| February 5, 2010 | Judging with Jamie Kennedy |
From October to December, the Yoostar Casting Call Tour van traveled from coast-to-coast, stopping at college campuses and malls so that thousands of people could record themselves in movie scenes to compete for a chance to win the grand prize -- a walk-on role in a 2010 LionsGate film. We watched over a thousand of these video performances on Yoostar.com, and gathered users' input via our Facebook voting application, to choose the top 10 finalists. Yesterday I met with fellow judges Jamie Kennedy and Jonathan Small (Editorial Director from Break.com) at Jamie's Hollywood studio to watch the finalists' videos and choose the grand prize winner and two runner-ups. We judged the videos "American Idol"-style, and commented on each of the top 5 performances. Jamie was our Simon. He made the most entertaining and most scathing comments. I channeled my inner Kara DioGuardi. We recorded a video - showing the judging and announcing the winners - that we'll post next week on Yoostar. In the meantime, enjoy some behind-the-scenes photos from the crazy shoot, which involved a clown, a scantily clad woman, a cameraman "Nick Nolte" doppleganger, and a stolen kidney. Just another day in LA. Labels: jamiekennedy, la, yoostar posted by Jess Barron @ 9:52 AM 
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| November 12, 2009 | Jamie Kennedy's Yoostar Videos |
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Back in August, we were lucky enough to have Snoop Dogg stop by our studio in NYC to perform in some classic Yoostar scenes, and earlier this month Jamie Kennedy recorded some Yoostar videos of his own. (Jamie is working with Yoostar as spokesperson and a judge of our Casting Tour.) In his performances, Jamie deviated from the original dialogue and made up his own lines, riffing off the original actors with some funny results. Here are my 3 favorite Jamie Kennedy Yoostar clips: Jamie does Jigsaw Jamie Kennedy confronts Donnie Wahlberg face-to-face in the "Saw II" scene called "I want to play a game." Jamie brings the party to Dracula's castle Showing no fear at all, Jamie Kennedy boldly brings a new flavor to the original 1931 "Dracula." Jamie swallows the cookies Dustin Hoffman confronts Jamie Kennedy over snagging a bag of cookies in this scene from "Marathon Man." Those are my three faves. Check out Jamie's Yoostar profile to see the rest of his performances. Tweet at me (I'm @p0pvulture) to let us know which one yoo like best. Labels: jamiekennedy, video, yoostar posted by Jess Barron @ 9:45 AM
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