Design Your Way To Stardom With Fandango's '100% Fan-Made' Bag Puppet Contest

Prizes include a fistful of movie tickets and a featured role for the winning puppet.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 7, 2005 -- Designing homemade costumes for Halloween this year? You may also want to try your hand at creating an entry for the new “100% Fan-Made” Fandango Bag Puppet Contest, where film fans will be rewarded for their most inventive and colorful creations.

Fandango, the nation's largest movie ticketing service, is celebrating the widespread fan following for its Bag Puppet campaign (now in its third year) with its “100% Fan-Made” contest.

The Grand Prize winner will receive movie tickets for a year, plus a role for his or her winning puppet in Fandango's 2006 – 2007 advertising campaign. Runners-up will receive $250 worth of movie tickets. Contest details and examples of “Fan-Made” puppets can be found at http://contest.fandango.com.

First introduced in 2003, the colorful Fandango Bag Puppets took on a life of their own, with hundreds of fans contacting Fandango with examples of their own home-made creations. To date, the puppets have inspired Halloween costumes, school art projects, short film spoofs and even museums events. And so the concept for the “100% Fan-Made” contest was born.

To enter the contest, Bag Puppet-makers should e-mail digital photos of their designs to Fandango (http://contest.fandango.com) no later than Halloween morning (October 31, 2005, 9:00 a.m. PST). Fans will be able to vote online for their favorite “100% Fan-Made” puppet entries during the first weeks of November, and winners will be announced on November 19, 2005.

About Fandango

Fandango, the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing service, sells tickets to approximately 1,100 theaters and 12,500 screens (nearly 70 percent of theaters in the U.S. enabled for remote ticketing) and to four out of the five largest U.S. theater chains. Fandango's convenient service lets moviegoers quickly select a film, plan where and when to see it, and buy tickets in advance on www.fandango.com and at 1-800-FANDANGO. Fandango sells tickets to more theaters than all of its competitors combined and is the exclusive ticketing service for the largest North American exhibitors: Carmike Theaters (NASDAG: CKEC), Century Theatres, Edwards Theatres, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Regal Cinemas (NYSE: RGC) and United Artists Theatres, as well as to Brenden Theatres, CineArts, Cineplex Odeon Cinemas, Cobb Theatres, Colorado Theatres, Crown Theatres, Eastern Federal Theatres, Kerasotes Theatres, Magic Johnson, Majestic Crest Theatre, R/C Theatres, Signature Theatres, Star Theatres and Wallace Theaters. Fandango allows customers to bypass the box office with in-theater ticket pick-up kiosks and Print at Home ticketing, and offers an e-mail invitation tool and Fandango Bucks, “gift of the movies.”

Contact:

Harry Medved

(310) 451-7690 x112

Rachel Dardinski

(310) 451-7690 x123

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