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AMC's The Walking Dead is proving to be just as poular online as it is on television as its Facebook page hunted down its 10,000,000 fan. And to commemorate the moment, they celebrated with a not so subtle homage to The Social Network...
The Hollywood Reporter snagged an exclusive short clip of what awaits Rick Grimes and company in the preison in The Walking Dead's season 3 opener:
Season 3 of The Walking Dead premieres on October 14th.
AMC takes the fight against Dish into the political arena, launching a president campaign for A. Zombie whose platform is based on "equal viewing opportunities for all".
From the campaign's official press release:
The 2012 Presidential race is about to get more lively thanks to something quite dead – the news that A. Zombie, America’s first Zombie Presidential candidate, is entering the race.
A formidable third party contender for the nation’s highest office, A. Zombie is slated to announce his candidacy at a high-energy rally on Monday, August 20th at Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. The candidate and his human wife, Patty Morgan-Zombie, will then commence a cross-country bus tour that will take them to six major U.S. cities including Tampa and Charlotte, where they will bring their pro-zombie message to the Republican and Democratic Conventions.
You can follow A. Zombie on Twitter and his website AZombieForPresident.com.
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray just took a big price drop on Amazon, going from $49.99 down to $29.99.
No word on how long this price will hold so, if you want it, grab it fast!
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season will be released on August 28th.
Spirit Halloween brings on The Walking Dead Teddy Bear Girl as a posable, animated prop for Halloween.
"She's life-size. She's got the bunny slippers, the pink pajamas, robe and stuffed pink teddy bear. The only problem is she's dead, as in The Walking Dead, and headed your way. The officially licensed Walking Dead Teddy Bear Girl animated prop is just the thing for Halloween so long as you stay out of her way."
Available for pre-order now: Walking Dead Teddy Bear Girl Animated Prop
The Walking Dead Social Game is now live on Facebook!
Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross just shared an alternate scene from the opening moments of the second season premiere of The Walking Dead.
"It is well known that instead of starting with Rick talking into his walkie-talkie and then the group being pretty much already out of Atlanta, the original plan for The Walking Dead’s season 2 premiere was to pick up just seconds after the CDC was blown to bits in the season 1 finale."
You can watch the clip right here.
This scene and other extras will be available on the Blu-ray and DVD editions of The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season on August 28th.
Could zombies live among us?
In order to answer this question, and campaign to "Put Zombies Back On TV", AMC unleashed the walking dead into the heart of the city.
The world needs the zombie apocalypse now more than ever, so come on guys, work this out and put zombies back on TV.
On Thursday night, July 26th, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films honored Robert Kirkman and The Walking Dead with Saturn Awards.
The Walking Dead took the award for Best Television Presentation and Robert Kirkman garned a special achievement nod with The Innovator Award.
Congratulations to Kirkman and the entire cast and crew of The Walking Dead. These awards have been well earned.
You can check out the full list of winners right here.
When it came to building the ultimate zombie survival car, Hyundai knew one of the best people to turn to turn to for design inspiration was Robert Kirkman, the man whose imagination created the world of The Walking Dead.
Introducing the Elantra Coupe Zombie Survival Edition!
And they also knew that there was no better place to reveal their results than the San Diego Comic-Con!
How was this machine of mayhem created? Here's the making of...
Unfortunately, The Walking Dead has not received any nominations in the major categories of the 2012 Emmy Awards. While the Drama Series / Actor / Actress / Direction / Writing categories all have very strong contenders, it would have been great to see The Walking Dead get a nod as well.
The Walking Dead did pull in nominations in three technical catgories - Prosthetic Makeup, Sounding Editing and Special Visual Effects.
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
American Horror Story • FX Networks
Boardwalk Empire • HBO
Game Of Thrones • HBO
Once Upon A Time • ABC
The Walking Dead • AMC
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series
Boardwalk Empire • HBO
Breaking Bad • AMC
CSI: Miami • CBS
Game Of Thrones • HBO
The Walking Dead • AMC
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Falling Skies • TNT
Game Of Thrones • HBO
Inside The Human Body • TLC
Once Upon A Time • ABC
Pan Am • ABC
The Walking Dead • AMC
Despite this limitation, AMC has nothing to complain it as both Mad Men and Breaking Bad did very well, scoring 17 and 13 nominations respectively.
