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Exclusive: Decal, the recently launched film label, has acquired U.S. rights to Naveen A. Chathapuram’s thriller The Last Victim and will release it theatrically day-and-date in the first quarter of 2022.

The pic stars Ron Perlman, Ali Larter (Resident Evil) and Ralph Ineson (The Green Knight). Set in rural America, it follows a band of modern-day outlaws pursued by an aging sheriff after a crime goes wrong.

The pic is based on a story by Chathapuram and Doc Justin and was written by Ashley James Louis. Producers are Vicky Gong, Todd Berger, Nicholas Burnett, Chathapuram, Luke Daniels, Charles Leslie, Graem Luis, Joseph Lanius and Shaun Sanghani.

The Last Victim is a production of Peach Partners in association with Slated, Sss Entertainment, Sss Capital, The Catalyst Group, Blind Alley and Sprockefeller Films.

The movie is Chathapuram’s directing debut. He previously produced Ca$h, starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth for...

"They're coming to get you, Barbara." A modern twist on Johnny's immortal line is featured in our exclusive clip from Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn, now out on VOD.

"A new fully CG take on the 1968 classic, “Night of the Living Dead.” This is the story of a group of survivors fighting to stay alive when a mysterious plague unleashes the undead on New York City. Barricaded in an abandoned apartment building, the characters from the original film face new terror and question each other’s compassion and sense of humanity as they fight to stay alive against the army of the walking dead.​

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Directed by Krisztian Majdik and Zebediah Y. Desoto, Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn features the voices of Tony Todd, Danielle Harris,...

Made entirely with CG, Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn will premiere at Walker Stalker Fan Fest in July. Also in this round-up: release details for Wave 7 of Funko's Comic-Con 2015 exclusive figures and The Sender and Student Bodies Blu-rays.

Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn: "Night Of The Living Dead: Darkest Dawn is a new fully CG take on the 1968 classic, “Night of the Living Dead.” This is the story of a group of survivors fighting to stay alive when a mysterious plague unleashes the undead on New York City. Barricaded in an abandoned apartment building, the characters from the original film face new terror and question each other’s compassion and sense of humanity as they fight to stay alive against the army of the walking dead...It was directed by Krisztian Majdik, Zebediah Y. Desoto, and written by David Schwartz, Zebediah Y. De Soto, Jib Polhemus,...

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes casting details on The Chair, Camp of the Damned, and Love Sick, trailers for Chimeres and Phantasmagoria, production and distribution news on Australian film, The Pack, and much more:

Exclusive Casting News for The Chair: We’ve been told that Travis Love (Shumpert from The Walking Dead) has been added to the cast of the upcoming horror/thriller, The Chair. Love will play the Commanding Officer in a flashback scene that features Jimmy (Jacob Banser) and Sullivan (Brian Thompson).

Synopsis: “Based off of the Alterna Comics graphic novel of the same name, The Chair follows the story of Richard Sullivan, an innocent man struggling to escape execution on death row. Witnessing the torture and murder of his fellow inmates at the hands of the prison’s sadistic and psychotic Warden,...

That image you see is the latest look at Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D. And guess what? It sounds like the film is done because a press release we received today says the film is screening to potential buyers at Cannes. This has been a project we've been tracking since 2009, just to give you a sense of time. Directed by Zebediah De Soto and co-written by De Soto, Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz, the film stars veterans Tony Todd and Tom Sizemore, along with scream queen Danielle Harris, Sarah Habel, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bill Mosley and Joseph Pilato.

The post Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D is Finally Done and Screening appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes VOD release information for Armistice, multiple teaser trailers, a Q&A with Matt Thompson from Bloodline, and a preview of Dept. of Monsterology:

Dept. of Monsterology: ”Officially, it’s the Department of Cryptozoology, Mythological Studies, Parapsychology and Fortean Phenomena. But to the rest of the students and staff at the Dunsany College, baffled by the cloak of secrecy that surrounds the Department and its affairs, it has another, more dismissive, name: The Department of Monsterology. Funded by the mysterious Hampton Foundation, the Dept. operates several field teams that roam the globe on extended research expeditions.

