For Your Consideration: Zombeavers
Not wanting to be left out of the Academy Award buzz this weekend, Zombeavers has come up with a few new posters that pay homage to Oscar Nominated films.
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Zombies Take "A Morning Stroll" Down Oscar's Red Carpet
Think the undead are not getting any respect at the Academy Awards this year? Think again. One nominee brings on a full zombie apocalypse in its quest for Oscar gold.
Meet "A Morning Stroll", one of tonight's nominees for Best Short Film (Animated).
"Loosely inspired by a real life event recountd in Paul Auster's brilliant book 'True Tales of American Life', Grant Orchard's 'A Morning Stroll' tells the story of one New Yorker's early morning encounter with a chicken, an event that plays out over 100 years."
Written and directed by Grant Orchard and produced by Sue Goffe for studio aka, "A Morning Stroll" is perhaps the first and only film that will ever combine "inspired by a real life event" with an "encounter with a chicken" and the zombie apocalypse.
It has already won for best animated short at both the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards and the 2012 Sundance Film festival so it stands a great chance of taking home a statue tonight.
While the trailer doesn't offer any glimpse or hint of the zombie goodness included in this great short, the film definitely delivers and is a hilarious must see for fans of the living dead.
"A Morning Stroll" is available on iTunes now as part of the Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2012 collection.
Why Did David O. Russell Drop Out Of 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies'?
The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog reports that the decision by Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell to drop out of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film came down to a simple matter of budget... or a lack thereof.
“I thought at $40 to $50 million was a bargain price to make a “Sherlock Holmes”-style period action romance that happened to have zombies in it,” Russell said. “The studio budgeted it as a genre zombie movie and gave me $25 to $28 million. I was like, that’s not cool."
Fresh on the heels of multiple Academy Award nominations for his film The Fighter, including his own nod for Best Director, Russell just might have any easier time getting the budgets he wants now.