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In addition to having their “big break” on one of the world’s most-watched stages, the winner — who will not be revealed until their video performance airs during Super Bowl XLII on FOX — will also receive a recording deal.

Beginning October 25, 2007, unsigned artists are invited to post a video of themselves performing their own original song, as well as an audio file of the same song to enter the contest. More information about the contest is available at http://www.snackstrongproductions.com.

“We are not looking for the new Doritos jingle, we are looking to entertain the fans we love during the Super Bowl with a great song and a great performance from any genre,” said Ann Mukherjee, vice president, marketing, Frito-Lay. “Doritos knows there are plenty of talented but undiscovered musicians out there and we want to help them celebrate their passions and fulfill their dreams. With an audience of millions, turning over our Super Bowl ad time is the best way for us to give Doritos lovers the ultimate stage to be discovered and potentially launch a career.”

The “One Nation, Many Voices” competition will take submissions until November 25th of films lasting five minutes or less. The winner will be awarded a $20,000 cash prize as well as a debut on Link TV.

Wannabe directors, 18 years or older, can submit their short videos for a chance to have their video showcased on YouTube’s homepage and a $5,000 debit card.

Basic Guideline for the Project:Direct Challenge videos include:

1. Video must use the line of dialog: “I demand an explanation for these shenanigans! What do you have to say?”
2. Videos must show how the act of passing a photograph from one person to another person; or, a person passing/transferring a photograph to an electronic device (e.g. a person connecting a digital camera to a printer or to a computer).
3. Videos must feature the role acted by the principal character (in whole or in part) reflecting behavior above his or her maturity.

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Unreleased artists are invited to visit the XM MySpace site to review contest details, and enter their original song with the opportunity to become the next hip-hop star. All entries for the competition must be submitted between now and August 31, 2007.

The entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges comprised of music editors and industry artists who will select five finalists and post their entries on the XM MySpace community page for open voting. Members from the MySpace community can then view blogs and vote for their favorites among the top five finalists.

Three finalists will then be selected for superstar treatment, including a free trip to The Power Summit, held October 24-27 in the Dominican Republic, to perform for an intimate audience of the top record industry elite and biggest DJs in the country. Past performers include Kanye West, Eminem, 50 Cent and Alicia Keys.

One grand prize winning artist or group will be selected by The Power Summit audience, and will receive superstar treatment, including:

• A mixtape created with a high profile DJ,
• Opportunity to appear as the opening act on the MySpace Secret Show, a series of music performances only available to “friends” of the page,
• A local grassroots sniping promotional campaign,
• All expense paid trip to be a guest on XM Radio in Washington, DC, and two weeks XM airplay &
• MySpace Music Feature.

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To enter, participants can submit their written pitch for a pilot episode online or send it via a text message from their mobile phone. Submissions will be posted on a Surviving Hollywood Web blog. The contest begins today and runs through 12:00 p.m. PST, September 3, 2007, with one grand prize winner receiving the ultimate star treatment as their winning pitch and personalized in-game character are featured as an episode of Surviving Hollywood. The lucky winner will also receive a trip for two to Hollywood and a Motorola KRZR K1 handset pre-loaded with Surviving Hollywood. In addition, five runner-ups will receive a MOTOKRZR K1 handset pre-loaded with the game.

• The top 20 videos from all submissions will be chosen by 50 Cent, Common, and Polow Da Don.
• Your video can be no longer than 5 minutes AND must be 100% your original rhymes and beats.
• The top 20 will be required to sign an affidavit attesting to the originality of their submission.
• You must be 18 years old, a legal U.S. resident, and a registered member of YouTube to enter.

Submissions accepted August 10 - 17, 2007. The final winner will be announced September 7.

The winner will be awarded a trip to New York City to professionally record a single for G-Unit/Interscope Records, a $10,000 gift card from Guitar Center, and their video will be featured on the homepage of YouTube.

