28 Days Later in one minute in one take

Yeah, the movies a few years old, but Halloween is just around the corner, so why not?

'Night of the Living Dead' returns in 3D CGI

As you should know by now, our disdain at The Juice* for movie remakes is countered by our love of zombie movies. But what happens when they remake Night of the Living Dead ... again?

The Hollywood Reporter says newcomer Zebediah de Soto is creating Night of the Living Dead: Origins, a new version of the George A. Romero classic that will delve further into the characters' backstories, which is surely something we all wanted, right? Right? The flick will be produced by Simon West, who was the director of little art films like Con Air and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Oh, and did we mention that the plan is to make the movie using 3D CGI? This is the kind of thing that happens when movie rights fall into the public domain.

[This sounds like it could be really dumb, so here's The Kids in the Hall's take on zombies to beat them to the punch.]

Another remake of a George Romero movie

Overture Films has announced it will produce and distribute a remake of George Romero's 1973 flick The Crazies, Variety reports. The movie is about folks in a small town who are trapped when a mysterious illness causes all sorts of shenangians. Nice to know George always stretched himself.

We kid, though, since we dig Romero flicks. But this one will be directed by Breck Eisner (Michael's son, natch), with Georgie serving as exec producer. So he'll be able to sorta oversee how his movie is butchered, we guess.

"We've been trying to move into horror fare that is clever and smart," Overture CEO Chris McGurk said. Here's something clever and smart: Try making new horror movies that don't involve torture, cannibalism, radioactive mutants, cell phones or the Internet. What's that leave you with? Remakes, apparently.

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Trailer Trash: 'Dance of the Dead'

A curious straight-to-DVD concoction, this one has lots of zombies and bad jokes, which are two great tastes that taste great together. We haven't seen one this fun since Zombie Strippers.

Trailer trash: 'Zombie Strippers'

While we're mentioning Jenna Jameson, let's see what else she's been up to lately. Let's see, there's that PETA ad and, oh yeah, a straight-to-DVD flick with Robert Englund set in a fictional town in my home state. Awe. Some.

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

If you're big zombie fans -- like The Juice* -- you've already seen the trailer for Diary of the Dead. But it's Wednesday and we're bored, so let's watch it again.

Not a lot of excitement at Sundance this year

It’s been quiet in Park City, Utah, as the Sundance Film Festival entered its second week with little fanfare even amid the ongoing strike. It’s been assumed that Hollywood studios would be stocking up on movies in case labor disputes ran the well dry, but that hasn’t been the case, Reuters reports.

“The story so far is good movies but not commercial movies,” said David Poland, founder of the Movie City News Web site. So it seems reality shows are getting a look on the silver screen as well as TV.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a doc about the director convicted of unlawful sex with a minor, was bought by Weinstein Co. for international distribution and by HBO’s documentary unit for North America. Young @ Heart, about a chorus of senior citizens who sing rock songs, and Patti Smith: Dream of Life, about the former punk rocker are also popular.

Meanwhile, crowd-pleasing fiction movies like Sunshine Cleaning (sisters who clean up murder scenes), The Wackness (a shrink smokes weed sold by a teenage client) and The Great Buck Howard (an ego-stroke for movie stars) still haven’t found buyers. Because short-sighted studios are probably ramping up another Weekend at Bernie’s film.

[Photo: We're showing George Romero, the mastermind of the upcoming Diary of the Dead, at Sundance because we like zombie movies. AP]

Steven Tyler's gal pal throws down

And to think: It could have happened in Tampa! Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler’s girlfriend got into a catfight with a Native American woman at Pangaea, a trendy nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino down in Hollywood. The New York Post says Tyler’s g-f, Erin Brady, got mad when a Seminole woman tried to take a picture of Tyler. “Next thing everyone knows, the two girls are going at it,” a witness tells Page Six. “Scratching, hair-puling, hitting. It lasted about six seconds, then security broke it up. Steven got up to try to pull them apart, but it happened so fast, he really didn’t have time to do anything.” Said a club spokeswoman: “Nothing like a catfight and an aging rock legend to make an evening entertaining.” Indeed. Now how can we get Joe Perry to try something like this at Floyd’s?

(Photo: AP)

Ladies and gentlemen ... the Zombeatles

And what would Halloween be without zombies?

A game after our own brains ...

It's no secret The Juice* is a big fan of the zombies. There's just something about the dismal futility of an entire society turning on itself in the worst possible way that warms our hearts. Anyway, why you try the ultimately useless exercise of fighting off a zombie horde with Boxhead: The Rooms, in which you face five separate scenarios (in a PG-13-rated format) that will always end in your death, no matter how hard you fight. CLICK HERE to die trying.