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September 12, 2007 - The latest big-screen installment in George Romero's endless zombie saga has been picked up for North American theatrical release by The Weinstein Co.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio snatched up the distribution rights to George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead for roughly $2 million.

Romero, who directed the 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead, most recently revisited the zombie subgenre with 2005's Land of the Dead.

Diary premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend.

Romero calls the film "a rejigging of the myth," and intends it to be a reboot of his zombie movie franchise. The story follows a group of students who are making an indie horror film. Unfortunately, life imitates art and the group become trapped in a world being consumed by living corpses. The filmmakers then begin to document the real-life horrors occurring around them.

There's no immediate word on when Weinstein might release the flick on the big screen, but stay tuned.