PLAY THE SCENE-STEALERS “IRON MAN” SCAVENGER HUNT! You probably already know this, but this is a big, big summer movie. Rather than getting the normal 50 free passes, we only have 10 passes (each are admit two) to give away for the advance screening of “Iron Man” on Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 pm at AMC Olathe Studio 30 (119th & I-35). Instead of giving away passes to the first 10 that sign up, your pals at Scene-Stealers have devised a little scavenger hunt on the fine pages of your favorite website (that’s ours!). Read below for instructions on how to play. All correct entries received will be entered for the drawing for advance screening passes to “Iron Man,“ starring Robert Downey, Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow.

HOW TO PLAY:The Scavenger Hunt will require the use of our site search engine, located in the upper right hand portion of each page.

When you see a clue, type the answer into the search engine.

One of the pages that comes up will have your next clue on it.

It may not be the first or second page you click on, so make sure you look at them all.

The clues will be photos, found in the bottom right-hand corner of the correct pages only.

Next to the photo will be a lowercase caption/question that you must answer.

Type your answer in the search engine and move on to the correct next page.

There are 10 clues before you get to the final answer.

Once you have the final answer, click the link back to this giveaway page and fill out the form, adding your FINAL CORRECT ANSWER.

All entries with the correct answer will be entered to win one of 10 passes and you will receieve an email notifying you that you are registered to win the tickets.

Hint: All answers must be spelled correctly.

Hint: Type all answers in the search engine in lowercase only.

Hint: If you see a page you’ve already been to after searching, you haven’t looked at them all yet.

Hint: Your first clue is at the bottom right hand side of this page.

If you are one of the lucky 10 winners, please remember to get there early. These screenings are often overbooked. Your pass will have more details on this. One way to guarantee that not only will you get a good seat, but a guaranteed seat is to come dressed like billioanire Tony Stark or his alter ego, Iron Man. I’ll let the publicist explain:

“We are encouraging everyone in attendance to dress as Tony Stark or Iron Man. The first 50 people in line who are dressed like this will receive VIP seating. *Note* If you are with a guest and your guest is not dressed up, your guest will not be eligible to sit in VIP.”

Wow. They are serious. So are we. Here’s your chance to win free advance tickets to this exciting screening. Go forth and hunt, and remember to have fun.

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE IN BY THURSDAY APR 24!!

This contest is over and winners are being notified! Thanks for playing!

Also, please remember how important it is that you enter all personal info in correctly, otherwise we can’t tell you when you’ve won!

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Whose idea was it to use Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” in all the trailers and marketing for the upcoming Jon Favreau-directed Marvel comics spectacle (starring Robert Downey, Jr.) ? Give them a freaking medal (made of iron, no doubt) because this is both kitchy and fun and totally bad ass at the same time. But was the song actually inspired by the comic? And what is Iron Man’s Queen connection? Ever seen the cover of that band’s “News of the World”? Here’s a great article from Boston.com that explores the twisted history of Iron Men.

Bill O’Reilly is happy that “Stop-Loss” tanked at the box office. [link here] What an idiot. This movie is completely pro-soldier and has almost no rhetoric in it at all. Whaht’s more, he’d like to think that this trend means Americans still think the war is a good idea. That’s not the case at all, it’s just that people are so tired of hearing bad news about it that they don’t want to go to the theater and deal with it in their entertainment as well.

Tom Cruise’s United Artists has pushed back the release date of the Bryan Singer-directed “Valkyrie,” in which the star plays a Nazi officer. Here’s the scoop from a Variety blog and a look at the real person he is portraying side-by-side with Cruise, made up for the movie. Are they moving the release date because the director is going overbudget or because they no longer think the film has any real Oscar chances? Moving it from the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2009 certainly looks suspicious. Either way, I’m there because Singer hasn’t done a non-superhero movie (X-Men,” “X2,” “Superman Returns”) in a long, long time. And, ultimately, a film’s release date is nothing but an early indicator of its quality. Just look at “Zodiac” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which was released in March.

I always liked Guillermo del Toro’s visual sensibilities in sub-par horror flicks movies like “Mimic” and “Blade II,” and I thought “The Devil’s Backbone” was a truly great film, but it wasn’t until “Pan’s Labyrinth” that I saw that the director had the potential to be a master storyteller as well. The reason? “Hellboy” looked great, but the story was pretty weak– disjointed, with the origin story mixed up in a could-have-been-really-cool-but-ended-up-kinda-silly Rasputin bad-guy plot that fell short by somehow being too typical. Anyway, “Pan’s Labyrinth” has made me even more excited for “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” so here’s a link to some video of del Toro hosting a sneak peek for you all!

Uwe Boll makes terrible, terrible movies. (Most of them are film adaptations of video games: “House of the Dead,” “BloodRayne,” “Alone in the Dark”) 140, 769 people hate his movies so much that they’ve signed an online petition imploring him to stop. Immediately. When he first heard about the petition, which was at 18,000 signatures at the time, Mr. Boll said, “18,000 is not enough to convince me.” The magic number? “1 million.” Here’s the petition, and a link to his video statement about it. A juicy quote from the video: “Look, I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business… or Eli Roth making the same shitty movies over and over again. If you really look in my movies you will see my real genius. You have to really wake up and see me what I am, the only genius in the whole fucking business.”

He’s a class act. You may remember back in 2006, when Boll challenged four critics of his movies to actually duke it out in the boxing ring with him:

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