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One of the biggest and most financially successful horror franchises is getting a new movie! Resident Evil will return to the big screen in the near future with Barbarian writer and director Zach Cregger at the helm.

Capcom's popular video game series remains one of the most well-known in the horror genre. Since the late 1990s, the biopunk games have dominated the charts and spanned over a dozen games, novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, and other merchandise. The original live-action film series starring Milla Jovovich ran for seven films, coming to an end in 2017. The last Resident Evil movie to make it to cinemas was the 2021 reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Netflix then tackled the franchise with its own live-action series that was canceled after just one season.

The Hollywood Reporter exclusively shares that Cregger's take on the post-apocalyptic series has already ignited one of 2025's biggest bidding wars,...

Since its debut in 1996, the Resident Evil franchise has been a dominant force in the world of entertainment. It started as a video game by Capcom and quickly became a cultural phenomenon, spawning a vast array of sequels, spin-offs, comics, novels, and, of course, live-action adaptations.

A reboot of the franchise is coming soon. | Image credit: Capcom

After a little break, it looks like the franchise is taking another shot at the big screen, and this time, things are shaking up in an interesting way. Not only Zach Cregger is writing and directing the reboot, but it will also feature a fairly new player in production: PlayStation Productions.

Resident Evil is coming back with a new vision

There have been multiple attempts to adapt Resident Evil into a movie. The adaptation started in 2002 and was a commercial success, but they were largely met with criticism, and fans of the games...

After seven live action movies and a short-lived Netflix television series, The Hollywood Reporter informs us tonight that Constantin Film and PlayStation Productions are bringing the Resident Evil video game saga back to the big screen. Zach Cregger (Barbarian) is attached to write and direct the new movie, with several studios engaged in a bidding war for the project.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit notes in tonight’s exclusive report, “Four studios are elbowing for the win, among them Warner Bros. and Netflix, according to sources.”

Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is said to “take the title back to its horror roots and be more faithful to the initial games,” which has something we have certainly heard before.

The most recent installment in the film franchise, director Johannes Roberts’ Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City took a similar approach back in 2021, but ultimately failed to resonate with fans. It...

Written by Brandon Salisbury, Robbie McGregor | Directed by Brandon Salisbury

When you read about the films that could, and really should, have been made, you usually hear about Jodorowsky’s Dune, Richard Stanley’s The Island of Dr Moreau and Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon are among the most frequently mentioned. However, one that should get just as much mention is George A. Romero’s Resident Evil.

Four years before Paul Anderson kicked off his franchise, George Romero, who certainly knew a thing or two about zombie movies, was hired to shoot a commercial for Resident Evil 2. When it was well received, plans were made to have him adapt the property as a feature film. A year later, he was fired from the project by Constantine Films.

Director Brandon Salisbury and co-writer Robbie McGregor devote just under two hours to exploring what happened, starting with his groundbreaking film Night of the Living Dead.

Video game adaptations are quite popular nowadays, but without a doubt, this trend was normalized by the Resident Evil movie series. The series kicked off with the release of 2002’s Resident Evil and ended with 2017’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The franchise was later rebooted but unfortunately, it was not well-received by the fans.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse was the second movie in the series (Image via Constantin Film)

The Resident Evil movie series is a great example of how video games are butchered when adapted into a different medium. The films were average and yet, managed to become the highest-grossing film series based on a video game at one point. The films featured some heavy hitters from Hollywood but no one was as influential as this one musician who almost joined the cast of 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

Snoop Dogg was all set to join the cast of Resident...

It’s a well-known fact that the majority of video game adaptations on big screens are usually met with lackluster responses from audiences. Most of the casual theatergoers find them disappointing, and hardcore gamers feel the series didn’t live up to the original games.

Capcom’s horror video game franchise redefined movie adaptations. (Image via Capcom)

However, that wasn’t the case with the Resident Evil series. The original live-action film brought together a number of talented actors and success that led to several sequels. The entire series didn’t receive high praise from critics but would have achieved a lot more if one of the industry’s best horror directors got his hands on it.

Horror legend who missed his chance with Resident Evil George A. Romero almost directed the first Resident Evil movie. (Image via Sony)

Whenever we talk about horror video games, only one name pops up: Resident Evil.

