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Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot won't stick to the game's labyrinthine lore
Over its 30 years or so of zombie hordes, Umbrella Corporation lab leaks, and Las Plagas infections, Resident Evil has amassed one of the most expansive and confusing mythologies in horror. At this point, Resident Evil games bounce around their labyrinthine timeline as often as they change gameplay styles. Fittingly, it has an equally obtuse movie mythology, with Paul W.S. Anderson's long-running series following his muse Milla Jovovich and abandoning the source material in favor of his post-apocalyptic whims. Audiences read Anderson's Final Chapter to the series in 2017, leading to a first shot at a reboot, Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, which stuck closer to the games' mythology and we swear came out in 2021. The following year, Netflix released a live-action TV series to join a long-running franchise of Japanese animated movies, a Netflix CG animated series, and a documentary about the unmade George A. Romero adaptation. We have plenty of Resident Evil stuff, and more on the way. Speaking to SFX Magazine [via Bloody Disgusting], director Zach Cregger, who is helming the reboot after finishing his next film, Weapons, has already begun preparing fans for a movie that is nothing like the games. 'I am a gigantic Resident Evil game fan,' Cregger said. 'I've played them all. I don't know how many times I've just looped [Resident Evil 4] again and again. I just love it. I'm definitely not trying to be completely obedient to the lore of the game. I'm trying to tell a story that just feels authentic to the experience you get when you play the games.' Still, Cregger says that he doesn't believe he's 'breaking any major rules' by taking 'the title back to its horror roots' with a movie that's more faithful to the tone of 'the initial games,' e.g., more survival horror than a first-person shooting in the Bayou. 'All I want to do is just make a really good movie and tell a story that's compelling,' he continues. 'I know that I'm gonna be happy with the movie, and hopefully other people will, too.' 'I will also say, I've never seen a movie like it,' he continued. 'It doesn't jump around like Weapons and Barbarian, but it is still unto itself.' As long as there is a master of unlocking, we'll be fine. Resident Evil infects theaters on September 18, 2026. More from A.V. Club Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?" Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli Senate holds late-night vote to cut funding to NPR and PBS Solve the daily Crossword
The Guardian
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Zombie dogs, martial arts and a meet-cute: Resident Evil has it all
In 2009, actor Milla Jovovich married director Paul WS Anderson. Longtime partners and creative collaborators, the two met on the set of 2002's Resident Evil, an adaptation of the Japanese video game franchise which pushed the limits of the PlayStation in the 90s. Starring the former and written and directed by the latter, the production – which would inaugurate a six-film, billion-dollar franchise – was not without its hiccups. The story goes that Jovovich, unhappy with script revisions which palmed her action scenes off to her co-stars, threatened to walk. But instead of leaving, she and Anderson spent hours amending the script: the genesis of a fruitful partnership, both professional and personal. Most significantly, the rewrites returned to Jovovich's character – the amnesiac Alice – the film's defining scene, in which she runs up a wall, spins, jumps, and kicks a zombie dog square in the face. The games that provide the source material were light on action and heavy on dread; they ostensibly ushered in the nascent medium's 'survival horror' genre. Less concerned with generic fidelity than sensory thrills, the film ports the games' universe into the nu-metal action cycle of the early 2000s (see: The One, xXx), a period brimming with tactile, tacky pleasures – chief among them hard rock and martial arts. Onscreen, the wall-jump dog kick plays out in graceful slow motion with a guitar lick, a yell, and the shatter of glass. Arriving at the halfway mark, it's a turning point: with a single blow, Alice begins to regain both her memory and corporeal ability. From here on, it's her film. Like the games, the adaptation is set in a world under the purview of the Umbrella Corporation, a multinational conglomerate with their grubby mitts on everything from healthcare to military technology. When a hazardous viral material is let loose within one of their secret subterranean research facilities known as The Hive, the site goes into lockdown. You might've guessed what happens next: all the staff turn into zombies. Alice's relation to these events is initially unclear. She awakens, dazed, in an empty mansion. Before she can gather her wits, she's swiftly ushered by a military clean-up crew, descending into a subterranean facility full of cold concrete and faceless steel to aid the investigation. Less post-apocalyptic sprawl than claustrophobic pressure cooker, the proceedings are decidedly intimate. It's all smoke and corridors. As the crew progress deeper into the labyrinthine facility, Alice regains further fragments of her memory. Flashbacks offer an echo of her identity: an insider feeding information to environmental activists in the hopes of exposing Umbrella's illegal experiments. Like all great sci-fi, Resident Evil possesses a healthy scepticism of corporations and a distinctly anti-capitalist subtext. The film's zombies aren't mindless consumers a la Romero or hyperactive runners in the vein of 28 Days Later, but reanimated workers, cursed to roam the halls of their place of employment in the afterlife. In the image of Aliens, the franchise places proficient women at the forefront of the action. Alice is adept and adaptable. At her side is the resilient special ops agent Rain (Michelle Rodriguez), a battler who staves off infection seemingly to grunt choice quips. 'When I get outta here, I think I'm gonna get laid,' she jests, despite being bitten any number of times. All this, of course, made for humble beginnings for a long and loving marriage. Anderson is affectionately referred to in fan circles as the medium's pre-eminent 'wife guy'. Peruse his filmography and you'll film after film in which Jovovich plays lead and bestows balletic blows in slow motion, her body suspended in the camera's loving eye. It's one of action cinema's great pleasures. Resident Evil is streaming on Stan in Australia and available to rent in the UK and US. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click here
