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Undiscovered
Band Contest Announced for "John Tucker Must Die" Movie
4/5/06
Wind-up Records, 20th Century Fox and MySpace.com Announce Undiscovered
Band Contest for Upcoming Feature Film "JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE"
Grand Prize Winner's Song Eligible for Inclusion in Both the Movie and
Soundtrack
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/05/06 -- Starting April 6th,
unsigned artists will have a shot at their big break by submitting their
music for an online contest on the leading social networking and lifestyle
portal, MySpace.com. The winning band's song will be eligible for
inclusion in the movie and on the soundtrack to "JOHN TUCKER MUST
DIE." The grand prize winner will be chosen on May 26th by a panel of
celebrity judges and music executives. Wind-up Records will award a
$10,000 production budget to the winner for professional re-recording,
mixing, and mastering of the winning song. The ten finalists will each win
a Gibson electric guitar.
In 20th Century Fox's "JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE" three popular
girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the same
school stud when they decide not to get mad but to get even! Despite this
ladies man's charm and ever-growing popularity, the girls enlist the
inconspicuous new girl to help cook up a clever scheme to ruin his
reputation and break his heart. This summer's hottest comedy stars Jesse
Metcalfe, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, and Jenny McCarthy and
opens in theatres on July 28, 2006.
The John Tucker Must Die Undiscovered Band Contest (www.myspace.com/johntucker)
will be hosted by Stefy Rae of the new band Stefy (www.stefytheband.com).
Stefy's Wind-up Records debut will be released on August 29, 2006. Two
songs from the female-fronted band Stefy will be in "JOHN TUCKER MUST
DIE" as well as songs from The All-American Rejects, Nada Surf, Ben
Lee, OK Go, People In Planes, and Motion City Soundtrack. The soundtrack
will be released by Wind-up Records on July 18, 2006.
From April 6th until April 24th, unsigned bands can submit songs for
consideration. From these initial submissions, 20 semi-finalists will be
chosen by members of the MySpace staff. On May 1st, those 20 bands will
rely on the support of their own fan bases, or MySpace 'friends,' to
determine the top 10 finalists who will be selected on May 19th. The grand
prize winner will be determined by the following panel of judges and
announced on May 26th:
Jesse Metcalfe (Actor -- star of "John Tucker Must Die,"
"Desperate Housewives")
Betty Thomas (Director -- "John Tucker Must Die," Howard
Stern's "Private Parts")
Alex Patsavas (Music Supervisor -- "John Tucker Must Die,"
"The O.C," "Grey's Anatomy," "Rescue Me")
Diana Meltzer (Executive V.P., A&R Wind-up Records)
Stefy Rae (Wind-up recording artist)
One of the world's largest producers and distributors of motion
pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires, and distributes
motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced
or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox
2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic, and Twentieth Century Fox
Animation.
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