Zombie$: Worth Over Five BILLION Dead Presidents?

That's what this article says, anyway.

I suspect that some of their numbers are off (their Walking Dead numbers certainly are--given how popular the trade-paperbacks are, their total should be significantly higher than 10 million, since the series debut in 2003) and the time period over which this five billion was generated is not always clear, but there's no question about it: the zombie sub-genre has peaked in a way no horror icon born of folklore has done since the vampire. They're huge.

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If you have eight minutes to watch the best zombie movie of 2011...

...Zombie In a Penguin Suit is that movie.

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: It's...an Asylum/Syfy zombie movie.

Man, Ving Rhames is making a side career out of iterations of Dawn of the Dead with gently decreasing budgets, isn't he?



It's on Sunday. I think there's some other zombie show on Sunday, too.

Oh, hellz yes, we are all watching ZOMBIES: A LIVING HISTORY

It's so funny, it's not funny anymore: similar to the way MTV hasn't shown music videos since 1987 or so and you can't find any actual news on any of the cable news channels anymore, they're all jam-packed with prescheduled programming...The History Channel ain't so much about history. Not for a good while, now. You used to mock it as the WWII, All the Time channel, now it's the All Antichrist, Bigfoot, and Chariots of the Gods, All the Time channel.

So zombies are popular with the kids these days so, welcome to THAT: PLUS ZOMBIES.



Is the answer to "Can you weaponize a zombie virus?" really "Surprisingly, yes?" No, of course not, what are we, kids? But who cares?



Anyway, Max Brooks and Jonathan Maberry and J.L. Bourne and Kim Paffenroth, among other zombie authors and pro geeks will be represented. And if we're all lucky, they'll trot out the Nostradamus guy from every other History channel show, who has the amazing superpower of being able to make any word in any language ever into "Hitler." Cannot wait.

ZOMBIELAND: The Television Series

Last night's WALKING DEAD premiere was watched by 7.3 million sets of eyes, so it would seem that this sometimes shambling/sometimes sprinting sub-genre still has a little juice left in its creaky, reanimated bones.

Case in point: ZOMBIELAND is coming to television.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the highest-grossing zombie film of all time will serve as the springboard for a new half-hour comedy series from producer Gavin Palone. The ZOMBIELAND series will be written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the duo who penned the film.

With a previously-announced 3D sequel to the Atlanta-lensed ZOMBIELAND being dropped in favor of a the television show, there is no word whether or not the series will follow the characters from the film (recast, naturally) or if the focus will instead be on a new group of survivors.

Either way, one can only wonder how they'll emulate ZOMBIELAND's now-classic cameo. If I may, a suggestion:

How To Make A Beautiful Zombie: Restoring Fulci's Classic

ZOMBIE: We Are Going To Eat You At Your Local Cinema!

Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE has become my Halloween closer--for the past few years, I end every Halloween alone on the couch with a beer in my hand and some shark-fightin', eyeball-splinterin' Italian action on the TV.

On October 25th, Blue Underground is releasing ZOMBIE on Blu-Ray. We haven't gotten a review copy yet, but advance word is that the transfer is beautiful. Time to retire the thoroughly awesome Media Blasters DVD from 2004 (still my all-time favorite DVD packaging).

Better yet, some of you lucky slobs are going to get a chance to see the remastered ZOMBIE on the following silver screens:

ALBUQUERQUE Guild Cinema (Oct. 28 & 29)

ATLANTA Plaza Theatre

AUSTIN Alamo The Ritz (Oct. 24 & 31)

AUSTIN Alamo S. Lamar (Oct. 30)

BOSTON Coolidge Corner Theatre

CHICAGO Music Box Theatre (also Oct. 28 & 29)

CLEVELAND Capitol Theatre (Oct. 15)

DALLAS Landmark Inwood Theatre

DENVER Landmark Esquire

DETROIT Landmark Main Art

HOUSTON Landmark River Oaks

JACKSONVILLE, FL 5 Points Theatre

KANSAS CITY Tivoli Cinemas

LAS VEGAS Theatre 7 (Oct. 31)

LAWRENCE, KS Liberty Hall (Oct. 21 only)

LOS ANGELES New Beverly Cinema

MESA, AZ The Royale

MINNEAPOLIS Landmark Uptown (Nov. 4 & 5)

NEW YORK CITY Landmark’s Sunshine

OTTAWA, ONTARIO Mayfair Theatre

PHILADELPHIA Landmark Ritz

PITTSBURGH The Oaks Theater

PORTLAND, OR Hollywood Theatre

SACRAMENTO Crest Theatre

SAN ANTONIO Alamo Westlakes

SAN DIEGO Landmark Ken Cinema

SAN FRANCISCO Roxie Theater (Oct. 29 – 31)

SEATTLE Landmark Egyptian

ST. LOUIS Hi-Pointe Theatre

ST. PETE BEACH, FL The Beach Theatre

TORONTO The Revue Cinema (Oct. 22 & Oct. 31)

TUCSON, AZ The Loft Cinema

WASHINGTON, D.C. Landmark E Street Cinema

WICHITA, KS Warren Old Town Theater (Oct. 24 & 25)

WINCHESTER, VA Alamo Drafthouse Winchester

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Park Theatre Café (Oct. 13)

YELLOW SPRINGS, OH Little Art Theatre (Oct. 22)

New Orleans isn't on that list, but that's okay--I have a hot date with ZOMBIE, anyway...