New The Crazies Poster

Today we get out first look at the new teaser poster for the upcoming movie The Crazies.

The Crazies is a reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero classic about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town beset by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. Directed by Breck Eisner and produced by Rob Cowan,

The Crazies stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson and will hit theaters on February 26th, 2010.

- The Monster

Romero Rises Again for Another Zombie Film

From Variety: Untitled thriller has already started shooting.

Director George A. Romero is beginning production on an untitled thriller. Once again, the antagonists are flesh-eating zombies. Romero first mined zombies with "Night of the Living Dead" and has been cannibalizing the genre since, most recently with "Diary of the Dead."

Romero wrote the new film and began shooting this week in Ontario.

Plot involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.

Cast includes Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis.

Diary of the Dead 2 Movie News

Dread Central has learned that George A. Romero has to attend several meetings about Diary 2 which have the project significantly hitting the fast track. So significantly that we got the word it's 99.9% a go for the film to start production this September.

- The Monster

Dawn of the Dead Getting 3D Revamp

From Hollywood Reporter:
George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" will be "dimensionalized" to stereoscopic 3-D for a planned theatrical release.

New Amsterdam Entertainment has tapped 3-D company In-Three, which will use its proprietary "dimensionalization" process to turn the 1978 indie horror flick movie into 3-D. The project is expected to be completed within the year.

So far the only legacy 2-D film that has been converted and re-released in digital 3-D is "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," which Disney released in October 2006 in 168 theaters, grossing $8.7 million. Disney reissued the film in October and plans to repeat this year and in 2009.

In-Three uses patented software tools and techniques to create a second camera image from a 2-D image. Each frame is "dimensionalized," meaning that all objects are moved forward or backward from the screen or in relation to one another so as to achieve the desired dramatic effect.

Click the link above to read more about it!

- The Monster

What do you want to ask George A. Romero?

FANGORIA and DIMENSION EXTREME, in honor of the upcoming release of George A. Romero's DIARY OF THE DEAD, present you the rare opportunity to ask Romero the questions you want answered in a fan submitted interview that will be available exclusively on FANGORIA.COM.

You can submit any question you would like to have us ask and they will select the ones they think are the best! Return to this link Tuesday, May 20th to hear the exclusive interview, only on FANGORIA.COM. To submit a question just fill out the form on the site and submit!

Romero talks about Diary of the Dead

From Sci-Fi Wire:

Diary of the Dead writer/director George A. Romero acknowledged to SCI FI Wire that some longtime Dead fans were not pleased initially when word spread that Romero planned to shoot the latest installment in his zombie oeuvre in the manner of The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield.

Diary of the Dead follows student filmmakers who, after the dead start walking the Earth and terrorizing the living, drop their mummy movie and document--by filming and blogging--the horrors occurring around them.

"I think they thought maybe it was going to be Blair Witch," Romero said about the fans in an interview. "Maybe they thought it was going to be a bad idea. Maybe it is. I thought we were the first guys. I didn't think Blair Witch was really the same kind of thing at all. Everyone still brings up Blair Witch because of the subjective camera stuff and all that."

Romero added that he was shooting his film before Cloverfield and Redacted, both of which make heavy use of subjective first-person hand-held camera shooting.

"All of a sudden, I think, it's that the whole world has become a camera," Romero said. "And maybe it's that reality TV has become reality movies."

Fortunately, Romero said, the doubters are starting to come around. "I'm not sure exactly why people were disappointed to hear what we were doing, but I'm happy that, at least now, since the film has been shown to some audiences, everyone's saying, 'Oh, I get it now,'" Romero said. "It's still quite theatrical. There's a story there. And it ain't Blair Witch. Anyway, we thought we were going to be the first guys doing it, and now about all I can say is I'm part of a trend." Diary of the Dead opens on Feb. 15.

- The Monster

George A. Romero's 'Diary of the Dead' Trailer!

George A. Romero's 'Diary of the Dead' Trailer!

Enjoy the horror...

- The Monster