The Umbrella Academy season 4 was the title team's final mission, where they were joined by some interesting and dangerous characters and other well-known ones. After three seasons full of twists, turns, and dark revelations, The Umbrella Academy ended with its fourth season, which sees the Hargreeves dealing with one more apocalypse, though one that gets a bit too personal. After the ending of The Umbrella Academy season 3 took the Hargreeves, Lila, and Sparrow Ben to a new timeline designed by Reginald, season 4 catches up with them after parting ways to live normal lives.

After living without powers for a while, the Hargreeves are brought back together and given their powers back to go on a rescue mission – but, much to their dismay, they need their father’s help. The Hargreeves prepare to face one more apocalypse, though one that involves Ben, thus getting too personal. The Hargreeves and Reginald meet...

Back in July, it was announced that Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur (Coda) had signed on to star in the horror film Primate. Since then, Johnny Sequoyah (pictured above) of Dexter: New Blood has signed on to star in the film with Kostur – and now, as the project draws closer to production, Deadline has revealed that ten more actors have joined the cast. Here’s the line-up: Jessica Alexander (Amadeus), Victoria Wyant (My Fault: London), Benjamin Cheng (d’Illusion: The Houdini Musical), Gia Hunter (Sherlock and Daughter), Miguel Torres Umba (National Theatre co-production Kin), Kae Alexander (Ready Player One), Tienne Simon (Grime Kids), Charlie Mann (Lazarus), newcomer Amina Abdi, and Albert Magashi (National Theatre Live: Dear England).

Unfortunately, we’re not able to tell you anything about the roles these actors will be playing, because all plot and character details are currently being kept under wraps.

At the helm of Primate is genre regular Johannes Roberts,...

If read in order, the subtitles of the first six theatrically released "Resident Evil" movies almost ... almost ... spell out a "Divine Comedy"-like story arc. The first film is, naturally, merely called "Resident Evil" (2002), and it's about the release of a deadly, corporate-owned virus that turns the citizens of the world into zombies, creatures, or merely dead corpses. The film's sequel is subtitled "Apocalypse" (2004), implying that the virus escaped containment and infected the Earth. The third film is called "Extinction," implying that the virus did its job and humanity has become extinct. The arc is pretty clear. 

What comes after extinction? Well, the fourth film is called "Afterlife" (2010), following the now-dead humanity into Elysium. How apropos. Sadly, the fifth film in the series is not called "Resurrection" or "Reincarnation," but "Retribution" (2012), kind of breaking the spiritual cycle. Perhaps with "Retribution," humanity has become a gaggle of vengeful ghosts? Or perhaps not.

Director Zach Cregger was announced last week as the director of Clue – but now he’s swapped that for a Resident Evil reboot.

Zach Cregger is no longer directing Clue. Instead, the Barbarian director is swapping Sony projects, moving from one movie featuring grisly deaths in a mansion to another movie featuring, well… grisly deaths in a mansion.

Just days after being announced as the director of a new Clue film, based of course on the popular murder mystery board game (known as Cluedo in these parts), Cregger has now exited the project.

Cregger isn’t leaving the Sony stable, however. Instead, he’ll be moving over to the PlayStation Productions arm of the studio to tackle a reboot of one of the studio’s most popular and enduring videogame franchises: Resident Evil.

According to The InSneider, the decision comes largely down to money. Cregger is reported to have wanted $4m to direct Clue,...

Last year, New Line Cinema went all-in on a partnership with Barbarian (watch it Here) writer/director Zach Cregger and Barbarian’s producers at BoulderLight Pictures. New Line came out the winner in a bidding war over Weapons, which they’re planning to give a theatrical release date on January 16, 2026, and they’re also paying Cregger a sum in the eight figure range to make the movie. In addition to working with them on Weapons, New Line signed a first look deal with BoulderLight Pictures, tasking the company with developing high concept genre projects for them, and they gave a greenlight to the sci-fi thriller Companion, produced by BoulderLight and Cregger. That film will be reaching theatres a full year ahead of Weapons… But while Cregger is collaborating with New Line Cinema, he’s also being courted by Sony Pictures. Industry scooper Jeff Sneider reports that Sony was hoping Cregger...

Imagine if Halle Berry told you the world just ended, and now you have to live out in the woods. Also you have to stay in Halle Berry’s house or else an evil force will get you. Also if you do leave, you have to be tied to Halle Berry’s house by a rope or else — again — the evil will get you. Also only Halle Berry can see the evil. Oh, and the protective power of Halle Berry’s house has to be recharged like a battery, and recharged with your love, so she’s going to have to repeatedly lock you in the cellar with the lights off until you give off the right vibes.

