The Associated Press is reporting injuries to 16 actors on the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Retribution after a platform collapsed. Paramedics found it difficult to assess the actors’ injuries because of the zombie costumes and make-up they were wearing. The victims suffered leg, arm and back injuries but none were said to be life-threatening.
In October, Penny Arcade shook things up a bit with a series ofthreemini-stories, each forming a cinematic opening to a larger story left unexplored. Hollywood wants to explore one of them a bit further, acquiring the rights to “The New Kid”, imagined as an animated feature.
Milla Jovovich takes a bunch of fan mail via Twitter, yet actually responds to it. When someone jokingly asked the Resident Evil star if the next film would be subtitled “Begins,” (it was the name used in an April Fool’s Day joke this year) she answered seriously.
That didn’t take long. Days after Dead Island’s haunting trailer hit, making it the most talked-about game in development (well, this week), a report already has it that the producer behind “The Mummy” bought the rights to a Dead Island film adaptation.
The Red Faction movie to air on SyFi will begin shooting in January and air in May, concurrent with the release of Red Faction: Armageddon, says the publisher.
An announcement is due in December, the publisher told Gamasutra. THQ is looking to time the film’s release to the next game’s launch, but that’s not a hard commitment this far out.
Pixels, the animated short about game characters rampaging through New York, got Adam Sandler’s attention earlier this year. Now he’s put one of his top writers to work on the story for a cinematic release.
A Just Cause movie, which we got wind of a year ago, now has a screenwriter and another producing partner, signaling that we’re a step closer to an action-movie video game adapted into a video game action movie.