29 October 2007
Ferry

Resident Evil: Degeneration animated movie announced by Capcom & Sony

Capcom Japan’s representative director and president: Haruhiro Tsujimoto (Capcom) and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan representative director and president: Ken Munekata (SPEJ) have announced coproduction of Resident Evil: Degeneration, the first full-length CG animation feature based upon the Resident Evil series of games and movies. Currently in production, it’s got plans for a terrifying release in 2008.

Resident Evil (called Biohazard in Japan), began as a hit international video game franchise created by Capcom, then made its debut on the silver screen as the live-action film Resident Evil, distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Resident Evil is the first trilogy of live-action movies to have come from a video game franchise. Capcom and Sony Picture’s Japanese subsidiary SPEJ have teamed up to give birth to a CG-animated Resident Evil with groundbreaking visual effects and a brand-new story line.

Since its initial release in 1996, the Resident Evil series of games has established the “survival horror” genre and has shipped over a 33 million units worldwide, continuing to captivate its fans as a powerful property. Capcom will continue to release new games within the franchise, such as “Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles” for Wii and “Resident Evil 5″ for PS3 and Xbox 360.

The films “Resident Evil” and “Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse” have each grossed more than US$100 million at the Box Office internationally. “Resident Evil 3: Extinction” has been the biggest hit of the series in the U.S. to date, by grossing over US$48 million in just over three weeks, adding to the high performance and public support for this zombie-loving franchise.

7 April 2008 16:39
chris demick

I would like to see the history unfold in the next film, such as the spencer family’s role. Also, what about George Trevor, Lisa and Jessica (the invincible thing in chains) Trevor’s tale. Not to mention good ol’ Dr. Marcus’s progenitor virus. To me, the back story’s plot is just as interesting as the Racoon City story. True fans would bust a nut over this plot, or maybe I just need to….. well, you get the picture.

12 April 2008 19:18
tyler

but wesker over through umbrellas old company and made it his own

Does anyone know now who hunk works for????

20 April 2008 10:19
midy

since i’ve discovered that this movie is coming out, i’ve read many forums about people making lots of comments. there seems to be a reaccuring theme: everything but the original games sucked. i’m a HUGE resident evil fan. i own all the games, except a few of the little spawns (outbreak, chronicles, deadly aim), all of the books by s.d. perry, and the resident evil: archives book that came out a few years ago. i enjoyed the first movie. true, it was disappointing that jill and chris wasn’t in it, but it was a good movie by itself. the second movie was okay; not nearly as scary as the first even though it had a graveyard scene! thriller is the whole reason i’m terrified of zomes. haha. i ADORED the books. i felt like they went into detail about the virus that the games just couldn’t, because let’s just face it; they’re games meant to be played, not read. i’m SO excited for this movie because i feel like it’s really what resdient evil is meant to be. i enjoy all of the game-to-movie movies i’ve seen (doom, resident evil, silent hill, tomb raider). sure, they all have their own reason that they suck when you compare them to their inspiration, but as seperate movies they’re good. i never played sh, but my boyfriend says it stayed really close to the game. anyway, i totally nutted myself over this one. ^___^ can’t wait!

and, on a side note… i agree; if you want to make an arguement about something, PLEASE type is so the rest of us can understand the point you’re trying to make. don’t make it a+ college english essay quality, but at least so we know what you just wrote. and cursing in an argument never wins an argument.

20 April 2008 10:20
midy

oh, yeah… and chris is totally the hottest and best resident evil character! can’t wait for 5!!

21 April 2008 09:18
ron

ive heard that wesker is staring a new corparation called “white umbrella”

4 May 2008 07:56
slayer craig

i think because the film is animated they can make more things happen and still look great cause animated is better than real in most ways and plus the cost wont be much and it could inspire more films or even a series lol which would be awsome –cant wait for res5 as well —

9 May 2008 21:06
chris demick

To midy, Sorry about the informality of my blog, virgin blogger,I apologize. (By the way, I was rejected by the college). What I meant to say in my drunken state was I am looking forward to this film, more so than the live action films that have been presented to us all.. I played video games as a young man up till about 95′. Then in 1999, a friend of mine that knew about my fondness of Romero films suggested I try out a demo disk he got with Dino Crisis called Resident Evil 3. I did, and in one night I fell in love with videogames again. I’m a big fan of the series and the live action films, and oh yeah, my point was the way the remake of 1 and zero went to a different place, and how much I liked those games. (Were you talking to me?) I could be wrong