That’s the premise of Alexandre Aja’s horror thriller “Never Let Go,” and if you think about it, it’s a pretty kooky way to tell a story about faith. Scary...

V/H/S/Beyond features segments directed by seven filmmakers with varied horror experience. The upcoming movie is the seventh installment in the found footage franchise, which kicked off in 2012. Typically, each installment features a wraparound segment featuring a character or group of characters discovering a collection of tapes that contain the anthology's short films, which are written and directed by different teams. One installment a year debuted before a hiatus between 2014 and 2021, at which point the streaming service Shudder began premiering themed installments, again at yearly intervals, with the theme of Beyond set as science fiction.

Over the years, the V/H/S franchise has featured segments helmed by quite a few up-and-coming directors including Pearl's Ti West, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's Adam Wingard, and Loki's Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead as well as more established horror filmmakers such as The Blair Witch Project's Edardo Sanchez, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City...

It feels safe to say that today marks the true beginning of the Halloween season, at least as far as the movie slate is concerned. From now through October 31, the schedule is Packed with new horror. For starters, Nine new horror movies were released today alone…

Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, August 23, 2024!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

After passing $100 million at the worldwide box office, director Osgood Perkins’ hit horror movie Longlegs is now available at home for digital purchase ($24.99) and rental ($19.99).

Hailed as the “scariest film of the year,” Longlegs was written and directed by Perkins and stars Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, and Nicolas Cage.

[Related] Did You Spot All 15+ Appearances of the Devil in ‘Longlegs’?

In Longlegs, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive...

Heather Graham is set to unleash fury in the wild west in upcoming horror thriller Place of Bones, and Bloody Disgusting has scored an exclusive sneak preview clip this afternoon.

Place of Bones releases in select theaters and on Digital on August 23, 2024.

Watch the clip below and find the film’s official trailer underneath.

“On a remote ranch, a mother (Graham) and her daughter fight for survival when a wounded outlaw seeking refuge brings a notorious bank robber and his ruthless gang, all desperate to reclaim a stolen fortune, right to their doorstep in this action-packed horror Western.”

Tom Hopper (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone (The Equalizer 2), and Corin Nemec (The Stand, “Stargate Sg-1”) star alongside Graham.

Place of Bones was directed by Audrey Cummings (She Never Died) and written by Richard Taylor. The cinematography is by Andrzej Sekula, whose credits include American Psycho and Pulp Fiction.

Kaya Scodelario's career showcases versatility, from horror to drama, proving her talent in various genres. Her performances in Resident Evil and Pirates of the Caribbean were notable for adding depth to her characters. Scodelario's emotional range shines in challenging roles like in Don't Make Me Go and The Truth About Emanuel.

Over the years, Kaya Scodelarios filmography has included some incredible movies, but some were better than others. The astonishing actress made her start as a teenager in one of the best TV shows of all time, the British drama Skins. After her screen debut in 2007 as Effy Stonem, Scodelario went on to appear in several more brilliant projects.

Many of these titles varied greatly in terms of genre, with the actress featured in stories that ranged from horror to drama to comedy to holiday-themed movies. Following the success of her career, Scodelario found further success and was applauded...

It’s the second and final day of Amazon’s annual Prime Day, with hundreds of products discounted — including prices slashed on horror movies!

Many of yesterday’s sales are still active, plus a bunch of new deals below…

4K Ultra HD Collections:

Scream / Scream 5 – $22.99 The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol. 3 – $36.99 Jurassic World: 6-Film Ultimate Collection – $42.99 Resident Evil Collection [Steelbook] – $109.16

Individual 4K UHDs:

The Suicide Squad – $9.99 Parasite – $10.39 Batman – $10.99 300 – $10.99 Edge of Tomorrow – $10.99 V for Vendetta – $10.99 A Clockwork Orange – $10.99 M3GAN – $11.99 Pan’s Labyrinth – $11.99 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World -$11.99 Beetlejuice – $12.99 Battlestar Galactica – $12.99 Brightburn – $13.95 The Shallows – $13.95 Monster Hunter – $13.95 Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City – $13.95 Leon The Professional – $13.95 Blade – $14.99 The Nun II – $14.99 Evil Dead Rise – $14.99 Sleepy Hollow – $15.99 The Witch – $15.99 Event Horizon – $16.49 Crimes of the Future – $17.29 Scream 2 – $18.39 Scream 3 – $17.94 Enter the Dragon [Steelbook] – $19.99 Night of the Living Dead – $24.99

Blu-ray Collections:

Dirty Harry: 4-Film Collection – $11.99 Cloverfield: 3-Movie Collection – $12.99 Hammer Horror: 8-Film Collection – $16.99 Memento / Insomnia / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight...

