EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead spinoffs Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Live and Interview with the Vampire are set to resume production after AMC Networks struck agreements with SAG-AFTRA. The three shows are part of interim agreements with the Breaking Bad broadcaster that will allow filming to resume on the three high-profile series. It’s understood that these agreements are specific to ...[Read More]
It’s not quite Halloween, but it is never too early to kick off the season with some new horror films. Your choices this weekend are the zombie comedy “Final Cut” in person at Digital Gym Cinema or the more serious horror of “Perpetrator” streaming on Shudder.‘Final Cut’Michel Hazanavicius won an Oscar for directing the French art house favorite “The Artist.” So I’m not sure what possessed him to ...[Read More]
“I’ll never watch another zombie movie again!” Zombie Town–the film adaptation of the 2012 R.L. Stine novel–got its release window this week and dropped a trailer to tease the undead horrors to come . Check out the video on this page. The movie–hitting the big screen Sept. 1–is directed by Peter Lepeniotis from a screenplay he wrote with Michael Samonek and Michael Schwartz. In the pic, Amy (Madi ...[Read More]
When a horror franchise gets to its 10th film, it's usually time to hang up the hat. Movies like Hellraiser: Judgment didn't exactly wow fans of the '80s cult classic over 40 years later, but rare exceptions like last year's Halloween Kills (the franchise's 12th film), still made over $130 million at the box office. Day of the Dead: Bloodline, the third remake of Romero's celebrated Day of the Dea...[Read More]
When a horror franchise gets to its 10th film, it's usually time to hang up the hat. Movies like Hellraiser: Judgment didn't exactly wow fans of the '80s cult classic over 40 years later, but rare exceptions like last year's Halloween Kills (the franchise's 12th film), still made over $130 million at the box office. Day of the Dead: Bloodline, the third remake of Romero's celebrated Day of the Dea...[Read More]
Zombie films were all but dead until The Walking Dead debuted in 2010. But like the undead monsters, the hunger for more brought the ravenous fiends back into the mainstream. The Last of Us didn't just change video games, it was also the first great live-action television adaptation on HBO. Recently, Netflix also adapted an anime titled Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead into live-action—adding to i...[Read More]
Zombie movies have proven much harder to kill than actual zombies. Ever since George A Romero essentially created the modern version of the genre with Night of the Living Dead, the undead have continued to rise over the decades, mutating as they go, with HBO’s heavily praised The Last of Us being only the most recent example. (Clickers, zombies: what’s the difference, really?) It’s no wonder, real...[Read More]
JEFF HARRIS Weekly World News Studios in Vineland. When Greg D’Alessandro was searching for a place to establish a film production studio, a fellow producer suggested he take a look at Vineland, an agricultural community in the far southwestern section of the state. Vineland may be New Jersey’s most laid-back city. If New York is a town that never sleeps, you could say Vineland is a town that’s...[Read More]
Zombieland, set in the ruins of the post-zombie-apocalyptic United States, is, first and foremost, a comedy. The film, like Scream, has a set of rules described by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) with onscreen titles that break the fourth wall. However, the zombie goodness is not left out with an exciting opening sequence, set to a Metallica song, that details funny but disturbing outbreaks as they hap...[Read More]
JEFF HARRIS Weekly World News Studios in Vineland. When Greg D’Alessandro was searching for a place to establish a film production studio, a fellow producer suggested he take a look at Vineland, an agricultural community in the far southwestern section of the state. Vineland may be New Jersey’s most laid-back city. If New York is a town that never sleeps, you could say Vineland is a town that’s...[Read More]
Writer-filmmaker George A. Romero passed away in July 2017, leaving a void in the horror film genre. The good part is that before he died, Romero had begun writing on the final product of his famous horror franchise. Titled Twilight of the Dead, George had described the project as the ‘Godfather of the Zombie’, or at least he thought his fans would think of it like that.Twilight of the Dead was an...[Read More]
Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, has been spotted wearing an intriguing new outfit on the set of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live [embedded content] The Walking Dead wrapped up its eleven season run on AMC last year, but two actors who didn’t stick with the show for that entire time were Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, who played the characters of Rick and Michonne. Rick was flown out of t...[Read More]