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What happens when ancient evil marries 21st-century technology? Behold Crowley. Also known under its international title Chemical Wedding, Anchor Bay Entertainment will unleash this one-of-a-kind supernatural shocker on DVD on March 10, 2009 .
Crowley stars Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, Phantom of the Opera), two-time BAFTA Award nominee and SAG Award winner and is directed by Julian Doyle (editor of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits and Brazil). Doyle co-wrote the screenplay with Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of the legendary heavy-metal rock group Iron Maiden. Dickinson also co-wrote the film’s music score with Dave Howman, Andre Jacquemin and Rod Melvin.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was the most notorious occultist who ever lived. A man whose appetites for corruption, sadism, sexual excess and moral degradation knew no bounds. His sphere of influence extended far beyond England to the world at large,

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Richard Curtis has quietly become one of the more reliable comedy writers of this generation. He wrote for some seminal British comedy series - Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Black Adder, and Bean - as well as the films Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love, Actually, which he also directed. His new film is The Boat That Rocked, a comedy about a 1960s pirate radio station that shattered the traditional model of BBC radio.

As you might expect, Curtis attracts another great cast here: Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Bill Nighy, among others. I had hoped this would be out a little earlier in the year than it will be. Universal has apparently settled on August 28th for a release date.
There are three brand new featurettes for the film, courtesy of Trailer Addict, and they sure make it look like
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