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TOMMY LEE's New Game: Machinima Videos

October 4, 2007

Former MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer and sometime Internet video star Tommy Lee is getting back into the vid business, in a manner of speaking, this time with film director Zach Snyder of "300" fame. Seems the duo are avid video gamers and fans of "machinima," the new genre of filmmaking that uses video games and their engines as virtual backdrops for user-generated videos, most notably displayed in the World of Warcraft-themed 10th season premiere of "South Park". Lee was the first rocker to use this novel form of filmmaking in the video for his tune "Good Times".

Lee and Snyder are serving as the head judges of Lifeskool TV "Show Us Your Sickest Trick Contest," a machinima filmmaking competition created in partnership with the web central for this new flavor of moviemaking, www.machinima.com. The grand prize is a 12-day trip to New York to meet Jonathan Drubner, host of Lifeskool TV's video game series "Gamers Dojo", and to work with Chris Burke of Bong + Dern, the creators of machinima's hottest property, the Halo talk show "The Spartan Life".

Aspiring machinimites have until January 31, 2008 to get their game-driven film masterpieces together and to submit them to www.machinima.com/lifeskool.

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