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Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com)
Martin Moszkowicz, chairman of the board at Constantin Film, confirmed to Variety at the Cannes Film Festival that the "Resident Evil" movie franchise is getting rebooted into a six-film franchise. From the report: The franchise was set to end with this year's "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter," which grossed $312 million worldwide after its January release, including an eye-popping $160 million in China alone. Sony helped sow the seeds of success by securing a release for "Resident Evil: Afterlife" and "Resident Evil: Extinction" in China. Based on the Capcom video game, the series launched in 2002 with Paul W.S. Anderson directing, and Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, and Samuel Hadida producing the first of a six-movie series. The "Resident Evil" movie franchise has earned $1.2 billion worldwide to date, making it Europe's most successful independent horror-genre movie franchise in history and the highest-grossing film series to be based on a video game.
But without Milla Jovovich I'll have a hard time getting excited.
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Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
Resident evil has to be the shortest most over extended crappy film series there is. Fuck the film adaptions of the last air bender and the northern lights were better and they have to be amongst the most destructive films with respect to their original medium of all time!
Fuck hollywood they are shit people.
Anyone being excited to see yet another movies of a game that butchers both, the game story along with any movie you enjoy?
Game stories don't really make great movie stories. First, they are too short. You can do a sensibly sized game with a story that fills about 15-30 minutes of a movie. Why? Because the player fills the other hours. And any more than 15-30 minutes of story is going to bore the player who wants an engaging gaming experience first and good cutscenes later.
A movie is just cutscenes.
And that also means that they can't just be the little icing on the cake to spice things up, they have to BE the cake. Because there is no interactive part.
There is also that problem that the whole action scenes are interactive in a game. Which also means that you get away with making them a lot less intricate and choreographed because not only you cannot (since one part of the choreography is the player, who needs to be given pretty free reign to make playing the game interesting), you can simply offload the excitement part onto the player. No such option with movies where people will just passively watch the action. And that better be more exciting than a battle routine where your enemy goes through phases that you have to learn and react to them.
All that has been tried before. And so far I cannot remember a single time when it was done right. If you want to make a movie, great. If you want to make yet another zombie movie, ok. But please, find something new to write. It's boring to rehash the same old story over and over. We already know how zombies in RE work. There is no way you can make this exciting. The games aren't really getting any more exciting through the story anymore either. The story is written and done.
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Something new that we've never seen before, again.
Account's should not have decisions in making movies, erh, franchises.
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"The franchise was set to end with this year's "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter," which grossed $312 million worldwide..."
If sitting in a movie theater watching Paint Dry for two hours drew that kind of revenue, we would see Paint Dry: The Other Wall filming next month. From a financial standpoint, they're never going to fix what's not broken, and clearly this recycling bullshit is what consumers want.
It's rather sad and weird that new content seems to not be drawing the revenue creators were hoping for.
Seriously: what are you all talking about?
I saw a headline on some entertainment website, that there are like 150 remakes/reboots in the works at Hollywood, along with a further ~250 sequels. That's not including adaptations of old comics/tv series. I'm just waiting for a reboot of the old film where a train comes toward the viewer, and then cinema can call it a day.
Even indie films seem to be running out of ideas, all the well-rated ones I've seen recently are pretty similar to what has come before and usually fit neatly into an established genre. Or else they're (seemingly intentionally) incomprehensible. Perhaps the gaps inbetween genres were filled in and no new genres can exist. The 'found footage' subgenre is essentially a retread of the 'mockumentary' subgenre, now that I think of it.
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as far as the movies they have gotten better the first ones where probably b'ish type but still liked them. i grew up with these games loved them from the ps1 era. the movies have gotten a lot better for sure. metalgear solid was a kool game as well and was amazing for a ps1 game really took it to its limits(wouldnt mind a movie of that either though theres probably enough spy/merc/rogue movies of course same with the zombie genre)
Hollywood: Man. We are running out of ideas. What kind of movie should be made?
Director: Let's just remake the Resident Evil series and milk it even more.
Hollywood: $$$$$
Sequel: Paint Dry: The Second Coat
Then the jump back to the prequel: Paint Dry: Primer
No reason to move the location to another wall. That could be interesting.
