for them to visit as part of a roadshow throughout April. This has garnered some responses, one of which was answered with something along the lines of “you organize it and we’ll be there”. This suggests to me that there are few, if any, events already organised. We are a week in to April and the one screening that was supposed to happen didn’t. Are we likely to get more than one event per week in the remaining three? What are the chances of significant cast members being able to commit time to events not organised much in advance?
I fear the wheels are falling off this roadshow. Hopefully I’m wrong.
Update: Asher has posted another message asking for suggestions on places to visit.
A quick follow-up on the news KM UK broke last week about the forthcoming Texas screening of Cougars, Inc.
The website of Historic Maggie Mae’s bar in Austin, Texas has been updated to include details about the 2 days of events. It opens with a “Make-A-Cougar-Hollar” (what ever that means!) cast party on Thursday night with the stars bartending. Friday is the screening followed by another party.
The Austin Chronicle website has a listing for the event. They’ve got the dates wrong (6th & 7th instead of 7th & 8th) and imply that many of the cast will be present, including Kathryn and Denise. It is not clear if it is just a listing of the cast names that readers may recognise or a guest list. At this stage we don’t know.
So far no news is available on any further screenings. Let us know if you hear anything.
Update: A couple of promotional images from the Maggie Mae’s website have been added to the Gallery. They give filmography details on the some of the film’s cast members.
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