Their brief: to investigate the dark and unexplored corners of our world – the places we’ve forgotten, lost or believe to be mythical. And to study those things that may still be lurking there.

Yet another remake/reboot/off-shoot/spin-off/whatever you want to call it of George Romero’s classic Night Of The Living Dead. This one will be in 3D, of course. It comes from Simon West Productions, Graphic Film Company, 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, and will be titled Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D. Starring in the film will be Tony Todd (aka Candyman; although some may not be aware that he starred in a remake of Night Of The Living Dead in 1990 playing Ben, the character originated by the late Duane Jones in Romero's 1968 original), and also Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tom Sizemore, Bill Mosley, and Bollywood...

Because one 3D remake was not enough, George Romero‘s 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead will be resurrected once more, this time by director Zebediah de Soto as Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D. As you might have briefly registered somewhere in your mind, there was a 3D Night of the Living Dead remake in 2006, as well as a follow-up called Night of the Living Dead 3D: Reanimation. To put it bluntly, they were not great. De Soto has the power of time and quality on his side, though. He has a solid cast, consisting of Bollywood star R. Madhavan, and a slew of B-movie horror favorites, like Tom Sizemore, Tony Todd (who was actually in Tom Savini’s 1990 remake), Danielle Harris, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bill Mosley, Sarah Habel and Joseph Pilato battling the zombies. And when I say time, I mean that we are now in the hey-day of zombie-themed programming. Romero...

When George A. Romero created Night of the Living Dead, the movie originally carried the title Night of the Flesh Eaters. The title was changed at the last moment and the copyright was lost, immediately putting the film into public domain.

That means that anyone can remake or re-imagine the movie and one of the newer projects is Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D. The movie has been in development for a number of years now, but it’s alive and well and we have a new casting update:

via Dread Central: “Simon West Productions (Black Hawk Down, Con Air, The Expendables 2) and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, announced today that Bollywood actor R. Madhavan (3 Idiots, 13B, Tanu Weds Manu) will star in the upcoming Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D, which is a 3D re-imagining of George Romero...

Simon West Productions (Black Hawk Down, Con Air, The Expendables 2) and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, announced today that Bollywood actor R. Madhavan (3 Idiots, 13B, Tanu Weds Manu) will star in the upcoming Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D, which is a 3D re-imagining of George Romero’s classic horror film Night Of The Living Dead.

Directed by Zebediah De Soto and co-written by De Soto, Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz, the film also stars veterans Tony Todd (Candyman) and Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down), along with scream queen Danielle Harris (Halloween), Sarah Habel (Hostel: Part III, Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Grindhouse), Bill Mosley (Texas Chainsaw 3D) and Joseph Pilato (Pulp Fiction). The film is being produced by Simon West, Jib Polhemus, Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda of the Graphic Film Company, Paresh Ghelani of 2020 Entertainment, and Naveen Chathappuram...

3 Idiots star cast in 3D 'origins' version of George Romero's zombie horror classic

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With one eye, no doubt, on the potential for a crossover hit, Bollywood star R Madhavan has been cast in a new CGI 'reimagining' of zombie horror classic Night of the Living Dead.

Madhavan, who made his name in Indian cinema in films such as Run, Guru and 3 Idiots, will play what is described as 'an ex-marine' alongside the likes of Tom Sizemore, Tony "Candyman" Todd and Danielle Harris.

In a press release, the makers of Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D describe their film as a "new take on Romero's 1968 original ... the story of a group of survivors fighting to stay alive when a mysterious plague unleashes the undead on New York City".

Directed by Zebediah De Soto and produced by Expendables 2 director Simon West, the...

Get ready for a Bollywood dance number with zombies.

Simon West Productions, Graphic Film Company, 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment are all teaming to create "Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D," a (very) loose remake of the George Romero classic.

The story follows a group of survivors who barricade themselves in an abandoned New York apartment building when the zombie plague breaks out.

The project is also being shot "in a CG setting using stereoscopic 3D" which will give the film a look described as a "hybrid of graphic novel and traditional animation."

