STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The borough's "living history village" is dropping dead this summer.
Just before midnight on Aug. 16, when the kids have finished screaming at "Jaws" and the All-American Drive-In is closed, the zombies come out to play at a brand new Historic Richmond Town event dubbed "After, After Dark."
An excerpt from the florid promo materials: "As midnight approaches, a
peculiar mist creeps up from Mill Pond. With an insatiable appetite,
the haze spreads through the timeworn streets of the historic town
sniffing out naive victims who dare to play outside in the ... After,
After Dark."
With
such a high number of apps available, how can developers make sure
their apps are being discovered and downloaded? They can't, the report
says -- resulting in hundreds of thousands of so-called "zombie apps,"
which are defined as "apps that are available, but appear to have no
life in them."
To avoid being classified as a "zombie," an app
must rank somewhere on any one of the nearly 40,000 Top Charts available
multiple times during an evaluation period of one month.
Life imitated art when, on Saturday, a car plowed through a group dressed as zombies from the popular AMC series The Walking Dead at San Diego Comic-Con, San Diego 6
reported. At least one person was injured, and one woman suffered a
broken arm, an officer for the San Diego Police Department told San Diego 6.
At around 5:30 P.M., “zombies” shuffled down Second Avenue
near the convention in San Diego. A black sedan approached the line of
slow-moving undead. The driver, 48, and his family were deaf, according
to a statement by the SDPD obtained by The Wrap. The driver honked his horn, but the costumed zombies were in no hurry to get out of his way.
Director George A. Romero grew up on classic movie monsters — and he
says he never dreamed he'd be responsible for creating the modern zombie
that now lurks alongside those monsters. "I never expected it. I really
didn't," he tells NPR's Arun Rath. "... All I did was I took them out
of 'exotica' and I made them the neighbors ... I thought there's nothing
scarier than the neighbors!"
Zombies are everywhere in Hollywood — there's a new batch of films every year, and AMC's The Walking Dead continues to kill it in the ratings. All these zombies can be traced back to Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The
1968 movie wasn't just a low-budget, black-and-white film about corpses
that came back to life to feed on people — it was also a commentary on
the racial and social tensions of 1968 America.
Terrified thrill-seekers were last night sprinting around the streets of Trafford in a bid to escape the clutches of a hoard of Zombies.
But fear not, it was not a genuine invasion by the living dead.
It
was, in fact, the first in a series of urban games which sees punters
attempt to manoeuvre their way through a make-believe zombie-ridden
world.
Called 2.8 Hours Later, players had to outrun ‘zombies’
through certain marked areas of the course in Trafford Park, starting
from a safe zone and ending up in a zombie disco when the living and the
undead party in harmony.
With their .45 and 9mm handguns cocked and ready, two PBS engineers
turned zombie hunters crept through a door in the Shenandoah Valley and
into madness. A dozen bloody and undead faces stared back.
Steve
Wynn and Eric Timmerman, who’d taken vacation days to kill zombies, put
dozens of bullets in their brains, which turned out to be plastic.
These
were zombie targets and dummies, not the flesh-eating ones, and Wynn
and Timmerman encountered them at a gun range at the end of a gravel
road in Winchester. They were students in “Zombie Survival 101: Surviving the Horde,” a class offered by a Virginia firearms training company that has, like much of the gun world, become infested with zombies.
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - It seems more and more people are jumping on the
zombie bandwagon these days. They’re watching zombie movies and TV shows
or reading zombie stories. Some of you have been a zombie on Halloween.
Well,
all you zombie fans, this is your chance to actually be a one in a
movie, but you better sign up fast. The movie is shooting in the area
the third week of July.
“The situation is growing more dire by the
minute. The World Health Organization is warning of a global pandemic,”
said random news anchors on the movie trailer.
What does the undead have to do with environmentalism?
For
event organizer Ben Wiggins, he thinks a zombie twist in a river tubing
event will bring new life to efforts protecting the French Broad River.
