Shaun of the Dead responded to a casting call organised through a fan website. Shaun's place of work is an actual electrical appliances shop located at Tally Ho, North Finchley. The scenes filmed in and around the "Winchester Tavern" pub were shot at the "Duke of Albany" pub, 39 Monson Road, New Cross, South London – a three-story Victorian pub. It was turned into flats in 2008. In the United Kingdom, "Shaun of the Dead" took £1.6 million at 366 cinemas on its opening weekend and netted £6.4 million by mid-May. In its opening weekend in the United States, "Shaun of the Dead" earned
Shaun of the Dead enemy graveyard. Prominent are many references to George A. Romero's earlier "Dead" films ("Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", and "Day of the Dead", with "Dawn" in particular being referenced). The 2010 Cuban film "Juan of the Dead" and the 2013 Singaporean film "Hsien of the Dead" were inspired by "Shaun of the Dead". The film's score by Pete Woodhead and Daniel Mudford is a pastiche of Italian zombie film soundtracks by artists like Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. It also uses many musical cues from the original "Dawn of the Dead" that were originally culled by George