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‘Survival of the Dead’ Lands a Release Date
58 minutes ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
As much flack as George A. Romero got for his poorly received Diary of the Dead, he’s still one of the most talented and singular voices in the business. His living dead flicks have always been his excuse to talk about current social issues that bother him, and he does so with style, which is why I can’t wait for his next: Survival of the Dead.
Luckily for us, Magnet Releasing has picked up Survival and scheduled it for a Spring release date — and a month earlier on video on demand networks.
From what I’ve heard about Survival of the Dead, Romero has grounded his latest zombie feature in a Western setting, which seems pretty nifty. Variety has a pretty good breakdown of plot description:
“Two powerful families maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, …
- John Cooper
Magnolia To Distribute George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead
1 hour ago | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Although I’ll probably get stuffed into the metaphorical meat grinder for saying as much, I’m of the belief that George A. Romero’s recent zombified output — namely, “Land of the Dead” and “Diary of the Dead” — isn’t exactly the stuff of top-notch entertainment. When you compare the iconic director’s post-”Day of the Dead” features with the movies that made him a genre legend, you can’t help but wonder why people continue to fund these limp-wristed, halfhearted projects. As always, I’m willing to give “Survival of the Dead” its day in court as soon as Us distributor Magnolia dumps this thing onto VOD and select theaters sometime next year, but my expectations aren’t exactly stretching into the heavens above. Am I going to hold my breath in anticipation? Will I ask my friends and family to accompany me to a screening? Will I …
- Todd
Robin Wood, 1931 - 2009
1 hour ago | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
"Just learned, Robin Wood has died," Jaime posted at Dave Kehr's site yesterday evening. "I can't think of anything else to say, except that the loss hurts, a lot. What a wonderful mind."
Anecdotes and appreciations have followed in the ensuing hours. "He and Andrew Sarris were my role models when I started writing film criticism," posts Joseph McBride, "and they remain my two idols in the field. Robin wrote brilliantly and in great intellectual depth and with a brave candor and passion. He showed us all the way to write about films seriously and with the kind of scholarly involvement that characterized the work of the great literary critics who paved his way before film criticism became a true scholarly field. Robin was one of the few auteurists who weathered the structuralist storm by accomodating its insights while not succumbing to its jargon or conformism. His work was actually strengthened by that challenge. …
Magnet to Release Survival Of The Dead
18 December 2009 12:42 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Great news for George Romero fans. Magnolia's subdivision Magnet Releasing has secured the rights to release Survival Of The Dead, Romero's entry in his Dead series.
Following a recent trend in the distribution of indie films, Magnet will release the film on Video on Demand a month before it debuts in theatres. As low budget filmmakers and studios struggle to find new ways to get their films to the fans, the VOD option is one viable measure they deem worth trying. Whether Magnet will release Survival to theatres wide or limited, the studio has yet to indicate. Given the poor handling of Diary Of The Dead's release, at least it seems that Magnet is giving Survival a legitimate effort.
Though Romero doesn't have nearly the cache he used to, he still makes films that are relevant and challenge an audience. He's got a huge following, and his films deserve to be seen, …
Romero's Survival of the Dead Finds a Home
18 December 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
George A. Romero's latest zombie offering, Survival of the Dead , has found U.S. distribution. Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have the rights. Magnet will release the film as part of its Ultra VOD program this spring, debuting it on VOD platforms nationwide a month before its theatrical release. Hopefully, the scope of its theatrical bow will be larger than Diary of the Dead 's release in the hands of Dimension Films. Like its predecessors, 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 …
Survival of the Dead Coming to DVD in March (in the UK?!)
10 December 2009 11:33 PM, PST | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »
What the hell? Yes, the UK can already pre-order Survival of the Dead on Amazon.uk for a March 15, 2010 release. And yet, we still have No Idea when George Romero's latest will reach the U.S.? Those Redcoats have done it again.
Don't worry, America. We've been done this road before as a country, where the British have had the upper hand and we prevailed. Don't forget, Romero is an American, even if we are losing him to Canada, slowly but surely.
Would we have the modern zombie film without Romero? Even if Survival turns out to be as horrible as Diary of the Dead, and we're crossing our fingers it won't, a Romero zombie movie is worth releasing. Someone has to step up and end this national embarrassment.
The Weinstein Company can't pick up the slack this time, they're broke. We're looking at you, Lionsgate.
Via DreadCentral …
George Romero Reveals Night of the Living Dead Not a Zombie Movie
6 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
I am a huge fan of George Romero and his work. I am also the first to admit that Land of the Dead was a big budget attempt at doing Romero which failed even with him at the helm. Diary of the Dead although creative was also a big dissapointment for me.
His new film Survival of the Dead does not appear to offer alot of promise from the trailers I have seen but that does not take away from the fact he is a legendary filmmaker who made the zombie genre what it is. Below you can watch a video interview where he talks about Zombie films and how his first film that broke him into the genre as the King of the Dead... was not even a zombie film as far as he saw it. Its an interesting interview that runs about 8 minutes in length and is very telling. …
Zombie-alert: Red-band trailer drops for George A. Romero’s ‘Survival of the Dead’
2 November 2009 8:28 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
The father of the modern zombie returns with Survival of the Dead.