Using Google tools including Search, Maps, Images, Translate and YouTube, players will track Bourne online, in the hopes that what he knows will prove helpful in their own quests. With new clues and active game play provided to site visitors each weekday — 15 in total — the game concludes on the film’s opening day. Along the way, registered users will have the chance to win amazing prizes, including the grand prize: a 2008 Volkswagen Touareg 2, designed to the specifications of the car seen in the film, as well as a four-city trip to international destinations featured in the movie and $25,000.

Beginning immediately, aspiring Spider-Man 3 webcasters can find everything they need to enter the contest at spiderman.sonypictures.com/faceofthefan. At the site, contest entrants can join the movie network, as well as find tools to help them tape, edit and submit their entry. Fans are encouraged to show their true colors in their screen tests. Entrants will be judged on the presentation of a pre-provided script as well as their enthusiasm and credibility, articulation, and ultimately, they will be selected on the quality of their overall submission. The contest is open to any U.S. resident who is at least 18 years-of-age or older unless otherwise indicated in the official rules. Entries must be submitted by February 23, 2007.

Running from December 26, 2006 through January, 20, 2007, the contest asked contestants to write, record and upload an original love song to a special VH1 site. The contest site ultimately received nearly 400 entries while the actual contest page tallied 750,000 page views during that period.

Videos of the entries will be streamed via the website and assessed on the basis of theme, lyrics and overall musicality. Entries are currently being rated by online users until February 2 at http://www.talentload.tv/musicandlyrics, and the top-rated videos will be judged by a panel of experts from VH1 and Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. The winning song will be selected on February 3, 2007. The lucky winning songwriter will be flown to Los Angeles for the red carpet premiere of “Music and Lyrics” and will also have their song professionally recorded.

Opening nationwide on February, 14, 2007, “Music and Lyrics” is the story of Alex Fletcher (HUGH GRANT), a washed-up ’80s pop star who’s been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit at county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her, but there’s a problem-Alex hasn’t written a song in years, he’s never written lyrics … and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Enter Sophie Fisher (DREW BARRYMORE), Alex’s beguilingly quirky plant lady, whose flair for words strikes a chord with the struggling songwriter. On the rebound from a bad relationship with the newly famous novelist Sloane Cates (CAMPBELL SCOTT), Sophie is reluctant to collaborate with anyone, especially commitment-phobe Alex. As their chemistry heats up at the piano and under it, Alex and Sophie will have to face their fears-and the music-if they want to find the love and success they both deserve. The film has been rate PG-13 for some sexual content.

By hosting this video mash-up contest, ACIDplanet.com introduces more people to not only the film, “Pick of Destiny” but to the concept of video remixing by providing incredible content and world-class production software.

The film “Pick of Destiny” tells the story of Tenacious D, a rock band formed by actor/comedian Jack Black. The film also stars Tenacious D’s lead guitarist, Kyle Gass and features guest appearances by executive producer Ben Stiller and rock icon Dave Grohl. If you like to laugh and you like music and you like to rock, the Tenacious D film, “Pick of Destiny” is a great place to enjoy all three. The film hits theatres on November 22.

This ACIDplanet.com contest is the only video-mash-up contest to be done for the Tenacious D film. Users must upload their mash-up of “Pick of Destiny” to ACIDplanet.com by 12:00AM Midnight on November 27, 2006 in order to be eligible for the contest. One grand prizewinner will receive over $6,000 in video production gear and software.

For more information and complete contest rules, please visit: http://www.acidplanet.com.

To enter the contest, visit http://www.TheProtectorMovie.com/contest and get some inspiration by checking out Tony Jaa’s moves from “The Protector” by watching video clips and the trailer. Then, videotape yourself performing your coolest and most exciting martial arts moves. Don’t hurt yourself! Finally, submit your video to http://www.YouTube.com by following the directions on the site for your chance to be a star!.

GSN SUMMER CHALLENGE SWEEPSTAKES will offer different puzzles representing the game play of the two series. The mobile games associated with CHAIN REACTION resemble the series by offering word chains in which every word is related to the one before and after it. The game is such that players will need to answer via text message which of the words presented is the missing word of the five-word connecting chain. The player is given one of four choices.

