EW's wild Friday night in 'Zombieland'

 
Woody Harrelson gunning down the undead in "Zombieland."  (Columbia Pictures)

What a great idea.

Entertainment Weekly's Nicole Sperling spent last Friday night (Oct. 2) hanging out with the stars, director and screenwriters of the monster action-comedy "Zombieland" as they cruised Los Angeles movie houses checking out the flick's attendance on opening night.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't expect "zombie slayer" Harrelson, who dispatches the walking dead with a banjo at least once, to go along for the ride.

Harrelson did, though, at least until they encountered an almost empty auditorium with "Zombieland" lighting up the screen.  Co-star Jesse Eisenberg stuck it out the entire evening, though.

Nicole Sperling's innovative and insightful tag-along story begins at one of Hollywood's largest movie houses:

"8:30 pm Mann Grauman’s Chinese Theater

"The cavernous 1,400 seat theater is about halfway full. Eisenberg leans up against the back wall of theater watching his character Columbus explain that one of their crazy plans wasn’t his but belonged to his traveling companion Tallahassee (Harrelson). 'I’m just kind of a Sancho Panza character,' says Columbus. The line gets a couple of chuckles. Eisenberg shrugs his shoulders in (director Ruben) Fleischer’s direction."

Click here to check out the entire EW article.