| November 18, 2009 | Yoostar Takes Over the MTV Store in Times Square for the Next Week |
 Today we announced the extension of the Yoostar Casting Tour. We're adding an additional 11 stops to the initial nine-city, 23-stop journey which has reached thousands of people at college campuses and malls across the nation. During the Casting Tour tour stops, members of the public use Yoostar to compete for a walk-on role in a 2010 LionsGate movie. Contestant performances are uploaded to the Yoostar Web site and to Facebook for the public and judges to view and vote on. (Go on, get the Facebook app so you can check out some of the finalists and vote. I'm one of the judges...)  To kick-off the Casting Tour extension, starting today (Wed, Nov 18) through next Wednesday, Nov 25) Yoostar is in the MTV Store in NYC's Times Square each day from 12noon-8PM looking for new talent. If you're in NYC, stop by and try us out. A giant ad that says "Yoostar - the next Wii" is playing on one of the Times Square jumbotrons. For a brief moment, at the Online News Association conference in NYC in 2005, my own face was projected on the Times Square Reuters billboard. It's just like my Nana used to tell me: "So many jumbotrons, so little time!" In addition to the MTV Store, 10 more Yoostar Casting Tour stops are planned in December at mall locations in Chicago, Cincinnati, and the New York/New Jersey metro area. We'll let you know the additional 10 locations very soon.  Here's what our CEO Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne has to say about it: "The Yoostar Casting Tour is a unique opportunity for people all across the country to enjoy Yoostar and have the chance to showcase their acting skills to the world. We have seen thousands of young people come through already and are thrilled to extend the opportunity to help introduce the world to great, undiscovered comedic and dramatic talent with the only technology that allows you to place yourself inside real films and act alongside real actors."
posted by Jess Barron @ 9:58 PM 
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