Bollywood actor R. Madhavan leads a cast that includes Tony Todd, Tom Sizemore, Danielle Harris, Sarah Habel, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bill Mosley and Joseph Pilato.

Zebediah De Soto will helm from a script he co-wrote with Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz.

Source: Deadline...

Simon West Productions and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, have signed Bollywood actor R Madhavan to Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D. Meyers Media Group handles international sales.

Zebediah De Soto’s re-imagining of George A Romero’s 1968 zombie classic uses state-of-the-art facial capture technology to create the effect of a graphic novel-traditional animation hybrid.

Madhavan’s credits include 3 Idiots and the Tanu Weds Manu franchise. The key cast includes Tony Todd, Tom Sizemore, “scream queen” Danielle Harris, Sarah Habel, Bill Mosley and Joseph Pilato.

De Soto co-wrote the screenplay with Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz.

Producers are Simon West, Jib Polhemus, Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda of the Graphic Film Company, Paresh Ghelani of 2020 Entertainment, and Naveen Chathappuram and Charles Leslie of Indus Media and Entertainment.

Simon West Productions (Black Hawk Down, Con Air, The Expendables 2) and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, announced today that Bollywood actor R. Madhavan (3 Idiots, 13B, Tanu Weds Manu) will star in the upcoming Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, which is a 3D re-imagining of George A. Romero's classic horror film Night of the Living Dead.

Directed by Zebediah DeSoto and co-written by DeSoto, Warren Davis and David Schwartz, the film also stars veterans Tony Todd (Candyman) and Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down), along with scream queen Danielle Harris (Halloween), Sarah Habel (Hostel: Part III, Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Grindhouse), Bill Moseley (Texas Chainsaw 3D) and Joseph Pilato (Pulp Fiction). The film is being produced by Simon West, Jib Polhemus, Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda of the Graphic Film Company, Paresh Ghelani of 2020 Entertainment, and Naveen Chathappuram and Charles Leslie of Indus Media and Entertainment.

For me, the hallowed ground horror movies are John Carpenter‘s Halloween, Jonathan Demme‘s The Silence Of The Lambs, Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, William Friedkin‘s The Exorcist, and especially Night Of The Living Dead. George Romero’s atmospheric original created the template for the contemporary zombie, and I always thought it would be very difficult to follow in the lumbering footsteps of George’s army of flesh eaters with a remake. Well, get ready for what is being called a 3D re-imagining of the classic. Simon West Productions, and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, have set Bollywood actor R. Madhavan (his films include 3 Idiots, 13B, and Tanu Weds Manu) to star in Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D. It’s being directed by Zebediah De Soto and co-written by De Soto, Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz.

Simon West Productions and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, announced today that Bollywood actor R. Madhavan will star in the upcoming Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, which is a 3D re-imagining of George Romero's classic horror film Night of the Living Dead.

Directed by Zebediah De Soto and co-written by De Soto, Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz, the film also stars veterans Tony Todd and Tom Sizemore, along with scream queen Danielle Harris, Sarah Habel, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Bill Mosley and Joseph Pilato. 

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Simon West Productions and the Graphic Film Company, in association with 2020 Entertainment and Indus Media and Entertainment, have signed Bollywood actor R Madhavan to Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D. Meyers Media Group handles international sales.

Zebediah De Soto’s re-imagining of George A Romero’s 1968 zombie classic uses state-of-the-art facial capture technology to create the effect of a graphic novel-traditional animation hybrid.

Madhavan’s credits include 3 Idiots and the Tanu Weds Manu franchise. The key cast includes Tony Todd, Tom Sizemore, “scream queen” Danielle Harris, Sarah Habel, Bill Mosley and Joseph Pilato.

De Soto co-wrote the screenplay with Warren Davis II and David Reuben Schwartz.

Producers are Simon West, Jib Polhemus, Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda of the Graphic Film Company, Paresh Ghelani of 2020 Entertainment, and Naveen Chathappuram and Charles Leslie of Indus Media and Entertainment.

