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Zombieland
''Zombieland'' is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer in his theatrical debut and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film follows a geeky college student ( Jesse Eisenberg) making his way through a post-apocalyptic zombie apocalypse, meeting three strangers (Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin) along the way and together taking an extended road trip across the Southwestern United States in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2009, and was theatrically released on October 2, 2009, in the United States by Columbia Pictures. ''Zombieland'' was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $75.6 million in U.S. and surpassing the 2004 film '' Dawn of the Dead'' as the top-grossing zombie film in the U.S. until ''World War Z'' in 2013. The film was extremely successful in home sales, grossing $54 million, which is half of the film's box ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Adam Eisenberg (; born October 5, 1983) is an American actor, writer, and director. He has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He made his television debut with the short-lived comedy-drama series '' Get Real'' (1999–2000). Following his first leading role in the comedy-drama film '' Roger Dodger'' (2002), he appeared in the films ''The Emperor's Club'' (2002), '' The Village'' (2004), ''The Squid and the Whale'' (2005), and ''The Education of Charlie Banks'' (2007). He is also known for playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's film ''The Social Network'' (2010), which earned him nominations for the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2009, Eisenberg had his breakthrough with starring roles in the comedy-drama film '' Adventureland'', and the horror comedy ''Zombieland''. He has since starred in the Woody Allen f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Stone
Emily Jean Stone (born November 6, 1988), known professionally as Emma Stone, is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2017, she was the world's highest-paid actress and named by ''Time'' magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stone began acting as a child in a theater production of ''The Wind in the Willows'' in 2000. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles and made her television debut in '' In Search of the New Partridge Family'' (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After small television roles, she appeared in a series of well-received teen comedy films, such as '' Superbad'' (2007), ''Zombieland'' (2009), and ''Easy A'' (2010). The last of these was Stone's first leading role, earning her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Following this breakthr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Breslin
Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress. She rose to prominence with the comedy-drama film '' Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 10. She went on to establish herself as a mainstream actress with roles in the films '' No Reservations'' (2007), ''Nim's Island'' (2008), ''Definitely, Maybe'' (2008), ''My Sister's Keeper'' (2009), ''Zombieland'' (2009), '' Rango'' (2011), ''The Call'' (2013), '' August: Osage County'' (2013), '' Maggie'' (2015), ''Freak Show'' (2017), '' Zombieland: Double Tap'' (2019), and '' Stillwater'' (2021). Between 2015 and 2016, she had a starring role in the horror-comedy series '' Scream Queens'' on Fox, her first regular role in a television series. Early life She was born in New York City, the daughter of Kim (née Walsh), a talent manager, and Michael Breslin, a telecommunications expert, computer programmer, and consultant. She has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruben Fleischer
Ruben Samuel Fleischer (born October 31, 1974) is an American film director, film producer, television producer, music video director, and commercial director who lives in Montclair, New Jersey. He is best known as the director of ''Zombieland'' (2009), his first feature film, and its sequel '' Zombieland: Double Tap'' (2019). He has also directed the films '' 30 Minutes or Less'', '' Gangster Squad'', ''Uncharted'', and 2018's ''Venom'' featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Prior to features, he directed television commercials for such brands as Cisco, Eurostar, ESPN, and Burger King, and music videos for such artists as M.I.A., Electric Six, DJ Format and Gold Chains. Early life Fleischer was born and raised in Washington, D.C, the son of Karen Lee (née Samuel) and David Elliot Fleischer, who is a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and a professor of medicine. His brother, Lucas, works in new media. His father was born to a Jewish family, while his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Polone
Gavin Polone is an American film and television producer. He began producing films in the late 1990s and television in the 2000s. He has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, of which six were for "Outstanding Comedy Series" for Larry David's ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. His production company is Pariah. Background Polone graduated from University of California, Berkeley in three years. He earned a realtor's license and applied to work for the Central Intelligence Agency but was not accepted. In 1985, he began work as an assistant at International Creative Management. He eventually became a literary agent at ICM. In 1989, ICM suspected that Polone planned to defect and fired him, though Polone says ICM was wrong about its suspicions. He joined Bauer-Benedek Agency, and the agency eventually merged with Leading Artists Agency to form United Talent Agency. Polone eventually became a partner at UTA. He was disappointed in how the agency was run and threatened to leave. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wernick