At the start of last year, former DC Films boss Walter Hamada signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures, the idea being that he would become, as Deadline put it, “the architect of Paramount’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the mission to release several low- to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.” Now Deadline has an update on Hamada’s horror-minded efforts at Paramount, as they’re reporting that the studio has given the greenlight to the Hamada-produced horror film Primate, which has Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur attached to star.

Kotsur won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Coda, becoming the first deaf male actor and only the second deaf actor overall to win an Oscar. Kotsur’s other credits include Wild Prairie Rose, No Ordinary Hero, Universal Signs, The Number 23, and episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Mandalorian, Criminal Minds,...

Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur (Coda) will lead the cast of the upcoming horror movie Primate, Deadline reports, with Johannes Roberts directing for Paramount Pictures.

Roberts co-wrote the screenplay with Ernest Riera, the website’s report notes.

Plot details for Primate, at this time, are unfortunately under wraps.

Walter Hamada is producing Primate, part of a new horror pact with Paramount.

Hamada, who recently left WB/DC, has a ton of horror cred from his time at New Line, producing countless horror movies including the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street remakes as well as The Conjuring and its various spinoffs and the 2017 adaptation of It.

Via his production company 18hz Productions, Walter Hamada is slated to produce several mid-budget horror films for Paramount Pictures per year, for both theaters and streaming.

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Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has greenlit the Johannes Roberts horror film Primate, with Oscar winner Troy Kotsur (Coda) set to lead the cast. Roberts will direct the Walter Hamada-produced feature, which Roberts co-wrote with Ernest Riera.

Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The project falls under Hamada’s exclusive first-look deal with Paramount which began January 1, 2023, making him “the architect of Paramount’s mainstream horror genre pod, with the mission to release several low- to mid-budget films per year across theatrical and streaming.”

The former DC Films boss steered DC to its highest-grossing movie Aquaman with $1.1 billion worldwide. He was also behind The Conjuring franchise, the highest-grossing horror series ever with more than $2 billion in global box office, 2017’s It and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, to name a few.

Hamada is producing via his 18hz production company alongside Bradley Pilz and John Hodges. Up next, Paramount and Hamada are...

Koshi Nakanashi, who directed 2017’s Resident Evil 7, is to take the lead on Resident Evil 9, which is now in development according to Capcom.

Japanese studio Capcom has made a huge success out of its remakes of bygone Resident Evil games, with last year’s Resident Evil 4 picking up awards and breaking sales records for its sensitive updating of the 2005 classic.

Capcom is also looking to the survival horror series’ future, however, having just confirmed that it’s currently working on Resident Evil 9 – the first proper sequel since 2021’s Resident Evil Village. Development will be headed up by Koshi Nakanashi, who previously directed 2017’s Resident Evil: Biohazard.

Shifting the series’ perspective from third- to first-person, Biohazard was widely regarded as a leaner, scarier return to form following the increasingly action-focused Resident Evil 5 and 6.

Read more: Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City review | An upgrade patch

Nakanashi revealed that Resident...

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and over the last couple of months, casting announcements have been revealing the names of the actors we’ll be seeing on the show. Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles, and now Deadline has revealed that they’ll be sharing the screen with Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor), Celeste Oliva (Julia), Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky), Matt Murray (Snowpiercer), and Patch Darragh (Long Bright River).

Also...

Heather Graham is set to unleash fury in the wild west in upcoming horror thriller Place of Bones, and a brand new trailer unveiled via X.com teases some of the violence ahead.

Place of Bones releases in select theaters and on Digital on August 23, 2024.

Tom Hopper (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone (The Equalizer 2), and Corin Nemec star alongside Graham.

The film is “set in 1876, a botched bank robbery sees vicious outlaw gang leader Bear John (Hopper) feverishly hunting down his traitorous accomplice, Calhoun, to recover the stolen money. Nearly dead, Calhoun drags himself to a remote ranch where Pandora (Graham) lives with her daughter. As Bear and his crew of bandits arrive, intent on delivering brutal revenge, Pandora has no choice but to defend her daughter. But Bear John and his men will soon discover that this isn’t Pandora’s first rodeo.”