Wiggins
recently announced his plans via a Facebook page -- "Tube-ocalypse:
Zombie Float and World Record Attempt!" -- to help rally hordes of the
floating dead for a Sept. 20 attempt to break the world record number of
linked tubers.
"The only thing better than trying to break a world record is trying to break a world record while dressed like zombies!"
China's previous top grossing film of all-time was "Avatar," according to a press release.
Achieving this historic benchmark with the unparalleled support from our
partners in China has been a spectacular experience for our studio,"
said Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures in a statement.
"We're honored by the deeply passionate response from Chinese audiences
and audiences throughout the world to 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'
and the unique storytelling of Michael Bay.
After
only 10 days in release, Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction
has become the top-grossing movie of all time in China with $222.7
million in ticket sales, eclipsing the $221.9 million grossed by James
Cameron's Avatar. The 3D tentpole achieved the milestone over the
weekend. - See more at:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transformers-age-extinction-becomes-chinas-717083?mobile_redirect=false#sthash.tQliLPey.dpuf
After
only 10 days in release, Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction
has become the top-grossing movie of all time in China with $222.7
million in ticket sales, eclipsing the $221.9 million grossed by James
Cameron's Avatar. The 3D tentpole achieved the milestone over the
weekend. - See more at:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transformers-age-extinction-becomes-chinas-717083?mobile_redirect=false#sthash.tQliLPey.dpuf
Michael
Bay’s cyborg action flick, which has a strong Chinese flavor aimed at
wooing audiences here, has outperformed its box office performance in
North America. - See more at:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transformers-age-extinction-becomes-chinas-717083?mobile_redirect=false#sthash.tQliLPey.dpuf
Actress Heather Danner, who appears in the #1film of all time in
China, is also signed on as a cast member in the highly anticipated
production, The Beauty of Decay. More details about Transformers is
below.
China Box Office: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Is No. 1 Film of All Time
BY CLIFFORD COONAN JULY 7, 2014 | 11:54PM EDT
UPDATED: The Heavy Use Of Chinese Elements In The Movie Did Much To Win Over Fans In The World's Second-Biggest Film Market.
After only 10 days in release, Paramount’s Transformers: Age of
Extinction has become the top-grossing movie of all time in China with
$222.7 million in ticket sales, eclipsing the $221.9 million grossed by
James Cameron's Avatar. The 3D tentpole achieved the milestone over the
weekend.
Michael Bay’s cyborg action flick, which has a strong Chinese flavor
aimed at wooing audiences here, has outperformed its box office
performance in North America.
Transformers: Age of Extinction registered 338,793 screenings with
17.72 million admissions after 10 days to become the top-grossing movie
in history at the Chinese box office, not accounting for inflation and
currency translation, according to data for the week to June 6 from research group Entgroup.
U.S.-based Jiaflix and the China Movie Channel (CCTV6), with its new
media subsidiary M1905, are the production and promotion partners of the
film. China Film Group is the sole import company in China.
Worldwide, Age of Extinction earned $575.6 million in its first 12 days in release, including $400.9 million overseas.
Michael
Bay’s cyborg action flick, which has a strong Chinese flavor aimed at
wooing audiences here, has outperformed its box office performance in
North America. - See more at:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transformers-age-extinction-becomes-chinas-717083?mobile_redirect=false#sthash.tQliLPey.dpuf
“Let them hate,” Michael Bay told MTV
about critics, fan boys and haters late last week. “They’re still going
to see the movie.” And yep, Michael Bay was right. You may claim to hate
the explosions-happy filmmaker and the “Transformers” franchise, but
clearly your love-hate relationships ends with you in bed with them at
the box office. Or someone you know saw the newest installment, anyhow. Michael Bay movies are akin to Dave Matthews and Nickelback:
it’s impossible to find someone within a 10,000 square mile radius who
will admit to liking them, but they sell millions of records. Clearly someone is buying.
We have an amazing award-winning team.
Congratulations to Heather Danner, who appears in another record-breaking Transformers, Film: Transformers: Age of Extinction starring Mark Wahlberg!
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The borough's "living history village" is dropping dead this summer.