And here's how the competition shaped up in the keys races in which The Walking Dead lost out:
Outstanding Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire • HBO
Breaking Bad • AMC
Downton Abbey • PBS
Game Of Thrones • HBO
Homeland • Showtime
Mad Men • AMC
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Damages • Glenn Close as Patty Hewes
Downton Abbey • Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley
The Good Wife • Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick
Harry's Law • Kathy Bates as Harriet Korn
Homeland • Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
Mad Men • Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire • Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson
Breaking Bad • Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Dexter • Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan
Downton Abbey • Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham
Homeland • Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody
Mad Men • Jon Hamm as Don Draper
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Breaking Bad • Anna Gunn as Skyler White
Downton Abbey • Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Downton Abbey • Joanne Froggatt as Anna
The Good Wife • Archie Panjabi as Kalinda Sharma
The Good Wife • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart
Mad Men • Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Breaking Bad • Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman
Breaking Bad • Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
Downton Abbey • Brendan Coyle as John Bates
Downton Abbey • Jim Carter as Mr. Carson
Game Of Thrones • Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
Mad Men • Jared Harris as Lane Pryce
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
The Good Wife • Martha Plimpton as Patti Nyholm
Grey's Anatomy • Loretta Devine as Adele Webber
Harry's Law • Jean Smart as D.A. Roseanna Remmick
Mad Men • Julia Ormond as Marie Calvet
Shameless • Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson
Smash • Uma Thurman as Rebecca Duvall
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series
Breaking Bad • AMC • Mark Margolis as Tio Salamanca
The Good Wife • Dylan Baker as Colin Sweeney
The Good Wife • Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning
Justified • Jeremy Davies as Dickie Bennett
Mad Men • Ben Feldman as Michael Ginsberg
Parenthood • Jason Ritter as Mark Cyr
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire • Tim Van Patten
Breaking Bad • Vince Gilligan
Downton Abbey • Brian Percival
Homeland • Michael Cuesta
Mad Men • Phil Abraham
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
Downton Abbey • Julian Fellowes
Homeland • Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff
Mad Men • Semi Chellas, Matthew Weiner
Mad Men • Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton
Mad Men • Erin Levy, Matthew Weiner
Good luck to The Walking Dead and all the other contenders for Emmy Awards this season.
Robert Kirkman and Image Comics made history with the 100th issue of The Walking Dead as it became the best-selling single issue of a comic book in the 21st century, selling out its entire order on its first day of release.
From their official press release:
THE WALKING DEAD #100 IS THE BEST-SELLING COMIC OF THE CENTURY
Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning THE WALKING DEAD comic series for Image Comics/Skybound reached its milestone 100th issue and instantly sold out of its 383,612 initial orders on July 11th, the same day it was released, effectively becoming the best-selling comic book in initial orders for any publisher since 1997, when Image Comics/Top Cow’s The Darkness #11 was released. THE WALKING DEAD, created and written by Kirkman with art by Charlie Adlard, featuring 13 variant covers for the 100th issue — all sold out — has been the talk of San Diego Comic-Con with a series of events celebrating its release. Kirkman is a partner in Image Comics, the first person invited to join the comic book industry’s premier publisher of creator-owned comics since its inception twenty years ago.
“This is a remarkable achievement,” said Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “It’s extremely uncommon, if not flat-out rare, for a comic book to see a sustained increase in sales following its first issue, but The Walking Dead steadily climbed up and up since its launch in 2003, and we couldn’t be more proud of Robert, Charlie and the whole Walking Dead team.”
“The Walking Dead continues to greatly exceed all my expectations in all forms,” said Robert Kirkman. “I am especially excited for what this means for comics as an industry, that this is an independent comic hitting that number.” Kirkman continued, “The future of comics couldn’t be brighter as more and more readers are embracing new ideas in a big way.”
On Wednesday night, Hyundai, Future US, and Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics unveiled the Kirkman-designed Zombie Survival Machine from a transformed Hyundai Elantra Coupe. On Thursday, Skybound and Ruckus Sports unveiled The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego, an obstacle course where anyone could live the experience of being a zombie apocalypse survivor and effects whiz Greg Nicotero and team transformed participants into one of the undead.