Check out the red-band trailer for the upcoming film. Beware youngsters, this is for mature audiences. In the two minutes, you can witness the zombies doing zombie things like eating people, looking menacing and walking slowly.
“On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Although they are endangering their lives, the locals can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones and are determined to find the cure. When a rebel assassinates his neighbors and friends, they banish him from the island.
Bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of survivors on the mainland and joins forces with them to return to the island and kill the flesh-eaters. But, as they get into the island, they discover to their horror the locals have chained the dead inside their homes, …
- Reel Loop News Staff
Survival of the Dead Red Band Trailer
1 November 2009 8:05 PM, PST | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »
A new red-band trailer has come out for George Romero's Survival of the Dead and shows of plenty of gore from the upcoming film. So much so, in fact, that we're hoping that Romero has saved some for the theater, and this isn't oneo f those trailers that shows you everything good that's in a movie. Still, it does appear that Romero has done better than the horrible Diary of the Dead.
The plot goes like this: a character from Diary of the Dead, Crockett (Alan Van Sprang), heads with his military buddies to an island containing two warring families. Some can't bring themselves to kill off their zombie family members, and, we're sure, eventually that doesn't turn out as well as they thought it would.
Check out the red-band trailer below:
This is only one of a hndful of trailers so far, but is one that shows that …
- (Fulci)
The Blair Witch Project: Ten Years On – Part 2
30 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
It’s the ten year anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, which was released in the UK to coincide with Halloween a decade ago. On Thursday, i looked at the impact it’s release had at the time in The Blair Witch Project: Ten Years On – Part 1, and yesterday reviewed the movie itself in Did you ever see… The Blair Witch Project. Now, on Halloween night, we’ll see how Blair Witch still impacts the movie industry even now.
Blair Witch immediately set small independent filmmakers off attempting to recreate/replicate the success of the movie. Indeed, a sequel, Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows was also produced. Inevitably, no success was found in any of these endeavours. Blair Witch had come at the end of the nineties low budget independent film boom. Perhaps more surprisingly, Hollywood executives wisely resisted the temptation to commission a raft of imitations. Common sense …
- Barry Steele
The Enigma of Horror Vérité
24 October 2009 10:06 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The notion of a film using a vérité style and false claims of “it really happened” is nothing new to the horror genre. In 1974, Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made use of a now famous John Larroquette narration, a group of amateur actors and a gritty shooting style to make mid-70s drive-in movie-goers question the reality of what they had just seen. 1980 brought horror fans the still controversial Cannibal Holocaust, a film that not only invented the now popular “found footage” horror film, but still even today manages to make some of its viewers question if what they are watching is in actuality, “snuff”.
The trend continued into the 1990s with films like the morbidly comical Man Bites Dog (1992), the widely overlooked and heavily flawed The Last Broadcast (1998) and of course the hugely profitable and arguably overrated The Blair Witch Project (1999); a film whose success, though …
- no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
'The House of the Devil': the next horror sensation?
22 October 2009 3:11 PM, PDT | EW - Hollywood Insider.com | See recent EW.com - Hollywood Insider news »
Paranormal Activity is so last week. The latest inexpensive horror flick to catch audiences attention is Ti West's '80s throwback The House of the Devil. Starring Jocelin Donahue as the babysitter in peril, The House of the Devil has already scored with the critics and will open in New York, Los Angeles and Austin on Oct. 30. But since it was purchased through Magnolia Pictures' and their genre arm Magnet, it's also one of the movies you can see now through the company's Ultra VOD, an exclusive 30-day video-on-demand window Before it opens in theaters. The movie premiered …
- Nicole Sperling
Top 10 Horror Films of 2009
22 October 2009 2:08 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
1- The Children The concept of killer kids is nothing new, but The Children can safely join the list of great horror movies like The Omen, Home Movie, The Exorcist, The Innocents and Village of the Damned. The film is directed by Tom Shankland who also adapted the script form a story by Paul Andrew Williams the director and writer of London to Brighton and The Cottage. Shankland delivers a simple film, with a simple set up and a simple pay off. What’s not simple are his sublime directorial flourishes. Shankland might add a few jump scares, but avoids genre clichés and wisely chooses an effective slow burn. The journey is unnerving, relentless, packed with suspense with a terrifying and brutal atmosphere. Easily one of the best horror films of the decade and destined to become a Brit Classic. Listen to our review from podcast #140 [1] 2- The Loved Ones Sean Byrne’s debut feature, …
- Ricky
Interview with George A. Romero
16 October 2009 1:46 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
George A. Romero knows what scares you. He also knows what your insides look like, and since 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, he’s been putting both on display in what’s now an epic six film zombie series. The first three films in the hexalogy, widely regarded as classics of the horror genre, were released over the course of nearly twenty years. But the new millennium has already seen three additional entries, 2005’s Land of the Dead, 2007’s Diary of the Dead, and the upcoming Survival of the Dead, a sort of zombie western that takes place on a blood-soaked Delaware island. But despite the often graphic violence, Romero’s work is always rich with subtext, commenting on everything from consumerism to the military-industrial complex. I had the opportunity to sit down with the affable director to talk zombies, allegories, and how to waste a day exploding a head. …
- Ricky
Donna Davies' 'Zombiemania' documentary on Starz! Tonight!
