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POWN News POW! Entertainment Inc. 'Who Wants to Be a Superhero?' to Air on SciFi Channel
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2006--Legendary master of the Superhero genre, Stan Lee, (Spider-Man, The Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men)(a) through his company POW! Entertainment Inc. (OTC:POWN), has teamed up with the SciFi Channel and Nash Entertainment ("Meet My Folks," "For Love or Money" and "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?") to produce a six-episode, one-hour weekly competition reality series. The challenge for a gifted few is to create their very own superhero and compete with other superhero wannabes for a chance to win immortality!
Contestants begin with their own original idea for a superhero, a self-made costume, and their best superhero mojo. Out of the thousands of contestants, only 11 will be chosen as finalists who, during the competition, must all live together in a secret lair. There they will begin their transformation and over the next six weeks they will compete for the opportunity to become real-life superheroes. During the course of the series, they will test their mettle, try to overcome their limitations, and do what it takes to prove that they truly are super.
The finalists will leave their former lives behind and live out their superhero fantasies all under Lee's watchful eye. Each week, the aspiring heroes will be challenged with competitions designed to test their true nature. No one will be leaping over tall buildings in a single bound, but these superheroes will be tested for courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, and resourcefulness -- all traits that every true superhero must possess.
In the end, only one will have the inner strength and nobility to open the gates to comic book immortality. The winner of this six-week competition will walk away with their character immortalized in a new comic book created by master storyteller himself, Stan Lee. And that's not all -- the winning character will also appear in an original SciFi Channel movie!
Lee, known to millions as the father of the modern day superhero, is looking for ordinary people who, under extraordinary conditions, display the true characteristics of Superherodom. In Donald Trump fashion, one by one, Lee will eliminate those who fail to make the grade in their transformations into real-life superheroes. POW! Entertainment has produced this series to show the world just what drives and motivates ordinary individuals to push themselves beyond their limits and all the production company had to do to get thousands of hopefuls to answer the call was to ask, "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?"
This is only one of the many new projects that POW! Entertainment is preparing for release. POW! has spent years building a foundation of original Lee projects and the company feels that they now have a library large enough to generate decades of future releases.
When Lee founded POW! Entertainment Inc., it allowed his creativity to become unleashed, and as a result Lee has been producing volumes of superhero sagas and adventures, which are believed to be his greatest works. POW!'s current and future projects are just beginning to be revealed and the best part (delete) is that for all of us who may not aspire to be competitors on a reality show, but want to be part of Lee's team of superheroes, now we can.
At last fans, admirers and investors worldwide can share in the ownership of Lee's POW! Entertainment Inc. right along with Lee, his family and entrusted partners. Lee's POW! Entertainment Inc. is publicly traded under the symbol POWN.
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