I love Under The Cherry Moon and I've seen stills form the movie in colour..

Do you think they'll ever release it?

In a word, NO. Most of the Parade era was based around the whole black and white thing, so its sort of a part of that era.I think the film has a noir ish feel to it as well,which im sure P intended. I have also seen some colour pics thow which are stills from the film.

Its locked away in the vaults, never to see the light of day.
I've never seen any colour pics from it.

Let's hope not. The black and white made it fun and interesting.

no.

nexted langebleu will tell us that it was shot in B&W

catpark said:

There are a lot of color pictures that have come out officially and otherwise from the film. I have a few from 1998 calendar.

There's a couple of examples here; prince.org/msg/7/293007

With Prince's love for everything in the past and obvious tireless work to bring the most popular rarities to fans, I say definitely.

It's probably headed to lotusflow3r very soon.

if everyone chooses option 1 here


http://prince.org/msg/7/326500

it will come out
[Edited 12/28/09 9:40am]

ernestsewell said:

I've seen the one on the boat but not the one in his pjams, well not at that angel only the one when he looks like he's just answered the door but I didn't think that was from UTCM.
What 1998 calendar, from where?

catpark said:

It was 1997 or 1998. One of the pictures was of his argument w/ Mary during "Alexa De Paris", when she sets him up to barge in on her father w/ Mrs. Wellington. It's a full color still, as you can see the blue ocean, his clothing, etc. Not all the pictures were color from UTCM, but the few UTCM pics that were in there, were color. I almost feel like one picture of him in his birthday party attire, standing against a stucco wall, is in color too.

There's also a picture of him in his big white coat that he wore at the end of the movie (while chasing down Mary before she got on the plane to leave), that is in color.


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[Edited 12/28/09 10:10am]

Here are a couple of pictures from my old Prince room 10 years ago. You can see the two UTCM pictures. They are from the calendar, and I framed them.

on-set photographers take stills during a typical film shoot, it doesn't necessarily mean the film exists as a color version. There are frequently color stills from Raging Bull, but there is no color version of Raging Bull in existence.

cosmicday2010 said:

cosmicday2010 said:

Isn't it quite known that it was shot in color then reduced to black and white? Prince originally wanted to do use weird black and white film, but they all agreed to film it in color, and then make it black and white later. It's a well document story. The original question is "Will the color version come out?", implying that the original poster knows about the color version. It's been brought up a lot over the years that fans want to see the color version.

Yeah, it doesn't look like a real black & white film anyway. There's usually something of a difference between works that have been shot on real black & white film and those that have been "turned into black and white films" later on.

To be honest, I haven't seen the movie in a decade though, so its actual character escapes my memory.

ernestsewell said:

Yes. It was shot in color. Does a full print of the film exist in color? I highly doubt it.

I didnt mean that it wasnt shot in color, I meant that it was processed into black and white . . . and that the color photos were more than likely shot by Jeff Katz.

prince snogging in full on colour

There was a rumor prior to the DVD release that WB will include the "colored" version,,,,but as you all can see, there weren't any.

Come to think of it, not even a measly ass featurette

It would be intersting.

Harlepolis said:

Sure, a featurette where we hear the film crew talking about how Kristin Scott-Thomas dreaded the day she had to kiss Prince in a scene? Or that she hates UTCM?

Or that many of the people quit or were fired?

It would be interesting, wouldn't it?

cosmicday2010 said:

I would've been content with the awkward MTV interview but hey

Harlepolis said:

Maybe Prince's look on his face when he saw who he had to escort to the premiere?

Mars23 said:

cosmicday2010 said:

who did he escort to the premiere?

AnaB said:

That fug from Sheridan, Wyoming.

Prince gets Lisa Barbaer, his Dad gets Devin DeVasquez, BWAA HA HA HA, of course Prince probably had his bodyguards drop Barber off at her trailer and put his Dad to bed and banged DeVasquez

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http://www.people.com/peo...34,00.html

First you win a contest, then you win friends. That's how it happened for Lisa Barber, 20, a Sheridan, Wyo. motel chambermaid who last month dialed an MTV contest number and, by being the 10,000th caller, won a date with Prince and the opportunity to have his much-hyped new movie, Under the Cherry Moon, premiered in her hometown. Barber, a veteran contest entrant who had never won more than "a couple of Big Macs and a curling iron," was ecstatic. So were her friends, many of whom she had never met. Moments after her name was announced, callers from California to the Carolinas began ringing up to ask for one or two or 10 of the 200 tickets she'd been allotted for Prince's frontier fandango. Her mother, Elena Holwegner, fielded the endless requests with humor, if not compromise. Ring! "No, Lisa's not here," she fibbed to one caller. "You say you're calling from Maine? Sorry." Ring! "You say you want to come over and take pictures of me doing housework? I've got a better idea. You come over and do housework, and I'll take pictures of you." Ring! "Sorry, no more tickets. What? You say you have six days to live? Well, sorry to break the news, honey, but you'll be long gone before Prince gets here. What? You say you can hold on an extra day? Well, I can't. Sorry!" Click.