Meyers Media Group and McDonald Entertainment have announced today that they will co-finance the thriller City Of Night. The film, to be directed by award-winner Carl Franklin (.Out of Time,. .High Crimes.), was written by David Chisholm (.Kidnapped in Paradise,. .The Wizard.) and will be produced by Brendan McDonald of McDonald Entertainment and Jesse B.Franklin, and executive produced by Lawrence Meyers (.Unfaithful.) and Randy Dannenberg of Meyers Media Group.

In City Of Night, Emmett Conlin is a rookie cop aspiring to be one of the finest in the Los Angeles Police Department– until he.s unexpectedly lured into the toughest crime unit in the city and finds that his greatest danger lies within the department. Drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal by a veteran cop who has corrupted all that he touches, Emmett becomes the target of an elaborate psychological game to destroy him. Set against the...

In what sounds like an attempt to spread the demographic net as wide as possible by producers, the new "Night Of The Living Dead" movie will be completely animated and look like moving artwork from a comic book. To me this doesn't sound too experimental. It sounds like the end result will be very similar to rotoscoping: remember "A Scanner Darkly"? New production company Meyers Media Group has announced that it has picked up international rights to writer/director Zebediah De Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Simon West (director of Con Air) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. In the film, New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream – survival. That includes Ben (Tony Todd) and Barbra (Danielle Harris), two survivors who...

According to Synthia.Ca, new film sales company Meyers Media Group report they have picked up the international rights to director Zebediah De Soto's "Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D" from Simon West Productions.

West (director of "The Expendables 2") will produce alongside Jib Polhemus ("The Mechanic"), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda.

Written by De Soto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, the film is a 'motion capture re-imagining' of director George A. Romero's public domain black and white 1960's horror classic, "Night Of The Living Dead".

Cast of the new film includes Danielle Harris ("Halloween V"), Tom Sizemore ("Saving Private Ryan") and Tony Todd ("Candyman") :

"...New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream – survival. That includes 'Ben' (Todd) and Barbra (Harris), two survivors who find themselves trapped and fighting to escape...

Newly-formed international sales company Meyers Media Group announces today that they have picked up all international rights to director Zebediah De Soto.s Night Of The Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Simon West (director of .Expendables 2.) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus (.The Mechanic.), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. Written by De Soto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, the film is a motion capture re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic that stars Danielle Harris (.Halloween V.), Tom Sizemore (.Saving Private Ryan.) and Tony Todd (.Candyman.). The deal was brokered by Lawrence Meyers and Randy Dannenberg of Meyers Media Group and Polhemus on behalf of Simon West Productions.

In the film, New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream . survival. That includes Ben (Tony Todd) and Barbra (Danielle Harris), two survivors who...

Newly-formed international sales company Meyers Media Group announces today that they have picked up all international rights to director Zebediah DeSoto's Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Simon West (director of The Expendables 2) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. Written by DeSoto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, the film is a motion capture re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic that stars Danielle Harris (Halloween 5), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) and Tony Todd (Candyman). The deal was brokered by Lawrence Steven Meyers and Randy Dannenberg of Meyers Media Group and Polhemus on behalf of Simon West Productions.

In the film, New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream - survival. That includes Ben (Tony Todd) and Barbra (Danielle Harris), two survivors...

Newly-formed international sales company Meyers Media Group announces today that they have picked up all international rights to director Zebediah De Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions.

Simon West (director of Expendables 2) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda.

Written by De Soto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, the film is a motion capture re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic that stars Danielle Harris, Tom Sizemore and Tony Todd.

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Newly-formed international sales company Meyers Media Group announced today that they have picked up all international rights to director Zebediah De Soto's Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Simon West (director of The Expendables 2 ) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus ( The Mechanic ), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. Written by De Soto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, the film is a motion capture re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic that stars Danielle Harris ( Halloween V ), Tom Sizemore ( Saving Private Ryan ) and Tony Todd ( Candyman ). In the film, New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream . survival. That includes Ben (Tony Todd) and...

