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By the end of filming, either May 23 or early June, we plan to film our final scene and attempt to break the world record for "THE MOST ZOMBIES IN ONE PLACE".

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We are in negotiations with Fourth Street Live to hold the event there. This event WILL happen however the dates and locations are still TBA. We just want to get the word out now. We've talked to the folks that hosted "humans vs zombies" on the water front and it looks like they are in. We want to talk with those that run the zombie walk and hopefully get them involved.

In doing so we would be filming (for several films), have a zombie walk to the the skate park for a final scene and then to the water front for the largest humans vs zombies game of tag in history!

Then party with us at Fourth Street. This will be a huge festival with special guest stars from some of your favorite zombie films, plus local talent, bands, artists etc... Help us out and join in on the fun. You can also help fun this film and the event by going here. You recieve a ton of cool stuff with your help. Check it out at KickStarter.

This event is FREE to attend! Lets break the record! For info about "The Zombie Movie" check out the website below.

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Get addicted to zombie action web series "Universal Dead"
The first episode of web series Universal Dead, featuring DB Sweeney, Doug Jones, and Gary Graham, has been posted, and it's pretty damn cool. Watching will make you hunger for more.

Here's the thumbnail sketch:

Continued at io9.

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The Walking Dead: Zombies Invade Manhattan to Promote Movie
LOWER EAST SIDE — There were dead men walking in Manhattan Sunday.

The Flatiron and East Village neighborhoods were overrun by the undead Sunday during a Zombie Walk to promote the new movie "Survival of the Dead."

Continued at DNAInfo.

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Walking Dead Rise to Challenge England for Guinness World Record on Independence Day Weekend
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - May 19, 2010) - With summer just around the corner, Seattle welcomes the return of warm summer nights, boating afternoons, barbeques and...zombies? Yes, thousands of zombies will again return to Seattle's Fremont neighborhood this Fourth of July weekend to walk and dance their way back into the history books during the second annual Red, White & Dead zombie walk. At stake? The zombie walk Guinness World Record currently held by the Big Chill Music Festival in England.

Continued at MarketWire.

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The Scientists Who Made A Zombie Game
Life is funny. You can set out to become a human genome researcher or study bioinformatics and end up making a zombie iPhone game. Just ask Matthias and Thomas Hoechsmann. That's exactly what happened to them.

Continued at Kotaku.

EEEK! is a homage from artist/writer Jason Paulos to the classic horror comics of his youth. Taking a pinch of black humour from EC comics and mixing it with the art stylings of House of Mystery and Warren comics, Paulos blends a heady broth that hits you like a burning incense stick to the retina.

'EEEK!' is my love letter to cheesy 'retro' horror comics” say creator Jason Paulos,”... in particular Charlton, House of Mystery, Warren, and to a lesser extent 80's stuff like Death Rattle and Twisted Tales. If you made a movie of 'EEEK!' it would be described as the bastard child of Evil Dead and Austin Powers. One of the story titles is 'Death Wears Hotpants', so you can draw your own conclusions from that.”

“We’re very excited to have EEEK! Join the ranks of the horror titles we have brewing at Asylum Press,” explains publisher Frank Forte, “ Jason Paulos has a knack for bringing bringing back those morbid feelings I got when I read the old Eerie and Creepys, but he does it with a new twist.”

EEEK! VOL. 1 will be a soft cover TPB annual anthology. Standard comic book dimensions. 152 pgs, B&W with COLOR section , perfect bound. Ship Date: Sept 2010. Intended Audience: General Readers.

Continued at IGN.

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Tron Legacy Viral To Go Silent “For The Next Few Weeks”
Well, this is unfortunate. After a strong start to the Tron Legacy viral that gave us at least weekly updates, the campaign is looking to lay low for a while. This isn’t too surprising given the amount of work already put into it, yet the film’s release still being over 7 months away.

Continued at MovieViral.

Go to the /TRON: LEGACY page for more.

Continued at El33TOnline.

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George Romero Remaking Dario Argento’s Deep Red in 3D
George Romero and Dario Argento go way back. Argento helped Romero finance Dawn of the Dead in exchange for international distribution rights. Argento cut his own version of the film for various European markets, changing it quite a bit in the process, which led to Romero saying that Argento never really understood the film. The two later directed halves of the film Two Evil Eyes.

Continued at SlashFilm.

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David Hewlett stars in SF horror film Splice
Former Stargate Atlantis star David Hewlett (“Rodney McKay”) stars alongside Oscar winner Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley in the upcoming Vincenzo Natali sci-fi horror film Splice. The film opens nationwide on Friday, June 4.

Continued at GateWorld.

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Mass Effect 2: Overlord shots
EA & BioWare released these screens for the next DLC entitled ‘Overlord’ for Mass Effect 2, and the second content based paid DLC for the game.

Continued at GameDot.

And while Sony has promised that the new film will be "Peter Parker told differently," one of the screenwriters from the original "Spider-Man" film series will be returning for the wall-crawler's latest outing.

Continued at MTV.

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Official: NBC cancels 'Heroes'
It's official. NBC has cancelled "Heroes."

The network seriously mulled bringing back "Heroes" for a shortened final season to wrap up the serialized show.

Continued at HollywoodReporter.com.

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The Cape: Replacing Many Heroes With One on NBC
He was a good cop, a loving husband, and a devoted father, but when the corrupt men in charge took everything from him, they made him into something else.

They made him into . . . The Cape.

Continued at ComicsAlliance.

