Finally, Your Chance to Be In the Movies! Yoostar Offers a Home Green Screen Machine that Does for Classic Movies What Karaoke Does for Music

Variety reports on a $169 system being offered soon (July 2009) by start-up YooStar:

"Five studios -- Paramount, Universal, MGM, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate -- have partnered with the company, as have the National Basketball Assn. and Sesame Workshop's "Sesame Street" franchise. The package will ship with 14 clips (11 from films, one from "Sesame Street" and two "moving backgrounds," which allow users to improvise a scene).

Included are single scenes from pics as old as "Double Indemnity" (1944) and "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) and as recent as 2006's "Rocky Balboa" and "Employee of the Month." The original "Terminator" and "Beverly Hills Cop 2" are also in the starter pack."

According to the promotional materials, hundreds of other scenes can be purchased.

Here's a demo of sample scenes (starring Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro) that was premiered at CES in January 2009:

Thanks to Scott Kirsner for making me aware of YooStar.