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There are six pix if you follow the link. I only C&Ped the two Bingbings.

Latest Stills Featuring Jovovich and Li Bingbing in "Resident 5"
2012-07-06 13:21:53 Chinese Films



A batch of news still photos featuring lead character of the movie "Resident Evil: Retribution 3D" was released in China. Actress Milla Jovovich and new member of the cast Li Bingbing were seen fighting evils side by side in the pictures. The movie will be released in North America in 3D and 3D/IMAX formats on September 14.

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well the character anna has been apart of the video games for years...

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BOM: Opening Weekend: $21,052,227
(#1 rank, 3,012 theaters, $6,989 average)

Li Bingbing Promotes "Resident Evil: Retribution 3D"
2012-09-11 16:12:35

Chinese actress Li Bingbing promotes "Resident Evil: Retribution 3D" in Taibei on September 10. [Photo: 21CN.com]

The Hollywood Blockbuster "Resident Evil: Retribution 3D" premiered yesterday in Taipei, Xinhua News Agency reports.

Although Chinese actress Ling Bingbing appeared alone at the event, lead actress Milla Jovovich had recorded a video played at the premiers, sharing stories about Li and herself while they were shooting the film.

Li said she wanted to have a baby before shooting the next installment of the "Resident Evil" series after Jovovich talked to her about the importance of having a child.

"It is not important whether you are married or not, or who is your boyfriend," Jovovich was quoted as saying. "The important thing is you should have a baby."

The film will be released worldwide on September 14.

By Liu Shuai

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Milla Jovovich Confirms August Start for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
BY MAX EVRY ON JANUARY 21, 2015



Last August, actress Milla Jovovich announced that she and her husband Paul W.S. Anderson were expecting their second child together, thus delaying the shooting of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Now she has taken to Facebook (tip of the hat to Bobby Napoli) with word that she is already preparing to return as Alice for the revived shoot in August.

Says Jovovich, “I’m really proud of myself for not gaining the same amount of weight that I did with our first child (75 lbs.) because I have to be ready to start filming ‘Resident Evil- The Final Chapter’ in August of this year and I will also be nursing an infant simultaneously.”

Shooting was initially being prepped for Cape Town, South Africa, which will be one of several locales used for the sixth and (supposed) last part in the long-running Resident Evil franchise. The last film to see release was Resident Evil: Retribution in 2012.

Targeting a September 2, 2016 release date, Anderson returns for his fourth outing as director and writer of the Screen Gems release Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, with actor Wentworth Miller reprising his role as Chris Redfield from 2010′s Resident Evil: Afterlife.

I did finally see a RE flick. I can't remember which one it was. It was amusing but it didn't lock me into committing to the franchise, even with so much gratuitous Milla mayhem.

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I only cut&pasted the films we've discussed here.

‘Resident Evil’ Rocks China With Record $94.3M Debut – International Box Office
by Nancy Tartaglione
February 26, 2017 3:58pm


RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER
Screen Gems

UPDATE, WRITETRHU: While Fox’s Logan gets set to claw into global box office as it begins day-and-date rollout on Wednesday, the current frame was a major holdover and expansion fest. Business was particularly un-dead in China where Screen Gems/Constantin Films’ Resident Evil: The Final Chapter blazed in on a $94.3M debut to score the biggest-ever FSS opening in the market for an import. The Milla Jovovich-led epic zombie battle is also the No. 2 FSS launch for all films, behind 2015’s Lost In Hong Kong. As Anita Busch reported on Friday, the Paul W.S. Anderson-helmed sixth installment had an opening day Middle Kingdom gross of $33M, the third-highest ever for a Hollywood film.

The sensational China debut for The Final Chapter — whose title may end up being premature given these outsize grosses — catapults the market into the lead position, overtaking traditional No. 1 hub Japan. The film was released in China through Constantin’s local partner Leomus Pictures and benefited from a very targeted campaign with early in-cinema materials and advertising during the heavily-trafficked Chinese New Year holidays. Jovovich also attended Hong Kong’s CineAsia where she met members Chinese exhibition community and received the franchise achievement award with her director/husband Anderson.

The $40M movie was built for international audiences and is showing its strength at offshore turnstiles with a $212M cume to date which makes it the biggest of the franchise on a constant currency basis. In total this weekend, the gross was $97M from 21,200+ screens in 51 markets. Including domestic, the worldwide cume is $239M. The current leader among its predecessors is 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife with $296.2M.

In late January, Final Chapter helped push the full series across $1B worldwide to become the biggest video-game-based franchise of all time. (More detail to follow below.)

