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.

18 December 2007 01:42
Angel

Wow..!!
Resident Evil Degeneration…!!
Finally..! I can see Leon again…!!

27 December 2007 14:29
Jamie

they are totally ruining it!!!!!!! if all other movies they did were sucha hit and did well, why change everything!!!! im not feelin this whole animation thing, all the ppl watching it will just be gamers. For instanance when all the other movies came out both the gamers and the non gamers watched it…. you guys have seriously over estimated this “NEW idea”

30 December 2007 21:42
ninja

Then you haven’t seen beowulf or any other childrens animated movie lately. 3d animated movies are gaining a huge audience.

1 January 2008 18:14
Tony

i think u should not make it nothing about the dumb movies the movies suck a true RE fan wouldn’t like the movies(refering to the movies with Alice the fake whore those movies suck) but i think that this animated movie will rule alot becuase like you said it is a brand new story line (keep alice away from the movies and out of this and everything else becuase she sucks)

1 January 2008 20:35
Scott

to ninja: Yes, the beowolf-style movies ARE a disappointment if you’re not a gamer. If I wanted to watch a feature film of a video game, I’d go buy a PS3 or some other video game system. I go to a movie theater to watch MOVIES not animation. there should be no middle ground like this new genre they’re trying to come out with now. I agree with jamie

1 January 2008 20:38
Dell

So pretty much the new film has nothing to do with the other movies… I think peoples biggest problem is going to be that they think it will be the ending so to speak of extinction and apparently they will be wrong… They need to make it obvious to people that don’t read these things… The new movie is going to be awesome as far as im concerned but thats probably just because i do play the games and love them more then the movies… if you only watch the movies you don’t really know whats going on anyway so why do you care… you just got caught up in the fad of the movies so shut up

2 January 2008 18:25
ResidentEvilnumber1fan

Geesh people THIS resident evil cgi IS NOT replacing the one with alice! there is two versions coming out. one where alice and her clones fight wesker, and they have a sony cgi movie coming out as well two two two!!!!!!!!! >.

2 January 2008 18:26
ResidentEvilnumber1fan

Two!! people count 2 movies, this is not replacing alice. the CGI takes after my favorit game series of resident evil of Leon and Clare from resident evil 2, i have no idea though who else will be in it since it takes place 7 years after racoon ^_^

3 January 2008 15:26
Wil

Those movies suck. It’s just a Hollywood-ized
crap version that has nothing to do with the games. They ruined it, but this CGI is a true representation of what the actual creators of the games would have wanted. We all remember the Godzilla American remake. Crap!

3 January 2008 18:19
ResidentEvilnumber1fan

I hope the cgi one comes out soon! ^_^ going to go see it on the first day.