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Cannes opener The Dead Don't Die from Jim Jarmusch bowed in fairly wide 613 theaters Fathers Day weekend, featuring a pack of big named stars turned zombie. The title sauntered to a $2.35M gross in 613 theaters for a $3,827 per theater average.  This is a back to back Cannes opening release for Focus. The…

The Walking Dead has sucked all the life out of the zombie conversation in recent years, but that hasn’t stopped director Jim Jarmusch from diving right in. The only problem is, other than a couple of political jabs, there is nothing much new to say about The Dead Don’t Die, a largely lifeless comic take that is saved…

In Focus Features’ Jim Jarmusch Cannes Film Festival opener, The Dead Don’t Die, SNL alum Bill Murray and BlackKklansman actor Adam Driver both play two dead-panned, befuddled, nerdy cops who face the zombie apocalypse with a serene attitude. For example, Driver’s Ronnie Peterson softly says at various points in the…

In the wake of Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die making its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival’s opening night, the media and critics have been been quick to point out the pic’s underlying anti-Trump undertones. But at today’s press conference for the film, the Cannes fave director said his…

The 72nd Cannes International Film Festival opening night went to the zombies, at least our walking dead friends as filtered through the droll style of Jim Jarmusch in The Dead Don’t Die. The director is a favorite of the fest, having been invited here for various films and competitions 13 times since his first…

Chloë Sevigny is back in Cannes this year, pulling double duty with a role in Jim Jarmusch's opening night zombie ensemble, The Dead Don't Die, and premiering her third short as director, White Echo. Black comedy The Dead Don't Die marks a re-team for Sevigny and Jarmusch, with whom she's made three films, including…

Jim Jarmusch’s zombie pic The Dead Don’t Die, which will open the Cannes Film Festival next month, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Overlook Film Festival, which kicks off May 30 and continues through June 2 in New Orleans. The news was announced today when the horror-centric fest unveiled third festival…

The Cannes Film Festival is set to open with some blood and gore this year. Jim Jarmusch's zombie movie The Dead Don't Die, starring Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton, will kick proceedings off on May 14, we have confirmed. The comedy-horror backed by Focus unfolds in the peaceful town of…

In the peaceful town of Centerville, “something terrifying, something horrifying is coming.” When some people are violently killed at the local greasy spoon, the first responders and others ponder, “What the hell was it?” The go-to theory: wild animals. The new theory? “I’m thinkin’ zombies. You know, the undead…

Focus Features will release Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don’t Die wide on June 14 this year. Billed as “the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled”, The Dead Don’t Die boasts an all-star cast of Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop…

Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi and Selena Gomez have been set to star in The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie comedy film from Jim Jarmusch. Production is now underway. It is the third team-up of Jarmusch and Focus, which distributed the writer-director’s Broken Flowers (2015) and The Lim…

As word spreads of the passing of venerable cinematographer Robby Muller, collaborators and admirers are paying tribute on social media. Dutchman Müller died Tuesday in Amsterdam after a long illness. His last full feature was Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People in 2002, which followed a celebrated career that…