It's been a long road to get Night of the Living Dead: Origins, one of several recent new takes on the classic George A. Romero film, out of the starting gate and into the hands of the general public, but that could soon be changing.

According to Variety the newly formed sales banner Meyers Media Group will handle international sales on director Zebediah De Soto's Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Prods.

This announcement came on April 16th following a screening of the flick hosted by West for three dozen buyers at the SoHo House in West Hollywood.

West (director of Expendables 2) is producing alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda. Written by De Soto, David Reuben Schwartz and Warren Davis, Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D is a motion-capture reimagining of George A. Romero's 1968 zombie film.

In the...

We recently got our hands on some old test render footage from the upcoming Night of the Living Dead: Origins project helmed by our buddy Zeb De Soto.

Even though this was a very early test, what really stands out are the facial features and how natural their animation is. Zeb actually developed his own facial capture system to achieve these results, and we have to say the expressiveness in the eyes especially is pretty impressive. And it's fast, too. Capture one hour of motion data, and you can sync it up to your footage in fraction of that time.

Obivously this is not a finished product, but if the stills we were sent a few weeks back are any indication, Zeb's efforts are certainly worth checking out.

Having developed his own 3D motion capture setup called The Beast, and now creating a really impressive facial capture system, Zeb De...

New promo art has finally been released for the upcoming Zebediah de Soto CGI movie 'Night of the Living Dead: Origins'. The image appeared on the official Facebook page for the flick and respawns the overused undead tagline 'when there is no more room in hell...'. Check it out below. 'New York, a city of the hopes and dreams for many Americans, lies in ruin. The streets and skyscrapers that symbolized the strength and prosperity of a people have become places of horror and despair. The cultural hub of the western world is now home to only ash and blood. For the few people left alive there is only one dream Survival. Zombies, the living dead, have taken the city. Ben and Barbra find themselves trapped and fighting to escape the hordes of undead that walk the streets.' And voicing the CGI characters? None other than...

Coming via the films official Facebook page is this all-new promo art for Zebediah De Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins. The film is a 3D CGI re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic, but not in the traditional sense. According to De Soto:

I want to see a helicopter clipping its propeller on a building and careening into a crowd of people. Zombies going through the streets. A thousand people tearing each other apart, zombies tearing them apart, total chaos. One of the first horror films I owned was Night of the Living Dead, it made a huge impression on me. There are all of these interesting little back stories in terms of the other characters, but we only got to follow Barbara in the original. They were always describing these really big scenes, like Ben says a truck is chased down by a horde of zombies.

What are the CGI-characters going to look like in Night of the Living Dead: Origins? Find out!

Night of the Living Dead: Origins, Zebediah De Soto's CGI-rendered remake of the classic George Romero tale, now has a Facebook page, where it released a couple character pictures. We approached this apprehensively, as we would any Romero remake, and so far, the movie looks much like a video game cut scene.

Still, we're anxious to see a trailer and find out if De Soto can deliver on an American classic. He has brought Tony Todd in to voice the character of Ben, which Todd has experience playing from Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead remake. (at one point, Mos Def was mentioned for the role).

New York, a city of the hopes and dreams for many Americans, lies in ruin. The streets and skyscrapers that symbolized the strength and prosperity...

More living dead inspired goodness coming in for Zebediah De Soto's latest 3D take on the world created by the legendary George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead: Origins.

Over on the official Night of the Living Dead: Origins Facebook page some new promo art popped up, which you can see below.

Directed by Zebediah De Soto, lending their likenesses and voices to the project, which showcases a zombie apocalypse in New York City, are Tony Todd as Ben, Danielle Harris as Barbra, Joe Pilato as Harry Cooper, Alona Tal (Jo on "Supernatural") as Helen Cooper, Bill Moseley as Johnny (reprising his portrayal of the same character in Tom Savini's 1990 Notld remake), Erin Braswell as Judy, Mike Diskint as Tom, Jesse Corti ("Heroes") as a news reporter, and Cornell Womack (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) as a no-nonsense New York cop.

Director de Soto, who also pulls co-writing duties on the project,...