Watch the trailer below.

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year, and last month we learned that Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles. Now they have their first pair of co-stars. Cameron and Jogia are being joined in the cast of Obsession by Karla Souza of How to Get Away with Murder and Dive, and Dorian Missick of The Burial and Shirley.

Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, who were behind the Starz drama The Rook, are writing...

Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia have been cast to lead Amazon Prime Video’s thriller series “Obsession,” which was ordered at the end of last year.

The series is based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s novel “56 Days” and, per the official description, it follows “Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a unique crime story and a riveting, erotic, psychological thriller.”

The series is written and executive-produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher. Horror legend James Wan is also on board as one of the executive producers,...

Atomic Monster, the production company headed up by genre regular James Wan, is teaming with Amazon Studios to produce a psychological thriller series based on the best-selling novel 56 Days, by Catherine Ryan Howard (pick up a copy Here). Titled Obsession, this adaptation of Howard’s work got an official series order at the end of last year – and now Deadline has learned that Dove Cameron of Schmigadoon! and Descendants and Avan Jogia, who dealt with zombies in both Zombieland: Double Tap and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, have been cast in the lead roles.

Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, who were behind the Starz drama The Rook, are writing the adaptation and serve as executive producers alongside Wan and Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Rob Hackett. Danielle Bozzone will oversee the series for Atomic Monster. Howard is a co-executive producer.

Written by Howard during the pandemic lockdown...

Exclusive: Dove Cameron (Schmigadoon!) and Avan Jogia (Orphan Black: Echoes) have been set to topline Obsession, a thriller series produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Atomic Monster, which was ordered at the end of last year.

Written and executive produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, the show is based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s 2021 international bestseller 56 Days. The story follows Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara (Cameron), who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. 56 days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body — brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a crime story and an erotic, psychological thriller.

James Wan, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett are exec producing via Atomic Monster,...

Storyboard Media has added J.M. Barrie supernatural thriller adaptation The Island Between Tides starring Paloma Kwiatkowski from Riot Girls to its Cannes sales roster.

The story is based on Barrie’s Gothic story Mary Rose, about a young woman who goes missing on a remote island and reappears years later with no memory of what happened to her.

David Mazouz from Gotham, Donal Logue from Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, and Adam Beach from The Power Of The Dog round out the cast.

Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes co-wrote and co-directed for Flicker Theory, Famous Red Car, and Mad Samurai Productions.

Pyramid Head takes center stage in the first image from the upcoming Return To Silent Hill. The movie is directed by Christophe Gans and stars Jeremy Irvine, and is expected to serve as a reboot. Return to Silent Hill has the opportunity to continue a recent trend in good video game adaptations.

Return to Silent Hill gets its first image, revealing the film's Pyramid Head villain. Directed by Christophe Gans, the upcoming reboot film serves as an adaptation of Konami's Silent Hill 2 video game, which was released in 2001. Gan's new movie marks his second take on the franchise after his first entry in 2006, and it's set to star Jeremy Irvine. Return to Silent Hill's story will follow Irvine's James as he returns to the titular town in search of his lost love, but he quickly encounters some horrifying figures.

Now, Variety debuts the first image from Return to Silent Hill,...

Before "Star Wars," there was "Thx 1138." A strange, dystopic science fiction movie packed with big ideas up to its eyeballs, "Thx 1138" is now mostly known as the feature directorial debut of one George Walton Lucas Jr. (though it also came back in conversation when the best episode of "Andor" paid homage to it). The future Lucasfilm founder originally created this story of repressed emotions and stymied sexuality as a student film, but by the time it was reimagined as a feature, it had gained backing from Warner Bros.

Lucas' American Zoetrope co-founder Francis Ford Coppola also had faith in the movie, and served as one of its producers. "Thx 1138" starred Robert Duvall, then already known for his work on stage and television, not to mention in films like "To Kill A Mockingbird," "M*A*S*H," and "True Grit." Future "Halloween" actor Donald Pleasence co-starred, along with a then-unknown actress named Maggie McOmie.

Once upon a time, a bunch of disgustingly wealthy entertainment executives got together with a dream — a dream that answers the question, "What if people consumed film and TV in short segments like a TikTok playlist, but on a brand new platform that no one is going to pay to use with a bananas ridiculous name?" The result was Quibi, a short-form streaming platform that went as quickly as it came, shutting down after only seven months of operation and hemorrhaging over a billion dollars from investors.

