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    • The Crazies

      (2010) R

      Directed by: Breck Eisner

      Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker

      Overview: A small town's water supply is contaminated by a toxin that turns people into lunatics.

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    • Survival of the Dead

      (2009)

      Directed by: George Romero

      Starring: Kathleen Munroe, Kenneth Welsh, Athena Karkanis

      Overview: Residents of an island battle against a zombie epidemic while searching for a cure.

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George Romero Movie News

Wednesday, December 23

  • George Romero's Survival of the Dead Finally Arriving in the U.S. Next Spring

    George Romero has spent a good amount of time this year bringing his latest zombie movie, Survival of the Dead, around to festivals such as the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals while patiently awaiting someone to pick up the U.S. distribution rights. At long last, the wait is over. Variety reports that Magnet Releasing, the company that picked up Let the Right One In last year, has nabbed the rights to Romero's sixth Dead movie.

    Romero's latest goes the Western route in a story that depicts two families living on an island with differing opinions on how to treat their refuge's living dead inhabitants. Set for release sometime next spring, Magnet will also release Survival on video-on-demand a month before the movie hits theaters.


    Posted 12/23/2009 by Ryan

    Related: George Romero | Survival of the Dead

Sunday, December 13

Saturday, December 5

  • More Cast Added to Night of the Living Dead: Origins
    Night of the Living Dead

    Danielle Harris is getting some help fighting off the zombie hordes in writer-director Zebediah De Soto's "re-imagining" of George Romero's horror classic Night of the Living Dead, titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins.

    THR reports that Bill Moseley (1990's Night of the Living Dead), Joe Pilato (Romero's Day of the Dead), Alona Tal (Supernatural), Jesse Corti (Heroes) and Cornell Womack (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) will join the previously cast Harris to do voice work on the CGI-animated movie. Moseley will play Johnny, Harris' brother, while Pilato and Tal will play the voice of the Coopers, the couple who argue to stay in the basement in Romero's original. Corti will play a no-nonsense New York cop and Womack a news reporter.

    Moseley and Pialto's ties to Romero are no coincidence, and De Soto calls the casting "a nod to Romero fans. Horror is a genre and zombie movies are a subgenre that people have been following for years and years." However, De Soto has plans to make his Night of the Living Dead different from the original.

    I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it's expressionism. It's going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the Empire of the Sun of zombie films. I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos.

    Mos Def has also been rumored as another addition to the cast, but no confirmation has been made.


    Night Of The Living Dead - Trailer

    Trailer for this classic horror film

    Posted 12/05/2009 by Ryan

    Related: Jesse Corti | George Romero | Bill Moseley | Joseph Pilato | Alona Tal | Cornell Womack | Zebediah de Soto | Night of the Living Dead: Origins

Monday, October 5

  • New Night of the Living Dead: Origins Details

    Night of the Living DeadWriter-director Zebediah De Soto isn't the first person to remake Night of the Living Dead, he's just the latest. When George Romero created his zombie classic in 1968, copyright indications were left off of prints, putting the movie into public domain, which is why the movie has been subject to so many revisions and remakes.

    Make-up effects guru Tom Savini remade the movie in color in 1990. A low-budget 3-D version was made in 2006, and now De Soto wants to make a CGI-heavy Night of the Living Dead, again in 3-D, that he describes as an "American-style anime." De Soto tried to settle the fears of zombie fans concerned with yet another remake in an interview with ShockTillYouDrop, explaining that his "expansion" of the original will not destroy what Romero originally created.

    I know so many people get pissed off about this movie being redone again, but it's not the same regurgitated bulls**t. We're taking this seriously. I loved Romero's movie and there are so many people out there raping it to death, I didn't want to be next in line to the gang bang. But I really wanted to do something that was a little creative but an homage to what he was doing. I want to see a zombie movie on the scale of [the Max Brooks novel] World War Z and the only thing I changed in terms of the terrain is that we go into New York City. This is a post-9/11 world we live in and how would people react to this if it really happened? How would they respond? For me, one of the things missing from zombie films is effects done on a level no one has ever seen before like Spider-Man or The Hulk. Those effects applied to a zombie film.

    And how will the effects De Soto use impact the outcome?

    [Origins] lends itself more to the movie 9 in that I want this to look like a living painting. The only thing that ever came close to that idea is Zack Snyder's 300 but this is a bit more stylized than that. I originally came from comic books and I was a graphic artist for nine or ten years. I always wanted to see something like this.

    The considerable amount of CGI might help De Soto pull off some of his ideas for the movie.