Update: Scroll down for a new promo image! Writer-director Zebediah de Soto revealed the logo for his Night of the Living Dead: Origins , the CG-animated prequel (of sorts) to George Romero's film. He has also established a Facebook page where you can find more information right here . We spoke to De Soto not long ago about this project - which stars Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Tony Todd, Joe Pilato, Jesse Corti, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack - click here for the interview!

So how do you kick off your work week? If you're anything like us, you do it by scouring for horror news you may have missed over the weekend, putting away your polyester leisure suit until Friday, oh, and looking for stuff to do on Facebook while nobody's lookin'! Speaking of which ...

The official Night of the Living Dead: Origins Facebook page was launched today, and it's home to the nifty title treatment you see below.

Directed by Zebediah De Soto, lending their likenesses and voices to the project, which showcases a zombie apocalypse in New York City, are Tony Todd as Ben, Danielle Harris as Barbra, Joe Pilato as Harry Cooper, Alona Tal (Jo on "Supernatural") as Helen Cooper, Bill Moseley as Johnny (reprising his portrayal of the same character in Tom Savini's 1990 Notld remake), Erin Braswell as Judy, Mike Diskint as Tom, Jesse Corti ("Heroes") as a news reporter,...

More exclusive artwork has come our way for Zebediah de Soto's upcoming 3D animated feature film Night of the Living Dead: Origins, and like everything else we've seen from this project, things are lookin' pretty damned cool.

"I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it's expressionism," de Soto said in an earlier interview. "It's going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the 'Empire of the Sun' of zombie films ... I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos."

Director de Soto, who also pulls co-writing duties on the project, describes Notld: Origins, which will be in 3D,...

Writer-director Zebediah de Soto is deep into production on Night of the Living Dead: Origins , starring Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Tony Todd and Joe Pilato. We've seen very little from this unique undead romp so we have to cling to whatever the film's participants have to say. Here we have Moseley (playing "Johnny" - a role he slipped into for Night of the Living Dead '90) - talking again about De Soto's vision and the fact that the story is set in New York City: "It is animation but it is also like live action animation. I never actually worked with anyone; it was just me and the director, Zebediah DeSoto," he tells Movie Mike. "We stood in a recording booth and ran the dialogue. They then take photographs of you and try and sculpt you Then...

It's 25 years since Day Of The Dead first hit screens, how do you feel it has influenced cinema?

Joe Pilato: "Well, to paraphrase The Beatles, it was 25 years ago today that George A. Romero taught the fans to play. I think the significance of the movie is the fact that it's the third in the series and great things happen in threes. I think over the 25 years, the expansion and growth from the very simplistic guerrilla filmmaking aspect of Night Of The Living Dead to the more sophisticated Dawn Of The Dead to the third story George created stands above as having the most modern sensibility. George has always referred to it as his favourite child of the three. I think it's held up to the test of time and has brought an incredible amount of new fans into the genre."

Why do you think the film has endured so long?...

We were just talking about how the wicked, animated zombie flick A.D. was shaping up and now the fellas at Dread Central have scored an exclusive look at Tony Todd reprising his role of "Ben" in the 3D prequel, Night of The Living Dead: Origins. I'm so giddy that I'm getting the shakes! However, Tony isn't the only person reprising his role from the 1990 remake. Read more about this American Zombie Anime in 3D.

Yes it's true. Tony Todd is reprising the role of "Ben". Originally the role was thought to be filled by Hip Hop artist Mos Def but he apparently dropped out. As far as we're concerned this couldn't be better news. Todd already has experience with this role and character when he played Ben back in Tom Savini's 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Bill Moseley will also be reprising his 1990 remake role as...

Of all the films in production, the one I might be most excited for is Zebediah de Soto's Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, a new animated 3D feature starring Tony Todd, Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack. Zeb has impressed me off the scale in previous years and I'm quite sure whatever he puts out will be quite simply stunning. Beyond the break you'll find your first ever look at Tony Todd as Ben from the film that once again follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack.

