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.
5 January 2008 10:23Stephen
OK, get a clue ALL the movies so far had very little to do with the game that made Resident Evil possible. CGI is the only possible way to fix the mess that the CRAP-ON-A STICK movies made of the franchise. I Welcome Leon and Clare, and will see it opening day. Anyonw who liked the 3 movies is a comlete MORON and apparently never played any of the GAMES!
5 January 2008 12:50JeNoVa
Okay, so what if the movies had little to do with the game. They just made it so it would be more appealing to a larger audience, doens’t mean it sucks. I played all the games, read the books and watched the hollwood movies, does that really make me a moron? This new CGI is gunna kick some ass, but i’m not being all biased about either of the two seperate films. So either you like the resident evil movie with alice, or you don’t. No reason to call other people dumb for liking it. XP
i just found out about movie today to guys saying they like the movie i have no problem i only liked 2 because it took place in raccoon city and because of carlos i hated the third cause they killed many of the good guys. and for this cgi movie that i just found out about IT WILL RULEEEEEEEEE!!!! Leon , Claire KICK SOME F#&%ING A$$ and may the make many more for those who got late in the game series like prequels (resident evil 0 and beyond) so that the graphics of the past come to the future and we see the story as it should be both on console and film
honestly im a big fan of the resident evil games and i thought da movies were OK on there own level, but they really didnt have nothing 2 do with da games. The 3rd movie (why da fu*k did they make her move sh*t with her mind dat never happened in the games)..datz da disappointment. So, im looking forward to da animation…I hope in da future sum1 might remake da RE movie into da horror it was supposes to be. Instead of all da Jet li martial ats combat stuff.
