Hunt the Undead in Upcoming Film 'Zombie Safari'

Courtesy Shock Till You Drop

Because we can't get enough of zombies, we just had to share the just-released artwork and plot details for Red Sea Media's "Zombie Safari." The film is in its infant stages but we know, thanks to Shock Till You Drop, that Mark Burman ("Piranha Sharks") is producing with the hope that the film will be ready for your viewing pleasure in 2015.

So what is this spoof of "Jurassic Park" all about? The story takes place "Years after the zombie apocalypse, life has returned to normal. A billionaire, driven mad by what happened to his family years ago, opens a zombie safari theme park. But when the power goes out, nothing is left to stop these captive zombies from escaping."

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Genius? Or another way to capitalize on the zombie craze? Who cares, right? It sounds pretty cool and the artwork isn't too shabby either.

We'll keep you posted on any new film developments but in the meantime, let us know your thoughts on if you'll be going on this hunt or skipping it altogether.

-Larissa Mrykalo

Comic Con features 'Jurassic Park' ... The Musical?

Courtesy Secondline Productions

Have you ever wondered what Jurassic Park might be like if it were a musical? Well, if you're heading to San Diego Comic Con this year, you can see this magic come to life.

Intrigued? Secondline Production's 30 Minute Musicals will be bringing the dinosaurs to life in ... are you ready? 4D!

We can only imagine how this may play out but the press release promises original songs, singing and dancing dinosaurs, and excessive laughter.

Will they throw in the T-Rex devouring that lawyer? We'll have to wait and see.

This isn't their first venture into making a popular movie into a musical. They've already done adaptations of Showgirls, Ghostbusters, Teen Wolf, and Home Alone.

Directed by Brooke Seguin, the production stars Tom Lenk (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Sandeep Parikh, Tara Perry, Brooke Seguin, Tommy Hobson, Michael Bernardi, Tom Detrinis, Tania Possick, Greg Lynch, Leslie Marrero, Jim Hanna, and Lindsay Wray.

The performance will be July 18 at 6 p.m. at the Horton Grand Theater. Tickets can be purchased here for $20 but are available at the door for $25.

-Larissa Mrykalo

'Jurassic Park 4' officially on hold

If the Jurassic Park 3D release got you fired up for some prehistoric action with Jurassic Park 4, set to be
released June 2014, well ... you might want to sit down for this.

In a statement released today by Universal, the film has been put on hold.

The statement:

In coordination with filmmakers, Universal has decided to release Jurassic Park 4 at a later date giving the studio and filmmakers adequate time to bring audiences the best possible version of the fourth installment in Universal’s beloved franchise. We could not be more excited about the vision that Colin Trevorrow has created for this film, and we look forward to watching as he and the producers create another great chapter in this franchise’s storied history.

As Ain't It Cool points out, this news breaks just days after director Trevorrow tweeted the above image of "Nublar" from a location scout.

Of course, this doesn't mean JP4 is going away forever, but it doesn't mean anything just yet. My guess is that it will eventually happen. It is too much of a juggernaut to go away indefinitely, but it likely will not be hitting in 2014.

-Aaron Sagers

'Jurassic Park 4' back on, written by 'Planet of the Apes' scribes

According to Deadline, Jurassic Park 4 is back on and will be written by Rise of the Planet of the Apes hubby-and-wife scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The news comes after Steven Spielberg announced at Comic-Con last year that he'd like to see the movie get made in the next couple years.

After Apes ended up being a box office success, perhaps Silver and Jaffa can strike gold twice - or at least create something better than the pretty bad JP sequel The Lost World (1997) and the mediocre Jurassic Park III (2001). And let's hope and pray the once-rumored plot of dinos with guns as fourquel fodder has been effectively abandoned.

-Aaron Sagers

The Joe Letteri effect: Visual effects wiz on creating 'Apes,' 'Tintin,' 'Hobbit'

BY AARON SAGERS

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Pull back the curtain on much of today’s movie magic and you’re likely to find the wizard is visual effects master Joe Letteri.

The resume of Letteri’s effects work reads like a list of some the most popular, and biggest banking, films of the last 20 years: The Abyss; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Jurassic Park (recently released on Blu-ray); the 1997 special edition of Star Wars; The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers and The Return of the King); the highest grossing film ever, Avatar. Even films that look great but aren’t remembered as great films, like Van Helsing, X-Men: The Last Stand and 2005’s King Kong survive because of his talents.

The strength of Letteri’s work isn’t just that he brings the visions of directors Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and James Cameron to life, but his creations impress the movie biz’ toughest boss, the audience, and has earned him five Oscars.

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But Letteri keeps upping his game to keep all parties happy. In 2011, he created the super intelligent apes of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (now out on DVD and Blu-ray), a movie that was initially met with skepticism by fans until that initial trailer showed off the expressive eyes of Caesar – which was courtesy of Letteri. He is also behind the performance capture effects in Spielberg and Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin and is currently at work on The Hobbit series, the first installment of which is one of the most anticipated films of 2012. Moreover, it's a good bet that Apes will net Letteri another Oscar nod for best visual effects.

Letteri spoke with us about Apes, Tintin and The Hobbit – as well as some of his past work - and opened up about the relationship between technology and actors (after the jump).