19 Facts About Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 American zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer in his theatrical debut and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Zombieland was a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $60.

Zombieland succeeded and maintained a vegetarian diet for 11 months.

Zombieland was filmed in digital, using the Panavision Genesis digital camera and had a 41-day shooting schedule.

Zombieland said it is "how you present yourself as a zombie that determines how people will react to you" and that "once the contact lenses go in", he thinks "all bets are off".

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Zombieland described having to makeover physically attractive actors who usually benefit from their looks as "a little off-putting" after seeing some of them in their character makeup for the first time.

Zombies in Zombieland were described by the casting director as: "Ferocious, infected people who move erratically.

Shortly after finishing the filming of Zombieland, Harrelson had an altercation with a TMZ photographer at New York City's LaGuardia Airport.

Zombieland's defense was that he was still in character and thought the cameraman was a zombie.

Zombieland was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on February 2, 2010, on Blu-ray and DVD.

Zombieland was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on October 1, 2019, a few weeks before the sequel was released in theatres.

Zombieland closed on December 13, 2009, with a final gross of $75, 590, 286 in North America and $26, 801, 254 in other territories for a worldwide gross of $102, 391, 540.

The website's consensus reads: "Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead.

Zombieland credited Bill Murray's cameo appearance as receiving the "single biggest laugh" of the year and gave the film 3 out of 4 stars.

Savlov categorized Zombieland as being "dead set against being dead serious" with its tonal pallor "ha[ving] more in common with a foreshortened It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World than with 28 Days or Weeks Later".

Entertainment Weeklys Lisa Schwarzbaum concluded, "At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following".

Zombieland goes so far as to call the film "an undead Adventureland—a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the Facebook generation".

Not all comparisons with Shaun of the Dead were favorable: Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out New York characterized the "extra injection of pop-culture neuroticism" as "the one innovation" of the film, declaring that while Zombieland was funny, it was not particularly scary and stated that it "simply isn't as witty as Shaun of the Dead, forever the yuks-meet-yucks standard".

Film, Zombieland: Double Tap, featuring the return of the original cast, was released on October 18, 2019, the tenth anniversary of the original film's release, and was a critical and financial success.