Press Release 04.01.09
VOTE SACRAMENTO to Host World
Premiere: "X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE"
HUGH JACKMAN CHALLENGES X-MEN
FANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO BE
“THE FIRST TO WITNESS THE
ORIGINS”
by Winning the World Premiere of X-Men Origins:
Wolverine....for their hometown!
Movie Stars, Klieg
Lights, Red Carpet and All the Trappings of a Hollywood Movie
Premiere to Descend on Winning Town’s Local Movie
Theater
“X” Marks the Spot
– as “Wolverine” Himself Says Thanks to Those Who Made
the
X-Men Film Series One of the Industry’s Most
Successful
LOS ANGELES, (April 1, 2009)….In an
announcement made today on YouTube, Hugh Jackman, who 
plays
the famed antihero in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, is taking
Hollywood and the film’s premiere to the people who made the
X-Men film series one of the industry’s biggest – inviting the
legions of X-Men fans across the United States to be the first
to “witness the origins” in their hometown with the cast on
Monday, April 27.
To put in a bid to host the
premiere, fans need only remember that “X marks the spot”: at
the website x-menorigins.com/premiere, they should mark their
town with a digital “X.” The location with the most
votes/X’s will win the red carpet, star-studded movie
premiere.
The winning
town will be announced on April
20th.
Jackman himself made the
announcement today, via a taped message, uploaded to YouTube,
in which the actor credits the film series’ success to the
global community of X-Men movie fans. To express his
appreciation, Jackman is hosting this special event in which
he will bring the movie and a few of his “friends and enemies”
from the film to the winning town. In addition to the
stars and filmmakers, the event will have all the other
trappings of a mega-Hollywood premiere, including the red
carpet, klieg lights, and media coverage.
X-MEN
ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the first chapter in the X-Men saga,
unites Wolverine with several other legends of the X-Men
universe, in an epic revolution that pits the mutants against
powerful forces determined to eliminate them. Twentieth
Century Fox releases the film everywhere May 1st.
The YouTube direct link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drLdnk-g24
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Entertainment
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and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment
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