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MAKE A DATE WITH SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
Finally we have a rock solid date for the debut of George A. Romero’s next entry into his epic zombie saga, Survival of the Dead! Springtime just got a whole lot sweeter!
Magnet announced today that it is preparing an April 30 debut on VOD, which will then be followed by a limited theatrical run on May 28th. Very similar to the way that the company handled last year’s release of The House of the Devil.
Like its predecessors, Romero’s Survival of the Dead takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island – a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust.
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Source: io9
THE ONE QUESTION TONY STARK CAN’T ANSWER IN IRON MAN 2
Next month’s issue of Wizard Magazine gives some major spoilers for Iron Man 2, including the events that isolate Tony Stark/Iron Man, and the question Nick Fury asks Tony which he can’t answer. Spoilers below…
Jon Favreau says the new movie is darker than the first, but not as dark as you’d expect — it’s definitely not as dark as the “Demon In A Bottle” storyline, in which Tony grapples with alcoholism. Instead, Favreau says Tony struggles with “his own identity in the face of being a larger than life character who is. in fact, saving the world.”
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Source: moviehole
SAM WORTHINGTON IS DRACULA
If Robert Pattinson proved anything, it’s that the vampire’s don’t necessarily have to be played by tall orange-skinned charmers or slender light-globe-switchers that looksuspiciously like Count Dooku from the “Star Wars” prequels. Heck, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe are currently donning fangs in the Spierig Bros’ “Daybreakers”, Robert Downey Jr’s being courted to play (the role played previously by Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend, respectively) the Vampire Lestat, and I’m pretty sure that was the little squirt from “Charlotte’s Web” looking all pale and bite-happy in “New Moon” a couple of months back.
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Source: io9
THE WOLFMAN’S MOULTING: RESHOOTS, RE-DO’S AND EDITS
Re-shoots, re-edits, rewrites and re-scoring — The Wolfman has been through it all. But have all these re-snips neutered Benicio Del Toro’s furry monster picture? We re-trace all of the second-guessing that may have doomed this film.
The first sign of problems for the big wolf revival was over two years ago, when Universal pushed back the release date from November 12, 2008 to the spring of 2009. Not a big deal, since many pictures move their release dates from time to time, but sadly for the Wolfman, they would change his release date many more times. Moving from Nov. 12, 2008, to April 3, 2009, to Nov 6, 2009, and finally February 12, 2010. Which many call a veritable No Man’s Land for movies.
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Are you excited about George Romero’s Survival of the Dead?
Dark, light, with cream or sugar…I really don’t care. I liked the first Iron Man and I’m sure Iron Man 2 will be just as good. So does it really matter?
What do you think of Sam Worthington playing a vampire?
I have to disagree with the hint at Wolfman being released in February as potential suicide, with describing February as a veritable No Man’s Land for movies. I read somewhere that it was intended to start showing big budget films like Wolfman throughout the year and not just during the holiday and summer blockbuster seasons. Maybe its release and subsequent success (we hope and cross fingers) will break that mold. As far and all the re-do’s, speculation abound, it just might be the simple fact that the film needed it. Do you think all the re-do’s will hinder the film?