The downfall of Quibi rivals that of fellow colossal "good idea on paper but never gonna happen in execution" entertainment failure, MoviePass, but came with the depressing caveat that Quibi actually produced a huge chunk of *content* that was now at risk of being drop-kicked into the unstreamable void of tax write-off and nothingness unless other platforms stepped in to save them. Fortunately,...

This post contains spoilers for the "Resident Evil" film franchise.

Umbrella Corporation. The name will forever be associated with unsavory, downright evil acts within the "Resident Evil" universe, catalyzing the events that define the franchise. Although Capcom's "Resident Evil" games have their own set of canonical events concerning Umbrella Corp., the film adaptations that branched into their own universe also paint this multinational conglomerate in a rather infamous light. In every iteration, Umbrella is never up to any good: be it the manufacture and mass production of biological weaponry, or ushering a new race of virus-enhance monstrosities. At the end of the day, the "Resident Evil" films also fit the survival-horror mold, with a woman named Alice (Milla Jovovich) at the center of the horrors crafted by none other than Umbrella.

With six frenetic, action-packed entries and a promising franchise reboot in its arsenal, the "Resident Evil" film franchise...

Tom Hopper has been cast in a key role in the upcoming “Terminal List” prequel series at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned exclusively.

Hopper will star in the series, officially titled “Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” in the series regular role of Raife Hastings. Hastings is described as “a hunter, protector, guardian and Navy Seal.”

“Dark Wolf” was originally announced back February 2023, at the same time it was announced “The Terminal List” was being renewed for a second season. Hopper will star in the series alongside Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards, Chris Pratt as James Reece, and Jared Shaw as Ernest “Boozer” Vickers. All three of the other actors originated their roles in Season 1 of “The Terminal List.”

Hopper currently stars in the popular Netflix series “The Umbrella Academy,” which is prepping its fourth and final season. He also previously starred in the Starz series “Black Sails” as Billy Bones...

What are the highest grossing horror movies of all time? More specifically, what are the highest grossing horror franchises of all time? On the list of the Top 20, only Five franchises in the history of the genre have crossed the $1 billion mark. Can you guess which ones?

Franchises including The Purge, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Final Destination, The Exorcist, Insidious and Halloween are some of the biggest of all time, but even they haven’t yet been able to crack that massive billion dollar milestone. Other franchises including Paranormal Activity and Scream come even closer, but haven’t yet crossed over into the billions.

The only horror franchises to hit $1 billion, you ask?

With 10 films under its belt – and an eleventh on the way soon – the Saw franchise officially shattered the $1 billion milestone with the release of Saw X last year. The return of Jigsaw and Amanda drove the...

In 2002, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland teamed up to make the British horror film "28 Days Later," and the zombie genre was changed forever. Sure, we can argue whether or not those infected with the rage virus are truly zombies until we're blue in the face, but that discourse is as stale as those still fighting to prove "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. By taking the social commentary of George A. Romero's zombie films that came before, injecting the story with the bleak stillness of a post-apocalyptic London, and incorporating zombies that move at a breakneck pace — zombies were scary again for the first time in decades.

2007's "28 Weeks Later" saw Boyle and Garland step back into a producer capacity, and although the film certainly has its defenders (myself included), fans have been frothing at the mouth for a return of the magic Boyle/Garland collaboration. Now,...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is only the second video game movie franchise to have three movies, joining Resident Evil in achieving this milestone. Other video game movie franchises, like Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat, have had three movies but do not share a continuous canon like Sonic and Resident Evil. The success of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at the box office may determine if the franchise continues, and other video game movie franchises like Uncharted and Super Mario have the potential to become trilogies as well.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 puts the movie franchise in an elite group, one that it only truly shares with a single property. Video games have been adapted into movies for decades, but the amount of success each has achieved has varied greatly. In addition, many video game adaptations tend to end after just one movie, so Sonic has already shown a greater degree of...

Madrid-based Rock & Ruz – the production company of Netflix’s “Nowhere,” which has just been confirmed by Netflix as its most-viewed Spanish-language movie of all time – has pacted new projects with Italy’s Leonardo Fasoli, a head-writer of “Gomorrah” and creator of “ZeroZeroZero,” and Spain-based Alejandro Hernández, a co-writer on Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” and “La Fortuna.”

