Resident Evil Retribution

Are you ready for another Resident Evil film?  If you saw Resident Evil: Retribution - the fifth chapter in the series, which grossed $221 million worldwide - you know they've left the door open to at least one more chapter in the series.  

When we spoke to director Paul W.S. Anderson prior to the start of Resident Evil: Afterlife (part four) he told us he had mapped out a story for a new trilogy which would carry the franchise into a sixth film, so you know he's ready.  While we don't have a title for that sixth film, there is a confirmed release date...

Sony has announced a December 21st DVD/Blu-ray/Blu-ray 3D/Ultraviolet release for Resident Evil: Retribution.  The sequel grossed $42 million domestically but took in an estimated $179 million overseason bringing the film's total box office gross to $221 million.  You think there will be a sixth film?  you bet your ass.

In Retribution, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus is spreading across the globe, transforming ordinary people into legions of undead. Headed for extinction, the human race has just one hope: Alice (Milla Jovovich). She’s on a mission, fighting her way through cities and across continents, all inside Umbrella's prime research facility. Old friends become new enemies as she battles to escape and discovers that everything that she believes may not even be true.

Head inside for a list of bonus features you'll find on the Blu.

Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution came out on top at the weekend box office grossing an estimated $21.1 million.  The fifth chapter in the series - released in 2D/3D/IMAX - could not quite overcome the Resident Evil: Afterlife's opening of $26.6 million.

The sequel was up against the 3D release of Disney's Finding Nemo.  Both were able to knock The Possession down a few notches from the number one slot it held two weeks in a row.

Retribution's performance continues to prove there's still an audience for the series, even though its opening gross proves that audience is dwindling.

Five movies into Screen Gems’ successful franchise, you should know what you’re going to get with a Resident Evil movie.  Let’s see if you agree: Each chapter usually begins with an action-packed set piece followed by the usual “My name is Alice…” shtick uttered with complete seriousness by series stalwart Milla Jovovich which is followed by more action usually involving a range of mutated ghouls, hand-to-hand combat and gunfire while a spasmodic soundtrack assaults your eardrums.

Now, if this is your thing, Resident Evil: Retribution is the sequel for you – and I’ll get into why shortly.  

Those who have despised the series since it began in 2002 and questioned its durability at the box office, why are you even reading this?  That goes for those detractors out there who balk at the franchise’s lack of faithfulness to the video games as well.  In fact, that goes especially for you guys.  Turn away.  Because Resident Evil: Retribution will draw up the same complaints from you:  It’s a loose interpretation of the Capcom video games, and an even more loose representation of the characters you love.

Resident Evil's cinematic legacy lives on in Resident Evil: Retribution, opening in theaters this Friday, September 14th in 2D/3D and IMAX. 

After the jump, you'll find our one-on-one video chats with writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson and stars Milla Jovovich, Boris Kodjoe and Michelle Rodriguez.  

In our string of interviews with the team, we discuss how the stakes are raised in this fifth film entry, the story's elevated action, what elements make the series successful and more.

Head inside for the video!

A new clip from Resident Evil: Retribution featuring Alice (Milla Jovovich) and Ada Wong (Li Binbing) fighting two Axemen is now online and can be watched below.

In the fifth installment, opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 14, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Check out the clip after the jump!

Sony has informed us that it has launched a new Resident Evil: Retribution "Street Invasion" game.  The description?  "Defend your neighborhood from Undead Invaders. Type in your location and begin your fight against Umbrella Corp by shooting zombies – right on your own local streets.  You'll find it via this link.

Yahoo! Movies has revealed a new featurette - entitled "Story" - for Resident Evil: Retribution, opening September 14th.  It's a talking heads piece that gives you a taste of some of the action and zombie fun that's to come.  Head inside for a look.  There's some behind-the-scenes footage to check out.

Zombies with guns, flaming zombies, giant Lickers, evil Jill Valentine and a heavy dose of hand-to-hand combat.  That's what you get in two recently released clips for Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth entry in the series which is opening in 2D/3D on September 14th.

Once again written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the film promises a "globe-trotting" experience as it sends Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her pals all over the world in their fight against the Umbrella Corporation.

Sienna Guillory, Colin Salmon, Michelle Rodriguez, Shawn Roberts, Johann Urb, Kevin Durand, Boris Kodjoe and Bingbing Li star.

Another Resident Evil: Retribution one-sheet has hit the web, a slightly different spin on what we've seen before.

Emphasis, once again, is being placed on the fact that the film's events are going "global" as Milla Jovovich's Alice and her pals take on Umbrella all around the world.

The new film opens on September 14th and we will be talking to the cast members involved soon, so stay tuned for those interviews.  

Head inside for a larger look at the poster art you see on the left.  And, for our photo gallery connected to the film, click here.

Four new images from Resident Evil: Retribution have surfaced once again at an international site, and, similar to the last batch that hit last week, they feature Ada Wong, Carlos, Rain and Jill Valentine (yum).

The Ada pic offers fans a good look at what kind of heat she's packin'.  Carlos appears to be in Umbrella garb (we could be totally wrong), ditto with Rain and Valentine...well, she's just looking hot.