Kirkman will give away a Hyundai Elantra GT wrapped in Charlie Adlard’s iconic cover of THE WALKING DEAD’s 100th issue, which was on display Friday night at Petco Park during the private The Walking Dead 100th Issue VIP Black Carpet Event. The exclusive party featured a fully immersive recreation of a post-apocalyptic world infested with zombies.
The Skybound booth at Comic-Con, #2729, featured a slew of exclusive merchandise, including THE WALKING DEAD #100 Vannen Watch, THE WALKING DEAD Bloody Michonne Variant action figure and The Walking Dead Hardcover Compendium, which collects issues #1-48 of the iconic comic series.
THE WALKING DEAD topped the bestseller lists for graphic novels in 2011 and frequently topped the New York Times and Amazon’s bestseller lists, taking the top five spots on hardcover and paperback lists. Kirkman is also the executive producer and writer of the hit television show, AMC’s The Walking Dead, the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time in the U.S for season two. Friday’s AMC panel was one of the hottest events at Comic-Con. The show is also an international success in 120 countries, showing in 250 million households worldwide.
To celebrate Comic-Con and their #13DaysofDead, AMC's The Walking Dead is giving one of their Twitter followers a chance to win one of three posters.
"Thanks for a great Comic-Con weekend! Our last 13 Days of Dead giveaway is up for grabs! Follow The Walking Dead on Twitter for your chance to win one of these 3 posters. https://twitter.com/walkingdead_amc"
So follow them on Twitter and retweet the contest post for your chance to win!
Fight the dead. Fear the living. And watch the brand new trailer for the upcoming season of The Walking Dead that just came straight out of Comic-Con.
The third season of The Walking Dead returns to AMC on October 14th.
Want to win your very own zombie ear trophy necklace just like Darryl wore in The Walking Dead? AMC is giving you the opportunity for their #13DaysofDead so retweet the @WalkingDead_AMC's contest message for your chance to win!
AMC's The Walking Dead blog goes behind the scenes with Greg Nicotero:
"Co-Executive Producer and Special FX Make-up Designer Greg Nicotero always finds new ways to bring the dead to life on The Walking Dead. Season 3 will be no exception: In this new behind-the-scenes video, Nicotero tours his KNB EFX studio, shows off some memorable zombies from the series, and reveals a few tricks he has up his sleeve to "bash, crush, smash, just destroy some of our walkers" from Season 3."
Your chance to catch up on The Walking Dead starts today at 11:30am ET as AMC airs a full 19-episode series marathon.
Season 1 / Episodes 1 through 6 will air Saturday from 11:30am ET to 6:25pm ET.
Season 2 / Episodes 1 through 6 will air Saturday from 6:26pm ET to Sunday 1:00am ET
Season 2 / Episodes 5 through 13 will air on Sunday from 11:30am ET to 9:00pm ET.
After the marathon, at 9:00pm ET on Sunday night, AMC follows up with a special episode of The Talking Dead featuring a preview of Season 3 with series creator Robert Kirkman, show runner Glen Mazzara, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, comedian Drew Carey and enterainment journalist Dave Alpert.
Robert Kirkman is one of seven official nominees (along with the likes of Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith and Christopher Nolan) for Spike TV's 'Game Changer of the Year Award' for because he "took zombies to the extreme in comics and TV with The Walking Dead".
This year the comics, movies and sci-fi industry has seen all kinds of revolutionary work, but who truly changed the game most? From visionary directors to inspired actors and even comic book architects, there are many to choose from. But only one can win and it's up to you to decide!
Victor Scalise, The Walking Dead's Visual FX Supervisor takes us behind the scenes of how they create their visual effects.
AMC has confirmed today that The Walking Dead will be represented at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego as it prepares for its Season 3 return:
The cast and producers of AMC's breakout hit series The Walking Dead will participate in an hour-long panel at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego, CA. Moderated by Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick, The Walking Dead panelists will discuss what fans can expect in the highly anticipated third season, which debuts in October.
The Walking Dead panelists include Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, David Morrissey, Executive Producer and Showrunner Glen Mazzara, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer Robert Kirkman and Co-Executive Producer and Special Effects Make-up Supervisor Greg Nicotero.
More Details
• Autograph session on Fri., Jul. 13 at 10:45AM at Booth #3721
• Panel on Fri., Jul. 13 at 1:25PM in Hall H
• Press roundtable interviews available on Fri., Jul. 13 at 3PM