Vogue
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Chloé Pre-Fall 2025 Collection
'You collect things, you buy things, you create your wardrobe throughout time,' said Chemena Kamali from the spacious and serene Chloé showroom. 'The thing is, whenever you need or are looking for something specific, you don't find it, because it doesn't work like that.' Ah yes, that all-too-familiar dilemma… This was a welcome collection preamble—relatable, more real talk than platitudes—which tracked with all that Kamali has cultivated at Chloé since her debut last year. Here, she was presenting pre-fall; and the brand's website is already offering some of the lighter pieces and new Heritage bag (see the large horse medallion logo) alongside lookbook photos that have the feel of a portrait series, especially since they feature such talents as Tish Weinstock, Petra Collins and Ever Anderson (daughter of Milla Jovovich and Paul W. S. Anderson). Did they get to choose their looks, each kind of intimate and layered? 'I'm always so interested to see what these different characters gravitate towards, how they take these pieces and make them theirs,' Kamali said. Translation: intuitive rather than imposed. Consider the reinterpreted lace dresses and lingerie ensembles—Kamali now has these on lock—in saturated pastels with delicate incrustations, ruffles et al. Veering away from precious, they were topped with statement outerwear, at once fresh and lived-in, whether a satiny bomber, a great blue-green leather car coat with aged edges, or the folkloric maxi coat accented with purple embroidery. Worn with multi-strap Mary Janes or 'kinky' high, square-toe boots, plus jewelry that riffed on decades of decorative styles, and the outcome was a kind of coquettish, eclectic sophisticate. This composite persona has desirability and range—attracting the girls who are discovering Chloé for the first time and the women who want new versions of it. Confirming that Kamali doesn't only do flou, the season's variety of jackets delivered, whether the cropped tapestry shape with its bourgeois codes or the double-breasted check blazer that she tried on to illustrate its sartorial but not suit-y silhouette. And since we already know from the fall runway show that Chloé is leaning into shearling in a big way, the pre-fall coats—including one trimmed in punkish turquoise—act like the amuse bouche, a chance to get in early on the trend. But let's revert back to the wise words of Kamali, who has created these pieces for the long term. 'Sometimes you have things that you love for a certain time, but then you don't wear it for a long time and then you pull it back out again.'
The Sun
29-05-2025
- Business
- The Sun
Fire Stick movie and TV app with 30,000 FREE titles receives huge Hollywood boost including Matt Damon & Zac Efron hits
A POPULAR streaming app brimming with free movies and TV shows to watch legally has just announced a major wave of additions. Viewers can catch big Hollywood hits starring the likes of Zac Efron, Matt Damon, Milla Jovovich, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, to name a few. 2 2 Tubi is available on Amazon Fire Sticks, as well as Roku, smart TVs, Android, iOS and more. Every month, the platform adds more popular names - and there are many viewers might expect to have to pay to watch on Netflix or with a Sky Cinema subscription. Instead, Tubi offers more than 30,000 movies and TV show episodes totally free with adverts. Top of June's new titles is the entire Resident Evil franchise, starring Jovovich as the main character. The movies - which are based on the popular Japanese video game series - follow survivors of a mysterious T-virus that turns people into zombies. Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will all be available from June 1. Another classic coming in June is I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Geller, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. Ryan and Hanks' 90s rom-com Sleepless In Seattle is also on the list. Other big hits include Zac Efron's comedies Bad Neighbours and Bad Neighbours 2, as well as Matt Damon's sci-fi flick Elysium. See the full list of new titles for June below: Resident Evil Resident Evil: Apocalypse Resident Evil: Extinction Resident Evil: Afterlife Resident Evil: Retribution Resident Evil: The Final Chapter I Know What You Did Last Summer Sleepless In Seattle Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday Redemption (2013) River Wild Southern Comfort Takers (2010) Bad Neighbours Bad Neighbours 2 Cuckoo Employee of the Month Julie & Julia The Dick Van Dyke Show The Munsters Walk of Shame The Devil You Know Halloween Kills Priest (2011) Raw Resurrection (1999) The Mist Remember Me (2010) Wild Mountain Thyme District 9 Elysium Red vs. Blue Who is Matt Damon's wife, Luciana Barroso? One to watch? Analysis by Jamie Harris, Assistant Technology and Science Editor Free is always a welcome word, especially in the ever-more expensive streaming sector. Not needing to sign-up is even more appealing. Tubi joins a growing list of free ad-supported platforms. What makes Tubi stand out is the number of big name releases it has on the list. The fact it has Tubi Originals too provides something new and different to watch. Image credit: Handout
Vogue
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Bella Hadid Continues This Famous Dress's It-Girl Legacy
Yes, she already came, saw, and conquered the Croisette, but Bella Hadid just wore a dress with some serious Cannes Film Festival history. After a morning of filming Chicken Shop Date, Hadid swapped out her brown outfit (or browtfit, if you will) for something a bit more formal. Celebrating her Orebella fragrance launch in the UK, the model chose a glittering silver chainmail dress from John Galliano's fall 1997 collection, outfitted with a V-neck, asymmetrical hemline, and metallic rosette details. She accessorized with a diamond tennis necklace, diamond drop earrings, and silver Jimmy Choo lace-up kitten heels—plus a bunch of white roses in her hair. Bella Hadid in London Neil Mockford John Galliano fall 1997 Photo: Condé Nast Archive Not long after model Hedvig Marie Maigre debuted the dress on the runway, actor Milla Jovovich wore it to the premiere of Luc Besson's The Fifth Element at the 50th annual Cannes Film Festival. While Hadid chose to switch up her footwear, Jovovich stayed true to the runway interpretation in a pair of strappy silver sandals that wound up her calf. From Milla Jovovich's Cannes appearance in 1997 to Bella Hadid's Orebella launch in 2025, this dress truly stands the test of time. Now that's what we call an It-Girl legacy.