For Prince—who, when it comes to publicity, is usually about as visible as a microbe and only slightly more talkative—the sojourn to Sheridan seemed to serve two purposes. After years of performing in bikini underwear and a raincoat and singing such single-entendre hits as Head and the incest-themed Sister, he is, say pals, concerned that the public hasn't seen enough of the happy-go-lucky, Little House on the Prairie side of his personality. "He's perceived by the media as a bad boy, a rude boy," says his friend and protégée, singer Sheila E. "He is very conscious of his reputation, and I think he's making an effort to turn it around. Basically, he's an easy-going guy." Says Lisa Coleman, keyboardist with Prince's band, the Revolution, "He's so consumed by what he's doing that sometimes he has not noticed what is happening to his public image. He realizes it now."

The other reason Prince is courting publicity is that as Cherry Moon goes, so may go his movie career. If Moon succeeds, he'll be seen as a screen phenomenon; if it fails, his first movie, the $80 million-grossing Purple Rain, may be seen as a fluke. Adding to the tension is the fact that the new film, a black-and-white fantasy romance set in the South of France, is pure Prince: He stars in the movie, conceived the plot, handpicked the cast and took over for the original director, Mary Lambert, after she left because of "artistic differences." He also reportedly refused Warner Bros.' entreaties to inject conflict into the script, saying that atmosphere and music would keep the audience entertained.

Sheridan hadn't hosted such a dramatic event since 1865, when locals took on Arapaho Indians in a skirmish that preceded the Little Big Horn. By the time Prince pulled into town—11 days after Barber made her call—Sheridan was ready. The pro-Prince contingent gathered at the airport, carrying signs (WELCOME TO SHERIDAN. WE'RE PROUD OF OUR TOWN. GOT ANY EXTRA TICKETS?) and hoping for a glimpse of the would-be minimogul. Others, less enthralled, could be found at the coffee counter in Ritz Sporting Goods, where rancher Dugan Wragge noted, "This town's known for fishing lures. We don't care about no boy who wears tight pants and struts around like a woman." Ventured another customer: "I'm going to paint a fence. If Prince wants to help me, that's fine." A third recalled that when he first learned of Prince's impending arrival, it set him to thinking about a visit Queen Elizabeth made to Sheridan in 1984 to look at equestrian stock: "I told my wife, 'This is real nice. First his mother, and now him.' "

The airport crowd let out a hoot when Prince's Learjet appeared as a dot in the Western sky. It landed and sat on the strip for a few minutes, the passenger door open. Then one tiny, high-heeled boot appeared. Then all 5'3" of Prince Rogers Nelson, decked out in a purple paisley silk suit, emerged smiling. He walked down a red carpet and threw his jacket over a fence to the crowd, then politely exchanged pleased-to-meet-you's with Sheridan's mayor, Max DeBolt, and other dignitaries. DeBolt, who takes every opportunity to plug Sheridan's tourist attractions (hunting and fishing) and neighborly life-style ("I think we had a thief here—once"), was delighted with the hoopla. As Prince climbed into a gray-and-black limo, he said, to no one in particular, "I'm going to buy a house here."

Meanwhile, back at the small cottage behind her mother's trailer home, Lisa Barber fretted like a prom queen should. Prince's staff had cured one headache by providing a black-and-white outfit that would match the evening's decor. "I was real worried about what I was going to wear," says Barber. "I usually shop at K Mart." Prince also sent over a hair stylist and a makeup artist. After that, Lisa had nothing to do except sit perfectly still until date time, 6 p.m.

