MaryAnne here again, comin’ up on this hour of HNet News….. ROFL
I’m still attempting to verify the special screening that MTV will apparently be having some time this week but have found no further information on the MTV website. However, I have found the following….
Some of you have heard of a premier in Knoxville, TN on July 31. I have been unable to find specific info, but after doing a Google search I learned that there is a benefit premier taking place on July 30th in Knoxville, TN. Unfortunately the site that this news is on (VIPmc.com – The Society Calendar) is one you have to register for (which I did) but then I got in there and STILL wouldn’t let me see the posting as I apparently have to post something worthy first. Cripes! I’m just a lowly ol’ Content Manager for a website, what do these people want? Jessica Simpson’s itinerary for the next month??
Anyway, upon further investigation I found in another forum posting on another site (that I actually could read, thankyaverymuch) that The Dukes of Hazzard premier in Hollywood will take place on July 28 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
I also found an Irish website listing the Dukes release date as August 26.
http://www.premiermoviereviews.com/
I’m not sure if this just in Ireland or if this is the European release date.
Chrysler may have said “No Thanks” to a Dukes tie-in but the 2006 Dodge Charger is a hot prize for Dukes themed sweepstakes.
Just in my travels around the web I found two for the car…
Y100, a country music station in San Antonio, Texas is having a “Y100 Dukes and Dodge Summer in Hazzard County” contest, where you can listen to win tickets to a special screening of the Dukes movie on August 6th and also be entered to win a 2006 Dodge Charger.
http://y100fm.com/contests/dukesdodgecharger.html
At the same time, while I was checking the MTV site to find more on this July 18th preview or whatever the hell it is they’re having (of which I could find nothing so far) I see an ad for Castrol GTX and that they’re having a sweepstakes to win a 2006 Dodge Charger as well. The contest, called “The Drive Hard with Castrol GTX and the General Lee<" has the tag line about Castrol GTX keeping the General Lee driving hard and the General goes zooming by in the ad. For a brief moment I thought maybe they were giving away a 1969 Dodge Charger General Lee....but imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be the '06 Charger.
In addition to all that, KodakMobile Service is getting in on the act with Dukes promotions, giving away a free movie ticket and a free Dukes of Hazzard photo wallpaper for your cell phone if you sign up for a free 30 day trial of their service.
http://www.kodakmobile.com/dukes
Friends and neighbors you can’t get any more non-traditional than this. “The Dukes of Hazzard” was the title sponsor for the July 15-17 IHRA MotorCity Nationals at Milan Dragway in Milan, Michigan and included a very Dukes/General Lee themed event.
Straight from the IHRA website…
Four-time consecutive IHRA Top Fuel World Champion Clay Millican will even be driving a Top Fuel dragster with a Dukes of Hazzard-themed paint scheme. “I think everybody knows that my first race car was a ’69 Charger, painted just like the General Lee,” said Millican. “This is going to be a real cool deal for our team, for IHRA, and the Motor City Nationals.”
http://www.ihra.com/news/2005/june/4dukes_of_hazzard_milan.htm
— Nothing New?
An email from an HNet regular prompted me to look a little further into the second edition of the Unofficial Companion (ie, dig out my own copy) and I think we’re being hoodwinked. For those of you who have the book already, take a look at the number of pages (including the very last two) and then look at the back of the title page down toward the bottom. More than likely y’all have the First Edition which clocks in at 352 pages. Why Amazon lists it at 224 I don’t know, but I’m of the opinion that the book’s second edition will not feature anything new or updated and is merely being released to coincide with the release of the movie.