BP Solar Teams with Universal Pictures' Evan Almighty for Home Solar System Sweepstakes

BP Solar Teams with Universal Pictures' Evan Almighty for Home Solar System Sweepstakes

Prize is a Complete Home Solar Electric System

FREDERICK, Md., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- BP Solar has teamed with Universal Pictures in a sweepstakes offer to give one lucky winner a home solar system in promotion of Evan Almighty, in theatres nationwide June 22nd. Evan Almighty, starring Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman, and directed by Tom Shadyac, is the first major motion picture comedy to Go Zero(SM) and "zero out" the carbon emissions generated through the production of the film.

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Fans that enter the sweepstakes are eligible to win a fully-installed BP Solar Home Solutions(R) system for their home. BP Solar Home Solutions systems provide numerous energy and environmental benefits and allow a homeowner to become his or her own utility company protecting them from electricity rate increases while protecting the environment. Interested home owners can enter the sweepstakes at Evan Almighty's companion website, www.getonboardnow.org

Geoff Slevin, vice president of Sales & Marketing for BP Solar North America said, "The BP Solar - Evan Almighty promotion is evidence of BP Solar's innovation and interest in reaching new customers through a variety of new media outlets. We are proud to be a part of this revolutionary green production."

Syd Smith, senior VP for Universal Studios Partnerships, who is responsible for delivering the innovative promotion said, "We were eager to work with BP Solar for this film's promotion. We believe that the messages associated with the film's production and the business objectives of BP Solar are very well aligned, and together we can reach and educate a broad audience."

About BP Solar

BP Solar is a key business within BP Alternative Energy and a global company with over 2200 employees focused on harnessing the sun's energy to produce solar electricity. This includes the design, manufacture and marketing of quality solar electric systems for a wide range of applications in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors. With over 30 years of experience and installations in over 160 countries, BP Solar is one of the world's largest solar companies and has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Spain, India and Australia. BP Solar is part of BP, one of the world's leading energy companies. To learn more, visit www.bpsolar.us.

About Evan Almighty

Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Office), reprising his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty, is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time, however, his cast grows two-by-two.

Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...

About Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric, with 20% controlled by Vivendi.

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