Paul Wernick is a Canadian television/movie screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing the screenplays to the 2016 superhero film ''Deadpool'' and its 2018 sequel with his creative partner Rhett Reese. Career Early career Wernick has produced several network reality shows, including CBS's ''Big Brother 2'' and ABC's '' I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!''. Wernick has won three Emmy Awards for his work in news, which included producing stints at KVOA, KOLD, KTVK, KSL and KCAL. ''Big Brother 2'' inspired Wernick and Rhett Reese, a screenwriter friend of his brother back from Phoenix, Arizona, where both attended high school - Reese was a senior on Wernick's freshman year - to create their own take on reality television, ''The Joe Schmo Show''. Film Wernick and Reese's first feature collaboration was the 2009 film ''Zombieland'', which they created and also executive-produced. The film was released by Sony Pictures in theaters October 2, 2009, and went on to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Harrelson first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom ''Cheers'' (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations. He went on to receive three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' (1996), and Best Supporting Actor for both '' The Messenger'' (2009) and '' Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017). Harrelson was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Marty Hart in the crime anthology series ''True Detective'' (2014). Early life Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sardy
David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, electronic related genres, and then to scoring films. Biography In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a "Hardcore super-producer." In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received five Grammy Awards (for Toots and the Maytals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, OK Go, Wolfmother and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie apocalypse is a genre of fiction in which society collapses due to overwhelming swarms of zombies. Typically only a few individuals or small bands of survivors are left living. In some versions, the reason the dead rise and attack humans is unknown, in others, a parasite or infection is the cause, framing events much like a plague. Some stories have every corpse rise, regardless of the cause of death, whereas others require exposure to the infection. The genre originated in the 1968 American horror film ''Night of the Living Dead'', which was directed by George A. Romero, who took inspiration from the 1954 novel '' I Am Legend'' by Richard Matheson. Romero's film introduced the concept of the flesh-eating zombie and spawned numerous other fictional works, including films, video games and literature. The zombie apocalypse has been used as a metaphor for various contemporary fears, such as global contagion, the breakdown of society, and the end of the world. It has repe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie Comedy Film
The zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as morbid humor. History The earliest roots of the genre can be found in Jean Yarbrough's ''King of the Zombies'' (1941) and Gordon Douglas's ''Zombies on Broadway'' (1945), though both of these films dealt with Haitian-style zombies. While not comedies, George A. Romero's '' Dawn of the Dead'' (1978) and ''Day of the Dead'' (1985) featured several comedic scenes and satirical commentary on society. '' An American Werewolf in London'' (1981) and the ''Return of the Living Dead'' series (1985) (especially the first two and the last of the series) can be considered some of the earliest examples of zombie-comedy using the modern zombie. Other early examples include '' Mr. Vampire'', '' CHUD II: Bud the CHUD'' (1989), '' Braindead'' (1992), and ''Bio Zombie'' (1998). A popular modern zombie comedy is Edgar Wright's ''Shaun of the Dead'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhett Reese
Rhett Reese is an American film producer, television producer, and screenwriter. As a screenwriter, his early credits included ''Clifford's Really Big Movie'' and ''Cruel Intentions 3''. He has collaborated with Paul Wernick, writing the films ''Zombieland'', ''G.I. Joe: Retaliation'', and ''Life (2017 film), Life'', as well as ''Deadpool (film), Deadpool'' and its Deadpool 2, 2018 sequel. Together they also created the reality series ''The Joe Schmo Show''. Biography Reese grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and one of his high school friends was the brother of Paul Wernick. Years later, as a budding screenwriter, Reese met Wernick again as he worked as a television producer, and one of Wernick's jobs, ''Big Brother 2 (U.S.), Big Brother 2'', inspired both to do their own take on reality shows, ''The Joe Schmo Show''. Reese lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress, writer and producer Chelsey Crisp. Filmography Film Television References External links * Podcast Intervie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Murray
William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan delivery. He rose to fame on ''The National Lampoon Radio Hour'' (1973–1974) before becoming a national presence on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1977 to 1980, where he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. He starred in comedy films including '' Meatballs'' (1979), ''Caddyshack'' (1980), ''Stripes'' (1981), ''Tootsie'' (1982), ''Ghostbusters'' (1984), ''Scrooged'' (1988), ''What About Bob?'' (1991), '' Groundhog Day'' (1993), '' Kingpin'' (1996), ''The Man Who Knew Too Little'' (1997), '' Charlie's Angels'' (2000), and ''Osmosis Jones'' (2001). His only directorial credit is ''Quick Change'' (1990), which he co-directed with Howard Franklin. Murray's performance in Sofia Coppola's '' Lost in Translation'' (2003) earned him a Golden Globe and a British Academy Film Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He has frequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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