Perhaps if movie trailers were actually about the story line instead of just clips of all the action points, more people would go see a movie they haven't seen before.
I actually really liked the first Resident Evil - movie, the second was ok, but the rest of them I just yawned and rolled my eyes through and now afterwards I just can't recall those movies at all -- it's like I had never even seen them in the first place, which I find quite funny. Now, I have not played the games, I do not have any connection to the lore or anything, so I only watched those movies as exactly that: movies about some mutating viral zombie-thingamabob. Seeing as how exceedingly quickly the movies hit the rock bottom quality-wise I have a hard time imagining any reboots can get any worse; either they'll stay as bad, or get better.
The first one was AWESOME, and the following movies just RUINED it.
Hollywood used to wait 30 years before recycling old movies for a new audience. Now they can't even wait 90+ days after the last movie to reboot the franchise.
A 6-part series remake? Are you fucking kidding me?
Finally.
The stories were okay and Milla Jovovich did a great job but the the sequels were completely ruined by how many cuts they made. Watching The Final Chapter was like watching a series of 5 second clips stitched together. I'm a big fan of what Netflix has done with Daredevil, Luke Cage. The fight scenes, stories, the attention to detail, the subtle use of cuts, the development of the character(s) over time none of which Hollywood is doing anymore. I hope netflix keeps up with what they are doing as I see this as the future of movies.
Do you realise that the Deadpool film was a reboot of the Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film?
They might have called the character Deadpool but that wasn't Deadpool. That shared as much with the source material as the iRobot movie shared with the Issac Asimov book or Starship Troopers shared with the Heinlin novel.
BULGING part in the success, if you know what mean. Do you know what I mean?
For fuck's sake, WHY? Hollywood is just getting sad. :/
I liked the first couple in the series. But, I wish they'd make the movies like the first couple games were...Regular cops/people trying to fight an epidemic that some lab created, fighting through it by scavenging and solving puzzles/riddles. I know that's all video game-esque stuff. But, that's why most of us loved it when Resident Evil first released as a movie, I think. I really hope they produce a new take on the movie with a different story. This drawn out plot has gone, and has been, pretty stale since like the third movie came out. I want a new plot, a different perspective at the least. That's what these damn games were built on! "Play through this perspective, and it's on to the next in the next game". All Hollywood did with the last set of movies was play on our nostalgia...and then did basically nothing new with it over several movies.
BULGING part in the success, if you know what mean. Do you know what I mean?
If nipples stimulated the revenue stream that much, imagine what an actual set of tits would do.
That's one way to ensure we don't get more films: start a campaign to associate muslim terrorists with "resident evil".
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i actually do not think friday the 13th part ten made any money
and ill say it hellraiser 7 killed that movie
you see a pattern
look at all the prequels of trek and that last star wars movie being nothing more then a complete rippoff of 1977 a new hope
everyone wiht creativity left them a long long long time ago and all thats left are lawyers and there hooker wives
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3 billion people on the net
and you can only make 700 million with all that adverting and spin and such is AWFUL
lets say avg ticket of 10 bucks ...is about 2.3 % of all the people on the net .93% of the world saw your movie
70 million
and about
and im going to say that most of the cash is form 20 dollar pop n popcorn alongside the 10 dollar ticket
the reason a lot of theatres are going out of business is the very fact of the above....30-40 bucks per person to see a movie .....no thanks
cable tv costs min 40-60 bucks upwards of 100 ...no thanks
i think ill go get laid instead a paying hollywood to see some gay transgendered poor latino whose oppression saves teh world for the 50th time
...at least TRY to come up with an original idea! TRY. You can do it!!!
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Never saw any of the movies. I dont play video games, so movies based on them have less interest than watching paint dry on a golf course. Reboot all you want, wont get a dime from me.
pls don't.... jesus christ.... The last 5 sucked; and the first one had the "first real vidya gayme movie" going for it..... just let the last terrible RE movie and the entire franchise die; it is a great example of "dilution".
There hasn't been a good RE since the GCN remakes. The movies are shit. RE is a great example of what happens to franchises when you run wild with them.
Maybe that's a good thing? :P
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I quick-read the title as President Evil and thought it would be a TV series about Donald Trump. LOL