Get ready for the undead coming from the movie-screen to get you.
While it won’t literally happen, audiences who see the sequel to “Zombieland” will get to experience it in an entirely different way–3-D.
Variety reports that “Zombieland” is just one of several sequels that will be filmed and released in 3-D in the coming years. Also included will be a 3-D version of the reality-stunt series “Jackass.”
If you loved reading about Jane Austin’s classic characters from “Pride and Prejudice” fending off brain-eating zombies, we have some good news for you.
The best-selling novel “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” has been optioned to become a six-part television mini-series.
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Max Brooks’ best-selling chronicle of the world in post-apocolyptic zombie takeover may be gaining some momentum to head to the big-screen. Brooks tells MTV News that after Plan B acquired the rights to the movie and assigned “Quantum of Solace” director Marc Forster to the project, that the script has been in a bit of [...]
This weekend’s solid opening for “Zombieland” means there could be sequels coming in the near future. However, unlike some movies that are hits, the creators of “Zombieland” already have a plan for the sequels. That’s because they orginally pitched the movie to CBS as a television series. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick tell io9 that [...]
The new comedy “Zombieland” had a solid opening, taking in $25 million at the box-office this weekend and securing the top spot. In second, dropping out of the top spot after holding it for two weeks, was the animated hit “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.” “Cloudy” was one of two animated offerings in the [...]
The University of Florida may have a sales pitch a lot of other universities in the same state and around the country don’t have. Should the zombie apocalypse occur, they have a plan to deal with it. The school has a plan for responding to the undead on its Web site among outlines for dealing [...]
Bottom Line: A bloody, disgusting blast. Falling closer in tone to “Shaun of the Dead” than “28 Days Later” or the George Romero movies, “Zombieland” has its tongue planted firmly in its rancid cheek while still delivering the visceral goodies. It’s an admittedly tricky balance that’s pulled off with energetic panache by first-time director Ruben [...]
DreamWorks is currently negotiating for the big-screen rights to “Xombie” according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Xombie” is based on a Devil’s Due comic book by James Farr, itself based on his online animated series. Farr’s creation centers on a zombie cop named Dirge who attempts to saves humanity’s remnants, particularly a young girl named Zoe, [...]
Zone of the Dead, a 2009 zombie film starring Ken Foree, will make its US debut at the Horror Realm convention in Pittsburgh on September 18.
For the upcoming season of “Medium,” creator and producer Glenn Gordon Caron wants to have Patricia Arquette’s Allison Dubois face a new kind of threat–zombies. No, they’re not changing the premise of the series mid-stream. Instead, the series will borrow footage from the horror classic, “Night of the Living Dead” for its Halloween episode. According [...]
“Deadworld,” a comic book series that takes place on Earth four months after the zombie apocolypse, has been optioned by Dark Horse Pictures for a new film franchise according to Variety. The film will follow Protag, the king of the zombies in the new world order, as he cruises the planet on his Harley Davidson. [...]
Following the success of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” you just knew there’s be a run on inserting zombies into classic pieces of public domain literature. Next up–H.G. Well’s alien invasion classic, “The War of the Worlds.” Coscom Entertainment is publishing Eric S. Brown’s “The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies” today, [...]
Author Mario Acevedo writes novels with titles that just grab your attention. His previous titles include “The Nymphos of Rocky Flats,” “The Undead Kama-Sutra” and now Acevado is hitting bookstores again with his fourth novel, “Jailbait Zombie.”
Seth Grahame-Smith, who married the world Jane Austin with that of undead brain eaters in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” has signed a new book deal worth $575,000 according to SciFi Wire. The deal came on the strength of sales for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” The book has sold over 120,000 copies since publication [...]
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