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Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Katie Aselton star as a trio of friends who venture to a deserted island for a getaway, only to find it's not so deserted after all. It gets a limited theatrical release starting Friday, May 17.
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If you're like me, you think reading is something done by students and lost drivers, but you might be surprised to find that some of your favorite horror movies are actually based on books. Find out what you've been missing in my list of Horror Movies You Didn't Realize Were Based on Books.
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Last Kind Words is a fairly nondescript ghost story revolving around a teenage love story that plays a bit like a blue collar Twilight with ghosts instead of vampires...and minus $80 million in budget. Read about it in my review of Last Kind Words.
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This week's new home video releases are headed by Beautiful Creatures, The ABCs of Death, Dark Circles, Last Kind Words, Season 2 of Teen Wolf and Season 5 of True Blood, plus a host of re-releases.
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Well, it looks like the Zombieland series is no more. Amazon has declined to pick up the pilot, although it's unclear if the decision is based strictly on viewer feedback or if other factors came into play. Writer-producer Rhett Reese for one thinks it's all about the viewer response, stating to fans (or non-fans) on Twitter that "You guys successfully hated it out of existence." While Reese is partly to blame for a so-so final product, he does have a point, given the overwhelming and unjustified negative response from fans of the film before the pilot was even released. For some reason, the fact that the characters from the film were being played by different actors really rubbed some people the wrong way, although the practice has been done dozens upon dozens of times with other movies that were turned into TV shows -- some, like M*A*S*H, Alice, The Odd Couple, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Dead Zone and Fame, quite successfully. Although I thought the Zombieland pilot was just OK, I would've liked to see the series get a chance to find its way...but it appears to be a dead show walking.
For the record, of the 13 pilots tested, Amazon has thus far picked up Alpha House and Betas.
Source: Deadline
