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SPOILER ALERT: This article includes key revelations from issue No. 192 of The Walking Dead, which goes on sale this week.  Ex-lawman Rick Grimes has been M.I.A. on AMC’s The Walking Dead since last November (when star Andrew Lincoln left the powerhouse series to focus on the upcoming tie-in feature film trilogy) but…

Disney’s Zombies 2, the sequel to the saga of a zombie football player and cheerleader’s attempts to unite the zombie and human communities of Seabrook, will begin production in the spring. Stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim will reprise their marquee roles as Addison and Zed. The announcement was made today during a…

EXCLUSIVE: Meg Donnelly, who plays the oldest daughter on ABC’s comedy series American Housewife, has signed with ICM Partners. The move comes after Donnelly starred earlier this year in Disney Channel’s original movie Zombies, which bowed in February and drew 1.14 million viewers and a 4.8 rating in the kids 6-11…

When Zombies attacked, kids watched. Disney Channel said today that Friday’s premiere of its original telefilm drew 1.14 million viewers and a 4.8 rating in the kids 6-11 demo — beating that night’s Winter Olympics coverage — and went on to lure 10.3 million combined viewers over eight airings through…

He’s a football star. She’s a cheerleader. Nothing unusual about that, right? Well, except he’s also a zombie. And they sing and dance. Here’s the first trailer for Zombies, Disney Channel’s original movie starring Milo Manheim as the life-challenged Zed and Meg Donnelly as rah-rah girl Addison at Seabrook High. The…

Production has begun on Disney’s music- and dance-filled Zombies, set for a 2018 premiere as part of the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise. With Jeffrey Hornaday directing, the movie will be choreographed by Christopher Scott and Hornaday (both of Teen Beach Movie), with the cast led by Meg Donnelly (American Hou…

One man died and five other people were injured when gunfire erupted last night at ZombiCon, a street festival attended by as many as 20,000 partiers in downtown Fort Myers, Florida, CNN reported. Festgoers “cleared out fast and cop cars and ambulances came,” according to Savannah Holden, who witnessed the mayhem from…

5th UPDATE, Monday 12:30 PM: Lt. Marshall White, who is in charge of special events for the San Diego Police Department, has shed new light on Saturday’s incident, saying that while there were people dressed as zombies in the intersection where the woman was hit, they were not part of the initial group of…

EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the Glee scribe who helped fix the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, has signed on to write a new line of the venerable Archie Comics. And he’s found a way to inject a topical sensibility into the adventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead: flesh eating zo…

EXCLUSIVE: Anchor Bay Films has acquired English speaking terrritorial rights to The Demented, and has added the thriller to its 2013 slate. Produced by Zero Gravity Management and ChickFlicks, The Demented is another zombie-fest, populated by young genre fixtures that include I Spit On Your Grave‘s Sarah Butler…

Zombies continue to creep into every corner of Hollywood, and now they’re getting their own convention. Todd Masters, an Emmy-winning visual effects artist, and Bruce Haring of JM Northern Media are putting on the “Aliens to Zombies” Convention at the Roosevelt Hotel just before Halloween. The Oct. 21-22 event is a…

Rom-Com Zombies Lurching Into Bollywood Films Indian filmmakers are dipping their creative toes into the zombie water, but with a light-hearted touch. Shaadi of the Dead (Wedding of the Dead) is about a zombie invasion at a Punjabi marriage ceremony. It’s set for release next year. Also in the works is Go Goa Gone…