Targeting the key to high-end fiction success in Europe – its screenwriters – and added to “Nowhere” and an upcoming Spanish-Mexican remake of hit Korean movie “Miracle in Cell No. 7” – the freshly-announced projects mark out Rock & Ruz as a new and significant Spain-based international player.

As international markets – both theatrical and global streamers – are asking for bigger films with identifiable audiences, Rock & Ruz’s bold slate looks like a ready source of titles.

“Our company is focused on producing global strategic projects. No matter if they are in English or Spanish,” Rock & Ruz...

Five Nights at Freddy's has broken the "video game movie curse" with its high audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. The movie's success can be attributed to its strong opening weekend box office performance and the positive reception from horror-loving audiences. Five Nights at Freddy's is the 13th consecutive video game movie to receive a Fresh rating from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating a growing trend of well-received video game movies.

Five Nights at Freddy's has an incredibly high audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, allowing it to continue an amazing video game movie streak. The so-called "video game movie curse" has been broken in recent years thanks to a variety of releases that have either performed very well at the box office or received high praise from viewers, including critics. The Five Nights at Freddy's reviews were not quite as favorable as many would have hoped,...

"Upload" season 3 continues Nathan and Nora's story with new challenges and obstacles both in Lakeview and the real world. Old and new characters join the cast. Robbie Amell plays Nathan Brown, a computer engineer who was murdered but was successfully downloaded into a new body in season 2. Andy Allo portrays Nora Antony, a Horizen employee who develops a close bond with Nathan and falls in love with him. Despite being physically together, Nora and Nathan still face problems.

Upload is back with its third season, and it’s bringing back some well-known characters and introducing new ones. Created by Greg Daniels, Upload is a sci-fi comedy-drama TV series set in 2033, a future where technology has advanced so much that food can be printed, cellphones are literally on your hand, and eternal life can be achieved, though not how many might think. Humans have the option to “upload” their consciousness into...

Orphan Black: Echoes delves into the scientific manipulation of human existence, as a group of women uncovers the mystery of their identities. With 10 episodes, the spinoff series created by Anna Fishko and executive produced by John Fawcett promises to captivate audiences. AMC unveils the teaser trailer for Orphan Black: Echoes, shining the spotlight on Krysten Ritter's character.

The trailer for Orphan Black: Echoes reveals the spinoff series led by Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter. The project, which is created by Anna Fishko and includes Orphan Black co-creator John Fawcett as an executive producer, is set in the same world as the original series. It counts as the first major television role for Ritter since the conclusion of Jessica Jones in 2019. It also marks her return to AMC, as the actor previously Jane Margolis in the game-changing AMC drama Breaking Bad.

The teaser trailer for Orphan Black: Echoes puts Ritter's character,...

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It may seem hard to believe, but at one stage Resident Evil was not only the highest-grossing film series based on a video game, but also the highest-grossing horror film series period. Consisting of six movies and a reboot, the Resident Evil movies just kept making money even while they were being bashed by critics. Most of those critics arguably had valid points, but the arrival of a new Resident Evil movie simply became oddly comforting somewhere along the way.

Thanks to the creative voices of Event Horizon director Paul W.S. Anderson and his Fifth Element actress wife Milla Jovovich, six of the seven Resident Evil movies feature the character of Alice (Jovovich firing on all cylinders), a former security specialist and covert operative who initially has amnesia but eventually remembers she’s out to take down the insidious Umbrella Corporation, a global company responsible for Earth’s weirdest zombie apocalypse.

"Need for Speed" tends to get unceremoniously left out of the conversation about video game movies. Released in 2014, the film debuted at the height of Aaron Paul's post-"Breaking Bad" fame. Paul stars as Tobey Marshall, a former race car driver turned working-class mechanic from New York whose friend is killed by Tobey's wealthy rival Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper) during an illegal street race -- a crime that Tobey is wrongly arrested and convicted for. Upon his release from prison, Tobey sets out to defeat Dino in a San Francisco race. However, for reasons that are too complicated to get into here, he must do so by first driving across the country in a rare Mustang he helped restore in less than 48 hours. Also, Imogen Poots is riding shotgun with him.

"Need for Speed" plays like a gritty crime-thriller in the vein of the first "Fast & Furious...

