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Whatever criticism one might want to level against the first Resident Evil movie, it had an undeniably positive effect on the zombie's fortunes. Dragged into the mainstream by the videogame franchise and Anderson's blockbuster, the living dead suddenly achieved a degree of respectability they'd never had before. It was as if, after seventy-odd years of being ignored, they'd finally received their invite to the Hollywood party. Within mere weeks of Resident Evil's opening came a series of press releases and announcements suggesting that the zombie had finally broken free of its marginal roots: a remake of Dawn of the Dead had received the greenlight, a big-screen adaptation of arcade game The House of the Dead was going into production; and, perhaps most exciting of all, George Romero announced at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors Convention in August 2002 that he was in serious talks with Twentieth Century Fox to complete the fourth and final installment of his "trilogy" - provisionally dubbed "Land of the Dead," with a $10 million budget and a planned R-rated release.
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