Resident Evil: Degeneration animated movie announced by Capcom & Sony

29 October 2007

Posted by:Ferry

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.

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alex

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.
brwnpowa

I liked didnt like the movie but i love the RE games and i think the movie genre is dead now so they need a fresh start by making this new RE movie and im happy tht Leon is going to be in this new movie so i cant wait till this one comes out
Wesker

Wow! If these are the true voices of the Resident Evil fanbase, count me out! Never before have I seen such rampant stupidity and abhorrent run-on sentences. Do you people not know how to speak properly? You guys need to be beat into submission by the Education Police. Sure, playing video games and watching movies are great, I certainly enjoy them, but perhaps you should all step away from the electronics for a while until you have mastered how to spell and speak properly. You’re all dumbasses right now for that simple fact alone. Sheesh, each day ‘Idiocracy’ becomes more and more of a reality.
zaltran

I have to agree that spelling and speaking properly does present a more intelligent image of oneself, and makes it easier for people to understand what you say or type.

Resorting to name calling and/or expletives in any argument or statement, does not portray this image or make one views right and the others wrong.

Now then…. I loved the games.

I loved the movies. I can just treat them as either an alternate universe, or a separate story in the canon.

And I will definitely get this new cgi movie when it comes out on dvd.
alex

1st of all…..this is just a place where u can drop ides. this is not skool and it isn’t a presidential speech conference. we do know how 2 right and speak, so shut the fuk up, mind ur fukin business and right ur thoughts on the movie; not on spellin’ errors and grammatically incorrect sentences u fukin ignorant prick…..hate ppl who swear they know it all….u need 2 learn how 2 mind ur business, and papa on da internet, millions of intelligent ppl right how we do.
LordMalice

Okay… The Resident Evil Games are my life… Yes, the Sony movies suck, they butchered the entire concept of RE. Mind you, at their own level, if you force yourself to forget they’re supposed to be about the RE series, the make an alright show.

Extinction was announced to be Sony’s last RE movie, yet here they go with making another one with Alice (and her infinite mass of clones XDD) Oh well. I’ll see it as I did the other ones, just because.

The CGI being released, I don’t know what to think. It’s Sony Productions. If they butchered the series before, they”ll do it again. Regardless, I’m going to see it, then I’ll judge. Who knows, maybe they will do a good job and make it JUST about the games.

=The Outbreak Is Approaching=
mike

to be honest i love the games and the movies ther crazy cool both of them
at first i only watched the movis but then i played the games and i was like OMG its so good and plus yu learn alot about the backroaund story from the games if yu thik about it the games and movies mesh well together
but with the cgi one thats coming out i think it will mostly be just gamers that will watch
but im looking forwerd too bothe becaus i just started playing 4 and i dident play 2 so the movie will most likely fill me in
Wesker

>1st of all…..this is just a place where u can drop ides. this is not skool and it isn’t a presidential speech conference. we do know how 2 right and speak, so shut the fuk up, mind ur fukin business and right ur thoughts on the movie; not on spellin’ errors and grammatically incorrect sentences u fukin ignorant prick…..hate ppl who swear they know it all….u need 2 learn how 2 mind ur business, and papa on da internet, millions of intelligent ppl right how we do.

LOL! Please, stop lying to yourself by claiming to be part of the ‘intelligent ppl’.. you’re being very delusional. ‘Skool’ is spelled ‘School’, and the biggest irony (and oft-used) was the ‘know how 2 right’.. LOL! It’s ‘write’ you moron. And sorry, pal, the imaginary ‘millions of intelligent ppl’ don’t ‘right’ how you do. I’m sure, as demonstrated in ‘Idiocracy’, you’d happen to find the most average person to be a genius based on your level of intelligence. Ha! And let me also get this straight: The only places worthy of demonstrating even the simplest of grammar and spelling usage is school and presidential conferences? Everything else is fair game for stupidity? You’re only contributing to the decline of intelligence on this globe. Remember that when you feel typing like a complete neanderthal is a perfectly ok representation of who you are. What a slughead.
LordMalice

I agree, Wesker. People can rant all they like, but unintelligent people, I spose it’s not their fault, even if they become blind with rage easily.

Simply put, some people deserve to contract the T-Virus when the outbreak happens. XDD

=The Outbreak Is Approaching=
Wesker

Heh, why wait for the T-Virus? Just send in Hunk’s team to do the job. Better yet, get the chopper to drop a Mr. X in and let the fun begin!