In 2022, Netflix released a live-action series based on the "Resident Evil" video games, just a few months removed from the "Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness" anime series for the streamer. Not to mention, Johannes Roberts' cinematic reboot, "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City." That film came just four years after the end of Paul W.S. Anderson's mega-blockbuster film series starring Milla Jovovich, which ran concurrently with a series of unrelated animated films and many installments of the video game. This is all to say that "Resident Evil," as a property, has grown beyond just the games, and that the fandom has splintered off into a variety of directions and mediums. Trying to appease the whole of the "Resident Evil" community with an adaptation is at this point, impossible. Too many people want too many different things, and those differences are often in direct opposition to one another.

Which brings me...

This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn't exist.

At this point, the "video game movie" classification feels just about as broad and changeable as that of a "superhero movie." Is there any point in lumping together movies like "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" or "Detective Pikachu" with "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" or "Uncharted"? (Does anyone even remember "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" or "Uncharted"?) By the same token, any lingering talk of an all-expansive "curse" associated with these adaptations increasingly comes across less like some inexplicable barrier that studios have (mostly) been unable to cross, and more to do with the idea that simply trying to translate a medium as idiosyncratic and immersive as video games into the wildly different language of film has always been self-defeating.

Henry Cavill fans have spoken by helping The Witcher reclaim its spot atop the Netflix English-language charts from July 24 to July 30. The second batch of episodes for The Witcher Season 3 debuted on July 27, with 7.8M views making for an impressive debut! The season has amassed 47.7M views since the first half of the season cast a spell on Netflix subscribers.

Inspired by a series of novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witches, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil are not easily identified.

The Witcher Season 3 is based on the book Time of Contempt. This season has the following synopsis: As monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri of Cintra into hiding,...

The Witcher season 3 has been split into two batches of episodes, with the first batch reaching the Netflix streaming service on June 29th and the rest scheduled to be released on July 27th. Less than two weeks have gone by since Netflix unveiled a trailer for “Season 3, Volume 2”, and now they have released the final trailer for this batch of episodes. You can check it out in the embed above.

Since the end of season 3 also marks the end of Henry Cavill’s time playing the character Geralt of Rivia, that means this final trailer for Season 3, Volume 2 also happens to be the final trailer for the Cavill era. Liam Hemsworth will be taking over as Geralt in season 4.

Inspired by a series of novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent,...

While "Resident Evil" is unquestionably one of the most popular brands across the globe, it seems as if it's impossible to adapt the games to the screen in a way that will appease the very vocal fandom. The most recent film attempt, "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" was such a blatant love letter to the games, featuring faithful recreations of iconic locations, dozens of undead Easter eggs, and some pretty perfect casting decisions. Robbie Amell might as well have been built in a lab to play Chris Redfield, the "Resident Evil" franchise's resident boulder-punching hero, for better and for worse.

During an interview with Comic Book Resource, Amell confessed that the filming of "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City" would stay with him forever ... literally. "I got a four or five-inch-long scar on my arm that has just faded now, a year later," he said. This interview took place...

The Witcher season 3 has been split into two batches of episodes, with the first batch reaching the Netflix streaming service on June 29th and the rest scheduled to be released on July 27th. With the premiere of “Volume 2” now just two weeks away, a full trailer for those episodes has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above. This batch of episodes marks the end of the Henry Cavill era for this show, as he’s leaving the role of Geralt of Rivia behind at the end of this season. Liam Hemsworth will be taking over as Geralt in season 4.

Inspired by a series of novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive,...

The Witcher season 3 will be split into two batches of episodes, with the first batch reaching the Netflix streaming service on June 29th and the rest being released on July 27th… and when both volumes have played out, we will have seen the end of Henry Cavill’s time as Geralt of Rivia. It was already announced last October that Liam Hemsworth will be taking over the role of Geralt as of season 4. While we get ready to watch the first batch of episodes of The Witcher season 3, Cavill’s co-star Anya Chalotra has addressed his departure – and the imminent arrival of Hemsworth.

During an interview with Variety, Chalotra asked what it was like to find out that Cavill is leaving the show. She answered, “We didn’t know until after we’d filmed season 3. And it’s always emotional filming at the end of any season — you know, that...

The Witcher season 3 will be split into two batches of episodes, with the first batch reaching the Netflix streaming service on June 29th and the rest being released on July 27th. With the premiere of “Volume 1” now just a few days away, a full trailer for those episodes has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Inspired by a series of novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.

The Witcher season 3 is specifically based on the book Time of Contempt. This season has the following synopsis: As monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri of Cintra into hiding,...