Overall, it was a busy weekend in China with the Top 5 all hailing from Hollywood. New Regency’s Assassin’s Creed was new, but a distant runner-up in the battle of the video-game titans, landing at No. 2 with $17.3M according to comScore. In IMAX, it grossed $3M from 389 screens there. Universal’s Sing dropped just 40% in 3rd place for a 10-day PROC total of $24M. It has now crossed $550M worldwide. In 4th at Chinese turnstiles, Paramount’s XXX: Return Of Xander Cage continued its muscular run, cruising past $150M. And, tonight’s Oscar frontrunner La La Land was No. 5 with $31M in the songbook to date. La La is now Lionsgate’s highest grossing film internationally and worldwide outside the Hunger Games and Twilight franchises.

Elsewhere in a bustling frame, Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter Two has crossed $50M internationally while The Weinstein Co’s Oscar nominee Lion has also crossed $50M offshore and is at nearly $95M worldwide.

Universal’s Fifty Shades Darker has cumed $328.3M worldwide ($224.7M IBO); Uni/Blumhouse’s Split has $221.2M in the global bank including a No. 1 Korea opening; and The Great Wall is now at $300M worldwide with a number of No. 1 openings and holds this session.

Breakdowns on those films and more have been updated below:

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RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER

Sony
Screen Gems/Constantin Films’ sixth installment in the zombie franchise blew the doors off China‘s box office this weekend with a $94.3M debut that makes it the best FSS start ever for an import (overall market leader among Hollywood films, Furious 7, opened on a Sunday in 2015). The full weekend was worth $97M from 21,200+ screens in 51 total markets. Offshore, the cume to date is $212M with $239M worldwide.
China is now the lead market on The Final Chapter (which, given the performance, may no longer be the final chapter after all). That’s a first for the Middle Kingdom which was No. 2 on the last two pictures. They first began releasing in China with 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D with help from DMG whose relationships there soothed the censors to get a zombie-themed pic across the border. Typically, Japan has been the lead on all markets and this film got off to a strong start when it debuted there in December. Current local box office is upwards of $36M.

In China, The Final Chapter was released through Constantin’s local partner Leomus Pictures. The $33M opening day on Friday marks the No. 3 start for a Hollywood film behind Furious 7 ($68M) and Warcraft ($46M).

A targeted marketing campaign helped in China where locally-produced materials reinforced the nostalgia selling point. The IP has high awareness and advertising focused on using advertising to showcase great video materials to reinforce big-screen promise rather than relying heavily on paid social publicity to create buzz. Media buys included Toutiao (China’s Buzzfeed), Weibo and Tencent’s video pre-roll. The animation, comic and game sub-group of consumers — particularly the gamer segment — was highly-targeted by working with key opinion leaders of high-traffic ACG websites to generate UGC content. Early in-cinema materials and advertising during the Chinese New Year holidays also played a significant role.

Constantin Films’ Martin Moszkowicz says of partner Leomus, “Throughout the whole course, they have demonstrated professional understanding about the market, the audience and the IP, and came up with a very solid marketing & distribution plan that contributed to the huge box office success in China.”

Early on in the 15-year-old series, the pics spread out at about 60%-40% international versus domestic. That’s shifted to a weightier overseas pull since Afterlife with that film and Retribution taking about 80% of box office from offshore turnstiles where video game movies excel. Final Chapter’s current split is nearing 89% international and 11% domestic. Afterlife is thus far the biggest grosser of all at $296M global, followed by Retribution at $240M. The franchise crossed $1B in January.

Star Milla Jovovich and director Paul W.S. Anderson, along with other cast did a multi-country tour to help get the word out, including in Brazil, Hong Kong (for CineAsia), Japan, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan and Russia.

Sony smartly cast social influencers from around the world to appear in the film and take part in the epic final zombie battle. The influencers then acted as brand ambassadors throughout the global marketing campaign.

