It is confirmed that Andrew Garfield is going to don the role of Spiderman in the reboot of this popular film. There is news that Mary Jane will be played by Emma Stone from the popular Zombieland and Drive series. Read the rest of this entry »
Zombie 101, Zombie studies an advanced English course is offered at the University of Baltimore. Students attending the class will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics and will create a script or storyboard for their own zombie story. It sounds like child’s play, and Read the rest of this entry »
Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have been roped in by 20th Century Fox to pen the screenplay of Deadpool. Read the rest of this entry »
Zombieland gave Woody Harrelson his biggest North American box office opening of his career and has more than doubled its $23.6M budget in US domestic box office takings alone ($47.8M) – and 90% of its international rollout has yet to occur.
The film has also done wonders for director Ruben Fleischer and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick after nearly every review on the planet gave it the thumbs up. It would be fair to say that with an IMDB rating of 8.4 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 88% Zombieland is a winner.
Given all that, and given the ending (which I won’t comment on, you’ll just have to see it for yourself), there’s no surprise to hear talk of a sequel.
Six months ago we learned that Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese had handed a first draft Venom screenplay to Sony. Two weeks ago we heard the writers had completed a second draft and that Sony was moving ahead on the film.
Now the news is Spider-Man 4 scribe Gary Ross has been hired to rewrite the script, although some news sites are reporting that Ross will write the script from scratch. The word is Ross is also in talks to potentially direct the Spidey spinoff.
No further details are known at this stage, except to say the film is expected to be released sometime in 2012, after Spider-Man 4 hits screens on May 6, 2011.
Woody Harrelson's 'Zombieland' cleaning up at the box office
Zombieland has stormed the box office with weekend ticket sales of $25 million, giving Woody Harrelson his biggest North American box office opening of his career.
The weekend saw the Zombie comedy tip Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs from the number one spot it has held for two weeks, no doubt helped by a wave of positive reviews.
The result bodes well for Zombieland given that it has yet to be released in the majority of its planned territories.
