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Tune up those pipes, it's time to win some cash.
To celebrate the DVD debut of Dreamgirls Showstopper Edition on May 1, Paramount Home Entertainment is launching an online promotion with AOL.
AOL Uncut Video is hosting a DREAMGIRLS Live The Dream Contest (open until May 4) in which aspiring singers, 18 or older, are invited to upload their best performance video of a song from the Dreamgirls soundtrack.
Site visitors can rate their favourites, add text and video comments and share the videos with friends via email or Instant Messenger.
A team of judges will select the finalists and the grand-prize winner will be reviewed by the film's Oscar-winning director-writer, Bill Condon, and producer Laurence Mark.
The winner will be announced on May 11 and will receive a $5,000 American Express Gift Certificate.
Three runners-up will receive a Dreamgirls Prize Kit, including the two-disc Dreamgirls DVD, Dreamgirls soundtrack, Dreamgirls-themed MP3 player (iPod Shuffle) and one exclusive playbill.
And 10 eligible participants will receive the two-disc DVD of Dreamgirls, which is loaded with bonus material -- including 12 extended musical numbers, a full-length behind-the-scenes documentary, auditions and screen tests, image gallery and more.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Canada releases a special three-disc set of Clint Eastwood oaters. Look for Clint Eastwood: Western Icon Collection, also available Tuesday.
The set contains:
- High Plains Drifter: 1973, directed by Eastwood. Co-stars Verna Bloom, Mitch Ryan, Geoffrey Lewis and John Hillerman. Trivia: A headstone in the graveyard has the name "Sergio Leone" as a tribute the king of the Spaghetti Western.
- Joe Kidd: 1972, written by Elmore Leonard, directed by John Sturges. Co-starred Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud and Dick Van Patten. A quote: Elma -- How long have they had you locked up? Kidd -- Two days. Elma -- What would you be like after two months? Kidd -- We wouldn't even be talking now.
- Two Mules For Sister Sarah: 1970, directed by Don Siegel. Co-starred Shirley MacLaine. Trivia: MacLaine reportedly was mulish on the set, openly fighting with Siegel and not getting along also with Eastwood.
Universal also releases Fletch: The "Jane Doe" Edition. The 1985 comedy starred Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Tim Matheson, M. Emmet Walsh and Geena Davis. The "Jane Doe" edition features bonus material including cast and crew interviews (Just Charge It To The Underhills: Making And Remembering Fletch), a look at Fletch's disguises (From John Cocktoastin to Harry S. Truman: The Disguises) and a look at Favourite Fletch Momenets.
And our friends at Fox Home Entertainment put a little swash in your buckle this week with the release of The Tyrone Power Collection, featuring five of the best from the Hollywood icon:
- The Black Rose: 1950, directed by Henry Hathaway. Co-stars Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Finlay Currie, Herbert Lom and Robert Blake. Oscar-nominated for costume design.
- Blood And Sand: 1941, directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Co-stars Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine and George Reeves. This was Hayworth's first Technicolour film. Oscar-winner for cinematography, nominated for art direction-interior decoration.
- Captain From Castile: 1947, directed by Henry King. Co-stars Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb and Alan Mowbray. Oscar-nominated for music.
- Prince Of Foxes: 1949, directed by Henry King. Co-stars Orson Wells and Wanda Hendrix. Oscar-nominated for cinematography and costume design.
- Son Of Fury, The Story Of Benjamin Blake: 1942, directed by John Cromwell. Co-stars Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Elsa Lanchester, John Carradine and Roddy McDowall.