Cinemark will debut Zack Snyder’s zombie actioner a week before its Netflix premiere.
The Netflix original will get a wide theatrical release beginning on May 14 which will include Cinemark theaters. I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen just days before its domestic debut at the “All Media” screening. As one who didn’t care for the first Transformers two years prior, I was hoping that it might be one of those Addams Family Values -style jumps in quality (or at least Angels & Demons being much more fun than The Da Vinci Code). Spoiler: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, despite a few visually dazzling action highlights (like the “shot on IMAX film” forest fight scene) was not very good. However, the theater was in the same outdoor mall as a sandwich shop named Star Chicken. It’s not there anymore, but it had the very best chicken Caesar wrap I had ever tasted. The movie was lousy, but the wrap was divine. In related news, I just bought a ticket to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead at my closest Cinemark theater for next Thursday night. I have no idea if the movie will be any good, but it’ll give me a chance to try out Raising Cane’s, a new chicken finger joint that just opened in Oxnard. That’s far enough from Moorpark that it’s not worth a special trip, but since the new zombie action flick/heist thriller is playing in Cinemark theaters starting next Friday, well, that sounds like a two-for-one fact-finding mission. I hope Army of the Dead is better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and I can only hope that Raising Cane’s chicken fingers are anywhere near as good as the wraps previously found at Star Chicken. Cinemark, America’s third-biggest theater chain after Regal and AMC, will be playing Netflix’s Army of the Dead when it opens on May 14 nationwide.