THE GREAT WALL

Universal
Legendary and Universal’s China/U.S. co-production has reached $300M worldwide with today’s estimates included. The offshore weekend scaled $14.6M in 46 territories for a Universal total of $94.6M outside China where the cume is $171M, building a $265.6M overseas war chest. Combined with domestic, the worldwide total is $300M. Global IMAX box office is now $28M.
There were eight openings this frame with No. 1s in Italy, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Central America and Paraguay. In Italy, the epic from Zhang Yimou took over the No. 1 spot from two local comedies on Saturday and will finish the opening weekend with $1.5M at 320 dates. Brazil also bowed No. 1 and is expected to gross $2.6M over this Carnival weekend. Russia’s second frame is solid at No. 2 behind local pic Zaschitniki ($3.35M). The drop there was just 26% for an $8.7M cume to date. In other holds, The Great Wall is No. 1 again in New Zealand, Columbia and Peru — in all cases ahead of new openers. The UK and Australia are looking at sop****re sessions that bring their respective totals to $4.5M and $4.3M. Japan is the next and final release on April 14.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER TWO

Lionsgate/Summit
Keanu Reeves’ assassin clocked another $13.1M in 79 markets in the 3rd frame, bringing the international cume to $51.1M and the worldwide hitlist to $125.5M. Those scores top original film’s offshore ($45.7M) and global ($88.8M) lifetimes. Korea’s debut bested the first film by 93% in local currency for a $1.3M start. Also gunning ahead of JW1 are France ($1.2M/+14%) and Mexico ($744K/+46%). Belgium and Sweden likewise bettered the first film at $253K (+85%) and $133K (+210%), respectively. Upcoming major releases include Italy on March 16, Spain on May 5 and Australia on May 11.

XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE

Paramount
Continuing its muscular run in China, Paramount’s Vin Diesel threequel pumped another $6.1M into the local box office for a super strong Middle Kingdom total of $152.6M. In 55 markets overall, the actioner added $8.6M for a $285.3M international cume. There were two new bows with Japan coming in at $1.4M from 306 locations and Poland at $311K from 112.

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Stunt woman who lost an arm in horrific accident while standing in for Milla Jovovich for Resident Evil motorbike scene sues for £2.2million after her career was destroyed
Olivia Jackson, 37, was asked to perform a motorbike stunt on set in South Africa
She smashed into a camera which did not lift fast enough as she sped forward
Half of Olivia's face was torn off and her left arm had to be amputated
She is seeking £2.2m in damages after her £220k a year career was taken away
By JAMIE PYATT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:02 EST, 12 December 2018 | UPDATED: 06:09 EST, 12 December 2018

Stunt woman Olivia Jackson who suffered horrific injuries in a nightmare accident on the set of Resident Evil is suing for over £2.2m after her film career was destroyed.

Super-fit Olivia, 37, pulled off death defying stunts and starred as a body double for Hollywood's top actresses in films including Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy and Mad Max.

In 2015 while she was performing a motorcycle stunt on the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in Johannesburg, South Africa, she nearly lost her life in a horror accident.

Unexpected rain caused a fight scene she was due to appear in to be cancelled and she was instead told to stand in for actress Milla Jovovich in a high speed motorcycle stunt.


Olivia Jackson, 37, in hospital before her withered left arm was amputated (left) and afterwards (right)


Olivia (pictured before her accident) is a former professional Thai kick-boxer and continues to live an extremely active lifestyle despite her disability


Olivia and her British stuntman husband David Grant (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Captain America) are both keen motorcycle riders


Olivia was standing in for Milla Jovovich (pictured) while filming the latest Resident Evil movie in 2015

But the action shot went terribly wrong and she was thrown from her bike after a collision with a mechanical mobile film camera.

Her shocking list of injuries included having half her face torn off and having to have her left arm amputated and suffering serious brain swelling and severing a vital neck artery.


An X-ray of her body shows the catastrophic extent of her injuries which left the South African woman in a coma for 17 days fighting for her life

Olivia, married to a top British stunt man David Grant, was also left with a painfully twisted spine, a permanently dislocated shoulder, a severed thumb, punctured lungs and broken ribs.

The impact of the crash was so forceful that it broke dozens of her bones and was such that her left forearm was never found.

Three years on from the accident Olivia from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, has launched a legal fight in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, South Africa, for compensation for her injuries.

The stuntwoman had been tasked to ride a motorbike at high speed at a camera mounted on a mechanical arm on a Mercedes SUV which would be driving straight towards her.

The camera was to begin filming at ground level and then raise up and over Olivia's head as she drove the motorbike towards it for an action shot but it didn't raise up quickly enough.

Olivia, who was wearing a vest top, torn jacket and khaki jeans, was not required to wear a helmet for the stunt and the heavy camera slammed into her upper body and her face.


Three years on from the accident Olivia who lives in Amersham, Bucks, has launched a legal fight in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, for compensation

The terribly injured former professional Thai kick boxer spent 17 days in a coma and doctors feared the worst but said her strength and fitness eventually helped save her life.

When she began to recover she received flowers and support whilst in intensive care from actress Milla Jovovich who she was doubling the stunts for on the Resident Evil film set.