The STARFACE mobile game involves a test of the player’s knowledge of celebrity gossip. The game involves the player answering a question about a film or TV star. The player is given four choices to choose from for the right answer.

Once a person has text-messaged a correct answer, he/she is then subscribed and eligible to win that day’s daily cash prize. A player can only enter to play once day, but with that being said, he/she has 31 opportunities to win.

No purchase or text messaging necessary. Void were prohibited. Open to all legal U.S. residents, 18 years or older as of 7/27/06. Each daily sweepstakes (31 separate dailies) begins at 12:00 a.m. PT and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT that day. Ends at 11:59 p.m. PT on 8/31/06. Standard text messaging charges apply to text entries. Text entry is designed to work with most major wireless carriers, but Sponsor makes no guarantee that any particular carrier will participate.

See official rules at http://www.gsn.com/summerchallenge for complete details, including odds, eligibility restrictions and how to enter for free without using a cell phone.

In Underground Bounty Hunter, the player becomes the bounty hunter chasing the most corrupt villains hidden in the underbelly of the crime world, encountering a cast of prostitutes, murderers, drug dealers, mobsters and other illicit characters in order to locate and destroy or capture the villain he’s pursuing. Each scene offers an action-packed sequence that jeopardizes the bounty hunter’s life. The player must find clues to help advance him to the next level. If a scene is misinterpreted, and the player enters the incorrect clues, the Underground Bounty Hunter is in danger of being shot, killed or captured. The first player to successfully complete all the levels and capture the wanted criminal receives a real cash prize of $100,000. Additionally, the longer the game proceeds with the villain still at large, the longer the criminal has to accumulate more riches and, since the winning bounty hunter gets to keep the bounty and the criminal’s loot, the larger the prize pool can potentially get. This potential additional loot may include sports cars, powerboats, plasma televisions or other high-ticket items. Each episode will have its own bounty of cash and prizes, offering players numerous opportunities to win, but only one person is slated to win the movie role at this time.

Players must be at least 18-years old and each opportunity to successfully capture the criminal will cost $25.

View the trailer and learn more about the game at http://www.undergroundbountyhunter.com.

One winner will be chosen to receive $15,000 in funding from HBO to produce and direct a short film based on an original script entry. Winner will be given six weeks to complete the film, which will then make its premiere at the NYILFF’s opening night ceremony and presented before every 2006 NYILFF evening feature screening.

“Through the years, the NYILFF has become a major platform for new Latino filmmakers,” said Olivia Smashum, executive vice president, Affiliate Marketing and Business Development at HBO. “And as presenting sponsor of the festival, we’re extremely proud of what this competition is becoming for emerging talent — an outlet for creativity and exposure to a larger audience.”

“We are very excited to have the continued support of HBO behind this competition,” said Calixto Chinchilla, executive director of the NYILFF. “And, we’re proud it has emerged into something beyond just a competition into a real opportunity to support aspiring Latino filmmakers from the U.S. and around the world.”

The details for the competition are as follows:

• Competition is open to U.S. and international entrants 18 years or older
• Original scripts must be written in English by a person of Latino descent or focus on the Latino experience
• Final film cannot exceed five (5) minutes
• Entries must have had no previous television or internet exhibition, have not won awards at any other festival and must not have previously been submitted to the HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition
• Each entry must be accompanied by a completed submission form, $10.00 fee, filmmaker bio and photo, director’s reel or last short film \ produced (VHS only), and one executed HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition release form
• There is no limit to the number of entries (see rules for more specifics)
• Entries must be postmarked by May 5, 2006 and mailed to NYILFF, c/o HBO/NYILFF SHORT FILM COMPETITION, 419 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003
• Winner will be notified on or about June 2, 2006
• HBO to receive final cut of winning film by July 17, 2006
• Submission forms, eligibility requirements and release forms can be downloaded from the NYILFF website, http://www.NYLatinoFilm.com

Last year, writer/director Aurora Guerrero, received the grant from HBO to produce and direct a short film based on her original script “Viernes Girl” (”Friday Girl”), the story of how sibling rivalry takes a turn when a brother and sister discover they have more in common than they think.