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

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 Your Puppet

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Designing home-made costumes for Halloween this year? Then 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.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051004/NYFNSP15 )

Fandango, the nation's leading 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 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/ (starting Thursday, October 6).

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 email digital photos of their creations to 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 candidates during the first weeks of November, and winners will be announced on November 19, 2005.

Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051004/NYFNSP15 AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/ PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com Source: Fandango

CONTACT: Harry Medved, ext. 112, harry.medved@fandango.com, or Rachel Dardinski, ext. 123, rachel.dardinski@fandango.com, both of Fandango, +1-310-451-7690

Web site: http://contest.fandango.com/

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