BILLY CONNOLLY's PET ZOMBIE FLICK

On Film* Lions Gate Films and Anagram Pictures have nabbed Billy Connolly to star in FIDO according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joining Dylan Baker, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tim Blake Nelson and Henry Czerny in this film about a little boy, Timmy, and his best friend, a 6-foot-tall domesticated zombie named Fido. FIDO is a highly-stylized dark horror comedy set in a small town that has been frozen in an idyllic world reminiscent of the 1950's. Whoever thought they'd cross Sean of the Dead with Lassie?

In other upcoming film news, the Tim Burton Collective site reports that Warner Bros. have updated the official Web site for Tim Burton's forthcoming stop-motion animated movie The Corpse Bride.