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Resident Evil producer thinks the reboot should have “more action”

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It didn’t take long after the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter [read our Blu-Ray review here] for Sony Gems and Constantin Films to announce a reboot of the video game movie franchise with James Wan at the helm. Since then, fans have been wondering what kind of direction the reboot will take. Well, […]

Meet the new Fifty Shades Darker cast, Prison Break gets a new promo, John Wick Chapter 2 gets a spoof poster and more – Daily News Roundup

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Rounding up yesterday’s big news stories… FIFTY SHADES DARKER CAST With Fifty Shades Darker set to arrived in cinemas this Friday, Universal Pictures released a featurette for the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel which focuses on ‘Mrs. Robinson’ (Kim Basinger), Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), and Leila (Bella Heathcote) and the threats they bring to Anastasia […]

Resident Evil: In praise (and defence) of Paul W.S. Anderson’s billion dollar video game movie franchise

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Luke Owen looks back at the Resident Evil franchise… NOTE: Comments from Paul W.S. Anderson are taken from Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made, which is available for pre-order now. Regular listeners to the Flickering Myth Podcast will know that my movie tastes aren’t the norm when it comes to being […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paul W.S. Anderson’s thoughts on Resident Evil reboots and sequels

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The video game movie industry is in a renaissance at the moment. The Angry Birds Movie was a box office hit last year, and Warcraft made an incredible amount of money from the Chinese market alone. Since then we’ve seen adaptations of Tomb Raider and Rampage go into production, as well as more and more […]

How do video game movies get made?

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It’s been a question on the mind of video game fans around the world for many years: why are most video game movies the way they are? Well a new book titled Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made from Flickering Myth’s Luke Owen looks behind the scenes of some of the […]

NYCC: Ali Larter says Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will answer all the questions from “real fans”

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The sixth and final part in the long-running Resident Evil franchise arrived in January with the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and the cast and crew were in New York over the weekend for NYCC [watch the new trailer for the movie here]. The good folk of ComicBook caught up with one of the film’s stars Ali […]

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter trailer – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth team react… SEE ALSO: Read the Flickering Myth Reactions to Doctor Strange, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Assassin’s Creed, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Kong: Skull Island and more Paul W.S. Anderson is bringing his Resident Evil saga to an end after six movies with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, set for […]

The Highest Grossing Video Game Movies of All-Time

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Luke Owen keeps track of the biggest video game movies… To go along with our Highest Grossing Superhero Movies of All-Time list, I felt we should also keep tabs on the video game movie adaptation. Since their debut in 1993, they’ve mostly come with a bad reputation, bad reviews and often bad box office results. […]

Video Game Review – Resident Evil Village: The Winters’ Expansion

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Harrison Abbott reviews Resident Evil Village: The Winters’ Expansion… Resident Evil Village tied up most of its loose ends, with an explosive climax that seemed to definitively put the “Winters Family Saga” to bed. Father, mother and child were all reunited in the third act, we at long last discovered how Ethan managed to survive […]