For those who didn’t know, our friends/contributors Brett Walker and Chris Coffel are making a movie and you can support the film by making a donation at indiegogo.com/countof3. Brett and Chris are totally rad dudes and I encourage everyone who likes Trashwire to hook them up! But, as LeVar Burton would say on Reading Rainbow, you don’t have to take my word for it! Here’s a little statement from Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma, about why you should donate to ‘On the Count of 3′…

The winners of Pete Wentz’s “POWER” T-Shirt Design Challenge have been announced and t-shirts are now on sale. After receiving hundreds of design submissions and votes, Pete selected the top 5 tees that best represented the theme of “power.” Hand-numbered and printed in limited quantity, head over to MASScanvas’s store to see the winning designs and snag a tee before they sell out! A portion of all sales will be donated to Invisible Children.

You might remember MASScanvas from when they held a t-shirt design contest for My Chemical Romance. Well they’re back with another rad contest, this one is hosted by Pete Wentz in support of Invisible Children. The theme is power and the prize is $1,000 for each of five winners! Check out this video and then click here to participate!

My Chemical Romance teamed up with MASScanvas to let fans design T-shirts that will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. After receiving over 200+ submissions, the final 5 were hand-picked by the band and are on sale exclusively at MASScanvas.com. There are a limited number of only 2019 shirts printed of each design – any purchases made before Friday at 11:59pm will be entered into a drawing for a VIP experience with MCR or an autographed guitar from the band as well. You can get one of these rad shirts here.

Here’s a video of the guys revealing the top 5 shirt designs:

Press Release:

Magnolia Pictures and the Green Film Company announced today a unique screening program in ten cities across the country that will allow filmgoers to choose how much they want to pay for an advance look at Freakonomics: The Movie.  The highly anticipated film version of the internationally bestselling book by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt hits theaters nationwide on October 1^st. These pay-what-you-want screenings offer fans a chance to see the film on Wednesday, September 22^nd, over a week before its official opening, at Landmark Theatres in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Denver and Seattle.

Tickets for the screenings are now available, and are being exclusively sold online through MovieTickets.com. Filmgoers can choose how much they wish to pay—anywhere in the range of $.01 to $100, with the completion of a short questionnaire. The survey, which after completion gives access to the ticket buying page on MovieTickets.com, is accessible here:

http://www.magpictures.com/freakonomics/freaksurvey.html

The data collected anonymously at the time of purchase will be analyzed by authors Dubner and Levitt to identify what factors and circumstances prompt movie-goers to pay more or less for their screening tickets.

In the spirit of the creative, incentives-based thinking behind Freakonomics, the pay-what-you-want screenings reference a popular experiment from the original book, in which authors Levitt and Dubner analyze how people interact with a weekly, pay-what-you-want bagel delivery service.

“The pay-what-you-want screening represents a fun and engaging way to illustrate the underlying premise of Freakonomics—the application of economics and incentives-based thinking to everyday situations to uncover surprising and sometimes controversial conclusions,” muses producer Chad Troutwine. “It seems only fitting, then, to engage Freakonomics audiences in their own local economic experiment, offering a chance to see the film in advance of its theatrical release while simultaneously bringing the concept of incentives thinking to life.”

Produced by Green Film Company and distributed by Magnolia Pictures, Freakonomics examines human behavior with provocative and often hilarious case studies brought to life by a dream team of Academy Award® and Sundance Film Festival winning directors. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) balance levity and candor with their eye-opening profile of underachieving kids incentivized to learn with cold hard cash. Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) delivers a visually arresting look at the crumbling facade of Sumo wrestling. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) offers up a buoyant and revealing angle on the repercussions of baby names. Finally, Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) investigates an unsettling theory to explain why crime rates dramatically dropped in the early 1990s. Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) weaves the segments together with brisk interludes, providing context and commentary from authors Dubner and Levitt.

Space at the pay-what-you-want screenings are limited, and tickets available on a first come, first served basis. In addition to opening theatrically nationwide on October 1^st, Freakonomics is also available for rent at a premium advance price on iTunes (www.iTunes.com/freakonomics), Amazon, and On Demand through major cable providers everywhere.

I had to go out of town and wasn’t able to cover the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Thankfully, Pat Sue was able to attend the festivities hosted by Nina Flowers at Swallows in Denver and give away our fantastic Trashwie prize pack.

Watch the full final episode here:

And check camera phone pics from the event, the final Untucked and the RuPaul’s Drag Race reunion show after the jump…

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Camera phone pics from the event at Swallows with season 1 fan favorite Nina Flowers:

Keep an eye out for RuPaul’s Drag U coming summer 2010 – watch a preview here: http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/508071/rupauls-drag-u-meet-the-faculty.jhtml

Trashwire is giving our Denver readers a chance to see the trailer for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen before everyone else at a special screening of the original Transformers at 7pm on Wednesday, April 29th. Yes, that’s this Wednesday.

You can email this address to get a pass: transformers2trailerdenver@gmail.com

A few more details…
Attendees will be part of a small group nationwide to see TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN trailer first!

The first 25 people to come dressed as a TRANSFORMER will receive a DVD of TRANSFORMERS (the first one)

In addition, everyone who is dressed up will have a chance to enter to win a trip to the LA Premiere of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF FALLEN.

We’ll be choosing the top five costumes – the top five contestants need to then send in a video of why they are the ultimate TRANSFORMERS fan (showing their costume). Entertainment Tonight will be choosing the winner.

All you loyal Trashwire readers have probably read Wil’s review of Observe and Report from SXSW. Well now you have a chance to form your own opinion and see the film in Denver…. FOR FREE! Screening is tonight, April 6th at 7pm at UA Denver Pavilions.

Just go to gofobo.com/rsvp and enter the code TRASH2641 to get your free pass!

This movie is RATED R…Must be 17 or older to download a pass. Screenings are overbooked to ensure fill, so seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early!

Trashwire is giving away FREE screening passes for the new film Sunshine Cleaning, which opens March 20.

Here’s a synopsis of the film:

A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning. Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film about an average family that finds the path to its dreams in an unlikely setting screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Once the high school cheerleading captain who dated the quarterback, Rose Lorkowski (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams) now finds herself a thirty something single mother working as a maid. Her sister Norah, (Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt), is still living at home with their dad Joe (Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin),  a salesman with a lifelong history of ill-fated get rich quick schemes.

Desperate to get her son into a better school, Rose persuades Norah to go into the crime scene clean-up business with her to make some quick cash. In no time, the girls are up to their elbows in murders, suicides and other…specialized situations. As they climb the ranks in a very dirty job, the sisters find a true respect for one another and the closeness they have always craved finally blossoms. By building their own improbable business, Rose and Norah open the door to the joys and challenges of being there for one another–no matter what–while creating a brighter future for the entire Lorkowski family.

The screening is at UA Denver Pavilions on Tuesday, March 10 at 7pm. You an download and print out your pass HERE… and remember, seating is limited so arrive early.