The previous clips from the film can be found here, here and here.
Resident Evil: Afterlife opens in theaters on September 10th.
August 26, 2010
The source said, "This is an exciting project with a great character at the center of it. The idea is to make this in the style of an epic Western movie but with a few modern touches. Brad is perfect for the role and he is being given first refusal."
Pitt's previous roles include Se7en, Twelve Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black, Fight Club, Spy Game, Oceans trilogy, Troy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Inglourious Basterds.
Red Dead Redemption was developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 in May 2010. The game is considered to be a spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver.
Most of the game's story takes place in the year 1911 in the American Old West and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he sets out to hunt down his former gang members. Marston's wife and son are taken hostage by the government in exchange for his services. Having no other choice, he sets out to bring his three former gang members to justice.
Reviewers praised the visuals, music, open world gameplay and the story. As of June 8, 2010, Red Dead Redemption has sold five million copies.
August 26, 2010
"As a WoW player, I would much rather that the WoW team made the movie, right? Than anybody else. I like Sam Raimi, I've been a fan ever since Evil Dead came out, but I would rather see Blizzard making the movie. We think that customers are like, 'OK, we're kind of sick and tired of the way you guys are slicing and dicing the experience of being a fan of Harry Potter, or Half-Life, or the Incredibles, and you need to fix it.' And the people that fix it will be rewarded, and the people that don't will be on the rubbish heap of history, or whatever the phrase is," said Newell.
He continued, "Where we got into this direction was after Half-Life 1 had shipped. There was a whole bunch of meetings with people from Hollywood. Directors down there wanted to make a Half-Life movie and stuff, so they'd bring in a writer or some talent agency would bring in writers, and they would pitch us on their story. And their stories were just so bad. I mean, brutally, the worst. Not understanding what made the game a good game, or what made the property an interesting thing for people to be a fan of."
So with Hollywood missing left and right, Valve decided the only people who could do justice to Half-Life in a live action film were themselves.
"That's when we started saying 'Wow, the best thing we could ever do is to just not do this as a movie, or we'd have to make it ourselves.' And I was like, 'Make it ourselves? Well that's impossible.' But the Team Fortress 2 thing, the Meet the Team shorts, is us trying to explore that," continued Newell.
You can watch "Meet the Spy" below, one of the Meet the Team shorts which Newell referenced above. The other ones can be watched at Valve's YouTube page.
August 26, 2010
The two clips released yesterday can be viewed here and here.
Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in a couple weeks on September 10th.
August 25, 2010
The first clip released today featuring Alice's clones fighting can be viewed here.
Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in IMAX 3-D and conventional 2-D theaters on September 10, 2010.
August 25, 2010
The fourth installment stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller and Sienna Guillory. Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in IMAX 3-D and conventional 2-D theaters on September 10, 2010.
August 24, 2010
The company's founders have been making the rounds with studios and tenpercenteries over the last several weeks weighing which ancillary offers to move forward with first. Any such move would be an unusual one for a mobile gamemaker, considering most publishers are quick to put their resources behind launching a completely new title rather than to continue to pump coin into an existing hit. The primary reason for this, in addition to consumers' short attention spans, is the still finite revenue stream for even a hit mobile game. The deal will reportedly include comic books and toys as well as the small and big screens.
"It doesn't make sense (to produce a slate of different games) when you have a hit of any caliber," said Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio Mobile. "When you create brand equity, to do that again would be a difficult task rather than nurture and build around what you have."
Games on mobile platforms differ from those on social networks or consoles, given their more limited game play and graphics. But their simplicity has created a major fan following among cell phone owners who can simply pick up and play a game on the go. While many games developed for consoles have spun off films and other projects, that has not been the case for mobile games.
What Rovio has is a game in which players use a slingshot to help a flock of animated birds destroy a group of evil pigs who stole their eggs. The quirk factor of the game and its addictive game play has helped keep it at the top of the download charts and Hed hopes that fleshing out the characters and their world will make it an "evergreen" franchise for years to come.
Angry Birds started taking off almost immediately when it bowed in December 2009. But that was largely because the Finnish iPhone market was so small, just encouraging friends and family to download the game propelled it into the top 10, Hed said.
Word of mouth quickly spread, soon making it the top paid downloaded game. Sales then took off in the United Kingdom in February, and later in the U.S. in April and May, after being featured on the App Store. For months, it's come to dominate Apple's paid app market in about 60 countries.
The rest of Angry Birds' stats are also impressive - The game, which sells for 99 cents in the U.S., and about $1.14 in other markets, hit the 6.5 million sales mark this month. A more limited free version has been downloaded 11 million times. An iPad version, for $4.99, has racked up 200,000 sales.
Rovio has already begun experimenting with telling the Angry Birds' story through toons. An animated trailer that introduces the squawking characters has been viewed more than five million times on YouTube.
Now Rovio has its sights on longer toons that can play on TV or in a megaplex, with Hed preferring an adaptation that resembles the claymation features for which Aardman Animation (Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit) have become known for.
Hed understands that producing a movie could take three years before it bows. "The challenge is to make sure the brand is relevant when the movie comes out," Hed said. To do that, Rovio hopes to take a page from Pixar's playbook. "Time and time again, they take an unknown brand and make it big."
Helping Rovio set up entertainment deals are several Hollywood advisors, including Peter Levin, a longtime digital media and video game entrepreneur, and Russell Binder, a marketing vet whose Striker Entertainment sets up licensing deals for Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment and DreamWorks, including the Twilight franchise. Rovio also recently opened an office in Silicon Valley.
Until those deals are brokered, Rovio will focus on producing sequels and other versions of the Angry Birds game that "expands the universe and the brand."
First, that requires putting Angry Birds in front of more people and "to every possible place," which includes launching versions for phones that run Google's Android software, as well as smart phones like the Blackberry and Palm, in the coming months. He also intends to expand this to handheld videogame systems like Nintendo's DS, Sony's PSP Go and consoles like the PlayStation 3. It's also already on Nokia's Ovi Store.
"There will be a huge concentration of games coming to smart phones," Hed said. "We hope we can be the first major franchise to come from mobile."
An in-game trailer can be viewed below, which also features some gameplay.
August 17, 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released in IMAX 3-D and 2-D theaters on September 10, 2010.
August 13, 2010
Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the fourth installment features Alice (Milla Jovovich) continuing on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 10, the film stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, Wentworth Miller and Sienna Guillory.
August 8, 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife will be released on September 10, 20010.
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