Dead Island Movie Updates
Total Updates: 24
- added Felipe Marino as producer to credits
- added Joe Neurauter as producer to credits
- added Occupant Films as a production company
- changed the status of Lionsgate Films to Former
- changed the production status to Development
- changed the status of Stefan Sonnenfeld to Former
- changed the status of The Sean Daniel Company to Former
- changed the status of Sean Daniel to Former
- added a synopsis
- An ax-wielding father must protect his family from an invasion of zombies while on a tropical vacation.
- added Lionsgate Films as a distributor
- added The Sean Daniel Company as a production company
- changed the status of Union Entertainment to Former
- added Stefan Sonnenfeld to the credits
- added Sean Daniel to the credits
- changed the status of Richard Leibowitz to Former
- changed the status of Dmitri Johnson to Former
- changed the production status to Development
- added Video Game Trailer to trailers & videos
- added a synopsis
- Based more on the video game's trailer than the actual game Dead Island, the movie will unravel a zombie story in Momento-like fashion, as the announcement trailer did in reverse chronological order.
- changed the production status to Announced
- added Union Entertainment as a production company
- added Dmitri Johnson to the credits
- added Richard Leibowitz to the credits
- created the movie profile
Fri., Aug. 1, 2014
Thu., Dec. 12, 2013
from Movie Insider
Movie Insider
Sat., Oct. 1, 2011
from Deadline
Lionsgate Lands Movie Rights to Zombie Vidgame
Lionsgate has acquired movie rights to Dead Island, the Deep Silver video game about vacationers on an island paradise who are attacked by zombies.
Sat., Feb. 19, 2011
from Deadline
Viral Sensation 'Dead Island' Takes Movie Shape
Lucky for producers Sean Daniel Company's Daniel and Jason Brown and Union Entertainment's Richard Leibowitz and Dmitri Johnson, they corralled the screen rights nearly a year ago. Studios and agencies are all over them, suggesting talent packages and story lines to try and make a screen deal. That will likely happen in the next...