13 October 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Starz Inside: Zombiemania, directed by Donna Davies and produced by Kimberlee Mctaggert (the team behind Pretty Bloody) premieres tomonight, Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 p.m. on Starz! This documentary is a fun look at the Zombie craze around the world.
Featuring clips from a vast library of Zombie films and Zombie experts, including the “grandfather of Zombie films” George A. Romero and best-selling author Max Brooks, it traces the evolution of the Zombie from its roots in African folklore and Haitian Voodoo to its current role as pop culture icon. Watch the trailer, and then watch tonight...
How do you kill a Zombie? How can you kill something if it’s already dead? We’ve been told to shoot them in the head or take a machete to the brain. Hey, whatever works. It beats being eaten alive, right? Starz Inside: Zombiemania (Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 p.m.) is a …
- Superheidi
Culture Warrior: Found Footage Filmmaking
12 October 2009 12:25 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
If there is ever a sleeper hit in 2009, Paranormal Activity is it. Accompanied with a lackluster visual marketing campaign (lame poster, lamer trailer), the years-long shelved film is now encountering success by an intense and calculated word-of-mouth, demanding a wider release through online petitions and an exponentially increasing per-theater average to an astonishing total this weekend in the #5 spot with $7 million in only 160 theaters. The film works with its rather simple, straightforward idea of amping up the creepiness slowly and with as minimal revealing material possible (rarely these days do horror films get so much out of so little). The device this movie uses to achieve its creepiness is also simple and is becoming an increasingly familiar way to make horror films, framing the film as an archive of home-video footage made by the victims themselves. This approach to horror arguably started with The Blair Witch Project and has been since reawakened with more recent films like …
- Landon Palmer
EW's "25 Best Zombie Movies of All Time"
10 October 2009 10:16 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Lists can be fun if I don't take them seriously. I always like to see how other people compile "top" or "best of's," and it's cool to disagree with placements, omissions and inclusions. As a zombie lover, I wanted to have a great time with Entertainment Weekly's "25 Best Zombie Movies of All Time." Alas, as enjoyable as this one was for me to gloss over, I was majorly let down by two issues with the list. Allow me to explain, as I prove that I took this list too seriously.
Any list is only as good as the person who assembles it. And whoever assembled this one followed a regrettable trend common in EW's lists: including recent material that may be hot now, but likely has no place on this list in the long run. Planet Terror was a fun ride and I know how popular the underground [Rec] is, but …
Zombieland, Not One-and-Done Maybe
9 October 2009 9:56 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Apparently Trick 'R Treat isn't the only hot horror flick looking to go franchise this week. In a recent interview with MTV.com, Zombieland writer Paul Wernick related his hopes that his recent #1 box office hit might get a sequel. According to Wernick, after seeing the final cut of the film Woody Harrelson told him, "I've never wanted to do a sequel in the previous movies I've done until this one." Much like George Romero's Diary Of The Dead, Zombieland started off as an idea for a TV pilot back in 2005, so its episodic origins would lend it to sequels.
The sequel might not come for a while, though. Wernick and his writing partner Rhett Reese just handed in a draft for the Spiderman spin off Venom, and are also hard at work on a project tentatively titled Earth Vs. Moon. But with the near $25 million draw of Zombieland'S opening weekend, …
Fantastic Fest 09: Another review of Survival Of The Dead
6 October 2009 8:47 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
Year: 2009
Directors: George A. Romero
Writers: George A. Romero
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 3 out of 10
"Survival of the Dead", George A. Romero's sixth entry in the ongoing zombie mythology he created with "Night of the Living Dead", is upon us. In "Diary of the Dead", George reset the timeline back to the initial days of the zombie outbreak, and you may remember a key scene in which the main characters were robbed by a group of Awol soldiers. "Survival" follows those soldiers as they head to an island where two long-feuding families are dealing with the zombie plague in their own unique way. One group believes we should kill 'em all, but the other side elects to chain up their undead kin and leave them be until somebody comes up with a cure. The zombies in each of Romero's movies have always been just the …
George Romero Discusses Survival of the Dead
3 October 2009 11:03 AM, PDT | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »
George Romero is currently bringing his Survival of the Dead around the globe to every film festival, and after the Survival screening at Austin's FantasticFest, Romero talked to ShockTilYouDrop about his sixth zombie film, only two years removed from arguably his worst zombie film, Diary of the Dead (though if you want to argue about Diary, we'll win; it sucked).
Romero explained how he got the idea to make Survival the first of a trio of spin-off films from Diary rather than make a straight sequel.
When we made the sale to the Weinsteins…I started to think about it. I said to myself, I don't really want to go anywhere completely new, and if it looks like there's going to be a few more of these, maybe I could use this device of taking a couple of other characters in Diary I would like to track. I had had …
- (Fulci)
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