United Artists and Lake Shore Entertainment Launch Fame Movie Contest

Fame the remake of the 1980 performing arts school movie is hitting theaters later on this month (September 25th), and while moviegoers will be able to attend a prestigious performing arts school through, United Artists and Lake Shore Entertainment want movie fans to get on some sweepstake action too.

They’ve launched the Fame Us! Contest with tech giant LG Electronics.

The game’s rules are simple: users can submit videos of themselves, showcasing their own interpretation of the Fame song, and vye for a $50,000 prize as voted by other users. The video submission may be up to 2 minutes and as little as 30 seconds in length.

As an incentive for voters, Lake Shore, United Artists and LG are offering the opportunity for non-performing voters to win daily prizes (an LG model phone and in some cases shiny new home theatre systems).

Oh, and there’s a do-gooder aspect to the contest too: each vote counts as a donation to the Save the Music Foundation, although neither LG Electronics and Lake Shore Entertainment indicated how much the indicated donation would be.

Users also have the opportunity to download the new version of the Fame movie theme song.

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