Actresses Charlize Theron, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley and Karen Gillan who Olivia has also body doubled for in stunts sent huge bouquets of flowers and personal messages to her.


Olivia suffered a painfully twisted spine, a permanently dislocated shoulder, a severed thumb, punctured lungs and broken ribs, and her left arm could not be recovered (pictured after surgery)

Brave Olivia has catalogued her slow road to recovery on her own Instagram page but has had to come to terms with the fact that she will never work in the movie industry again.

Papers lodged at the Gauteng High Court show she is seeking more than R40million (£2.2m) in damages following the accident on a section of road near a dam at Pelindaba, Pretoria.

They show Olivia is suing the Road Accident Fund, the production and stunt company involved as well as the camera crane operator, the driver of the vehicle and the film director.

The paperwork states that when she was previously working in the UK she earned £20,000 a month and whilst working on the set of Resident Evil in South Africa was on £12,500 a month.

Cape Town born UK resident Olivia states that she has been rendered unemployable. The court case was adjourned and will be listed for a full hearing to take place next year.

Brave Olivia has catalogued her recovery from near death in moving Instagram posts on her personal account to fans.

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In one caption beside a photograph she posted of her twisted back on her public Instagram account Olivia wrote: 'This is the twisted upper body I'm left with from my accident.


The stunning stunt woman is married to British stunt man David Grant and they live in Amersham, Bucks, together


Before her accident she earned £20,000 a month while living in Amersham and whilst working on the set of Resident Evil in South Africa was on £12,500 a month

'Scew spine, off centred neck (the most painful part), twisted shoulder blade, permanently dislocated shoulder, 1 arm, muscle atrophy on the left hand side of my core and plenty more other treats.

'I don't mean to moan but sometimes I must want to crawl out of my own skin & all the pains in it'.

Another emotional photograph Olivia shared is a 'before' photo of her left hand appearing enormously swollen with a withered left arm and 'after' shot which showed the arm amputation.

She wrote to her Instagram fans: 'Goodbye to my withered arm, hello my stump. Not how I planned my life to go but just go to embrace what I have & move onwards and upwards.

'Luckily I have an awesome supportive team behind me' she said.

Husband David from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, who has done stunts in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters met Olivia on a set and kept a bedside vigil with her while she was in a coma.

In an interview back at their home in Amersham, Bucks, Olivia told the Sunday Mirror: 'Sometimes when I catch a sight of my stump in the mirror I feel a wave of sadness.

'There's no point in feeling down about life – it won't make my arm grow back. I used to miss my old face but now I style my hair to fall forwards to hide the big scar'.

In a You Tube film interview with Neale James she described what she remembered of the life changing accident.

Olivia said: 'I was doubling for an actress who was a zombie killer who saves the world. We were shooting motorcycle stuff and I had to ride towards a vehicle coming towards me.

'There was a Mercedes SUV with a crane on the side of it and a camera at the end of the crane which moves around and I was supposed to drive towards the camera vehicle.

'It was coming in the opposite direction with the camera starting on the floor and it was supposed to lift up and go over me but they just didn't lift the camera up in time.


In one of her Instagram posts after the accident, Olivia wrote: 'I don't mean to moan but sometimes I must want to crawl out of my own skin & all the pains in it'

'I went straight into it and it hit me on my face and shoulder. I remember the day up until a few seconds before it happened but luckily your brain switches it off for you' she said.

In another interview she revealed she is in constant pain three years on from the accident.

Olivia, who was newlywed when injured, said: 'It is so tempting to hate the people that did this to me but I try to rather use that energy to focus on getting better and staying positive'.

And in an Instagram pic on husband David's site Olivia wrote: 'We have built an amazing home together with two fluffy kids and he loves me even though I am a one armed bandit!'

The court case for compensation will be heard in early 2019 and stunt woman Olivia is expected to be present.

She is suing Canada based independent film production company Davis/Impact Films, Cape Town based Pyranha Stunts, stunt co-ordinator Grant Hully and the camera tracking company Bickers Action SA.

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Milla Jovovich's 'Resident Evil' Stunt Double Speaks Out on Crash That Left Her Partially Paralyzed
8:45 AM PDT 9/18/2019 by Scott Johnson


Screen Gems/Photofest; Courtesy of NFLawFirm
Milla Jovovich in 2016's 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter' (inset: Olivia Jackson)

"Numerous things were changed at the last minute that I wasn’t aware of," says Olivia Jackson of the September 2015 on-set motorcycle accident.

For 17 days after a horrific incident left her severely injured and partially paralyzed, stunt performer Olivia Jackson suffered from nightmares and hallucinations while in a medically induced coma.