The new film opens in 2D/3D on September 14th.

Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the fifth installment in the franchise stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing. The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. 

A new - presumably international - poster for Resident Evil: Retribution has arrived, this time featuring Milla Jovovich's Alice and Bingbing Li's Ada Wong.  Head inside for a look and expect the film to arrive on September 14th in 2D and 3D.

Four new photos from Resident Evil: Retribution have hit the international site Alterblog.  The new images show off some of the new and "left for dead" characters you can expect to see in the fifth film which is opening on September 14th.

Carlos, Rain, Ada Wong and Jill Valentine are represented.  Head inside for more pics.

Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the fifth installment in the franchise stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing. The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. 

Screen Gems has debuted two new TV spots for their upcoming Resident Evil: Retribution, hitting 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 14th.

The spots offer some new footage including a look at Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), some more Licker action, Roland Emmerich-style flooding and more Axemen than you can handle.  Actually, you probably could handle them, they're big and slow.

Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the fifth installment in the franchise stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing. The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. 

I could be mistaken, but is this a series first?  Is this the first Resident Evil movie poster to actually feature...zombies?  (I know in the U.S. there hasn't been a trace of zombie action on the RE one-sheets as the focus has always been placed on Milla.)  IMP Awards landed a look at some international art for Resident Evil: Retribution.  It's a spin on many of the promo items we've seen before, but it throws in a spoonful of the walking dead.  Zombies big.  Zombies running.  Zombies attacking from all angles.  Get some!  (And look for the movie September 14th.)

Although director Paul W.S. Anderson was making movies for many years before he tackled Capcom's Resident Evil as a film, that's the movie he's become the most closely associated with, having written all five movies and directed three of them.

This September, the fifth chapter in the series, Resident Evil: Retribution, will open nationwide September 14th, bringing back not only Milla Jovovich's Alice but a lot of characters from the previous installments - many of them who are dead - as well as introducing Ada Wong (Bingbing Li) and Leon Kennedy (Johann Urb) from the games.

Even though it may not seem like the movies have gotten that much bigger in terms of business since the first movie in 2002, the previous movie, Resident Evil Afterlife, which was the first one filmed in 3D, became a nearly $300 million global phenomenon. That may be why Resident Evil: Retribution is boasting its own global initiative as Alice and friends end up travelling to a lot of different places outside Raccoon City in this one.

Both Shock Till You Drop and ComingSoon.net have interviewed Anderson many times, but for one reason or another, this writer has never had a chance to even meet him, so it was cool to finally be able to meet and talk to this master of the horror and video game movie genre.

In a few moments, the cast and crew of Resident Evil: Retribution will invade Hall H at Comic-Con at 4:05pm Pacific to discuss the fifth entry in the popular series.

We're settling in to live blog the panel for you, dear reader, and give you the highlights as they happen!

In Resident Evil: Retribution, we learn more about Alice's mysterious past as she continues to hunt those at The Umbrella Corporation responsible for the T-virus outbreak, a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, including the return of Michelle Rodriguez as Rain Ocampo, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion.

Appearing in person: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe, Mika Nakashima and writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson.

Okay, so a new photo from Resident Evil: Retribution doesn't exactly break new ground - as it finds Milla Jovovich's Alice beating on some zombie ass - but it's a new pic from the fifth film nonetheless.  

The image surface within the pages of Entertainment Weekly, which is doing a big Comic-Con 2012 preview.  You can jump inside for a larger peek.  

The film opens in theaters on September 14th and, of course, expect tons of coverage from SDCC next week!

Sony's Screen Gems revealed a new banner for Resident Evil: Retribution, opening September 14th. The tagline takes an Alice in Wonderland approach and screams "Alice in Wasteland" and finds Milla Jovovich's heroine Alice walking amongst the ruins of wrecked Umbrella Corporation submarines.  Check out the banner inside.

Following the Milla Jovovich Q&A (watch a replay here), we now have the new trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution which you can watch it inside!  I have to say, it's got a clever start as it opens like a romantic comedy until all hell breaks loose (some of you might say it's very Dawn of the Dead remake-ish).

Screen Gems will release Resident Evil: Retribution, in state-of-the art 3D, in the United States on September 14, 2012.

In Resident Evil: Retribution, the Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race's last and only hope, Alice (Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Resident Evil: Retribution star Milla Jovovich will be participating in a live global streaming webchat leading up to the launch of the film's trailer today, Thursday, June 14th at 11:00am EDT at the Regal Union Square Cinemas in New York.

You can log on to Facebook.com/ResidentEvilMovie to watch the Q&A live or use the player below; the event is being translated into ten languages worldwide. The full trailer will be posted online after the webchat.

Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth installment of the wildly successful film franchise that has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide to date. Screen Gems will release Resident Evil: Retribution, in state-of-the art 3D, in the United States on September 14, 2012. 

Sony has revealed two photos from the upcoming Resident Evil: Retribution, we suspect, in anticipation of a rumored new trailer that is on the way.

