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26 July 2008 12:20 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Take a look at the latest kick ass movie poster featuring Yoda from the upcoming animated film ” Star Wars: The Clone Wars ” by director Dave Filoni (The Clone Wars) and starring Ian Abercrombie, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Ashley Eckstein and Samuel L. Jackson (The Spirit). Synopsis: The Clone Wars are raging between the Separatists and the Galactic Republic. When Jabba the Hutt’s son is taken by a group of renegades, two Jedi are summoned to investigate. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi depart in search of answers: where is the Hutt’s son, and who is controlling this mysterious renegade group? Yoda sends Ahsoka Tano along as Anakin’s apprentice, Obi-Wan duels Asajj Ventress, and Anakin finds himself dueling Count Dooku once [...]

Brian Corder

15 July 2008 3:04 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Watch the latest E3 video game trailer for the upcoming video game “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” coming soon to the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. The video game is based on the upcoming animated film by director Dave Filoni and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee. Description: Based on the animated feature film, this Wii title follows the epic battles that forged the Empire and lead to the downfall of the Jedi Order. Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels immerses you in the characters, locations, and epic duels from the Star Wars animated feature film and TV series. Built from the ground-up for Wii, Lightsaber Duels features an intuitive motion-controlled combat system that puts the Lightsaber weapon in [...]

Brian Corder

30 June 2008 10:35 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Release year: 1973

The players: Director: Robin Hardy, Writer: Anthony Shaffer, Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland

The plot: After receiving report of a missing girl, Sergeant Howie travels to mysterious Summerisle to search for her with little help from the locals.

Modern thoughts on a classic movie: How this film ever became a cult horror classic will remain a mystery. "The Wicker Man" starts off with an intriguing plot, but it quickly dissolves into nothing more than a folksy music video.

Upon Sergeant Howie’s arrival to the island of Summerisle, things automatically take a strange turn when all of the island’s inhabitants claim to never have seen the girl in the photo sent to Howie. As Howie follows strange clues that are few and far between, he delves deeper into a world of neo-pagan lifestyle where the islanders have orgies in the middle of the

Rachel Thuro

29 June 2008 11:30 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Acting legend Christopher Lee has slammed movie bosses for cutting his scenes from new film Stone Of Destiny - branding them ageist and "spineless".

The Wicker Man star shot scenes for the forthcoming movie but was disappointed to learn that his role had been scrapped, after focus groups gave a negative response to seeing an elderly gentleman on screen.

And Lee, 86, has criticised the people in charge of the picture - insisting they should not discard veteran actors.

He says, "The American distributors looked at the film and decided they didn't want me in it. These people are guided by focus groups; their ideal film-goer is apparently 18 and has an aversion to old faces.

"But what struck me as depressing was that the director, Charles Martin Smith, and his team agreed to this request. This seemed to me spineless. You would think they would have more pride in their work."

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20 June 2008 5:49 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

A few hours ago Variety posted an article on UK horror films and discovered a few details about Hammer Films' upcoming titles. They already announced that they'll be remaking the Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In, and have launched their online horror series via MySpace entitled Beyond The Rave, now they've got three new feature films in the works. Hammer Film Prods. is getting in on the act in the wake of the banner's revival last year by Dutch producer John De Mol by unveiling a slate of pics far removed from the bodice rippers of the 1960s and 1970s with which it made its name. The iconic studio is prepping three features that are a far cry from the theatrical dueling of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing... The Wake, The Resident and The Quiet Ones.

5 June 2008 1:07 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Christopher Lee has revealed that he would like to reprise his role as evil white wizard Saruman in The Hobbit. The 86-year-old said he would star in Guillermo del Toro's two-part Lord Of The Rings prequel if he was asked. Saruman does not appear in the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, but the films are expected to contain new material. Lee told Empire Online: "I'd (more)

By Beth Hilton

29 April 2008 6:58 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The scrapped sequel to classic 1970s movie The Wicker Man was to star Joan Collins and Christopher Lee as evil cult leaders.

Collins reveals the production, which was due to start shooting in the Scottish Highlands this month, was to be directed by Robin Hardy, the man behind the original.

And she still hopes the film can go ahead. She tells Black Book magazine, "It's about two young people from America who are gospel singers. They go to a remote village in the Highlands to convert people to Christianity.

"They come in contact with an evil cult led by two people. One of them is Christopher Lee, and the other one is me."

Lee played the villain in the original film, which starred Edward Woodward.

The sequel was scrapped last month due to "financial difficulties".

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24 March 2008 1:17 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Graham McTavish, Paul Wesley, Susie Amy, Morgan James and Natalie Parnes will all star in Robin Hardy's Cowboys for Christ, Hardy's reimagining of his eerie 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland . When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are. Shooting begins April 10 in Dumfries, Scotland. Read on for a look at some art.

16 March 2008 3:44 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Gremlins director Joe Dante was so determined to finish a rare screening of Italian horror movie The Whip And The Body, he refused to move from his cinema seat when a member of the audience was stabbed.

Dante was watching director Mario Bava's cult 1963 film, which stars Christopher Lee, when a man was 'knifed'.

But the movie-loving future filmmaker stayed in his seat at the 'grindhouse' cinema in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as police arrived.

He recalls, "There's a scene where Christopher Lee is beating Daliah Lavi with a whip on a beach at sunset. Somebody in the theatre got so excited that he stabbed the guy next to him.

"This was the only time this picture had played and, by God, I wasn't going to get up and leave. The police came... but I stuck around to see the end of the picture."

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