The appearance of The Fifth Element seems to have pleased as many people as the position of Fellowship of the Rings in the lowest ten places surprised, see who they had for company by viewing the run down from 25 to 21 here and you can read the entries from 20 to 16 by clicking here.

Over the next week we will reveal 5 films every other day until the full run down is complete. Read on to see the films that made it to positions 15-11…

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According to CBBC Newsround, newcomer Jessie Cave has won the role of Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film adaptation.

The 20 year-old actress will make her onscreen debut in the CBBC drama Summerhill, which goes out early next year. Cave beat the competition of thousands of other girls who attended an open casting call for the role earlier this year.

Lavender Brown becomes Ron Weasley’s first girlfriend in the sixth Potter book, with the pair wrapped around eachother for most of the time, snogging!

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According to the official film blog for The Golden Compass, Kate Bush will provide a song for the soundtrack of the big-budget fantasy film.

The British singer/songwriter wrote and produced the track - titled “Lyra”, after the movie’s protagonist - in her own studio. It features the Magdalen College Choir from Oxford and will play during the film’s end credits.

Bush is a three-time Grammy Award nominee and winner of the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music (2002).

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Clifton Collins Jr. (Capote) has joined the cast of Star Trek, reports Variety.

Collins will play Ayel, the cohort and general to the film’s main villain Nero (played by Eric Bana). The site also confirms the casting of Chris Hemsworth in the role of Captain Kirk’s father George Kirk, which we reported about on Monday.

The J.J. Abrams reinvention of Star Trek started shooting this week and is scheduled for release Christmas 2008.

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MTV News revealed that Matt Frewer has joined the cast of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen film adaptation.

The 49 year-old actor — best known as the stuttering, sarcastic, 80’s icon Max Headroom — will play Moloch the Mystic, a satanic supervillain and magician. In the graphic novel, Moloch clashes with famous “masks” like Nite Owl, Ozymandias, and Doctor Manhattan, before giving up his life of crime sometime before the action of the novel begins. Rehabilitated, the former vice lord moves to New York City, where he lives alone until his murder in 1985. His dead body is discovered by Rorschach, who is framed for Moloch’s death.

The film is currently in production and will open in cinemas March 6, 2009.

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A new one-sheet for Sylvester Stallone’s new Rambo film has appeared on UGO. You can also view it - along with plenty more images from the film - in our movie galleries.

The latest chapter in the violent saga centers on a group of Christian aid workers in Thailand who recruit Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar).  When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to find them. What follows is a descent into hell on earth.

The movie hits theaters January 25, 2008.

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