The images feature Alice (Milla Jovovich) and Ada Wong (Bingbing Li).

In the film, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Opening in theaters on September 14, the fifth installment stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing.

Set to hit theaters this September, Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution marks the fifth film in the popular video game-inspired film franchise. Always a hit at Comic-Con, Resident Evil looks to be moving into viral marketing terrority with an official website for the Umbrella Corporation that, in addition to frequent video appearances by Milla Jovovich's Alice, teases a mobile recruiting tour set to hit San Diego in the near future. Check out the site's in-game press release after the break.

The last time we caught up to writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson it was on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution, the fifth film in the Screen Gems series spawned from the Capcom video games.  Since then, we've seen a teaser trailer make its premiere, giving us a sense of what's to come.  

At WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim, California, Shock Till You Drop reconnected with the man to find out where he's at in the production process and to discuss new creatures, opening up the Resident Evil world and those supposed flashbacks that were hinted at in the teaser. 

Sony Pictures is presenting Resident Evil: Retribution (as well as The Amazing Spider-Man and Looper) at WonderCon and you can check out our live blog of the panel after the jump!

From writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: Retribution stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing.

Screen Gems has forwarded along two pieces of hi-res artwork for the September 14th release Resident Evil: Retribution.  The first is a teaser poster, the second piece of art is a banner we introduced earlier, but it has been revised.

The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun

You enter a typical soundstage.  It's all cables and beams, wood and iron.  Crew members are layered in sweaters and long pants to fight off the chill inside.  The brave ones wear shorts.  At the soundstage's entrance is a Christmas tree; its yuletide glow is tarnished by the fake corpse of an Umbrella Corporation soldier propped up in a chair next to it.  Behind him, a pane of glass splattered with blood.

Welcome to Camp Evil.

Weaving in an out of the gaffers, grips and production assistants, you try not to trip yourself on the minefield of apple boxes, power strips and black cables stretching out into the shadows.  There's a gigantic set to the left.  White pillars stretching to the ceiling and pristine, glossy white floor tiles being dismantled.  Crew members work at a hurried pace to bring the set down by the end of the day.  If one were to set up a camera and shoot this process with time lapse photography, the playback would be akin to watching ants working over a fresh carcass, stripping meat from a bone.

This set is just the front half of the soundstage.  The remaining square acres are a different story, hell, different environment entirely.  It's a set built to impress.

What stretches out before you is a white, icy landscape.  Fake snow drifts lazily to the ground.  Ahead, lying on its side like a wounded animal is some sort of all-terrain vehicle.  And jutting out of the "ice" from below is a submarine conning tower, Umbrella logo emblazoned on the side.

Thank God for Milla Jovovich's faux fireplace - a metal and glass box embedded in the wall that emits a nflickering glow like a fireplace and jettisons hot air.  Toronto, Canada in mid-December is a frigid place.  But, courtesy of the actress, she has visiting press members huddled around her trailer's fireplace in a semi-circle while she sits casually on the floor in the middle, digital recorders strewn before her.  The iPhone with the bedazzled case featuring the signature red and white Umbrella Corporation logo?  Yeah, that's hers.

Jovovich is prepping for a big showdown sequence today on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution.  A stand-off situation that will ultimately transpire into a guns a-blazin', fists a-flyin' brawl between her character, Alice, and Sienna Guillory's Jill Valentine.  And her excitement hasn't wavered.  Not after nearly 10 years of living with the Resident Evil franchise, moreover, Alice - a woman who woke up in a ominous mansion, rediscovered some of her past, learned she was infected with the T-virus, had made friends, seen friends die and fought off endless waves of zombies and assorted creatures, big and small.

Sony's Screen Gems has premiered the hi-res trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution.

Opening in theaters on September 14, the fifth installment stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing.

Keep your eyes peeled to Shock, in just a few hours, we'll be running our full set report featuring interviews with the cast and crew!

While there have certainly been rumblings as to when we'll see a teaser or trailer for Resident Evil Retribution, nothing has been confirmed.  At least, until today.  Milla Jovovich took to Twitter to run a bit of rumor control and she revealed when we'll be seeing a preview hit.

The Resident Evil franchise is the latest to substitute a letter for a number in the title of its latest chapter.  When the fifth film hits, expect to see displayed as Re5ident Evil: Retribution.  That confirmation and an official plot synopsis have been released to us this morning from Sony.  Head inside to learn what the film is about!

Updated: Sony reps inform us the "5" will NOT be part of the title after all.

Milla Jovovich and Sienna Guillory are hamming it up on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution. 

As the former revealed on her Twitter account this week, shooting has been rather intense as both actresses are involved in a sequence in which they duke it out in a meticulously-choreographed fight.  So, why not cut the stress with a little Christmas message from Jill Valentine and Alice, right? 

Inside you'll find the latest set video from Jovovich.

Milla Jovovich has been tweeting away from the set of Resident Evil: Retribution with a series of frivolous video blogs, but they were not anything really fit for print around these parts. 

This morning, however, the actress gave her Twitter account followers a taste of the carnage being filmed this week.  And it involves something BIG.