    I want to see a helicopter clipping its propeller on a building and careening into a crowd of people. Zombies going through the streets. A thousand people tearing each other apart, zombies tearing them apart, total chaos. [In the original] they were always describing these really big scenes, like Ben says a truck is chased down by a horde of zombies. I always wished I could have seen that.

    De Soto has already cast Danielle Harris as Barbara, and is close to bringing in Mos Def to play Ben. De Soto says they have made the actor an offer and are waiting to hear back. "We'll see," said De Soto.

    Night of the Living Dead: Origins is currently in production. De Soto and producer Simon West are eying a 2010 release date.


    Posted 10/05/2009 by Ryan

    Related: George Romero | Zebediah de Soto | Night of the Living Dead | Night of the Living Dead | Night of the Living Dead: Origins | Night of the Living Dead 3D

Friday, October 2

  • The Crazies Trailer and Poster Go Zombie ... Crazy

    the craziesThis is a busy year for George Romero. Only two years removed from his last zombie epic, Diary of the Dead, Romero has been making the rounds at film festivals with his latest zombie flick, Survival of the Dead. However, there's another Romero movie out there as well, a remake of Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, though Romero is only serving as Executive Producer. Breck Eisner (Sahara) is directing this Crazies from a script by Ray Wright (Pulse) and, no stranger to remakes, Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

    While the remake is similar in plot to the original — townspeople slowly go insane after a contaminant is released in the city's water supply — both the new poster and the trailer of the remake look ironically more in keeping with the zombie genre than the Romero original, which focused more on the military's inability to control the situation than infected people chasing the non-infected.

    The Crazies has a solid cast of horror actors with Timothy Olyphant (Scream 2), Radha Mitchell (Surrogates), Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th), and Justin Welborn (The Final Destination), and unlike Survival of the Dead, which is still currently seeking domestic distribution, The Crazies already has a release date in 2010's horror season. You know, February, the month where studios decide to release all their genre pictures to counteract the Oscar hangover.

    Enjoy the trailer below:


    Next Showing: The Crazies opens February 26, 2010

    Posted 10/02/2009 by Ryan

    Related: George Romero | Breck Eisner | Radha Mitchell | Ray Wright | Scott Kosar | Timothy Olyphant | Danielle Panabaker | The Crazies | The Crazies | Survival of the Dead

Monday, September 28

  • Danielle Harris Joins Cast of Night of the Living Dead: Origins

    Danielle HarrisAccording to Shocktillyoudrop.com, Danielle Harris (Halloween II) has been cast in Night of the Living Dead: Origins, an expansion of George A. Romero's 1968 landmark horror movie. Harris left a message on her Twitter feed announcing she had landed one of the principle female roles.

    The new movie, due in 2011, will apparently be a 3-D version that expands upon the original characters. Zebediah de Soto, who co-wrote the script and will be in the director's chair, is calling it "an American-style anime."

    Okay, we're not sure what that means. We're also not sure why Romero's classic needs yet another remake, especially by someone with no features to his credit. But we'll just have to wait and see what the final product is like.


    Posted 09/28/2009 by Rich Z

    Related: Danielle Harris | George Romero | Night of the Living Dead | Night of the Living Dead: Origins

Monday, August 10

  • New Red Band Zombieland Trailer Shows The Cast's Favorite Kills

    Anyone who likes zombie movies has a favorite kill scene, whether it's the disembowelment from George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead or the lawnmower sequence from Peter Jackson's cult classic Brain Dead, but the upcoming zombie comedy Zombieland looks to create all-new zombie-killing favorites that have a little more panache than simply "shooting for the head."

    As reported by io9, the cast was asked about their favorite zombie-killing method at the San Diego Comic-Con and here's what they said:

    Woody Harrelson: Chainsaw.
    Emma Stone: There's a part in the movie where I butted a zombie in the back of the head with my shotgun, and he fell 80 feet to his death.
    Jesse Eisenberg: The end of the movie takes place in this theme park where I ran past this ride that's like this huge swing, knowing that if I pass it at a certain speed and time, the zombies that were chasing me would get hit by it, and it's awesome.
    Director Ruben Fleischer: My favorite was in the first trailer where we did the "Zombie Kill of the Week" and we dropped a piano on a zombie's head.

    Some of those favorite scenes are briefly seen in the new red-band trailer, available at Fleischer's own website. How many you can find?


    Next Showing: Zombieland opens October 9

    Posted 08/10/2009 by Ryan

    Related: Woody Harrelson | Jesse Eisenberg | Peter Jackson | George Romero | Emma Stone | Zombieland | Resident Evil | Dawn of the Dead | Brain Dead

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