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Manson, Wood to star in slasher pic
Veteran producer Edward R. Pressman and filmmaker David Gordon Green are teaming to produce Adam Bhala Lough's retro slasher film "Splatter Sisters," with Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood attached to star.

Continued at Variety.

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'Twilight: Eclipse' clip: Dakota Fanning finds your lack of faith disturbing
There’s a new clip from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse making the rounds, and if nothing else, it makes a convincing case for Dakota Fanning as the freakiest immortal teenage vampire ever. (Sorry, Kirsten Dunst!) The clip also highlights the new directorial stamp of David Slade, who looks to be emphasizing the franchise’s horror roots a bit more than past directors Chris Weitz and Catherine Hardwicke. Check out the video:

Continued at EW.

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Alan Wake Playtest: Flashlight Past Midnight
Writers block is the reason Alan Wake, a renowned novelist, travels to Bright Falls, an idyllic small town until the sun sets. Things go bump in the night and Alan will have to face them if he wants to rescue his wife. The cast of colorful characters also includes: a hardboiled FBI agent who gets in his way, an honest local sheriff, and Barry, Alan’s agent who acts as comic relief.

Continued at Siliconera.

Nicholson took the idea for the novel from "The Jangling Hole," a local folk legend in which the spirits of Civil War soldiers are said to linger in the Linville Caverns. Because the peaks were so rugged and remote, deserters from both sides of the Civil War often hid out in the caves.

"According to legend, you can still hear the jangle or clink of their tools and mess kits inside the caves, often with a spooky echo," Nicholson said. "Ghosts are more fun when kids are involved, so I created a group of three friends who investigate the legend. The boys are loosely based on my own childhood, recalling the alienation and the sense of being an outsider."

The main character, Vernon Ray, wants to be a drummer boy in his father’s Civil War re-enactment troop, but the father is distant and suspicious because his son is "different."

"I served in a Civil War re-enactment in Boone a few years ago, so I brought that element of living history to the novel, though it’s very much a contemporary tale of the supernatural," Nicholson said. "The one thing about real 'make-believe' war is that it’s loud and dangerous, with large horses, intense action, and a very loose script that creates a lot of improvisation. I wanted to combine that sense of make-believe with the actual legends and create a milieu in which the young boys try to fit in."

But the drummer boy discovers that he belongs to neither the world of the living or the dead, but he is all that stands between the town and the ghostly Civil War troop.

"We’re all misfit kids," Nicholson said. "Some of us are just a little older than others."

The e-book version recently hit #1 on the Amazon "Ghosts" category and #2 in "Occult." All e-book versions and signed copies are also available through his Web site at HauntedComputer.com.

Nicholson also recently released The Skull Ring, a psychological thriller in which a woman's lost past comes creeping back when she becomes the target of a sinister cult.

"I based the novel on research involving False Recovered Memory Syndrome, in which a number of psychiatrists encouraged their patients to build memories of Satanic rituals," he said. "Personally, I'd rather write than go to a shrink. I've never seen anything wrong with being crazy, but I've seen plenty of wrong committed in the name of 'helping' someone."

Nicholson is the author of nine novels, including The Red Church and They Hunger. He’s written three story collections, six movie scripts, four comic book series, several children’s books and a number of songs and poems. He’s a freelance editor, journalist, and organic gardener.

Hey Society of Graverobbers,

Sorry for yet another unattractive basic update. I will get things together soon and start sending out the fancy HTML emails that blow your striped socks off.

It's been a while since my last update. That is because I have been extremely busy with everything happening at Mad Creator Productions. Some of you may recall that I mentioned back in the new year that I would not be doing conventions this year. That fact still remains. I will miss San Diego Comic Con and all the beautiful fiends that come by every year. Do me a favor and punch a stormtrooper for me. Ha Ha... just kidding.

Although I am not doing conventions, I will have a booth at this year's Hootenanny July 3rd. Why the Hootenanny and not other conventions where I would make more money? Because I want to be at the Hootenanny and there is no better way to attend then under my own personal 10 x 10 shaded canopy space. The Hootenanny is SoCal's leading car show/rockabilly festival. This year's headliners are Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis (how could I miss that!). If you wear a Gris Grimly t-shirt to the festival, I will give you something really crypt kicking. So if you plan on going to the Hootenanny, make sure to swing by the MCP booth.

The other way I am moving merchandise is through a monthly sale at MadCreator.com. Every month a new set of items are on sale. This month (throughout May) I have Sipping Spiders merchandise at ridiculous prices.

Continued at SlashFilm.

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New Tron: Legacy Concept Art Reveals Futuristic Cityscapes and More
Even though it predates the short story by Bruce Bethke that first coined the term by a year, the original Tron definitely fits into the "cyberpunk" sub-genre of sci-fi that has spawned such modern classics as Akira and The Matrix trilogy.

Continued at Reelzchannel.

For more go to /TRON LEGACY NEWS.

'Fright Night' Remake Casts Colin Farrell And Toni Collette, And We Have Some Tips For Getting It Right!
Craig Gillespie’s “Fright Night” remake has found its vampire: Colin Farrell. As reported by THR, he’ll go up against Anton Yelchin as Charlie Brewster in the remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 horror classic.

Continued at MTV.

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The Final Word: Is horror better left off-screen?
Welcome back to The Final Word, a running feature from me (Julia Rhodes) and William Bibbiani, in which we tackle the hairiest of questions about film and give you a straight answer. This week’s edition is all about the horror movie, censorship, and violence.

Continued at Calitreview.