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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

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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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3 April 2008 4:03 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Plans to produce a sequel to 1970s cult movie The Wicker Man have been scrapped due to "financing problems".

A remake of the original movie - with Nicolas Cage in the leading role - was released in 2006, but producers had hoped to shoot a follow-up to the previous Edward Woodward thriller.

The horror picture was slated to begin later this month in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - the same remote landscape used in the original eerie 1973 thriller - but the shoot has now been cancelled indefinitely due to a lack of funds.

The news has devastated local councillors, who had hoped to profit from the publicity surrounding the movie.

Dumfries and Galloway councillor Gill Dykes says, "We will maintain contact with this interesting project and I can only hope we'll be top of their location list if the financial problems get resolved."

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