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Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the added-to-the-queue dept.

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.

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  1. A Corny but Lovely Series by negRo_slim · · Score: 4, Funny

    But without Milla Jovovich I'll have a hard time getting excited.

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  2. Ah yes, the good old standby... by Notabadguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Ah yes, the good old standby... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      There's a reason most movies are targeted at teenagers. They're old enough to have money to spend on movies, but naive enough to not know that the movie they're going to see has already been remade 50 times before. They figure it out by the time they're in their 20s, but by then there's a new crop of teenagers to replace them.

  3. Paint Dry: The Other Wall by geekmux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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.

  4. Genred Out by mentil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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