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Fans of Zombieland, the 2009 horror-comedy that was not, sadly, a weird sequel to Adventureland, will be excited to know that Amazon, in an effort to be as cool as Netflix, has greenlighted a series version of the film. Of course, this isn't TV—it's the internet. You're not going to find your Jesse Eisenbergs or your Emma Stones or your Woody Harrelsons or your Abigail Breslins or even your Bill Murray cameos on an online retailer's original programming network. Behold, the cast of Zombieland: The WebTV Show. Kirk Ward, Maiara Walsh, Tyler Ross, and Izabela Vidovic will star in what Amazon hopes will be their House of Cards. I am dubious; at least House of Cards had Kevin Spacey and a Mara sister. 

Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson are two A-list celebs making the terrible, terrible decision to appear in a forthcoming 9/11 "truther" film called September Morn.

To be honest, I don’t even care what Seven Psychopaths is about. I mean, yes, I care. But it’s Martin McDonagh, I am sure it will be wry and brilliant, and of course I will see it. But it’s not so much the exact plot points I’m interested in as the bizarre characters that seem to inhabit the film, played by a cast of manic weirdos whose presence alone is enough to make me want to shell out $14 on a movie ticket. But from what I’ve cared to gather, the film is a dark comedy that has something to do with the kidnapping of a mobster’s shih tzu, a struggling screenwriter, but most importantly, Tom Waits stroking a pet rabbit.

Not literally, unfortunately. Instead, the movie's stars will hit the press circuit for a mall tour around America's finest shopping centers, visiting locations in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis and Seattle over the first week in March. It'll mostly be the bit players who get the chance to be screamed at by thousands of 6th graders and their moms, but main stars Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth will also be available for some dates. As for the adults like Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson, well, ha ha, like hell if they were going to drag themselves through middle America for anything less than an Oscar nomination. If you're interested, you can RSVP at the movie's Facebook page. Total number of guests so far? 6,361  and counting over those seven malls. It's going to be a madhouse! 

Stoner actor Woody Harrelson took to the social bookmarking site Reddit’s AMA section, a place where non-famous and famous people like Louis CK and Stephen Colbert sometimes drop by and let users ask them anything. Literally anything. To say it didn’t go well is a vast understatement. Simply put: total train wreck.

Two weeks ago, I thought I was making the right decision when I left the theater midway through an advance screening of Zombieland so I could attend a New York Fashion Week party swarming with models. The following day I had interviews lined up with two of the film's stars, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, and I figured all I needed to see was the first hour of the film in order to pull them off. Don't get me wrong -- from what I saw, Zombieland was an intelligent, funny, and refreshing take on the overcooked zombie genre. But my guest to the screening (which also had Harrelson and his costar Jesse Eisenberg in the audience) was so adamant on experiening the singularly New York experience of a fashion party that I felt the need to indulge. Did that ever prove to be a mistake.

In the delightful new horror comedy Zombieland, Woody Harrelson gets to break stuff -- a lot of stuff. Windshields, bongos, entire shelves stacked with vases, and most of all, heads. In one scene, he swings a banjo at the a zombie cranium so hard, the entire theater rumbles. As the tough-as-nails zombie slayer Tallahassee, Harrelson is brutal, but also kinda sweet. In between inserting shotgun rounds into the heads of every unfortunate undead soul he sees, he searches the charred, desolate landscape for Twinkies. It's that kind of film. But in real life, Harrelson is nothing at all like his character. I found him in a room at the Waldorf Astoria relaxed as can be, slouched back on the couch, barefoot and lunching on some veggies from the Candle Cafe. We spoke about the new film, as well as another apocalyptic adventure he's got on the horizon, Roland Emmerich's 2012.