In one of these visions, Jackson was being jerked around a bridge at lightning speed while tethered by rope to a motorcycle.

Of all the dreams she had, that one bore a passing resemblance to the real-life event that landed the former model and Cape Town native in the hospital after the first day of shooting began on Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in her home country in September 2015.

“You just have the deepest, the darkest, the heaviest hallucinations and nightmares, one after the other,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter during an interview. “They’re so vivid, so real, you think that’s reality.”

Last week Jackson filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court against the film’s director, Paul Anderson, producer Jeremy Bolt and production companies Tannhauser Gate Inc, Impact Pictures and Bolt Pictures behind the blockbuster franchise, which has brought in upward of a billion dollars at the box office. The suit is seeking unspecified damages. None of the companies responded to a request for comment.

"Olivia has confronted her devastating injuries with relentless courage, but she continues to face immense physical and emotional challenges," states Jackson's attorney, Gabe Barenfeld. "Olivia deserves full financial support to aid her in this ongoing battle."

Speaking from her home in the U.K., where she lives with her husband Dave Grant, also a stunt performer, Jackson says she only took the job as Milla Jovovich’s stunt double at the last minute, after another stunt performer got injured.

A former Muay Thai fighter who had a special expertise with motorbiking, Jackson was a good fit for the movie. She had plenty of experience on blockbuster action movies, doubling for actress Rosie Huntington Whiteley in Mad Max: Fury Road and performing stunts in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. I.

She says she took the Resident Evil job while waiting for production to begin on another movie she had signed up for, the then-upcoming Wonder Woman, which would be filming back home in the U.K.

The crew had been rehearsing a fight scene for weeks when, on the day shooting was to begin, Jackson learned that the fight scene they’d been rehearsing was to be replaced with another, unrelated sequence.

This one involved riding a motorcycle at full speed toward an action van mounted with a crane-mounted camera that would itself be traveling full speed in her direction. After a couple of takes that went well, Jackson started the third, live run.

Only this time, unbeknownst to her, some key elements of the stunt had been changed, according to the lawsuit.

“Numerous things were changed at the last minute that I wasn’t aware of,” she says, “Which resulted in the crane operator not lifting the crane in time and basically driving it straight into my left arm and left shoulder.”

She was rushed to the hospital where staff induced a coma. Jackson survived, but was left with monumental physical and emotional scars. The camera had ripped a portion of her jaw off, leaving her teeth exposed. She suffered nerve damage to her spine and her left arm was amputated above her elbow.

“It’s had such a huge impact on every single part of my life, my body is so physically damaged and a lot of it beyond repair,” she says, “Every single moment of my time I’ve got nerve pain.”

The upper-right quadrant of her body remains paralyzed, along with a portion of her face, and she says she has a "droopy eye" with a pupil that refuses to dilate.

Jackson says she’s doing her best to recover, and has started to resume a physical regimen that includes kickboxing. She also volunteers at an equestrian center that helps elderly people with dementia. And she meditates, which she says helps with the pain.

“One of the hardest things is I lost the life I loved,” she says, “I knew that I would never work again. I loved my job with all my heart.”


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Aug 27, 2020 5:00am PT
‘Resident Evil’ Live-Action Series Ordered at Netflix
By Joe Otterson


Capcom

A live-action “Resident Evil” series has been picked up at Netflix.

The streamer has given an eight episode order to the one-hour series, which is based on the Capcom video game franchise of the same name. Constantin Films, which produced the six-film franchise based on the games, will serve as the studio behind the series. News that a “Resident Evil” series was in development at Netflix was first reported early last year.

Andrew Dabb will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. Dabb most recently served as showrunner on multiple seasons of the hit CW series “Supernatural,” which is set to conclude this fall after 15 seasons.

“’Resident Evil’ is my favorite game of all time,” Dabb said. “I’m incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first ever ‘Resident Evil’ series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of ‘Resident Evil’ fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before.”


The story of the series will unfold across two timelines: In the first timeline, fourteen-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.

In the second timeline, well over a decade into the future, there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past – about her sister, her father and herself – continue to haunt her.

Bronwen Hughes will direct and executive produce the first two episodes of the series. Along with Dabb, Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film will also executive produce, as will Mary Leah Sutton. Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz will produce.

The first “Resident Evil” game was released in 1996. Since then, the game and the multiple new entries in the franchise have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. In addition, the film franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide. There are also “Resident Evil” animated films, comic books, novels, and theme park attractions.

Here is a franchise with legs.