MTV Games and Paramount Pictures Take STAR TREK and Rock Band(R) 'Where No Man Has Gone Before'
NEW YORK, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV Games and Harmonix's Rock Band®
are joining forces with Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment to
celebrate the May 8th theatrical release of the film STAR TREK from
director/producer J.J. Abrams. The first-of-its-kind collaboration will fuse
together the massive cultural followings of both STAR TREK and the video game
phenomenon Rock Band to engage fans with free music, an in-game battle of the
bands, and futuristic avatar creation contest.
Beginning today, fans can register for a 15-day sweepstakes that will give
away 500 free Rock Band Music Store downloads each day from April 7th through
April 21st for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360® and
PlayStation®Store for PlayStation3.
And if that's not enough - fans will want to fire up Rock Band 2's online
Battle of the Bands mode to participate in the STAR TREK Ultimate Battle.
Bands of three to four players can battle the Rock Band galaxy. The band with
the highest score will win a STAR TREK hometown movie screening for their band
and their friends. Additionally, twenty randomly selected players will win an
awesome STAR TREK/Rock Band prize pack equipped with STAR TREK and Rock Band
gear. The Battle of the Bands component will begin on April 20th and run
through April 27th.
The Rock Band and STAR TREK promotion will culminate when the first-ever
avatar creation contest launches on April 27th. Fans will be asked to create a
futuristic avatar in-game and export it to RockBand.com for the community and
Harmonix team to judge the winner. The Duke of Gravity will ultimately decide
which avatar has what it takes to rock with the Enterprise crew. The winner
will be chosen on May 11th and win "The Future is Now" prize pack including
the top of the line Rock Band game accessories.
For more information on Rock Band and STAR TREK's collaboration, visit
www.ROCKBAND.com\StarTrek.
STAR TREK opens in theatres worldwide on Friday, May 8th.
About STAR TREK
From director/producer J.J. Abrams ("MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III," "Fringe,"
"Lost" and "Alias"), producer Damon Lindelof and executive producers Bryan
Burk and Jeffrey Chernov and screenwriters/executive producers Roberto Orci &
Alex Kurtzman ("TRANSFORMERS," "MI: III"), comes a new vision of the greatest
space adventure of all time, STAR TREK, featuring a young, new crew venturing
boldly where no one has gone before. Paramount Pictures and Spyglass
Entertainment Present a Bad Robot Production STAR TREK starring John Cho, Ben
Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder,
Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy, and based
upon "Star Trek" created by Gene Roddenberry. The film's director of
photography is Dan Mindel, ASC; the production designer is Scott Chambliss;
the film is edited by Maryann Brandon, A.C.E. and Mary Jo Markey, A.C.E.; the
costume designer is Michael Kaplan; the visual effects and animation are by
Industrial Light & Magic; and the music is by Michael Giacchino. This film
has not yet been rated.
About Rock Band
Rock Band and Rock Band 2 are available for the Xbox 360® video game
and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2
computer entertainment systems and Wii home videogame console from
Nintendo. Rock Band continues to satisfy music fans' and gamers' voracious
appetite for rock with more than 570 songs available through the Rock Band
Music Store and 36 million paid downloads since its launch on November 20,
2007. For more information on Rock Band 2 and Harmonix Music Systems please
visit www.rockband.com and www.harmonixmusic.com.
About Paramount Pictures Corporation
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of
filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading
content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital
entertainment brands. The company's labels include Paramount Pictures,
Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC
operations also include Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Famous
Productions, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International,
Paramount Licensing Inc., Paramount Studio Group and Worldwide Television
Distribution.
About MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a division of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the
world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and
connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual
worlds and consumer products. The company's portfolio spans more than 150
television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes
MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N,
AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, GameTrailers
and Xfire.
About MTV Games
MTV Games is dedicated to creating, marketing and publishing high-quality,
innovative interactive products that are relevant to the MTV audience and
complement the core values of the MTV Networks brands.
About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established in
1995, is the leading developer of groundbreaking music-oriented videogames.
Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, who formed the company
to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the unique joy that comes
from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm gaming in the US. For
more information please visit: www.harmonixmusic.com .
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Band and all related titles and logos are trademarks of Harmonix Music
Systems, Inc., a MTV Networks company. Rock Band developed by Harmonix Music
Systems, Inc. MTV: Music Television, MTV Games and all related titles and
logos are trademarks of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc.
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