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 - April 5, 2006 - Starting April 6, 2006, 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 26, 2006 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
will be hosted by Stefy Rae of the new band
Stefy.
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 6, 2006 until April 24, 2006, 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 1, 2006, 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 19, 2006.
The
grand prize winner will be determined by the following panel of judges
and announced on May 26, 2006:
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.