You want badass? This is pretty damned badass! We've scored your first ever look at Tony Todd as Ben in Zebediah de Soto's upcoming 3D animated feature film Night of the Living Dead: Origins, and all we can say is wow. Just wow.

"I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it's expressionism," de Soto said in an earlier interview. "It's going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the 'Empire of the Sun' of zombie films ... I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos."

Director de Soto, who also pulls co-writing duties on the project, describes Notld: Origins,...

Shock Till You Drop caught up with fan fave actor Bill Moseley at tonight's La premiere of The Graves , now playing as part of After Dark Films Horrorfest 4. "I didn.t know Brian Pulido before doing The Graves ," says Moseley. "I actually liked working with him a lot. He.s a first time director, but he was very collaborative and very encouraging. For me, although movies are a collaborative effort, you ultimately defer to the writer or director, but it.s fun to work together and try to find new things about the different scenes and different characters. Brian was very open to that and very generous." One project with Moseley's involvement that we're intrigued about is the new animated 3D take of Night Of The Living Dead: Origins from director Zebediah...

Danielle Harris is getting some help fighting off the zombie hordes in writer-director Zebediah De Soto's "re-imagining" of George Romero's horror classic Night of the Living Dead, titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins.

THR reports that Bill Moseley (1990's Night of the Living Dead), Joe Pilato (Romero's Day of the Dead), Alona Tal (Supernatural), Jesse Corti (Heroes) and Cornell Womack (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) will join the previously cast Harris to do voice work on the CGI-animated movie. Moseley will play Johnny, Harris' brother, while Pilato and Tal will play the voice of the Coopers, the couple who argue to stay in the basement in Romero's original. Corti will play a no-nonsense New York cop and Womack a news reporter.

Moseley and Pialto's ties to Romero are no coincidence, and De Soto calls the casting "a nod to Romero fans. Horror is a genre and zombie movies...

The unconfirmed cast of director Zebediah De Soto's CGI "re-imagining" Night of the Living Dead: Origins is finally official. Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal were all previously announced, but were unconfirmed. Well, dust off that tie and drive to the church because this cast is confirmed! 

Moseley will return as Johnny, the part he played in Tom Savini's 1990 remake, and will likely play Johnny in every remake made from here on out. Harris will play Barbara, and Pilato (who appeared in Romero's Dawn of the Dead) and Tal will voice the Coopers.

The casting of Piluto and Moseley is obviously a calculated one, one De Soto explained is "a nod to Romero fans. Horror is a genre and zombie movies are a subgenre that people have been following for years and years." De Soto is one of those followers, and claims that Night of the Living Dead...

There's a lot going on in the horror world right now, a welcome change for the traditionally bland month of December. Below the jump you'll find quick updates from around the web and the trades for True Blood, Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, Daybreakers, The Chronicles Of Riddick 3, Zombieland 2, Invasion, [Rec] 3, Resident Evil: Afterlife, and more.

Castings:

True Blood has gained a new werewolf and a new vampire. THR announced that Ugly Betty's Grant Fowler has joined the cast as a werewolf named Coot, with newcomer Theo Alexander as Talbot, an "intensely beautiful" vampire. This comes just a day after Prison Break's Marshall Allman and Quarantine's Denis O'Hare joined the cast (as Sam's lost brother and the Vampire King of Mississippi) as reported on our Starlog site. Filming on Season 3 began this week. Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, a CGI "reimagining/prequel" of/to George A. Romero...

Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are all lending their voices to The Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, the upcoming re-imagining of George A. Romero's 1968 classic, which is being made in 3D CGI.

Newcomer Zebediah de Soto is directing the horror remake, which follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack.

Corti (Heroes) is voicing the part of a news reporter, Harris (Halloween II) plays a woman broken by the loss of her family, Moseley (Carnivale) is reprising the role of a Wall Street-type that he portrayed in a 1990 live-action remake of Living Dead, Pilato (Dawn Of The Dead) is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter, Tal voices his wife Helen, and Womack (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen) is a no-nonsense New York cop.

De Soto said some of the...

Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are voicing characters in the 3D CGI re-imagined version of George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead: Origins." Zebediah de Soto helms. Simon West and Jib Polhemus of Simon West Productions are producing the 3D CGI re-imaginining of the George A. Romero zombie classic . Yes, it's the same bleh over and over again - the story follows a group of humans who battle to remain alive while being attacked by zombies. Whoopie! Kill, these off already, please. Corti (of "Heroes") is news reporter, Harris ("Halloween II") a woman who held her family together and now has to deal with their absence. Moseley ("Carnivale") plays the same role he had in a 1990 live-action remake "Living Dead":...

Like the unstoppable march of the slavering undead themselves, Night Of The Living Dead: Origins, the CG re-interpretation of George A Romero's 1968 horror classic is still headed for our screens - and now it has actors attached.Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Alona Tal, Joe Pilato and Cornell Womack have all signed on to provide vocal performances for director Zebediah de Soto and producer Simon West. As in the original, the story will follow a group of humans (including, in this case a news reporter, a Wall Street yuppie type and a no-nonsense Noo Yoik cop) as they try to survive the zombpocalypse. There are even a few nods to Romero's work here - Moseley is a veteran of the 1990 remake of Living Dead, while Pilato was among the cast of 1978's Dawn Of The Dead. And de Soto has been talking to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog about the film,...

Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are lending their voices to "Night of the Living Dead: Origins."

The 3D CGI re-imagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic being directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto. Simon West and Simon West Prods. president Jib Polhemus are producing.

The story again follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack.

Corti ("Heroes") is voicing a news reporter, and Harris ("Halloween II") plays a woman who held her family together forced to come to grips with its absence.

Moseley ("Carnivale") is reprising the role he portrayed in a 1990 live-action remake "Living Dead": a Wall Street-type with an expense account attitude.

Pilato, who appeared in 1978's "Dawn of the Dead," is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter, and Tal ("Supernatural") voices his wife, Helen, who blames...

Earlier this morning Bloody Disgusting's Johnne Marrone took a trip to the set of Jim Mickle's (Mulberry Street) now filming Stake Land, a new vampire pic that looks quite extraordinary. During the visit, Marrone had a chance to chat with star Danielle Harris who revealed to Bd that both Mos Def and Bill Moseley have joined the voice cast of Zeb de Soto's Night Of The Living Dead: Origins S3D. Moseley will be playing Johnny, the same role he took on in Tom Savini's 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Joseph Pilato, Mike Diskint and Helen Cooper also star. On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters backstories and make what he called an American-style anime.

In our exclusive interview with director Zeb de Soto, he reveals that Joseph Pilato aka Captain Rhodes has been cast as Cooper in his 3D feature Night Of The Living Dead: Origins. In addition, starring alongside Danielle Harris as Barbara are Mike Diskint as Tom and Alona Tal as Helen Cooper. You can read our exclusive chat by clicking here, which includes your first ever look at the film, along with more details on the plot (I know you've had a ton of questions). De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters backstories and make what he called an American-style anime.

Caught in the confused chaos of the Los Angeles riots of the early '90s, a young Zebediah de Soto witnessed first-hand smoke-filled skies and people in the throes of panic. For his largest endeavor yet, a 3-D CGI Night of the Living Dead film subtitled "Origins," co written by David Schwartz and produced by Simon West Productions, De Soto wants to take those riot images etched into his brain and translate them to the screen. Adding in a horde of ravenous zombies, of course. "I want to see a helicopter clipping its propeller on a building and careening into a crowd of people. Zombies going through the streets. A thousand people tearing each other apart, zombies tearing them apart, total chaos," De Soto expresses with an air of enthusiasm that is fighting...

ShockTillYouDrop.com reports that Danielle Harris ( Halloween II ) has been cast as Barbara in the 3D CGI pic Night of the Living Dead: Origins . The film, to be directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto and produced by Simon West and Simon West Productions president Jib Polhemus, will be an origin story without the involvement of George A. Romero. De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters' backstories and make what he called "an American-style anime."...