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After months of angling and negotiating, the highly anticipated bout between Gina Carano and Cristiane “Cris Cyborg” Santos has been set for the main event of Strikeforce’s August 15th event in San Jose, as was announced during the broadcast of “Lawler vs. Shields.” Now, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker has confirmed that the match will crown an official female champion for the organization:

_{“That’s going to be the number one and the number two females fighting in the world. It will be our first Strikeforce female title belt…I think it’s going to be a fight of epic proportions.”}

No weight class has been announced for the belt yet, which is either because Strikeforce hasn’t yet determined what weight the two scale-haunted fighters will compete at, or because their female bouts will have an even looser approach to weight classes than their men’s bouts. After all, Cyborg basically earned her title shot by beating up a girl who was two weight classes smaller than her.

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Festival-goers will soon get the chance to appear in a horror movie, with the makers of the forthcoming I Spit on Your Rave inviting music fans to appear as zombies in their film.

Attendees of The Big Chill (a UK music festival based in Herefordshire) are being encouraged to don ghastly make-up and shuffle into the record books, as Warp Films and Film4 attempt to set the record for most zombies ever captured on film.

Rave is a ‘mockumentary’ set in the year 2018, six years after a virus is released at the London Olympics, turning the populace into flesh-hungry killers.

However, rather than chart Romero-esque carnage, the film will instead revolve around the first post-apocalyptic festival, created and curated by lifeless citizens looking to re-stage events from the ‘golden age’ of the 21st century.

Full details will be posted on the Big Chill website, with the horrific festivities kicking off on Thursday, August 6 and continuing throughout the weekend.

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Kung fu movie legend David Carradine, who recently revamped his career in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’ movies, has died at the age of 72.

Carradine was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, where he was set to shoot a new movie titled ‘Stretch.’ The Nation newspaper, citing Thai police sources, is reporting that Carradine was found hanged in his hotel closet and that it may have been a suicide. There’s been no other confirmation of that report so far, and Carradine’s agent told KABC that he believed the actor died of natural causes.

Thai police also told the BBC that Carradine was found by a hotel maid “with a rope around his neck and body.”

The Nation report claims that a preliminary police investigation found that Carradine hanged himself with a curtain cord, and that he was dead for at least 12 hours when he was found. The report also states that there were no signs of assault or foul play.

A rep for Carradine, however, tells TMZ that his camp “can confirm 100% that he never would have committed suicide. It was an accidental death. Everybody is in shock.”

Carradine’s manager, Chuck Binder, is calling the news “shocking.” He said that Carradine “was full of life, always wanting to work,” and that he was “a great person.”

Carradine’s career is a vast one, with over 200 movies and TV shows to his credit, including the hit ’70s show ‘Kung Fu’ and years later, more than 80 episodes of ‘Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.’ His breakout film role came in 1976, when he played Woody Guthrie in the biopic ‘Bound for Glory.’

Younger fans will likely know him as title character ‘Bill’ in Tarantino’s 2003-04 ‘Kill Bill’ movies, where he played the leader of a group of assassins and was eventually killed by one of his own disciples.

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A man dressed for an evening zombie crawl chose a costume that was a bit too realistic, and it ended up getting him arrested.

Wearing all black, knee pads, a knife, grenade, a gas mask, and carrying what looked to be a machine gun, he walked into the Metro Clothing store Friday evening on Capitol Hill, which was sponsoring the zombie crawl to promote the Crypticon Horror Convention at the Seattle Center next weekend.

But apparently, someone thought a masked gunman was walking into a store, and called police. Witnesses say a dozen police cars converged on the scene and officers ran into the store, guns drawn.

“The police came in with guns and they caught the guy and I’m like, ‘Oh wait, he’s in costume,’ ” said Carl, the store’s owner.

Seage, the event’s organizer, says the man was dressed as one of the zombies from Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation.

“I guess it was a little too good,” she said. “It was too believable and that’s why the police showed up.”

The man arrested, who gave his name as “Jay,” says he wasn’t detained too long.

“It’s definitely understanding — they (police) weren’t aware of the event going on,” Jay said. “They just had to check me out (and they) let me go pretty quick once they saw what I was here for.”

Seage said she was surprised it caused such a commotion.

“I didn’t expect anyone to be arrested being dressed as a zombie because we did this last weekend,” she said. “(There were) a dozen of us walking around in full zombie gear — blood, guts and nasty skin hanging off and it just went fine.”

Carl said the man was the first one to arrive in costume, and he could understand how someone might mistake the costume for something more sinister.

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From the “screenwriters are going to kick themselves for not thinking of this one” file comes the preview for a new German Norwegian horror film, Dead Snow — an epic that finally brings Nazi zombies to the big screen.

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