Netflix’s Army of the Dead To Hit In Theaters Before Streaming Date

Netflix and movie theaters have long been at odds, but that tension is fading as evidenced by Army of the Dead getting a wide(ish) theatrical release. Variety reports that the Zack Snyder-directed Netflix film will play in approximately 600 theaters for a week before its May 21st Netflix release.

The release includes 200 Cinemark locations and makes Army of the Dead the first Netflix film to have a wide release in a major theater chain. Other locations include iPic, Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse, Harkins and Cinépolis; however, AMC and Regal will not be screening it.

The film stars former WWE Superstar Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Huma Qureshi, Omari Hardwick, Tig Notaro, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Matthias Schweighöfer, Raúl Castillo, Nora Arnezeder, and Samantha Win and is described as follows:

From filmmaker Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen, Zack Snyder’s Justice League), ARMY OF THE DEAD takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours. With little left to lose, Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all.