Her guy pulled up, 15 minutes late, at the wheel of a white Buick convertible with personalized license plates that read LOVE. Eschewing the gravel driveway, he vaulted over a chain-link fence and knocked on the door. "Hello," he said, kissing her hand. "My name is Prince. Ready to have a good time?" Unfazed by the fact that her date was wearing more makeup and—thanks to a midriff-baring shirt—showing more skin than she was, Barber answered in the affirmative and took her seat in the car. Preceded by Sheridan's female riding troupe, the Equestri-Annettes, and trailed by a posse of costumed cowboys, the couple cruised to the Centennial Twin theater, where 800 enthusiastic but inexpert stargazers waited. Singer Joni Mitchell entered unnoticed; crooner Ray Parker Jr., a newspaper reported, was misidentified by some as Lionel Richie. "We cheered for anyone who dressed weird or was black," says one Sheridian.

Inside, Prince sat with Barber in a back row. He did not buy her any Raisinets or popcorn but otherwise behaved like a perfect gentleman. "Well, there was one time during the movie when he played with my hair and he put his arm around me," says Barber. "But that's all he did. Honest." And did Prince, rock's reigning purple enigma, actually engage in conversation sometime during the evening? "Oh, yeah," says Barber. "I asked him how he liked it here. He said it was real pretty and that I was lucky to live here. In the car he asked me what the best radio station was, and when he turned to it, the deejay was talking about him. He said, 'If I had a phone in here, I'd call him.' " At Cherry Moon, she says, "I told him I liked the movie. [Prince's co-star and sidekick] Jerome Benton asked me if I liked to fish but I told him 'No way.' "

And how did the all-important Sheridan critics react to Under the Cherry Moon? The first review came from a young woman who, when Prince's tightly suited form first appeared on the screen, yelled out "Nice butt!" After that things got a little less precise. "I liked it, but I didn't get it," said one local, whose opinion was echoed by others throughout the evening. "It was great!" offered another. "Like one long rock video! But I didn't really figure out what was going on." The next day, when Cherry Moon opened at 941 theaters around the country, paid critics began weighing in with reviews that made the townsfolk seem kind. The New York Times called Prince's character a "self-caressing twerp of dubious provenance." The Washington Post said that in black-and-white, "Prince begins to remind you of something your biology teacher asked you to dissect." USA Today, at least, pointed out that Prince's principal draw isn't his dramatic skill: "Fewer people saw [Purple] Rain for the acting than saw Old Yeller for the sex." In its first weekend, the film grossed $3.1 million—about the same as Walt Disney's new movie The Great Mouse Detective.

That was in the future, however, and there was still joy in Sheridan as the movie crowd spilled out of the theater and into a party at the Holiday Inn. At 10 p.m. Prince climbed onto a specially built stage and unleashed 45 minutes of radioactive funk. "He's incredible," said a surprised Lillie Belle Johnson, 66. "I never realized what we were missing." With uncharacteristic informality, he and his band members mingled with the locals and made small talk about movies and trout. Cherry Moon might have gone over like wheat rust, but you couldn't tell that from the crowd's mood or from the mouths of Prince's entourage, who were hard-pressed to find fault with their mentor. "I thought it was the perfect thing for him to do," said bandmate Lisa Coleman. "Purple Rain was a heavier film; this is lighter." Casey Terry, lead singer in the Prince spin-off group Mazarati, pronounced him "scintillating to work with. If you can't handle his energy, you're up a creek." Said Cherry Moon co-star Kristin Scott-Thomas: "He was a joy to work with." Seconded Jerome Benton, who has worked with Prince as a roadie, backup singer and actor: "He's a genius. I won't ever leave, unless he couldn't use me. I like being under that protective wing."

Lisa Barber also enjoyed her time under the protective wing. When the party ended, her date made sure she had a ride home in a limousine. "I'll have lots of memories, but I know I'll probably never see him again," she said of her beau, who gave her earrings and a gold necklace as keepsakes. "I'll never take them off," she vowed. Looking back, she says the only flaw in a perfect evening involved a misunderstanding over some costume jewelry Prince had impulsively asked to borrow. "He was a dream date," says Lisa, "even if he didn't give me back my pearls."
[Edited 12/28/09 16:31pm]

Thanks, All I knew was it was in Wyoming

cosmicday2010 said:

Let's not be too dismissive. That "fug" got on TV, got a date with Prince, a concert w/ 300 of her closest, and newest, friends, and had a night she's never forgotten.

ernestsewell said:

If Prince finger-banged her in the back of the theater, maybe she'd have something to boast about, but she was used as a piece of promotion because they didn't know where else to premiere the film without casing embarrassment for WB.
But she didnt get even the tip of his purple pinky, he sat with her in the dark, said a few words to her and sent her off in a limo.